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When October lowers its dim veil over Milwaukee, the Oriental Theatre glows like a lantern in the fog. As the air turns sharper, the city feels charged with a spine-chilling sort of magic. Tucked away on Milwaukee’s East Side, the historic landmark, with its usual marquee that shines brightly like a relic of cinema’s golden age, now stands like a cathedral of celluloid, its ornate ceilings catching the spectral flicker of the projector, its gilded form guiding us from gold to gore.

Your Ticket to Terror

Inside, Milwaukee Film’s Scareville awakens—a month-long experiment in terror and taste. This is where fear takes form—not as something to escape, but something to savor—and as the month spits out its spook-factor with its color changing leaves and c

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