The Landmark Sunshine shows Jonathan Demme’s five-time Oscar winner – still the best in the Hannibal series – at midnight.
139–143 East Houston Street
212-358-0573.
The French surrealist Jean Epstein’s adaptation of the Poe story plays in a double feature with Luis Buñuel’s Eating Sea Urchins, a sure deterrent to candy-corn bingeing.
Gramercy Theater
127 East 23rd Street
212-777-4900.
Mervyn LeRoy, who produced The Wizard of Oz, was also a prolific director, and his 1956 nightmare about a demonic first-grader influenced everything from The Exorcist to The Sixth Sense.
Clearview’s Chelsea
260 West 23rd Street
212-777-FILM#597.
More frightening than any possible MTA fare hike is the cannibal (Hugh Armstrong) who haunts the London Underground in Gary Sherman’s early-seventies gem.
Film Society of Lincoln Center
70 Lincoln Center Plaza
212-875-5600.
Back in Sam Raimi’s pre-Spider-Man days, he made films like this Bruce Campbell gross-out classic, a yell-at-the-screen splatterfest that will benefit greatly from its midnight start.
The Screening Room
54 Varick Street
212-334-2100.