Puertas – 8:00 PM 

Pelicula – Oscuridad (approx.9:00 PM) 

Entradas - GRATIS! (FREE!)

1h 25m | NR | Horror/Sci-fi | USA 

En Español (with English subtitles) 

Es verano en el Senado y una vez más con calor, sudorosos y raros con una serie de películas para satisfacer tu ardiente deseo de tonterías y subculturas, exageramientos y cultos, e incluso un superhéroe/detective/héroe popular mexicano de lucha libre!

El Santo, el legendario luchador convertido en actor protagonista de El Santo vs. Los Zombies. Una película de misterio y crimen con un estilo de cómic al estilo de Dick Tracy pero con mucha más lucha. Esta mezcla de géneros (que presenta zombis al estilo anterior a la Noche de los Muertos Vivientes) es típica de las películas de luchadores de la época. En esta primera aparición de El Santo, el enmascarado de plata hace tiempo entre combates de lucha libre para luchar por la justicia contra enemigos viles, sobrenaturales y algunos otros un poco más extraños. En donde las autoridades locales han fallado, El Santo debe intervenir para detener esta ola de crímenes violentos con un toque de vudú.

Únase a nosotros para esta PROYECCIÓN GRATUITA AL AIRE LIBRE en el Senate Coney Lot (al lado del teatro en Michigan Ave.) y disfrute de esta exagerada y cursi pieza de la historia de la cultura pop mexicana.

¡NO OLVIDES TRAER TU PROPIA SILLA!

¡EL PUESTO DE CONCESIONES Y LOS BAÑOS ESTARÁN DISPONIBLES DENTRO DEL TEATRO!

¡PELÍCULA AL AIRE LIBRE GRATIS! (FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING!) 

Sat. Aug. 10  

Doors – 8:00 PM 

Film – Dusk (approx. 9:00 PM) 

Tickets - GRATIS! (FREE!)

1hr 25min | NR | Horror/Sci-fi | USA 

En Español (with English subtitles) 

It’s summer at the Senate and we’re once again getting Hot, Sweaty & Weird with a series of flicks to satisfy your burning desire for schlock and subculture, camp and cult, and even a wrestling Mexican superhero/detective/folk hero! 

El Santo, the legendary luchador turned actor stars in Santo vs. The Zombies. A mystery crime film with a comic book style ala Dick Tracy but with a whole lot more wrestling, this genre mashup (featuring pre-Night of the Living Dead style zombies) is typical of the luchador films from the period. In this early Santo outing, the perpetually masked crusader makes time in between wrestling matches to fight for justice against nefarious foes, both supernatural and otherwise. Where the local authorities have failed, Santo must step in to stop this violent crime wave with a voodoo twist. 

Come join us for this FREE OUTDOOR SCREENING in the Senate Coney Lot (next door to the theater on Michigan Ave.) and enjoy this campy piece of Mexican pop culture history. 

DON’T FORGET TO BRING YOUR OWN CHAIR!  

CONCESSIONS STAND AND BATHROOMS WILL BE AVAILABLE INSIDE THE THEATER! 

The Senate Theater and The Detroit Theater Organ Society is supported by The Michigan Arts and Culture Council and The National Endowment for the Arts. 

Parking is available in our gated lot, on Gilbert, and Michigan Avenue

Sat. Jul. 27 

Doors – 7:00 PM 

Organ Overture – 7:30 PM 

Film – 8:00 PM 

Tickets - $6 

1hr 32min | R | Comedy/Sci-fi | USA 

The Senate’s 4th annual Hot, Sweaty & Weird summer series continues with a countercultural hit, ready-made to feed your hunger for cult sci-fi and oddball satire! 

It's a film that combines punk rock attitude, car repossession, and extraterrestrial activity in the trunk of a 1964 Chevy Malibu.

Which means it can only be Alex Cox’s incomparable black comedy Repo Man, starring Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton. Released without much hope or support by Universal, this critically lauded film was initially little seen. But thanks to an eccentric tone and killer soundtrack, it soon garnered a devoted fan base through video rentals and television reruns. 

So cut off your sleeves, tell that crappy job to shove it, and get to the Senate for this quirky and pulpy takedown of the Reagan era through the lens of Atomic Age science fiction! 

The Senate Theater and The Detroit Theater Organ Society is supported by The Michigan Arts and Culture Council and The National Endowment for the Arts. 

Parking is available in our gated lot, on Gilbert, and Michigan Avenue

Doors – 7:00 PM 

Organ Overture – 7:30 PM 

Film – 8:00 PM 

Tickets - $6 

2hr 1min | PG | Sci-fi/Adventure | USA 

This Spring, in the year 2024, in this galaxy right here, the Senate implores you to join us in saying, “May the fourth be with you!” as we screen the film that started it all. 

Luke Skywalker begins a journey that will change the galaxy in Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope. Nineteen years after the formation of the Empire, Luke is thrust into the struggle of the Rebel Alliance when he meets Obi-Wan Kenobi, who has lived for years in seclusion on the desert planet of Tatooine. Obi-Wan begin Luke’s Jedi training as Luke joins him on a daring mission to rescue the beautiful Rebel leader Princess Leia from the clutches of Darth Vader and the evil Empire. 

The Senate Theater and The Detroit Theater Organ Society is supported by The Michigan Arts and Culture Council and The National Endowment for the Arts. 

Parking is available in our gated lot, on Gilbert, and Michigan Avenue

Sat. Jan. 13 

Doors – 7:00 PM 

Organ Overture – 7:30 PM 

Film – 8:00 PM 

Tickets - $6 

2hr 16min | R |Action/Sci-fi | USA 

This January 2024 the Senate Theater is going to party like it’s 1999 . . . 

IN OUR MINDS! 

By party, of course, we mean we’re inviting you to follow the white rabbit into our auditorium to once again experience The Matrix. This all-time mind-bender is turning 25 and there’s no better way to celebrate than to come see it on the big screen just like you saw it for the very first time. 

Woah! Déjà vu! 

Following Neo (née Mr. Anderson), an unsuspecting computer programmer dogged by nefarious men in black, The Matrix takes place in a world where humans are trapped in a simulation created by artificial intelligence. After meeting a pair of mysterious strangers named Trinity and Morpheus, Neo is ripped from his computer fabricated existence and soon discovers that he may be “the one” to release humanity from its virtual prison. 

But you’ve visited the Oracle, so you already know that, right? Or maybe you’ve come to the conclusion that ignorance is bliss? Either way, we can’t wait to see you at the theater to see this award-winning and influential special effects action spectacle! 

The Senate Theater and The Detroit Theater Organ Society is supported by The Michigan Arts and Culture Council and The National Endowment for the Arts. 

Parking is available in our gated lot, on Gilbert, and Michigan Avenue

Sat. Nov. 18

Doors – 7:00 PM

Organ Overture – 7:30 PM

Film – 8:00 PM

Tickets - $6

2hr 6min | PG-13 | Sci-Fi/Action | France 

Whether you’re a supreme, cosmic being or just another meat popsicle, you don’t want to miss The Fifth Element at the Senate Theater.

A science-fiction cult classic with elaborate, over-the-top style

The Fifth Element is an extravaganza of big movie stars, bigger performances and galactic scope. It is a garish vision of a wasteful and corrupt future as goofy, unhinged and colorful as it is dystopian. But beneath all the camp and color lies the belief that the “divine light” of love can conquer all — even an “ultimate evil” from the deepest, darkest depths of outer space. 

Hollywood writer Robert Mark Kamen (The Karate Kid, Taken) and French writer/director Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita, Léon: The Professional) worked together to blend their American and European sensibilities, giving birth to this

perhaps the oddest sci-fi extravaganza to ever make a killing at the international box office.

And though it divided critics at the time, The Fifth Element has only grown in popularity and esteem since its release. Not only a lavish visual spectacle of practical and computer effects with exciting action sequences, it also boasts iconic turns from the likes of Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman and Milla Jovovich. 

We’ll see you at the theater! (Multipass not required for entry.) 

The Senate Theater and The Detroit Theater Organ Society is supported by The Michigan Arts and Culture Council and The National Endowment for the Arts. 

Parking is available in our gated lot, on Gilbert, and Michigan Avenue

Sci-fi Double Feature! The Last Man on Earth (1964) & The Omega Man (1971) 

Sat. Apr. 22 

Tickets - $6 

Doors – 6:00 PM 

Organ Overture – 6:30 PM 

First Film – 7:00 PM 

Second Film – 8:45 PM (approximately) 

The Last Man on Earth 

1hr 26min | NR | Horror/Sci-fi | USA 

The Omega Man 

1hr 38min | PG| Horror/Sci-fi | USA 

Two films. Two acting titans. Two takes on I Am Legend, the classic novel of a post-apocalyptic world, ruled by a humanity transformed into monsters by plague.  

It’s The Last Man on Earth, starring the incomparable Vincent Price, and The Omega Man, starring the unparalleled Charlton Heston! For one night only, the Senate is placing them side by side, one final man against another, in a fight to the end of the night to see which film does it better.  

Will it be Price’s Last Man, with its garlic averse creatures who lumber about in the dark like zombies? Or, will it be Heston’s Omega Man, with its mutant, albino maniacs created by warfare in a Soviet biological weapon attack? It’s not an easy decision. But, if it helps, one has a dog and one has Charlton Heston wearing a green velvet blazer and ruffled shirt.  

It will be up to you to choose your champion!  

Yes, science fiction reveals to us the possibilities of the future — endless and often terrifying, but sometimes filled with groovy super 70s fashion. In this double feature you will see two futures, both revealing the consequences of profound upheaval and the horror of difference. Seen one after the other they will uncover the limitless possibilities of the road ahead, but also of the myriad ways to tell the same story. 

The Senate Theater and The Detroit Theater Organ Society is supported by The Michigan Arts and Culture Council and The National Endowment for the Arts.