Mahoning Drive-In Road Show 2026 “Original/Rip-Off” Drive-In Double Feature: The Exorcist & Beyond the Door

Saturday, February 28, 2026 @ 7:00pm

Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC) - Main Stage
1601 Irving Street, Rahway, NJ 07065

THIS EVENT HAS PASSED

Food Truck Arrives: 6 PM

Doors: 6 PM – Bar and Vendors Open

Organ Concert on our Biggest Little Wurlitzer: 6:30 PM

First Feature – “The Exorcist”: 7:00 PM – 9:15 PM

Intermission 9:15 PM – 9:45 PM

Second Feature – “Beyond the Door”: 9:45 PM – 11:45 PM

The Mahoning Drive-In Road Show returns on Saturday, February 28 with a 1970s 35mm “Original/Rip-Off” Drive-In double feature of “The Exorcist” (1973) and “Beyond the Door” (1974)!

A Message from Mark from Mahoning:

Join Virgil and me from Pennsylvania’s 35mm movie mecca The Mahoning Drive-In Theater for an indoor night at the Drive-In, complete with vintage snack bar ads, trailers, and an intermission reel between the films! We will introduce the show, talk about the history of Drive-In theaters, the Mahoning Drive-In, and give a little insight into the two shockers about to be unspooled; then it’s 35mm madness unleashed upon the giant screen at UCPAC’s Main Stage!

First up is one of the greatest horror films of all time, William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist” (1973), starring Ellen Burstyn as the mother of a young girl (Linda Blair) who finds herself peskily possessed by a debauched demon, who calls upon the clergy to perform the titular treatment to free the terrifyingly transformed teen! Jason Miller and Max Von Sydow star as the priests who do battle with the foul-mouthed possessor, in a film that caused original audiences to be sick and flee theaters, such was the shock of its onscreen intensity. Followed by sequels, prequels, and endless imitations, but never surpassed in its ability to unsettle. Presented here in the 2000 “Version You’ve Never Seen” re-release, with additional footage not seen until then.

We follow that classic with one of the first films to rip it off, the Italian shocker “Beyond the Door” (1974). “Beyond this door, the most terrifying event in the history of mankind is about to occur!” SEE the film that Warner Brothers sued for copyright infringement! This time it’s a pregnant woman (Juliet Mills) who’s filled to the brim with an unwanted demon, and it’s up to her husband and a mysterious stranger (Richard Johnson, “The Haunting”) to eradicate the blaspheming boogeyman! An over-the-top knock-off that recreates the “greatest hits” of the original while creating its own bonkers memorable moments that must be seen to be believed!

Join us in reliving the glory days of the Drive-In, when the films were wild, the popcorn was hot, and double features were the order of the night!