Prince of Darkness in 35mm
Sunday, October 11, 2026 · 7:30 PM · Academy Museum, Central L.A.
The Read
The middle film of Carpenter's apocalypse trilogy and the strangest. He wrote the script under a pseudonym and filled it with real physics vocabulary deployed incorrectly on purpose. The recurring dream sequence, shot on video, is still unsettling.
The Venue
Academy Museum
6067 Wilshire Blvd
The Academy's own film museum runs a serious repertory calendar across two purpose-built theaters, from family matinees to archival formats and filmmaker programs.
The film
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Shape The Night
Before
Petersen Automotive MuseumFour floors of cars on Wilshire at Fairfax, behind the red ribbon facade. Under the building is the Vault, a few hundred rare vehicles including prototypes and concepts that never went into production. It is ticketed separately from general admission and cameras are not allowed down there.
7:30 PM · Prince of Darkness in 35mm
After
Tom Bergin'sA horseshoe bar under a ceiling papered in paper shamrocks, each one carrying a regular's name, some of them decades old. Tom Bergin opened the business in 1936 and it ran near-continuously at this Fairfax address until 2018, then reopened under new owners in December 2019 with the interior and the shamrocks intact. It is a landmarked building and the bar runs to 1am every night.