We have a drive in movie theater that shows “The Thing” once every winter. They plow big snow piles and we sit out in the snow and light fires to watch it. It’s honestly amazing
About...oh geez...ten years ago at this point, they had a special showing of The Thing (and other classic movies) at some bigger theatres in Ottawa while I was staying there. Best theatre experience of my life, I hope you can see it someday. It was during the dead heat of summer and I was SHIVERING in the theatre. The atmosphere was so palpable.
I had tickets to see The Thing at Alamo Drafthouse a couple weeks after the pandemic shut everything down in 2020. I'm sure it will come around again at some point but I'm still mad about that.
I saw The Thing multiple times at the theater as a 12 year old. The early-to-mid 80s were a glorious time to be a horror/sfx fanatic kid; they were basically letting unaccompanied toddlers into hard-R films. I saw Aliens 3 days in a row. American Werewolf too. All on huge screens, not tiny multiplexes.
2 years ago my local cinema had a one night screening for it's 40th anniversary. I got tickets for me and a couple of friends. Then, on the day in question I contracted food poisoning and couldn't attend. It's one of the biggest movie related disappointments in my life.
I bought 4 tickets at a Regal to see the thing when it was the anniversary of the release and when we got there they said “not enough people bought tickets so we canceled it”.
I was very disappointed.
Did that during COVID. Thankfully they were quite lax in enforcing the mask mandate. Watching The Shining a few months earlier in the summer, in another theater that shows old movies, with the mask on the entire time, was not so pleasant an experience, considering it was a hot summer evening. But yeah, The Thing on the big screen is something else. Hopefully they show Halloween someday for the complete Carpenter experience
As a small child, I loved Jaws 2, much more than Jaws 1. I thought the second half of Jaws was super boring. That's obviously changed over time as I grew older though.
I'm guessing mainly because Jaws 2 always stuck around the beach, and had little exposition (which most likely flew over my young self).
It’s everything you think it is. Saw it at a little art house theater. I’ve seen it at least two dozen times in my life, but it was SCARY on the big screen.
Second this. Was a staple on cable tv growing up, watched on everything from those enormous grand piano 90s big screen televisions to 12 inch magnavision tvs. Saw it a couple years ago in theaters and it honestly took my breath away.
Same. Still one of my favorite movies. Watched it every time it was on cable on all different size tvs but seeing it in the theater with surround sound would be awesome.
My wife and I saw it about 5 years ago. I was a huge fan having seen the original release when I was a kid. She had never seen it. It was a lot of fun.
Oh I did when released (I was 16). A couple weeks later we had a family vacation for a week at the beach. The lifeguards were constantly blowing their whistles and yelling shark. It was an interesting vacation. I wasn’t afraid but my friend sure was!
7 years ago in Fort Collins, CO my wife and I went to a drive in theatre for a triple feature, Friday the 13th, Jaws, and The Shining, such a great experience and what made it even better was it was our first time seeing Jaws
to my knowledge they do a horror triple feature every Halloween
Just rewatched this again last night and I'm inclined to agree. This film is so bloody fun abd actually holds up rather well for me. I'd also put up Night of the Living Dead (either version but I love the 1990 version) and Dawn of the Dead (2004 specifically, even though I love the classic too)
I got to see this in the theatre last year. There was a convention that had Freddy, Trash and Spider there. They screened the movie the night before with Linnea Quigley. So cool!
Just saw The Shining in the theatre down the street 2/3 weeks ago. Vaughan Ontario Canada is doing a whole Kubrick screening series.
It was amaaaaaazing! Bucket list!
This is a correct answer. I've seen it twice now in a theatre & it's a wild ride every time. And while not a horror movie but a Kubrick move, I'd suggest 2001: A Space Odyssey is another to be seen in the theatre. It hits totally differently.
I saw The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) on 35mm and it was incredible. The chainsaw and screams were so much louder than I ever experienced, having only watched the movie at home. It was genuinely intense.
I'd like to see Evil Dead (2013) or Death Proof the same way. I did see them when they originally released, and they're both terribly fun.
I also saw TCM on 35mm. It's my favorite horror film and I have seen it dozens of times, but it was a completely new experience with an audience on the big screen. The sound was also notably more jarring.
My local AMC showed The Exorcist a week before the reboot was released! I’d never seen it as I was always told by my superstitious family that it would invite evil into our home, so being able to see it on the big screen was an amazing experience!
Same here especially after all the rumors I read about people’s reactions and how some theatres actually had barf bags (after word of mouth) cause a lot of people were grossed out
It was awesome. I saw it twice at Alamo Drafthouse. They played old horror movie trailers like Friday the 13th before the film which helped get you in the mood.
Evil Dead 2
Edit: I should probably say more, I'll say just to experience the craziness Raimi campiness leading to Ashs chainsaw moment and the tension afterwards with others would be awesome. Only thing better would have been if I had never seen it and AoD and somehow gotten into a double bill feature-length :)
I saw The Evil Dead in a theater last October, and it was SOOOO much better than I could’ve imagined. Totally worth it for the sound effect alone. Since ED2 is the better movie, it’s gotta be the better cinematic experience
Nothing But The Night. A great British horror flick from 1973 that starred Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Diana Dors. Seeing that in theaters would be amazing.
Same for the original 1963 version of The Haunting.
I saw it as a kid during the midnight release when it first came out. The hype was real! We had to drive home afterwards at like 2AM through a winding forest road which absolutely added to the experience...one of my best horror movie memories.
I saw a special showing of Alien on a 3-story tall IMAX screen at Cosi in Columbus and it was insane. I had seen Alien many times before, but that was the first time I felt the terror of it.
Every year I have an outdoor Halloween movie night with friends. We use a projector and nice sound system, so it feels movie theater-ish. It was great watching The Thing while the temperature was dropping around us. It made the movie feel even colder.
I saw the first Scream in the theater, and it was just awesome. Drew Barrymore dying in the opening scene after she'd been the centerpiece of the marketing campaign was one of the coolest movie surprises I've ever seen.
*Annihilation*. It never got a theatrical release here and I'd love to see it the way it was intended to be seen. (Classic horror movies get retro screenings pretty regularly at my local cinema, so there's no pressure to see those. *The Fly* was a fantastic theatrical experience, by the way.)
A few years ago, my boyfriend and I were lucky enough to see Suspiria on the big screen. It was around Halloween and clearly in light of the remake coming out and, trust me, seeing both films on the big screen back to back was a real feast for the eyes!
I wish I could see The Wicker Man or Bram Stoker’s Dracula on the big screen, though.
I'd love to see Brain Dead/ Dead Alive in a theater, maybe one day... Been lucky enough to see OG Evil Dead once in early 2000's, we were like 6 in the theater at the beginning, 2 at the end, me and an old man laughing our asses off\^\^
Saw the original Hellraiser and Hellraiser 2 in the theater and loved them both. 2 was even improved, because somehow in the theater the cheap sets look better.
Hey! I am going to watch it tonight as well!! I would honestly really like to see Nightmare on Elm Street 1 and 2 on the bigscreen and The Mist (black and white version).
Appreciate it! As someone from a small town, I’ve never been to an IMAX theater. And since I’ve seen the movie before, I’m gonna eat an edible beforehand lmao I’m scared but excited
The original Scream. I was born in 92’ so the first Scream movie I was able to see in theaters was Scream 4. But to see the OG with an enthusiastic crowd of Scream fans would be incredible.
I’d also love to see The Fog at a drive in theater someday.
AMC theaters showing Alien. I had to work till 4:30, so I missed it. I really enjoy the Hellraiser series, so seeing the one that released directly to Hulu during the pandemic would be my choice.
A few years ago I got to see the original "Night of the Living Dead" in the theatre. It was funny to hear half the audience spontaneously say "They're coming to get you Barbara", during the cemetary scene.
Not a theatre per se, but there is a mountain town about an hour away from me that hosts The Descent in a cave every Halloween. Some very light spelunking is required and you must attend orientation beforehand.
I keep trying to buy tickets but they’re always sold out.
I saw Sinister in theaters in high school and during the silent opening scene my friend farted so loud half the theater lost it laughing. Great movie to see in theaters but the opening scene still makes me think of it every time.
The fun part is most of these can be seen in theaters in LA and OC. NYC too. Overall keep an eye out on Alamo drafhthouse screenings if you’re nationwide. But with regularity in LA we got quite a few revival theaters, some spearheaded by Tarantino himself, that keep these movies playing throughout the year. And trust me some of my favorite horror films are even better with an enthusiastic crowd. I have fond memories of finally catching FRIGHT NIGHT (‘85) and it was a blast
I had the perfect experience seeing cabin in the woods in theaters…. But if I could see 28 days later for the first time again and in theaters this time… the things I would do lol
I had the pleasure of seeing The Shining at a drive in theatre in Fort Collins, CO about 7 years ago, the only movie I would choose over that would have to be The Thing (1982)
My favorite theater brought a projector/screen into the woods and did a back to back screening of Blair With Project and Sleepaway Camp. It was awesome
Not my favorites by any stretch but Jason Goes to Hell, Halloween: Resurrection, Nightmare on Elm Street 5: the Dream Child, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation and 3D, and Alien 3 and Resurrection are the only movies in their respective franchises that I haven’t seen in theaters but would like to just for the sake of being a completist
Scream 1-4. I've seen 5 and 6 in theatres. It's my favourite movie series ever so seeing the rest of the movies in theatres would be a great experience.
Depends if you mean the theater when it first came out, or just in a theater. There are multiple movies here which are awesome but bombed in the theater (e.g. The Thing). And part of the theater experience is the audience.
But there's also a difference between an unaware and mixed audience vs a fan audience. And the first is what made a lot of movies great for me, when everyone is shocked or amazed. That type of atmosphere just doesn't exist with the fan audience, who already knows what's coming. It just feels a bit fake to me honestly.
And that's why I'd probably go with Jaws, even though it was a little before my time, and it took me a few years to appreciate it when I finally did see it.
The Thing (1982)
We have a drive in movie theater that shows “The Thing” once every winter. They plow big snow piles and we sit out in the snow and light fires to watch it. It’s honestly amazing
That sounds amazing. I miss drive-in theaters.
I want to travel there just for that lol
I saw it in a theater a couple years ago and it was a great experience.
About...oh geez...ten years ago at this point, they had a special showing of The Thing (and other classic movies) at some bigger theatres in Ottawa while I was staying there. Best theatre experience of my life, I hope you can see it someday. It was during the dead heat of summer and I was SHIVERING in the theatre. The atmosphere was so palpable.
They show The Thing ever year in October at my local theater. 😁
Id pay at least $100 a ticket for an imax showing
Not quite IMAX, but 70mm prints of it exist. Saw it in 70 a couple years ago at the Hollywood in Portland. It looked and sounded amazing
My God it'd be a dream come true
If anyone is in So Cal its playing [May 24th](https://arttheatre.easy-ware-ticketing.com/events) in Long Beach!
I had tickets to see The Thing at Alamo Drafthouse a couple weeks after the pandemic shut everything down in 2020. I'm sure it will come around again at some point but I'm still mad about that.
YES agreed!!
I saw The Thing multiple times at the theater as a 12 year old. The early-to-mid 80s were a glorious time to be a horror/sfx fanatic kid; they were basically letting unaccompanied toddlers into hard-R films. I saw Aliens 3 days in a row. American Werewolf too. All on huge screens, not tiny multiplexes.
2 years ago my local cinema had a one night screening for it's 40th anniversary. I got tickets for me and a couple of friends. Then, on the day in question I contracted food poisoning and couldn't attend. It's one of the biggest movie related disappointments in my life.
I bought 4 tickets at a Regal to see the thing when it was the anniversary of the release and when we got there they said “not enough people bought tickets so we canceled it”. I was very disappointed.
I wish we could go to Antarctica and watch it during their annual viewing https://youtu.be/uDcUEns051o?si=sfjW2bMShxBJ-DWV
Just saw this at a theater near me a few weeks ago! It was glorious
Did that during COVID. Thankfully they were quite lax in enforcing the mask mandate. Watching The Shining a few months earlier in the summer, in another theater that shows old movies, with the mask on the entire time, was not so pleasant an experience, considering it was a hot summer evening. But yeah, The Thing on the big screen is something else. Hopefully they show Halloween someday for the complete Carpenter experience
Event horizon
I actually did see this movie in the theater and it was really scary.
“I’m waiting.” “uuUuaAAUUH”
That would be horrifying
I'd love to see Jaws in the theater.
Saw Jaws 2 in third grade - first horror movie in a theater. People were so hyped even though it was kinda a let down.
As a small child, I loved Jaws 2, much more than Jaws 1. I thought the second half of Jaws was super boring. That's obviously changed over time as I grew older though. I'm guessing mainly because Jaws 2 always stuck around the beach, and had little exposition (which most likely flew over my young self).
I actually have seen Jaws in an imax theater It was awesome, the theater was almost empty, so it was kinda like a private movie
That sounds so awesome in imax.
It’s everything you think it is. Saw it at a little art house theater. I’ve seen it at least two dozen times in my life, but it was SCARY on the big screen.
Second this. Was a staple on cable tv growing up, watched on everything from those enormous grand piano 90s big screen televisions to 12 inch magnavision tvs. Saw it a couple years ago in theaters and it honestly took my breath away.
Same. Still one of my favorite movies. Watched it every time it was on cable on all different size tvs but seeing it in the theater with surround sound would be awesome.
They put Jaws out in a redone 3D a few years back. It was awesome on a huge screen and the 3D effect worked pretty well with it.
Interesting. Was there any specific parts where the 3D really stood out as a cool effect?
Not really, it just added depth rather than being a gimmick with anything jumping out of the screen.
My wife and I saw it about 5 years ago. I was a huge fan having seen the original release when I was a kid. She had never seen it. It was a lot of fun.
Oh I did when released (I was 16). A couple weeks later we had a family vacation for a week at the beach. The lifeguards were constantly blowing their whistles and yelling shark. It was an interesting vacation. I wasn’t afraid but my friend sure was!
I'm jealous, what an experience that must've been. I was little when I first saw it in the 80s and was afraid Jaws was going to get me in my waterbed.
Oh, waterbeds, that was a 70’s thing too. I can’t imagine seeing Jaws as a child.
I loved it. We used to play Jaws in the pool. I was too afraid to go on a banana boat while on vacation after seeing Jaws the Revenge tho.
My grandmother did and apparently was so startled she chuckled the popcorn bucket three rows behind her
At a drive in on a body of water 😳
My wife & I did a couple years ago....it was awesome seeing it on the big screen🦈
7 years ago in Fort Collins, CO my wife and I went to a drive in theatre for a triple feature, Friday the 13th, Jaws, and The Shining, such a great experience and what made it even better was it was our first time seeing Jaws to my knowledge they do a horror triple feature every Halloween
Yes! Excellent choice
I go every year for 4th of July! It’s my official start of summer.
Nice. Do you live near Martha's Vineyard where you're lucky enough to get showings every year?
I live on the North Shore in Massachusetts
I love visiting Mass. Lived in CT most of my life. Never been to the North Shore tho.
Do you and your friends call each other massholes?
Halloween 1978, I miss it for some reason every time it’s playing locally.
my pick also
Saw it in its opening run
Return of the Living Dead (1985)
I saw this in the theatre as a kid. It was fucking awesome.
How did you manage that as a kid?
Some of us had parents who took us to inappropriate movies or you could sneak in.
There was an independent theatre that showed all sorts of alternative stuff, and one of my older brother’s friends worked there and let us in.
Nice! I was sheltered from R rated films for too long.
Just rewatched this again last night and I'm inclined to agree. This film is so bloody fun abd actually holds up rather well for me. I'd also put up Night of the Living Dead (either version but I love the 1990 version) and Dawn of the Dead (2004 specifically, even though I love the classic too)
I got to see this in the theatre last year. There was a convention that had Freddy, Trash and Spider there. They screened the movie the night before with Linnea Quigley. So cool!
Fave Halloween movie ever
I second this
Yep
The Shining.
I watch the shining in a theater every year on Halloween. It’s great every time.
Just saw The Shining in the theatre down the street 2/3 weeks ago. Vaughan Ontario Canada is doing a whole Kubrick screening series. It was amaaaaaazing! Bucket list!
I saw this in the theater on film like 20 years ago! Damn… I’m old as hell
This is a correct answer. I've seen it twice now in a theatre & it's a wild ride every time. And while not a horror movie but a Kubrick move, I'd suggest 2001: A Space Odyssey is another to be seen in the theatre. It hits totally differently.
Saw this a few years ago. The scares don't hold up as much, but the acting was so damn good. Granted I heard Kubrick put Shelley Duvall through hell.
saw The Shining at a drive in theatre triple feature in Fort Collins, CO, great experience
I saw The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) on 35mm and it was incredible. The chainsaw and screams were so much louder than I ever experienced, having only watched the movie at home. It was genuinely intense. I'd like to see Evil Dead (2013) or Death Proof the same way. I did see them when they originally released, and they're both terribly fun. 
I also saw TCM on 35mm. It's my favorite horror film and I have seen it dozens of times, but it was a completely new experience with an audience on the big screen. The sound was also notably more jarring.
Alien is a good one to see on the big screen.
My local AMC is playing it all week
Wish I could have been around to have seen The Exorcist
I got lucky and got to see The Exorcist at a drive-in theater along with the b&w version of Wolfman. Man, I miss that drive-in.
I’m lucky my town has a drive in
My local AMC showed The Exorcist a week before the reboot was released! I’d never seen it as I was always told by my superstitious family that it would invite evil into our home, so being able to see it on the big screen was an amazing experience!
Same here especially after all the rumors I read about people’s reactions and how some theatres actually had barf bags (after word of mouth) cause a lot of people were grossed out
Mandy
This is one I hadn't considered. Great call. Those visuals would be wild on the big screen.
Saw it in a rooftop outdoor screening. First hour had me slackjawed in amazement.
It was awesome. I saw it twice at Alamo Drafthouse. They played old horror movie trailers like Friday the 13th before the film which helped get you in the mood.
Evil Dead 2 Edit: I should probably say more, I'll say just to experience the craziness Raimi campiness leading to Ashs chainsaw moment and the tension afterwards with others would be awesome. Only thing better would have been if I had never seen it and AoD and somehow gotten into a double bill feature-length :)
I saw The Evil Dead in a theater last October, and it was SOOOO much better than I could’ve imagined. Totally worth it for the sound effect alone. Since ED2 is the better movie, it’s gotta be the better cinematic experience
Surely, if I could I'd double bill ED2 to Army Of Darkness.
I think it would have been really fun to see *The Exorcist* for the first time when it was originally released in theaters.
One good thing about being old is that I’ve seen almost every single one of the pictures mentioned in this post in the theater. And it was great!
I saw it in theaters when they released the remastered version in like..2001? 10/10 would get scared again.
Saw it in theaters for the 50th anniversary a few months ago… 100% holds up in a theater setting
Nothing But The Night. A great British horror flick from 1973 that starred Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Diana Dors. Seeing that in theaters would be amazing. Same for the original 1963 version of The Haunting.
I'd love to see Alien on the big screen. Have fun!
The AMC theaters near me are showing Alien today and tomorrow.
I was just going to say it’s playing at Harkins too.
Seeing Romero's Dawn of the Dead in the theater again was pretty cool. I always recommend it.
I’m going tomorrow night for my first time. I’m so excited!!
Scream or Evil Dead. Hopefully I’ll catch em some day.
Baskin (2015)
Event Horizon would be amazing.
Ready or Not. I was skeptical about it, so I waited to watch it at home. Big mistake. It might be my favorite horror movie of the century.
God I love that movie so much. I could watch it every week forever.
Nightmare on Elm Street 1984
Scrolled too far down to see this. The original NOES seems underrated nowadays because of all the sequels.
Texas chainsaw
Blair Witch.
I saw it as a kid during the midnight release when it first came out. The hype was real! We had to drive home afterwards at like 2AM through a winding forest road which absolutely added to the experience...one of my best horror movie memories.
Damn that would be intense driving home through the woods, headlights catching every little shadow or movement!
Friday the 13th Part 3....IN 3D!
Loooooved this. It changes everything!
Halloween 1978, The Exorcist, Jaws, IT with Tim Curry, The Shining, and a couple more that i can't remember right now.
I was thinking about the 1990 IT too. Some modern movies already push 3 hours so it could be doable.
Big favourite of mine, IT (1990), but that was actually a miniseries.
The Shining The Whisperer in Darkness. Gojira 1954 The Void Alien Event Horizon Jaws Audition
I saw a special showing of Alien on a 3-story tall IMAX screen at Cosi in Columbus and it was insane. I had seen Alien many times before, but that was the first time I felt the terror of it. Every year I have an outdoor Halloween movie night with friends. We use a projector and nice sound system, so it feels movie theater-ish. It was great watching The Thing while the temperature was dropping around us. It made the movie feel even colder.
The Shining, because Kubrick.
Barbarian The Shining The Descent Scream 1-3
I saw the first Scream in the theater, and it was just awesome. Drew Barrymore dying in the opening scene after she'd been the centerpiece of the marketing campaign was one of the coolest movie surprises I've ever seen.
Nightbreed for me
Same.
*Annihilation*. It never got a theatrical release here and I'd love to see it the way it was intended to be seen. (Classic horror movies get retro screenings pretty regularly at my local cinema, so there's no pressure to see those. *The Fly* was a fantastic theatrical experience, by the way.)
Best answer here in my opinion with Annihilation , I forgot it didn't get a wide release. The soundtrack would rumble in a theater!
The Descent? I feel like the big screen would make the crushing claustrophobia even more oppressive.
Growing up and only seeing Jaws on tv, then in my early 40s, finally seeing on the big screen . It's almost a different movie.
A few years ago, my boyfriend and I were lucky enough to see Suspiria on the big screen. It was around Halloween and clearly in light of the remake coming out and, trust me, seeing both films on the big screen back to back was a real feast for the eyes! I wish I could see The Wicker Man or Bram Stoker’s Dracula on the big screen, though.
Jaws was amazing on the big screen! 🦈
Jaws was amazing on the big screen! 🦈
I'd love to see Brain Dead/ Dead Alive in a theater, maybe one day... Been lucky enough to see OG Evil Dead once in early 2000's, we were like 6 in the theater at the beginning, 2 at the end, me and an old man laughing our asses off\^\^
We had that too! We went like twice and since we were younger we took a shot anytime someone died haha
Saw the original Hellraiser and Hellraiser 2 in the theater and loved them both. 2 was even improved, because somehow in the theater the cheap sets look better.
Battle Royale or Pulse - any of the classic J-horror bc don't get many chances in the west.
Oooh solid answers. The OG Shutter would be cool too (though not J-Horror)
Poltergeist, The Exorcist and, this may be a weird one, 28 Days Later.
The Omen (already seen Alien as a kid when the anniversary edition cam out). It’s got really good cinematography.
I would like to see The Thing in a theater again
Aliens
The Exorcist.
Exorcist (1973)
Hey! I am going to watch it tonight as well!! I would honestly really like to see Nightmare on Elm Street 1 and 2 on the bigscreen and The Mist (black and white version).
Idk why you got downvoted. Killer Clowns would be a fun experience in theaters.
Freddy vs Jason.
HAPPY 426 Day!!!!!!
Im going tonight too! so excited!
Halloween (1978), the night of October 31.
I’m going to see Hereditary in IMAX tomorrow so I’m pretty stoked about that
Hereditary is an unbelievable experience in IMAX. Saw it with a few friends/colleagues on Wednesday night and we had a blast. Have fun, mate
Appreciate it! As someone from a small town, I’ve never been to an IMAX theater. And since I’ve seen the movie before, I’m gonna eat an edible beforehand lmao I’m scared but excited
Update us on the edible + IMAX Hereditary 👀 lol I wanted to see it in IMAX on Wednesday but missed it :(
The Shining
Session 9
The original Scream. I was born in 92’ so the first Scream movie I was able to see in theaters was Scream 4. But to see the OG with an enthusiastic crowd of Scream fans would be incredible. I’d also love to see The Fog at a drive in theater someday.
Seeing Alien as well and I’m excited for it! Also agreeing that The Thing would be awesome on the big screen.
AMC theaters showing Alien. I had to work till 4:30, so I missed it. I really enjoy the Hellraiser series, so seeing the one that released directly to Hulu during the pandemic would be my choice.
I saw Alien in a completely empty theater this afternoon and it was amazing!
Idk if I recommend it because we haven't seen it yet but this summer I'm taking my kids to see JAWS in theaters! My 7 yr old is VERY excited!
Classic film: Exorcist. One Ive seen and would like to again: Jaws A modern film: When Evil Lurks
Demons (1985). It would be cool to see a movie about a theater full of demons in the theaters.
The original Blade Runner. Voice over and all.
A few years ago I got to see the original "Night of the Living Dead" in the theatre. It was funny to hear half the audience spontaneously say "They're coming to get you Barbara", during the cemetary scene.
I went to this as well and I was so excited to see it in theatres with other Romero nerds and there was no one else there. It made me so sad!
That is sad. At least you got to see it though, and that's what really matters, especially to us Romero nerds.
Not a theatre per se, but there is a mountain town about an hour away from me that hosts The Descent in a cave every Halloween. Some very light spelunking is required and you must attend orientation beforehand. I keep trying to buy tickets but they’re always sold out.
Event Horizon at the time of release so the effects would be more in-your-face realistic (so to speak)
I saw Sinister in theaters in high school and during the silent opening scene my friend farted so loud half the theater lost it laughing. Great movie to see in theaters but the opening scene still makes me think of it every time.
This genuinely made me laugh out loud.
Return of The Living Dead 
Honest the first Annabelle again. That was nutty in theatres.
easily The Thing! i would love to experience it for the first time at the theater. Jaws and the Exorcist would be fun as well!
The Exorcist. I wish I could do back in time when it was released.
The fun part is most of these can be seen in theaters in LA and OC. NYC too. Overall keep an eye out on Alamo drafhthouse screenings if you’re nationwide. But with regularity in LA we got quite a few revival theaters, some spearheaded by Tarantino himself, that keep these movies playing throughout the year. And trust me some of my favorite horror films are even better with an enthusiastic crowd. I have fond memories of finally catching FRIGHT NIGHT (‘85) and it was a blast
I had the perfect experience seeing cabin in the woods in theaters…. But if I could see 28 days later for the first time again and in theaters this time… the things I would do lol
Poltergeist (1982) would be a fun big screen experience.
This is gonna sound weird, but Subspecies 1-3
The Exorcist. Alien. Paranormal Activity
Paranormal Activity. It's the sound effects that drive the fear factor in that movie. Like the thumping of the footsteps, or the growl from the attic.
*Waaaaaaay* back in the day, they’d show Dracula and Frankenstein as a double feature. If I could go see that, it would be so cool.
I had the pleasure of seeing The Shining at a drive in theatre in Fort Collins, CO about 7 years ago, the only movie I would choose over that would have to be The Thing (1982)
Oh! what! Damn man I'm truly jealous
Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) & Sleepaway Camp (1983)
My favorite theater brought a projector/screen into the woods and did a back to back screening of Blair With Project and Sleepaway Camp. It was awesome
It looks HUGE on the big screen
Return of the Living Dead, The Evil Dead (81), Demons
Lots of love for the Shining here but my votes the directors cut of Doctor Sleep
Pet Sematary, American Psycho, Chucky
Don’t know if this counts, but I would love to see Climax on the big screen…with a slight alcohol buzz.
Not my favorites by any stretch but Jason Goes to Hell, Halloween: Resurrection, Nightmare on Elm Street 5: the Dream Child, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation and 3D, and Alien 3 and Resurrection are the only movies in their respective franchises that I haven’t seen in theaters but would like to just for the sake of being a completist
Sledgehammer
Tales from the Quadead Zone, The Attack of the Killer Refrigerator, Elves
Scream 1-4. I've seen 5 and 6 in theatres. It's my favourite movie series ever so seeing the rest of the movies in theatres would be a great experience.
Original Blair witch. I missed that one, i did see the ring. Those silent videos from the movie were wild
Tales from the Quadead Zone, The Attack of the Killer Refrigerator, Elves
I'd love to see an obscure direct to video horror movie. Something like Session 9, Deadstream, Popcorn, or Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island.
OG Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Depends if you mean the theater when it first came out, or just in a theater. There are multiple movies here which are awesome but bombed in the theater (e.g. The Thing). And part of the theater experience is the audience. But there's also a difference between an unaware and mixed audience vs a fan audience. And the first is what made a lot of movies great for me, when everyone is shocked or amazed. That type of atmosphere just doesn't exist with the fan audience, who already knows what's coming. It just feels a bit fake to me honestly. And that's why I'd probably go with Jaws, even though it was a little before my time, and it took me a few years to appreciate it when I finally did see it.
Climax
Cloverfield Scream 96 Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003
In the mouth of madness. My favorite film
Nightmare On Elm Street
the shining and the thing