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Sunday, October 26th - CREATURE FEATURES DOUBLE FEATURE

3:00 pm

FILM: THE MILPITAS MONSTER (1975) 50th Anniv. screening! Rampant pollution gives birth to a vengeful monstrosity. A student film that became a world-wide phenomenon!

Special Guest: Dir. Robert Burrill
Sun, Oct 26th - CREATURE FEATURES DOUBLE FEATURE

1:00 pm

FILM: THE BOB WILKINS SUPER HORROR SHOW (1979) Bay Area locals in the 1970s knew and loved Creature Features on KCRA and KTVU and host Wilkins.

Special Guest: Producer Tom Wyrsch
Preceded by shorts:

FRAIDY CAT (1924) Charley Chase

HABEAS CORPUS (1928) Laurel & Hardy
Saturday, October 25th, 7:30pm

Bruce Loeb, Piano Accompaniment

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1925, 35mm)

100th ANNIVERSARY! A mad, disfigured composer (Lon Chaney) seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.

Tickets: square.link/u/CVRbsURX
Friday, October 24th, 7:30pm

Odyssey Film Institute Presents:

HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1959) A millionaire (Vincent Price) offers $10,000 to five people to be locked overnight in a large, spooky, house.

by master of the macabre, William Castle!

Online tickets: square.link/u/wsy1q7l1
House on Haunted Hill Oct. 24 - Niles Silent Film Museum
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plus, two more surprise autographed items!

All proceeds will kindly go to the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum Fotoplayer Fund.

Thank you, Garfield Lane Productions!

If you’d like to place a bid now, email [email protected] with your offer
a Bela Lugosi “Dracula” Medallion,
This Sunday we have a special Bob Wilkins Super Horror Show. And we're running a silent auction of fandom articles.
MEANWHILE AT THE ORINDA THEATER

Sunday, Nov 16th 11:00 am $18/$16

Part of the SF Silent Film Festival #SFSFF2025

NESFM is co-presenting this screening of....

TRAILIN’

Dir. by Alfred Santell; 1921; With Tom Mix

Accompaniment by Utsav Lal

For tickets: www.silentfilm.org

#SilentFilm #TomMix
3:00PM

PRESENTATION: SHE’S ALIVE – THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN AT 90

and...

FILM: THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN

(1935, Universal) Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
Sunday, October 19th

MONSTER MEDLEY DOUBLE FEATURE

1:00PM : FILM: JACK PIERCE, MAKER OF MONSTERS

(2015, November Fire, D)

Legendary makeup man of Universal Studios, Jack Pierce had an amazing ability to create make-ups that have stood the test of time.
Saturday, October 18th, 7:30pm
Spooooooky Comedy Shorts Night
Greg Pane, Piano Accompaniment

THE IDLE CLASS (1921) Charlie Chaplin
THE HAUNTED HOUSE (1921, 35mm) Buster Keaton
HAUNTED SPOOKS (1921) Harold Lloyd
DO DETECTIVES THINK? (1927) Laurel & Hardy
Featuring Jack Nicholson in an early role and directed by the legendary Roger Corman.
Friday, October 17th, 7:30pm

Odyssey Film Institute Presents:

THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1960) A clumsy young man working in a flower shop discovers that the strange plant he’s been nurturing has an appetite for blood, forcing him to kill to feed it.
Sunday, October 12th, 3:00pm
Laurel & Hardy / Our Gang Talkie Matinee

HIDE & SHRIEK (1938) Our Gang

OLIVER THE EIGHTH (1933) Laurel & Hardy

PUBLIC GHOST #1 (1935) Charley Chase

THE LIVE GHOST (1934) Laurel & Hardy

#LaurelAndHardy #OurGang #CharleyChase
Preceded by shorts:

FRANKENSTEIN (1910, Edison D) Charles Ogle

KOKO’S HAUNTED HOUSE
(1928, Inkwell Studios) Koko the Clown
Saturday October 11th, 7:30pm

Greg Pane, Piano Accompaniment

NOSFERATU (1922, Prana Film, 35mm) Count Orlock (Max Schreck) engages an estate agent to help him with a transaction. F.W. Murnau’s astonishing masterpiece based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a visual feast and an absolute must see!
Friday, October 10th, 7:30pm

Odyssey Film Institute Presents:

WHITE ZOMBIE (1932) A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiancé, but instead turns her into a zombie slave.

Starring Bela Lugosi!
The Stanford Theater in Palo Alto is running a program of westerns, including John Ford's silent epic "The Iron Horse", playing this Sunday.

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More silents (not necessary westerns) off in November.

"Greed" with Wurlitzer Organ accompaniment on Nov 23rd!!!
Preceded by shorts:

THE SCARECROW (1920, 35mm, Joseph M. Schenck Productions)

THE “HIGH SIGN” (1921, Joseph M. Schenck Productions)
Saturday October 4th, 7:30pm

Greg Pane, Piano Accompaniment

Happy 130th Birthday Buster!

STEAMBOAT BILL JR. (1928, 35mm) The son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father's crew.
Friday, October 3rd, 7:30pm

Odyssey Film Institute Presents:

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956)

A small-town doctor (Kevin McCarthy) learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

Directed by Don Siegel (Dirty Harry)
There's a personal connection here: Diana Serra Cary, known as Baby Peggy, lived to the age of 102 and was a friend of our museum.
And I have a (tenuous) family connection to Hobart Bosworth.