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San Diego International Film Festival 2026

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San Diego International Film Festival 2026

In 11 days · Oct 14 – Oct 18 Reading Cinemas Gaslamp 15, 701 Fi…

What you remember from a festival this size is not on the screen. It is the moment the lights come up and the person who made the film stands out of the row behind you and turns out to be a nervous human being answering questions. Bigger festivals cannot hand you that. Here you get a week of films that played Venice or Toronto or Sundance a few weeks earlier, screened downtown within walking distance of each other, with directors and cast actually in the building afterward. International competition titles, American documentaries, shorts programs, and features with local roots. The evenings turn social, premieres bleeding into parties until the entire arts scene of the city is in the same few blocks for the week. Downtown San Diego in October, passes or single tickets, trolley to the door. See one film alone and one with somebody. The second is the one you will still be arguing about in December.

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San Diego Gulls vs Ontario Reign

In 11 days · Oct 14 $20+ Pechanga Arena San Diego, 3500 Spo…

Every good hockey team needs a rival it genuinely can't stand, and for the Gulls that is the Ontario Reign — the LA Kings' farm club, a short drive up the freeway, and the kind of opponent that turns a regular Wednesday into a grudge match. AHL hockey at this level is a beautiful contradiction: the players are one call-up away from the NHL, the tickets cost less than a movie, and the hitting is somehow harder than the big league because everyone is fighting for a job. Pechanga gets loud and mean when the Reign are in town, the SoCal hockey diaspora out in force, beer cold and chants sharp. Wednesday, October 14, 2026, 7pm, Pechanga Arena San Diego. Come for the rivalry, stay for the specific joy of a well-timed hip check, and discover that the best sports deal in the county has been hiding in the Sports Arena this whole time.

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Who Killed Teddy Bear? / In the Cut

In 11 days · Oct 14 New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly B…

Two films about wanting somebody and being watched by somebody, made thirty-eight years apart, and the older one is somehow the more unsettling. Who Killed Teddy Bear? is a 1965 New York obsession picture that got itself effectively buried for decades, with Sal Mineo as a busboy making phone calls he should not be making, shot in a Times Square that no longer exists in any form. In the Cut is Jane Campion's, the one that was misread on arrival as a thriller when it is really about a woman deciding that risk is preferable to numbness, and it has aged into the respect it should have had immediately. Programmed together they stop being genre and start being an argument. Both on 35mm, Wednesday, October 14, at 7:30pm and 9:35pm on Beverly Boulevard. You will want to talk about it in the car afterwards, which is the entire reason to go with somebody.

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Newport Beach Film Festival 2026

In 12 days · Oct 15 THE LOT at Fashion Island, 999 New…

Most festivals make you choose between the movie and the party. This one flatly refuses, and that refusal is the entire personality of the thing. Eight days on the Orange County coast, hundreds of screenings, and a nightly ritual nobody else runs the same way: the country spotlights. Irish night, French night, Latino night, Pacific Rim night — each anchored by a film and then walked straight into a party, so a screening becomes an evening and the evening becomes three conversations you did not plan on having. It is prestige cinema with sand in its shoes. International work that will not surface anywhere else nearby, the people who made it standing in the room, and the particular coastal glamour of toasting a movie under string lights when it ends. Send it to the friend who believes a great film deserves a great party. They have been waiting years for somebody to agree with them out loud.

Outpost with writer/director Joe Lo Truglio

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Outpost with writer/director Joe Lo Truglio

In 12 days · Oct 15 Vidiots MUBI Microcinema, 4884 Eag…

Some weeks the fantasy is not a vacation. It is a fire lookout tower, one road in, no service, nobody who needs anything from you. Then you get there and discover the quiet is not empty - it has been waiting to hand you back everything you drove up to avoid. That is the film, and the man who wrote and directed it is the guy you know as the sweetest idiot in a police precinct sitcom. Joe Lo Truglio made a psychological horror picture about isolation and it is genuinely unsettling, which is its own small shock to anyone who only knows him from sketch comedy. He will be there in person. The MUBI Microcinema is the smaller of the two rooms here - under fifty seats, which means a director talkback in there is less a panel than a conversation. That intimacy is the entire reason to pick this over a bigger screening somewhere else. Thursday, October 15 at 7:00pm, in the small room upstairs.

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Supernatural / Terror Aboard

In 12 days · Oct 15 New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly B…

Carole Lombard made exactly one horror film and almost nobody has seen it. In Supernatural she plays an heiress taken over by the spirit of an executed murderess, a 1933 Paramount picture that runs barely an hour, moves like a fever, and slipped so far out of circulation that for decades it travelled mostly as a rumour among people who collect this sort of thing. It is paired with Terror Aboard, another pre-Code Paramount rarity, in which a killer works his way through the passengers of a private yacht with a cheerfulness the Production Code would have struck out a year later. Neither turns up on a streaming menu. Both run on 35mm, which is most of the reason you can see them at all this year, and the reason the condition of the print becomes part of the evening. New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly Blvd, on the fifteenth: first feature at 7:30, the second at 9:05.

Animation Is Film Festival 2026 - TCL Chinese 6 Theatres, Hollywood

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Animation Is Film Festival 2026 - TCL Chinese 6 Theatres, Hollywood

In 13 days · Oct 16 TCL Chinese 6 Theatres, 6801 Holly…

Everybody tells you animation is for children right up until the year you work out that most of the films that genuinely wrecked you were drawn. This is the festival built for whoever that happened to. Its ninth edition puts Oscar contenders on the same four-day program as a twenty-six-year-old cult picture nobody's studio wanted, which is the entire argument it exists to make. On the awards side: Louis Clichy's Iron Boy, Leah Nelson's Tangles, The Violinist, and the first theatrical showing anywhere of the opening two episodes of Dana Terrace's Knights of Guinevere. But the reason to clear a Friday is further down the grid — the North American premiere of Shingo Natsume's Ghost: End of Night, and a retrospective print of Yoshiaki Kawajiri's Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, the 2000 film that underperformed and then quietly became the thing a whole generation pointed at to end the argument about whether animation was a medium or a genre. Opening day starts with Best of Annecy at four in the afternoon, which means the festival's first act is a room full of people watching shorts that will never get a US release. October 16 to 19, at TCL 6 on Hollywood Blvd. Passes and single tickets through the festival.

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8th LA Horror Film Festival 2026

Every day · Next Oct 16 Let Live Theater, 916 N Formosa Av…

Independent horror filmmakers get their own three-day showcase at the 8th LA Horror Film Festival, running October 16-18 at Let Live Theater in Los Angeles. This is not a midnight screening of a studio sequel -- this is the festival where first-time directors screen the thing they shot in a warehouse in Van Nuys with a budget that would not cover a single day of catering on a studio lot. The programming runs from short films to features, spanning psychological horror, creature features, body horror, and the uncategorizable experiments that only exist because someone with a camera decided to try. Panel discussions and filmmaker Q-and-As fill the gaps between screenings, and the crowd is the kind of horror community that has opinions about practical effects versus CGI that will outlast any conversation you expected to have. Let Live Theater, Los Angeles. Three days of independent horror cinema.

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Boy Harsher at Hollywood Palladium

In 13 days · Oct 16 $40+ Hollywood Palladium, 6215 W Sunset…

Some bands sound like a movie you have not seen yet; Boy Harsher sounds like the one already playing behind your eyes at three in the morning. The duo of Jae Matthews and Augustus Muller took darkwave out of the basement and made it cinematic -- pulsing, sensual, faintly terrifying -- and their live show has become the rare underground act that can now fill the Palladium without losing an ounce of its menace. Expect strobe, sweat, and a room full of people who found the exact soundtrack to their inner lives. It is a genuine scene event, the kind that turns strangers into a congregation for ninety minutes. Come alone and leave part of something. Or bring the person these songs remind you of. Either way, wear black and prepare to move.

Scream Diego 2026 — Halloween & Horror Convention

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Scream Diego 2026 — Halloween & Horror Convention

In 14 days · Oct 17 DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel San Die…

A horror panel tucked inside somebody else's general convention always feels like being let in through a side door. This is the other thing entirely — a whole weekend built by people who wanted to be in a horror room and stopped waiting for permission to have one. You can tell from the guest list. The names here come from the films themselves, not from adjacent franchises with a horror-shaped marketing angle, and that single detail tells you exactly who the weekend is for. The floor runs both days: vendors, artists, and an artist alley carrying original work, prop replicas, and merch that never surfaces at the mainstream shows. The people filling it pre-order the special editions, know the director's full filmography, and hold real opinions about the best practical effect of the last decade. Two days in October, in a Mission Valley hotel with real function rooms, in the one month the whole city is finally in the right season for it. If you take horror seriously, you already know who you are texting about this.

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D6 Fall Festival

In 14 days · Oct 17 Verne Goodwin Mira Mesa Senior Cen…

Some neighborhoods have to build their own gathering place because the map never bothered to hand them one. Mira Mesa and the Convoy corridor did exactly that, and this is the autumn version of it. Same team as the night market, so the food-truck rows and vendor booths are what most people come for, and then it wraps all of that in everything a fall evening should have: a movie in the park, a trunk-or-treat, pumpkin decorating, live performances, and the particular warmth of an immigrant community that turns out in force for its own. It runs into the evening and it is free. You will watch three generations of one family split a single plate and stay until the movie ends, because nobody wants to be the one who suggests leaving. The senior center on Mira Mesa Boulevard, an October evening, no admission. If you grew up out here, you already know exactly who to send this to.

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Riptide Film Festival 2026 — Torrance

In 14 days · Oct 17 James R. Armstrong Theatre, 3330 C…

Last year you shot something you're still not sure is good. You showed three people. Two said it was great and one said nothing, which is the one you keep thinking about. Riptide Film Festival is the South Bay's answer to that silence. It screens indie and high school filmmakers at the Armstrong Theatre in Torrance — a venue just small enough that the filmmaker is sitting three rows from the audience reaction. No publicists, no red carpet, no entourage blocking the bar. Just the work, projected large, in front of people who came because they wanted to see something they hadn't seen before. The festival celebrates filmmakers at every stage — first shorts alongside polished independents — and the Q&As afterward are the kind where someone in the audience asks the question the filmmaker was afraid no one would notice. It's the South Bay film community in a room together, discovering each other. Saturday, October 17, 2026. James R. Armstrong Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Dr, Torrance 90503. riptidefilmfest.com.

Spirited Away 25th Anniversary — Studio Ghibli Fest 2026

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Spirited Away 25th Anniversary — Studio Ghibli Fest 2026

In 14 days · Oct 17 – Oct 21 Varies by theater Fathom Events Theaters Nationwide …

You have been homesick for twenty-five years for a place that was never real. A bathhouse lit gold over black water. A train that only runs one way, across a flooded world, into the dark. Spirited Away gave you that homesickness the first time you saw it — and this October, for one week only, its 25th anniversary and the finale of Studio Ghibli Fest 2026, Hayao Miyazaki's masterpiece comes back to the big screen where the ache belongs. There is a particular silence that falls over a theater full of people who love the same film. The lights drop, Joe Hisaishi's first piano notes land, and a room of strangers stops breathing at the same moment. Ghibli Fest runs both the subtitled original and the English dub, with a piece of surprise content before each show. But the real event is the crowd — parents who were kids when this came out, now holding the hands of kids seeing it for the first time; longtime fans catching a detail they'd missed on every laptop rewatch; someone two rows back crying quietly and not caring who sees. Even if you've seen it a dozen times, you have not seen it like this. If Spirited Away is a film you carry around inside you, this isn't a question — you go. Projected, at scale, with sound that fills the room, is the version it was made for. It's rated PG and open to almost everyone, though No-Face and the spirit world can frighten very small children — parents of under-sevens should know that going in. This is not a movie to leave on in the background. It's two hours built to move you, in a room full of people who came to be moved alongside you. Tickets run through the official Ghibli Fest and participating theater box offices, and the anniversary finale sells out earliest of the whole festival — buy ahead. Choose your format on purpose: the dub is the gentle way in for young kids, the subtitled original is what the purists want. Come early for the pre-show content most latecomers miss. Go on a weekend evening if you can, when the theater fills all the way up and the silence gets deeper. Some films you own and still leave the house for. At twenty-five, Spirited Away is less a movie than a place people keep returning to — and going back together, in the dark, is how you remember why it marked you. One week in October. Then the train pulls away again.

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Boy Harsher at The Sound

In 14 days · Oct 17 $40+ The Sound, 2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd…

Down in Del Mar, on a Saturday in October, the fairgrounds' newest room goes pitch dark for the duo the whole darkwave scene bows to. Boy Harsher does not do polite; the duo makes music that feels like a beautiful anxiety attack, all analog throb and whispered dread, built to be experienced loud and in the dark with a crowd that gets it. The Sound is an intimate, sharp-sounding venue, which means none of the cinematic detail gets lost. For San Diego's synth and goth faithful, a Boy Harsher night this close to home is not a maybe. Get there early, stand close, and let the bass rearrange your ribcage. This is a band that literally made its own horror film, and live it shows. Some shows you attend. This one attends to you.

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Camp Frida 9: Monster Mash

Oct 18, 2026 $30 GA / $50 VIP / $80 Super VIP The Frida Cinema, 305 E 4th St Sui…

Endurance is a love language for some people. Not the gym kind - the kind where you sit in the same seat for twelve hours because leaving would mean you were not really in it. Orange County's only nonprofit theater has been running this particular act of devotion for nine years now, and the deal is simple and slightly insane: the first film goes up in the late afternoon and the last one lets out at four in the morning, and the lineup stays classified until the frame hits the screen. You do not get to pick. You find out with everyone else, in the dark, at two in the morning, when a title card appears and half the room loses its mind because somebody recognizes it. That shared blind trust is the whole event. The regulars know the geography of it: the upper tiers get in early to claim seats and there is pizza at dinnertime, which by hour six stops being a perk and starts being medical. Sunday, October 18, doors 3:30pm, first film 4pm, at 305 E 4th St, Santa Ana. Thirty dollars general.

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Blind Runner

Oct 18, 2026 South Coast Repertory, 655 Town Ce…

In a prison visiting room, a man teaches his wife to run. She is losing her sight, and he is training her to move fast through a darkness she cannot navigate yet, toward a freedom neither of them is sure exists. That is the premise, and it does not let go of you. Amir Reza Koohestani and the Mehr Theatre Group perform it in Persian with English supertitles — three Iranians, one of them training a blind woman to run the Channel Tunnel, staged with the spare beauty Koohestani is known for. This is the kind of international work most of the country never gets to see in a room. Urgent, political, and human before it is any of those things, trusting an audience to sit inside something real without being told how to feel about it. South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa. Go with the person who wants the whole world on one stage.

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Blitzkid, Zombeast, The Writhers

Oct 18, 2026 Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, San Die…

Two weeks before Halloween, the people who dress like this all year round get their actual holiday, and it looks nothing at all like the bar crawl everyone else is planning. Horrorpunk is a small and startlingly sincere world: B-movie imagery, greaser haircuts, songs about graveyards delivered with total commitment and absolutely no irony anywhere in the building. The West Virginia headliner has been at it since the nineties and carries a following that treats the band less like entertainment and more like a denomination — people who learned the words at fifteen and have not revised their opinion since. Two more acts sit underneath, both leaning the same direction, so the aesthetic holds all night instead of breaking between sets. If you have never been in a room like this, the thing that surprises people is how friendly it is. The look is hostile. The crowd is not. Doors at seven, first band at eight, a Sunday. October 18, Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd. Wear the jacket. San Diego runs a full calendar of this every October and it operates almost entirely by word of mouth.

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Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Every day · Next Oct 19 New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly B…

At some point you started calling every slasher death three minutes early, and somewhere along the way that stopped being a complaint and quietly became the pleasure. This one knows that about you. It drops a woman who understands exactly what film she is trapped inside into a summer-camp body count and lets her try to argue with the genre's rules from within them, which is a far harder trick than parody and lands much closer to grief than anyone expects going in. It played festivals before most people could see it at all, so a 35mm booking in Los Angeles in October is a genuinely narrow window rather than a re-release. The New Beverly crowd talks back at the screen on horror nights, and on this particular film that is not a nuisance, it is practically the correct format. Monday, October 19 at 7:30pm on Beverly Boulevard. Tell the friend who quotes final-girl theory at parties.

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