LEHIGH TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Becky’s Drive-In is the only independent theater in and around the Lehigh Valley listing “Other Mommy,” the Jessica Chastain horror film that opens Friday.

The drive-in on Lehigh Drive announced Wednesday that it will show the film Oct. 9 and 10 and again Oct. 16 and 17. It said it would name the co-feature Monday.

None of the 11 other independent screens in the valley and neighboring counties listed the film as of Saturday. Most of their October calendars lean on horror classics and Halloween events, including a Saturday-night John Carpenter series in Bethlehem and “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” at four of them.

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Universal Pictures’ “Other Mommy,” directed by Rob Savage, follows an 8-year-old girl who faces an entity from her closet. It is rated R for “some bloody violence and language.”

At Becky’s

Becky’s runs double features on two screens, and one admission covers both films. This weekend’s schedule listed $12 for adults and $8 for children 4 to 12, which works out to $6 or $4 a film.

Oct. 10 is also the first night of Becky’s annual Trunk-or-Treat, with a visit from the Warrington and Southeast PA Ghostbusters and a screening of the original “Ghostbusters,” the drive-in said on Instagram.

Halloween on the other screens

  • Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas at SteelStacks is showing five John Carpenter films in its First Saturday Horror Series, each Saturday at 9:45 p.m., from “The Fog” this weekend to “Halloween” on Oct. 31, according to ArtsQuest’s cinema page.
  • Emmaus Theatre will show F.W. Murnau’s 1926 silent film “Faust” with a live score by The Invincible Czars on Friday, the night “Other Mommy” opens. Its October lineup also includes a “Child’s Play” double feature Oct. 16, a Halloween burlesque show Oct. 23, and “Rocky Horror” with a shadow cast Oct. 31.
  • The Grand Theater in East Greenville, Montgomery County, has a “Faust” screening Oct. 11 and “Rocky Horror” on Oct. 16, according to its Sept. 30 email update.
  • Shankweiler’s Drive-In in North Whitehall Township has “Rocky Horror” this weekend, a trunk-or-treat with “The Nightmare Before Christmas” on Oct. 24 and a grown-ups’ trunk-or-treat with “Trick ‘r Treat” on Oct. 30.
  • Pocono Cinema & Cultural Center in East Stroudsburg lists “Rocky Horror” on Saturday and “The Nightmare Before Christmas” on Oct. 10 on its Fandango page.
  • The County Theater in Doylestown said on Facebook that its October includes “spooky screenings” such as “The Sixth Sense” and “Evil Dead II.” Its Friday opener is “The Social Reckoning.”

The rest

  • Roxy Theatre in Northampton is showing DreamWorks’ “Forgotten Island” through Thursday, it said on Facebook. That post didn’t name its next film.
  • Civic Theatre of Allentown said on its website that its 19th Street Theatre cinema screen is “currently out of commission due to mechanical malfunctions.”
  • Hamburg Strand in Berks County is showing “Verity” through Oct. 15, it said on Instagram, and GoggleWorks’ Boscov Theater in Reading lists “Angel and the Badman” Oct. 9 to 15.
  • Mahoning Drive-In in Lehighton calls itself an “all-retro, all-35mm” theater and shows classic films.