Monster Bash Film Festival
MONSTER BASH GHOSTS FILM FESTIVAL at THE HAUNTED PALACE THEATRE!
Friday August 15 - Saturday August 16, 2025
The Palace Theatre, 605 Market Avenue North, Canton, Ohio
Full two day festival VIP admission $40. CLICK HERE to reserve your seat at The Palace Theatre!
Vendors, get your DISCOUNTED table for the show right now, CLICK HERE!
Reserve your Double Tree hotel room (closest hotel, just 5 blocks away) call (330) 471-8000. You can also book on-line now for a discounted rate, CLICK HERE. Discounted rate ends July 31, 2025.
TV personality guest of honor: horror movie host SON OF GHOUL!
Packed with vendors with collectibles, Blu-Rays, comic books, original movie posters, DVDs, monster magazines, monster t-shirts, and more. See them in the theatre lobby and on the mezzanine level. Please note, most of the vendors are on the second floor mezzanine. There are wide staircases, but no elevator.
Vendors include: Creepy Classics, Evan Clouse, Hollywood Hounds (Original Movie Posters), Leonard's Lair of Loot, and more to come!
The Schedule of Films & Shopping
Please note that programming is subject to change.
Friday, August 15, 2025
Dealers in lobby and on mezzanine level HOURS 3PM - 12:00 Midnight
3:00 PM - MIDNIGHT: CLASSIC MONSTER VENDORS. Blu-Rays, rare DVDs, t-shirts, posters, model kits, toys, rare collectibles and more! The vendors are open from three in the afternoon until 12 Midnight. So you can shop before the movies and in between films on intermissions. Note: there is no elevator and vendors are one flight of stairs up.
5PM MOVIE: 13 GHOSTS (1960). A William Castle special. Castle directs another chiller full of sensationalism. 13 ghosts are haunting a house and reveal themselves to a young boy who has just moved in.
7PM MOVIE: THE UNIVITED (1944). One of the best ghost stories ever filmed. Ray Milland and his sister purchase a house and find it to be haunted. The ghost is not a friendly one. A riveting movie for lovers of supernatural films. The ghost effects are stunning.
9PM MOVIE: THE INNOCENTS (1961). One of the eeriest films of all time. A teacher (Deborah Kerr) has the charge of caring and tutoring to young children in a large old, remote house. Evil and murder had been committed there. Are the children possessed by the ghosts...or is the woman going mad? Chilling to the bone. Two scenes, in particular, will shake you...the vision across the lake and a "quiet" moment near the library. Incredible filmaking.
11PM MOVIE: THE HAUNTING (1963). Wow! An invesgator and a group of those prone to the supernatural are secluded in a seriously haunted house. Still frightening. The scene of a slow zoom to an ornate door (revealing a face) while a spectral chorus rises on the soundtrack will haunt your dreams forever!
Saturday August 16, 2025
Dealers in lobby and on mezzanine level HOURS 12 noon - 12 Midnight
12:00 NOON - MIDNIGHT: CLASSIC MONSTER VENDORS. Blu-Rays, rare DVDs, t-shirts, posters, model kits, toys, rare collectibles and more! The vendors are open from noon until 12 Midnight. So you can shop before the movies and in between films on intermissions.
3PM MOVIE: THE CAT AND THE CANARY (1927). The granddaddy of old dark house flicks. A creeping cat-killer, hidden panels, corpses falling from closets and a terrified heroine. PLUS, this silent feature will spotlight live pipe organ accompaniment by Jay Spencer at The Palace!
5PM MOVIE: THE GHOST AND MR. CHICKEN (1966). Stars Don Knotts, Joan Staley, Dick Sargent and Liam Redmond. One of the funniest haunted house movies with Don Knotts (Barney in the original Andy Grifffth TV Show). Knotts is a typesetter at a newspaper and sees his big break as a reporter coming by spending a night in a reported haunted house and clearing up many mysteries that revolve around the old place. An organ in the house (with bloody keys), playing by itself and a knife that appars in the heart of a portrait hanging n a wall...with blood flowing from it! Yikes!
7PM MOVIE: THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR (1947). A woman buys the house of an old sea captain. He was an ornery old salty dog and he still haunts the place. Humorous and thoughtful supernatural drama with Gene Tierney & Rex Harrison.
9PM MOVIE: THE HAUNTED PALACE (1963). Vincent Price stars in this tale of unspeakable horrors from the pen of H.P. Lovecraft. The title comes from a Poe poem, but the story is "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" by Lovecraft. Ancient evil and possession in a spooky old castle. Price plays the decendant of a warlock and the townpeople are pretty darn uneasy about him moving into his ancestor's neighborhood. The town is populated by strange mutants from the warlock's first go-round! Lon Chaney Jr. in one of his best later roles, plays Simon, the castle caretaker.
11:00PM FREE PRIZE TOSS! To wrap up another great Palace Theatre MONSTER BASH with Creepy Classics, it's the free prize toss. Right after THE HAUNTED PALACE, Creepy Classics will toss from the stage free DVDs, blu-rays, monster magazines and fun monster toys to the audience as a thank you. Catch what you can. Prize-toss at your own risk!
Full two day festival VIP admission, CLICK HERE or advance reservations, or $40 at the door. You can also pay for just one day or individual movie at the door.
Reserve your Double Tree hotel room (closest hotel, just 5 blocks away) call (330) 471-8000.