Upcoming Film Screenings
4 upcoming film screenings from Capitol Theatre (Arlington), with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All film in Greater Boston →
Thu Oct 29 · 7:30pm
Michael Mann's The Keep (1983), adapted from F. Paul Wilson's 1981 novel, is set in 1941 in a Romanian mountain citadel, where German soldiers free an ancient demon from its prison and are forced to turn to a Jewish historian for help. Jürgen Prochnow, Scott Glenn, Ian McKellen and Gabriel Byrne star, and Tangerine Dream wrote the score. High Energy Vintage presents the screening.
Fri Oct 30 – Sat Oct 31
Fri Oct 30 · 6:00pm & 7:45pm / Sat Oct 31 · 1:00pm & 2:45pm
Henry Selick’s 1993 stop-motion musical The Nightmare Before Christmas, from a story by producer Tim Burton, follows Jack Skellington, the “spindly king of Halloween Town,” who tires of scaring humans every October 31 and kidnaps Santa Claus to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts on Christmas morning. His rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to stop him. Danny Elfman wrote the songs and sings Jack’s part.
Sun Nov 1 · 3:00pm
Celluloid Confidential, High Energy Vintage’s series of secret films shown from 16mm prints, returns with a horror marathon of about six hours, every title kept under wraps until the projector starts. The series’ June edition screened a 1960s alien-invasion science-fiction horror picture, announced on its flyer only by decade and genre.
Thu Nov 5 · 6:00pm
That Weird Film Festival 2026 is an evening of short films, each four to fifteen minutes, chosen from open submissions of work that is silly, strange, awkward or a little creepy. Prizes go to the most surprising film, the silliest film and the most unique acting, the audience votes in a bracket for the Most Weird Film of 2026, and there is a secret award. Submissions close October 18.
