The Lost BoysHalloween at the Dryden series embraces the uncanny, the ghostly, and the weird

Rochester, N.Y. (October 2, 2025) —This October, the Dryden Theatre embraces the uncanny, the ghostly, and the weird with a chilling lineup of classics and cult favorites in its Halloween at the Dryden film series.

From the gothic shadows of The Others to the surreal satire of Sorry to Bother You , this series explores cinema’s many approaches to fear and the supernatural. Silent landmarks like The Queen of Spades and The Phantom of the Opera appear alongside the B-movie classics of Cat People and its sequel. While from the ’ 80s, both David Cronenberg’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dead Zone and Joel Schumacher’s vampire film The Lost Boys are also being screened.

  • October 15 at 7:30 p.m.: The Others (Alejandro Amenábar, Spain/France/US 2001, 105 min., 35mm)
  • October 21 at 7:30 p.m.: Queen of Spades (Pikovaya dama, Yakov Protazanov, Russia 1916, 68 min., 35mm)
  • October 23 at 7:30 p.m.: The Dead Zone (David Cronenberg, US 1983, 103 min., DCP)
  • October 25 at 2 p.m.: Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, US 1942, 73 min., 35mm) and The Curse of the Cat People (Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise, US 1944, 70 min., 35mm)
  • October 25 at 7:30 p.m.: The Lost Boys (Joel Schumacher, US 1987, 97 min., DCP)< >October 30 at 7:30 p.m: The Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian, US 1925, 93 min., DCP)October 31 at 7:30 p.m: Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley, US 2018, 112 min., DCP)online or at the Dryden Theatre box office. T he Box Office opens forty-five minutes prior to the screening and can be reached by phone at (585) 327–4839.

About the Dryden Theatre

The 500-seat Dryden Theatre is the premier exhibition space for the art of cinema as championed and interpreted by the George Eastman Museum. Presenting film screenings six times a week, the Dryden is devoted to showing all films in their original formats, thus honoring and reproducing their historical—and aesthetically supreme—modes of exhibition. It is one of the very few theaters in the world equipped for the projection of original nitrate film that also makes nitrate film screenings part of its regular program.

About the George Eastman Museum

Founded in 1947, the George Eastman Museum is the world’s oldest photography museum and one of the largest film archives in the United States, located on the historic Rochester estate of entrepreneur and philanthropist George Eastman, the pioneer of popular photography. Its holdings comprise more than 400,000 photographs, 31,000 motion picture films, the world’s preeminent collection of photographic and cinematographic technology, one of the leading libraries of books related to photography and cinema, and extensive holdings of documents and other objects related to George Eastman. As a research and teaching institution, the Eastman Museum has an active publishing program, and its L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation’s graduate program (a collaboration with the University of Rochester) makes critical contributions to film preservation. The George Eastman Museum is supported with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. For more information, visit eastman.org .

Image: The Lost Boys (Joel Schumacher, US 1987, 97 min., DCP)

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