Jacob Burns Center After Hours is a Month Long Boo-Fest in October

Jacob Burns Film Festival After Hours: Galaxy Quest The stars of a 1970s sci-fi show are beamed aboard an alien spacecraft. Believing the cast’s heroic on-screen dramas are historical documents of real-life adventures, the band of aliens turn to the […]

Jacob Burns: Mars Attacks! Superstar Jack Nicholson as the President of the United States greeting invaders from outer space? Anything can and does happen when the twisted mind of director Tim Burton plunges planet Earth into complete pandemonium in this […]

Jacob Burns Film Center: After Hours: Gremlins A father returns from Chinatown with an unusual pet, a Mogwai—a gift for his son. The rules are simple: Keep your Mogwai away from water, bright lights and, most importantly, never…never…feed him after […]

Jacob Burns Film Center After Hours: A Nightmare on Elm Street Packed with genuine scares, Wes Craven’s definitive slasher is also streaked with darkly surreal wit. Robert Englund as the horrifically disfigured, gleeful Freddy Krueger became a quipping, laconic antihero […]

Jacob Burns Film Center After Hours: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Violent, confrontational, and shockingly realistic, director Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre terrified audiences in a way never thought possible when it was unleashed on a politically and socially tumultuous America […]