Waverly Midnights

Waverly Midnights: School Sucks

Friday, January 3 - Saturday, January 25, 2025

“There’s too many peoplePlanning your downfallWhen your spirit’s on trialThese nights can be frighteningSleep transports sadnessTo some other mid-brainAnd somebody hereWill not be here next year.” 

– Morrissey, “The Teachers Are Afraid of the Pupils”

In honor of our weeklong 50th anniversary run of PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK starting January 31, IFC Center’s new midnight series reveals that one of the hardest parts of being a teenager is dealing with school (and some highly questionable teachers and classmates). Featuring wayward students fighting to the death (BATTLE ROYALE), goth high schoolers gone astray (THE CRAFT), a demonically possessed teen wrecking serious havoc with the male student body (JENNIFER’S BODY) and a ballet student who enrolls in one of cinema’s all-time creepiest educational institutions (SUSPIRIA), this series will make you grateful you already got that diploma.

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