if the tower's a-glowin, something's a-showin
Feature movies
Tron Ares (2025)
New Movie!
Mon. Oct. 13 – 4PM
Tue. Oct. 14 – 4PM
Wed. Oct. 15 – 6PM, 8:30PM
Thur. Oct. 16 – 3PM
Mankind encounters AI beings for the first time when a highly sophisticated programme, Ares, leaves the digital world for a dangerous mission in the real world
The Haunted Palace (1963)
Thursday Oct 16 at 5:30PM
Tickets just $5!
Condemned warlock Joseph Curwen (Vincent Price) curses a New England village just before being burned alive. More than a century later, Curwen's kindly great-great grandson Charles Ward (also Price) arrives in town and moves into Curwen's old mansion. Caretaker Simon Orne (Lon Chaney Jr.) helps Charles and his wife Ann (Debra Paget) adjust to their new home. The ancient curse, however, takes hold of Joseph, awakening inside him a long-dormant evil passed on through blood.
The Adventures of the Wilderness Family (1975)
Friday Oct 17 at 7:15PM
(or as soon as dark enough)
OUTDOOR MOVIE AT THE NATURE PRESERVE For FREE!! Popcorn will be on hand, donations gratefully accepted!
Skip Robinson (Robert F. Logan) leads his wife, Pat (Susan Damante Shaw) ; son, Toby (Ham Larsen) ; and daughter, Jenny (Hollye Holmes) on an exodus from the concrete jungle of Los Angeles. At the site of their new home in the majestic Rocky Mountains, Skip builds a log cabin, and the children befriend wild animals. As the intrepid Robinsons make a simpler life for themselves off the grid, they discover that, in the wilderness, each day brings its own adventure.
House of Wax (1953)
Sunday Oct 19 at 2PM
Tickets just $5!
Wax sculptor Henry (Vincent Price) is horrified to learn that his business partner, Matthew (Roy Roberts), plans on torching their wax museum to collect on the insurance policy. Henry miraculously survives a fiery confrontation with Matthew and re-emerges some years hence with a museum of his own. But when the appearance of Henry's new wax sculptures occurs at the same time that a number of corpses vanish from the city morgue, art student Sue Allen (Phyllis Kirk) begins suspecting wrongdoing.
Ghoulies (1985)
Thursday Oct 23 at 5:30PM
Tickets just $5!
As a child, Jonathan (Peter Liapis) was almost killed by his father, Malcolm (Michael Des Barres), during a satanic ritual. After being saved and raised by Wolfgang (Jack Nance), who has kept him unaware of his background, Jonathan inherits Malcolm's house and moves in with girlfriend Rebecca (Lisa Pelikan). During a party, he jokingly performs a ceremony described in one of his father's books on black magic, not realizing he has unleashed small, demonic creatures known as "Ghoulies."
THEM! (1954)
Sunday Oct 26 at 2PM
Tickets just $5!
While investigating a series of mysterious deaths, Sergeant Ben Peterson (James Whitmore) finds a young girl (Sandy Descher) who is unable to speak. As Peterson joins forces with FBI agent Robert Graham (James Arness) and scientist Dr. Harold Medford (Edmund Gwenn), he discovers that all the incidents are due to giant ants that have been mutated by atomic radiation. Peterson and Graham, with the aid of the military, attempt to find the queen ants and destroy the nests before the danger spreads.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
With Audience Interaction!
A raffle for cool Merch!
Come in Costume!
Coming October 25
11PM
In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon), stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker (Meat Loaf) and a creepy butler (Richard O'Brien). Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named "Rocky."
terriffic tuesdays - 7PM Unless noted, tickets just 50 cents
The Ghost and Mr Chicken (1966)
Tuesday October 14
7PM
Looking to score a break as a newspaper reporter and impress beautiful Alma Parker (Joan Staley), milquetoast typesetter Luther Heggs (Don Knotts) pitches a story about his small town's haunted house. When his editor (Dick Sargent) insists Luther spend a night alone in the spooky mansion, where a grisly murder-suicide had taken place decades earlier, the timid reporter learns that the house contains a supernatural resident who doesn't like visitors.
Ernest Scared Stupid (1991)
Tuesday October 21
7PM
Ernest P. Worrell (Jim Varney) is working as a garbage collector in a small Missouri town. Despite the warnings of superstitious local Old Lady Hackmore (Eartha Kitt), he accidentally unleashes devious troll Trantor (Jonas Moscartolo), a slimy creature confined under a tree for 200 years. Trantor changes some kids into wooden dolls and turns Ernest's dog, Rimshot, into a log. Ernest then teams up with Old Lady Hackmore to get rid of the beast and bring the victims back to life.
The House on Haunted Hill (1959)
The House on Haunted Hill (1959)
Tuesday October 28
7PM
Rich oddball Frederick Loren has a proposal for five guests at a possibly haunted mansion: show up, survive a night filled with scares and receive $10,000 each. The guest of honor is Loren's estranged wife, Annabelle, who, with her secret lover, Dr. Trent, has concocted her own scheme to scare Loren's associate, Nora Manning, into shooting the potentially crazy millionaire. However, more spooks and shocks throw a wrench into the plan.
east texas film society presents - saturday matinee classics
Midnight Cowboy - Saturday October 18 at 12noon - FREE admission - Please donate to the Film Society
Convinced of his irresistible appeal to women, Texas dishwasher Joe Buck (Jon Voight) quits his job and heads for New York City, thinking he'll latch on to some rich dowager. New York, however, is not as hospitable as he imagined, and Joe soon finds himself living in an abandoned building with a Dickensian layabout named Enrico Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman). The two form a rough alliance, and together they kick-start Joe's hustling career just as Ratso's health begins to deteriorate.
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Live Plays
Santa & the Elves Sing the Christmas Classics (Eventually)
Show Dates - December 5, 6, 12, 13 at 7:30PM & 7, 14 at 2PM
written by Kat Drinkwater
Directed by Carol Friend
Santa's elves are despondent and losing their Christmas spirit and voices because the humans have stopped playing carols and are focused only on gift-*getting*! Come out for this charming, heart-warming, very funny Musical Christmas Show.
Concerts and other events at the Select
Annex of Terror - Halloween Haunted House!
Corpse Grove Too - Night Terrors - Halloween Haunted Trails!
Corpse Grove Too - Night Terrors - Halloween Haunted Trails!
Coming in October!
Spooky season is near and we're bringing the delights and frights this year with our updated Haunted House - The Annex of Terror!!! We were voted as the scariest in our area last year and we intend to make this year even more exciting! We change the path and the scenes every year so you don't know what's coming! And it seems we will be having a special guest roaming the halls with us this time...a certain slasher guy named Michael Myers AND he's says he might bring his friend, Jason Vorhees, along for the frights!
ALSO this year we are working in conjunction with Corpse Grove (1/2 Mile of terror) in Tyler/Chapel Hill (15972 Hwy 64 East) and a BRAND NEW haunt in Hawkins, TX called "Corpse Grove Too: Night Terrors" (2487 FM 1795 in Hakwins,TX)! And yes we offer group discounts, and speed passes. AND YES you can buy a ticket to get you into all three haunts at a discount!
Fridays (when open) - Gates open at 7:30PM & Close at Midnight
Saturdays - Gates Open at 7:30PM & Close at Midnight
Sundays - Gates Open at 7:30PM & Close at 10PM
Annex of Terror (Mineola) OPEN these days -
October 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 30, 31
ALL 3 LOCATIONS open Halloween Night, Oct. 31 - Gates Open at 7:30PM & Close at Midnight....or as long as there is business!
(NOTE: The TYLER & Hawkins locations, Being outdoor haunts, we cannot open in rainy weather, however tickets will be honored any day during the season if it rains on your chosen day. The Mineola haunt is indoor and will open rain or shine.)
Tickets - Mineola Annex of Terror
- $20 Adults
- $10 Kids (12yrs & under)
-$30 Fast Pass (adults and/or kids one price - comes with free movie ticket, skip the line, go through haunt twice)
- All three haunts: (Tyler) - Corpse Grove, (Mineola) - Annex of Terror and (Hawkins) - Night Terrors (does not include fast pass)
- $40 Adults
- $30.00 Kids (12yrs & under)
(Group discount tickets available for 10 or more TEXT to 903-707-0927 - also feel free to text this same number with questions)
Corpse Grove Too - Night Terrors - Halloween Haunted Trails!
Corpse Grove Too - Night Terrors - Halloween Haunted Trails!
Corpse Grove Too - Night Terrors - Halloween Haunted Trails!
Coming in October!
Night Terrors (Hawkins) OPEN these days
October 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 30, 31
November 1
Tickets - Hawkins Night Terrors
- $15 Adults
- $7 Kids (12yrs & under)
-$20 Fast Pass (adults and/or kids one price - comes with free movie ticket, skip the line, go through haunt twice)
yes we offer group discounts, and speed passes, AND YES you can buy a ticket to get you into all three haunts at a discount!
ALL 3 LOCATIONS open Halloween Night, Oct. 31 - Gates Open at 7:30PM & Close at Midnight....or as long as there is business!
(NOTE: The TYLER & Hawkins locations, Being outdoor haunts, we cannot open in rainy weather, however tickets will be honored any day during the season if it rains on your chosen day. The Mineola haunt is indoor and will open rain or shine.)
- All three haunts: (Tyler) - Corpse Grove, (Mineola) - Annex of Terror and (Hawkins) - Night Terrors (does not include fast pass)
- $40 Adults
- $30.00 Kids (12yrs & under)
(Group discount tickets available for 10 or more TEXT to 903-707-0927 - also feel free to text this same number with questions)
Corpse Grove! 1/2 Mile of Halloween Haunted Trails!
Corpse Grove Too - Night Terrors - Halloween Haunted Trails!
Coming in October!
Corpse Grove (Tyler) OPEN these days -
October 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 30, 31
November 1
Tickets - Tyler Corpse Grove
- $20 Adults
- $10.00 Kids (12 & Under)
- $30.00 Fast Pass (adults and/or kids one price - comes with go through haunts twice, plus skip the line)
yes we offer group discounts, and speed passes, AND YES you can buy a ticket to get you into all three haunts at a discount!
ALL 3 LOCATIONS open Halloween Night, Oct. 31 - Gates Open at 7:30PM & Close at Midnight....or as long as there is business!
(NOTE: The TYLER & Hawkins locations, Being outdoor haunts, we cannot open in rainy weather, however tickets will be honored any day during the season if it rains on your chosen day. The Mineola haunt is indoor and will open rain or shine.)
- All three haunts: (Tyler) - Corpse Grove, (Mineola) - Annex of Terror and (Hawkins) - Night Terrors (does not include fast pass)
- $40 Adults
- $30.00 Kids (12yrs & under)
(Group discount tickets available for 10 or more TEXT to 903-707-0927 - also feel free to text this same number with questions)
Lake Country Symphonic Band!
October 13 at 7:30PM!
The most incredible sounding big band in East Texas is back with a brand new line up of tunes for the Fall season! Every bit as good as anything you would see out of the bigger cites and with a a lot more heart!
Uptown Beggars - Live Oldies Band!
Saturday October 18!
7:30PM
Tickets just $12!
Hometown girl, Amy Fox, returns to her roots, in the theater she grew up in to perform awesome oldies hits with her band, The Uptown Beggars! These guys know what to play to get your feet tapping and hands clapping! Come see the band, jam with the tunes, and witness a small town girl's dreams come true!
Annual Vinyl Record, Comic Book and Collectible show!
November 8
10AM to 6PM
0-12yrs admitted free
13yrs and up just $3
Come on out and find the music you have been looking for! There will be tons of record albums and 45s from all eras and genres!
AND this year we are adding comic books and collectibles to the mix, so you never know what sort of treasure you will find!
PLUS to make it even more special we have two super great special guests this year!
Local celebrity, Dale Cummings will perform some oldies rock, LIVE at 2PM and world renown comic book artist Cary Vallery will be there all day selling some of his collection, signing autographs and meeting and greeting comic book fans!
Also there will be free comic books, card and other items for the kids!
This year it will be held at the Mineola League of Arts building which is just a block and a half away from the Annex, because we have outgrown that spot!
(200 West Blair Street)
This is a fundraiser for the Historic Select Theater, so come on out and see what you can find...and if you have anything you would like to donate to the cause, please drop it off at the theater any time!
Dale "The C" Cummings LIVE!
Dale "The C" Cummings LIVE!
Dale "The C" Cummings LIVE!
Nov 8 at 7:30 PM!
If you love oldies rock and country, and if you love to sing along and even get up and dance...this is the show for you! Dale Cummings is a heck of a talented and popular man! He can sing all the great songs you know and his lively personality is infectious! Nobody puts on such a good time show as this guy! AND he keeps his ticket prices affordable! Come on out and have a wonderful, musical evening with us!
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114 North Johnson Street, Mineola, Texas 75773, United States
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