LOGAN – As it has done in recent years, Utah Theatre in downtown Logan will celebrate the fast-approaching Halloween holiday with a month-long festival of animated and live action spooky films during October.

Once again, the scary film fest will climax with late-night movie presentations of The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Oct. 25, 30 and 31.

For a change of pace, the October festival will lead off with the Joe Dante comedy Gremlins on Wednesday, Oct. 1 and Friday, Oct. 3.

Released in 1984, Gremlins is a black comedy written by Chris Columbus that draws on legends of mythical mischievous creatures that were alleged to cause malfunctions in aircraft going back to World War II. The story follows Billy Peltzer, who receives Gizmo as a pet, who then spawns more of his kind that evolve

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