Alamo Drafthouse Takes Terror Tuesday and Weird Wednesday Nationwide in January 2026

Cult cinema goes nationwide as Alamo Drafthouse expands Terror Tuesday and Weird Wednesday.

Alamo Drafthouse Expands ‘Terror Tuesday’ and ‘Weird Wednesday’ Nationwide This January

For years, Alamo Drafthouse has quietly run two of the most beloved cult programming series in repertory cinema: Terror Tuesday and Weird Wednesday. They were the kind of thing you only knew about if you knew—a secret handshake for genre diehards willing to show up midweek for something strange, rare, or deeply unsettling.

Terror Tuesday and Weird Wednesday - Promo Reel

Starting January 2026, that changes.

Alamo is officially expanding Terror Tuesday and Weird Wednesday to every corporate Alamo Drafthouse location nationwide, turning select Tuesdays and Wednesdays each month into must-attend nights for horror obsessives and cult-film lifers alike.

Terror Tuesday: Big-Screen Nightmares, No Training Wheels

If you don’t just watch horror but live inside it, Terror Tuesday is about to become your weekly ritual. The series focuses on hand-picked horror, thriller, and exploitation titles—sometimes iconic, sometimes obscure, always meant to hit harder on a theater screen.

January kicks off with The Cat, a cosmic Hong Kong fever dream featuring an interstellar feline locked in battle with a demonic space creature. Expect stop-motion chaos, gooey creature effects, operatic cat-versus-dog insanity, and the kind of genre maximalism that simply does not exist anymore.

This is the kind of title that feels engineered for Terror Tuesday—unhinged, loud, and impossible to replicate at home.

Weird Wednesday: Cinema Without a Safety Net

Weird Wednesday has always been Alamo’s pilgrimage to the outer edges of cinema. This is where outlaw exploitation, bargain-bin brilliance, and films that feel slightly illegal all converge. These are movies that broke rules, ignored taste, and sometimes forgot how storytelling works—but somehow became unforgettable.

January’s lineup includes the resurrection of Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Joe Dante’s gleefully anarchic sequel that detonates every rule from the original and rebuilds them as a live-action cartoon. Studio satire, creature chaos, and total tonal rebellion—Gremlins 2 remains one of the most audacious sequels ever released by a major studio, and Weird Wednesday is exactly where it belongs.

This expansion isn’t just about screenings—it’s about access. Films that once only played in select cities are now going nationwide, inviting new audiences into the Alamo cult while rewarding longtime genre fans who’ve been waiting for this moment.

In a theatrical landscape dominated by franchises and algorithms, Terror Tuesday and Weird Wednesday are reminders of why repertory cinema still matters: discovery, risk, and the shared experience of watching something you probably shouldn’t be watching—together.

Midweek just became dangerous.