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frightfest 2024 september 13th, 14th, 20th, 21st
Something wicked this way comes...
Come out and experience one of central Illinois' top Halloween themed movie events over the course of 3 weekends in September & 2 big weekends in October 2024.
Frightfest has everything you want for some scary fun: spooky decorations, haunting ghost stories, fabulous themed food specials, Halloween themed movie features for family or scary movies for horror fans, costume contests, trunk or treat for the kids, roaming monsters and our final scary haunted trail for all those to enjoy.
Weekend 3: September 20th & 21st: Ghosts & Ghouls Weekend
Screen 1: Casper(1995) & Beetlejuice Beetlejuice(2024) Double feature
Screen 2: Sinister(2012) & A Nightmare on Elm Street(1984) Double Feature
Our 13th Annual Frightfest is coming soon with a ton of fun extras to enjoy with the movies! Not only does your admission get you in to see your choice of double features, but you can enjoy all the Halloween fun bonus activities before the movies start and during our intermission time including:
A chance to snag the collectible merchandise!
Trunk or Treat- decorate your car and hand out candy for a chance to win a prize or go around trick or treating to get some free goodies!
Photo spots- dozens of photo areas around the theater to get pictures with to remember your trip.
Roaming Monsters- Grab a selfie with a ghoul before the show!
Food/Drink Specials- from apple donuts to caramel apple slushies, Frightfest has plenty of themed treats and seasonal fall favorites to enjoy with
your show plus our regular menus.
Harvest Hollow Haunted Trail- for just $2 you can enter our final haunted trail filled with scary monsters, traps and frightening fun.
Costume Contest- Prizes for participants and winners in Kids and Adults categories each night.
Spooky fun with Halloween music, special intermission and a fun Halloween makeover for the entire theater.
Don't just watch a movie, experience one at the drive-in during our 13th Annual Frightfest this September!
We hope you will join us for the fun final weekends of our drive-in season this September & October.
About Harvest Moon Drive In frightfest
Frightfest Info
Our 13th Annual Frightfest is coming soon with a ton of fun extras to enjoy with the movies! Not only does your admission get you in to see your choice of double features, but you can enjoy all the Halloween fun bonus activities before the movies start and during our intermission time including:
A chance to snag the collectible merchandise!
Trunk or Treat- decorate your car and hand out candy for a chance to win a prize or go around trick or treating to get some free goodies!
Photo spots- dozens of photo areas around the theater to get pictures with to remember your trip.
Roaming Monsters- Grab a selfie with a ghoul before the show!
Food/Drink Specials- from apple donuts to caramel apple slushies, Frightfest has plenty of themed treats and seasonal fall favorites to enjoy with your show plus our regular menus.
Harvest Hollow Haunted Trail- for just $2 you can enter our final haunted trail filled with scary monsters, traps and frightening fun.
Costume Contest- Prizes for participants and winners in Kids and Adults categories each night.
Spooky fun with Halloween music, special intermission and a fun Halloween makeover for the entire theater.
Don't just watch a movie, experience one at the drive-in during our 13th Annual Frightfest this September!
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Events, Movies & dates for frightfest events
Frightfest Weekend Three 9.20 - 9.21
Frightfest Weekend 3
September 13th & 14th
Join us Friday & Saturday nights as we conclude the month long event with the Ghosts & Ghouls Weekend!
Gates open at 6pm each night with a 7:45 pm showtime.
Screen 1 Spooky Movies for Families:
Casper(1995) PG
&
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice(2024) PG-13
Screen 2 Scarier Movies for Horror Fans:
Sinister(2012) R
&
A Nightmare on Elm Street(1984) R
Tons of fun activities besides the movies: Trunk or Treat for everyone with prizes for the top 3 decorated vehicles, tons of photo spots and photo ops with roaming monsters/characters, haunted trail walk for kids(during the light fright time), then scary after dark(dusk & intermission), Halloween music, lot's of food and drink specials, special merchandise, costume contest for kids, adults, groups and pets both nights at intermission time, and some fun content on screen for Intermission.
Fun Extras & Schedule
Here is our rough Schedule for the frightfest event weekends.
Gates will open around 6:00 pm each night allowing folks to come and enjoy the fun extras of our event!
Before the movies start:
- Trunk or Treat- set up a cool car display, hand out candy or treats to both the kids and adults walking around Trick or Treating. Trunk or Treat takes place each night and on both screen 1 & 2, so arrive early to enjoy it!
- Fun themed music on the radio to groove to while waiting on the sun to set.
- Photo Ops! Get your photo taken with the escaped freaks & ghouls of some local Haunted Houses or our movie monsters. We have several areas around the Snack Bar and theater for photo fun!
- Harvest Moon's final Walk of the Dead Haunted Trail- Bring the kids through early in the waning daylight from 6:30-7 or in the scary version once the sun sets from 7:15-7:45 and intermission each night.
- Food Specials: Get our regular menu goodies, or an assortment of amazing themed food treats including Caramel Apples, Curtis Orchard Apple Crisp Donuts, Slushies & Floats, Witch's Brew or other specialty drinks, Zombie Brains Funnel Cakes, Monster Mix Loaded Cheese Fries & more!
At intermission:!
- Costume Contest Time! Come up to the photo area by our Carousel for some fun competition to win prizes. Awards for to 3 of the following categories: Kids, Adults and Groups!
- Photo Ops! Get your photo taken with the escaped freaks & ghouls of some local Haunted Houses or our movie monsters. We have several areas around the Snack Bar and theater for photo fun!
- Harvest Moon's Final Walk of the Dead Haunted Trail- Bring the whole crew into the scary version at intermission each night.
- Special on screen intermission to enjoy while waiting for the movies to start back up.
- Food Specials: Get our regular menu goodies, or an assortment of amazing themed food treats including Caramel Apples, Curtis Orchard Apple Crisp Donuts, Slushies & Floats, Witch's Brew or Monster Punch drinks, Zombie Brains Funnel Cakes, Monster Mix Loaded Cheese Fries & more! Grab your favorites before the food stands shutdown for the night!
What is Frightfest at the Harvest Moon?
The Drive-in gets a spooky makeover with fun Halloween decorations all around the place.
We encourage folks to decorate cars for everyone to walk around and enjoy and those wanting to participate in the Trunk or Treat before the movies start.
We'll be hosting our Costume contest during our intermission with great prizes donated by some local businesses(haunted house passes, Halloween goodies) and drive-in prizes.
As usual, we'll have fun Halloween music before the movies, themed food specials, special intermission content and more.
We look forward to seeing you all here as we wrap up our 2024 season with our Halloween Celebrations at the Harvest Moon!
Event Activities
During our Frightfest Events at the Harvest Moon, we have a short haunted trail walk to enjoy with themed rooms, scary props, monsters and actors to scary you. The Walk of the Dead is open for a light fright version before dark and a scary version both before the movies start and at intermission time each night.
Decorate your vehicle and hand out candy for the Trunk or Treat before the movies start and at intermission. There is no Food Permit charge for candy to hand out, only food/drinks you are consuming at the theater. This is for both Kids and Adults during our Frightfest events!
Each night at intermission we host our Costume Contest with prizes for Adults, Kids & groups! Trophies for the top 3 costumes in each category and 1 best of show winner each night.
One of the staples from our 2nd Frightfest in 2013 is the roving monsters. Each night before the movies start, you can find the monsters emerge to take photos with you and scary interactions.
The drive-in gets a complete spooky makeover for Frightfest, and we have several fun photo areas for folks to interact with, take group photos and selfies!
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Wizarding Weekends 2024
Wizarding Weekends 2024
September 27th & 28th & October 4th & 5th
Revisit the magic of Hogwarts!
We invite you to join us for the return of magic on the big screen with your favorite witches and wizards with our Wizarding Weekends of Magic and Mystery!
Join us Friday September 27th or Saturday September 28th when everyone can relive the wonder of the Wizarding World in a whole new way and see 2 classic Harry Potter Movies.
On screen 1: The original Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone.
On screen 2, it's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Friday & Saturday October 4th & 5th we're continuing the fun for 1 extra weekend to celebrate the start of October and the 20th Anniversary of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Come dressed in your house colors or as a favorite character for a chance to win prizes at intermission each night.
Fun themed food and drinks including Butter Beer, Chocolate Frogs, Cookies, Candy, Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, and more, plus fun photo spots and themed on screen intermission fun!
Gates will open at 5:30pm and showtime is roughly 7:00 pm
Wizarding Weekends 2024
Wizarding Weekends 2024
September 27th & 28th & October 4th & 5th
Revisit the magic of Hogwarts!
We invite you to join us for the return of magic on the big screen with your favorite witches and wizards with our Wizarding Weekends of Magic and Mystery!
Join us Friday September 27th or Saturday September 28th when everyone can relive the wonder of the Wizarding World in a whole new way and see 2 classic Harry Potter Movies.
On screen 1: The original Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone.
On screen 2, it's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Friday & Saturday October 4th & 5th we're continuing the fun for 1 extra weekend to celebrate the start of October and the 20th Anniversary of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Come dressed in your house colors or as a favorite character for a chance to win prizes at intermission each night.
Fun themed food and drinks including Butter Beer, Chocolate Frogs, Cookies, Candy, Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, and more, plus fun photo spots and themed on screen intermission fun!
Gates will open at 5:30pm and showtime is roughly 7:00 pm
Wizarding Weekend 1 2024
Two weekends of Hogwarts Magic this year!
We invite you to join us for the return of magic on the big screen with your favorite witches and wizards with our Wizarding Weekends of Magic and Mystery! This year we expand to 2 weekends with 3 Harry Potter movies.
Join us for Weekend 1 Friday September 27th or Saturday September 28th when everyone can relive the wonder of the
Wizarding World at the drive-in.
Screen 1: The original Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone.
Screen 2: it's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Each night, come dressed in your house colors or as a favorite character for a chance to win prizes at intermission. Plus- Hogwarts castle, several photo backdrops, sorting hat ceremony, owlery, visit Dobby, See giant magical creatures, and so much more!
Fun themed food and drinks including Butter Beer, Chocolate Frogs, Cookies, Candy, Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, and more.
Plus fun photo spots and themed on screen intermission fun!
Gates will open at 5:30pm and showtime is roughly 7:00 pm
Get tickets now for this magical experience!
Wizarding Weekend 2 2024
Two weekends of Hogwarts Magic this year!
We invite you to join us for the return of magic on the big screen with your favorite witches and wizards with our Wizarding Weekends of Magic and Mystery! This year we expand to 2 weekends with 3 Harry Potter movies.
Weekend 2 is a celebration of the 15th Anniversary of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban with all the fun stuff for 2 final nights October 4th & 5th. We will also be showing Coraline with either Nightmare Before Christmas or Beetlejuice Beetlejuice on the opposite screen this weekend.
Each night, come dressed in your house colors or as a favorite character for a chance to win prizes at intermission. Plus- Hogwarts castle, several photo backdrops, sorting hat ceremony, owlery, visit Dobby, See giant magical creatures, and so much more!
Fun themed food and drinks including Butter Beer, Chocolate Frogs, Cookies, Candy, Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, and more.
Plus fun photo spots and themed on screen intermission fun!
Gates will open at 5:30pm and showtime is roughly 7:00 pm
Get tickets now for this magical experience!
Grease Meet & Greet
Grease Cast Meet & Greet plus photos & movie 2024
GREASE is the word this fall. GREASE is coming to the Drive-In October 11th with an entire event night!
We'll be showing the movie on both screens of course, but the BIG news is who'll be here for the show!
We'll have STARS from the movie at the Drive-In!!!! Doody (Barry Pearl), Jan (Jamie Donnelly) and Tom (Lorenzo Lamas) will be here at the Drive-In for a meet and greet from 5-8 pm! We'll also have "Grease Lightning" the car used in the movie here for photos!
Gates will open at 4pm, meet & greet/photo ops 5-8pm, food/drinks available 5-8pm and through intermission.
Food permits for this very special event are $20.00 a car and can be purchased at the gate the day of the show. All parking will be first come, first served for this event with no reserved parking.
Entry to the event is exclusively available here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/982767192127?aff=oddtdtcreator
As this is an event held by a separate promotor, prices and ages are different than our normal rates.
Adults(age 13 and older) are $20.00 each
Kids(age 5-12) are $10.00 each
When buying tickets, please select tickets for your entire car in one purchase. Only 400 parking spots are available for this event, and 1 transaction per spot is required to gauge parking.
Autographs, photos and selfies are available at an additional expense.
Get your tickets and get ready for a fun filled night of Grease with some of the original cast members, 'the' car, and a whole lotta fun!
Our concession stand and Burger Barn will be open serving up our tasty treats! Bring your date, your friends, or your family and come hungry! We'll have our pizzas, hamburgers, popcorn, candy, soda and all our other treats ready to serve you!
So don't miss out on this final "Summer Night" because we're "Hopelessly Devoted to You" and know that "You're the One That I Want" because we don't care if you're a "Beauty School Dropout". We don't want you to be "Alone at a Drive In" so we'll have cast members here and "Grease Lightning" for you to see and enjoy on this 2nd to last weekend of our 2024 70th anniversary season.
Trunk or Treat
Trunk or Treat event October 12th
Saturday October 12th with our very first full scale Trunk or Treat event.
Gates will open at 3pm for set up of Trunks(registration in advance). We're looking for individuals, groups and local businesses to set up 50-75 decorated trunks to hand out candy.
Gates will open at 4pm for parking and to participate in the Trunk or Treating. Admission will be $20 a carload to participate and the movies are included.
4-6pm is Trunk or Treat. 6:30-7pm is the costume parade and competition with prizes for top 3 in each age class.
7pm Trunk Decoration Winners announced and preshow begins for movies on both screens.
7:15 pm the movies will start and play through the intermission.
Both the Snack Bar and Burger Barn will be open with our last chance to clear the freezers and big sales on select items.
More information coming soon along with the registration links.
Howl at the Moon 2024
Hot Chocolate & Holiday Movies 2024
Hot Chocolate & Holiday Movies 2024
Beetlejuice…
Beetlejuice…
Beetlejuice……
Sometimes amazing things line up unexpectedly.
The Harvest Moon will be open 1 additional weekend this October for something special we absolutely had to stay open for.
The final weekend of the 2024 regular season will be October 18th and 19th with our annual end of season Howl at the Moon event. We'll have a family friendly Halloween movie combo on screen 1 and a scary movie combo on screen 2, plus photo spots, end of season discounts on food/drinks plus limited specials and a fun costume contest during the intermission time.
Up on screen 1 is the double feature we're staying open for! Beetlejuice(1988) followed by Beetlejuice Beetlejuice(2024). Both rated PG-13
Back on screen 2, we're honoring the October Supermoon and our horror fans with 2 iconic movies. The night kicks off with the 50th anniversary of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and ends with An American Werewolf in London.
Tickets will go on sale once all bookings are confirmed and set. Join us for 2 final nights under the nearly full moon at this fun Halloween event in October.
Hot Chocolate & Holiday Movies 2024
Hot Chocolate & Holiday Movies 2024
Hot Chocolate & Holiday Movies 2024
After a brief intermission at the end of October to get the theater winter-ready, we reopen for a limited engagement with our 5th Holidays at the Harvest Moon Christmas events.
Over 3 weekends November 15th, 16th, 22nd, 23rd, 29th & 30th the Harvest Moon transforms into a winter wonderland.
Over 50,000 lights, fun lighted scenes & inflatables, photo spots, a lighted tunnel, hot chocolate, Christmas cookies, popcorn, candy, Meet & Greet with Santa & Mrs. Clause and some of your favorite holiday movies on the big screens!
Movies to be announced soon!
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