Monsters Inc. with pre-show Scream Contest

2:00PM: Doors Open & Pre-Show; 3:00PM: Movie

Movies at the Palace continues its 2025 Season of Community with the Pixar classic, Monsters Inc., on Sunday, July 27th. In order to power the city, monsters have to scare children so that they scream. However, the children are toxic to the monsters, and after a child gets through, two monsters realize things may not be what they think. Voiced by Billy Crystal and John Goodman. Directed by Pete Docter, David Silverman, and Lee Unkrich. Written by Pete Docter, Jill Culton, and Jeff Pidgeon. The movie is 1 hour and 32 minutes, Rated G, and will be screened on DCP. 

We continue to honor our past as a vaudeville house with live entertainment before the main feature on the big screen. And we need your screams to power the movie! Come early for a pre-show scream contest on stage, complete with themed prizes for our young participants. And don’t forget to visit our raffle table in the Grand Foyer to enter to win more themed prizes and movie memorabilia. 

Monsters Inc. continues the Movies at the Palace Season of Community, celebrating 95 years serving the community of Washington Heights. To learn more about our 2025 season, click here. 

Please note: The Season of Community is a different series than Movies at the Palace with Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is not scheduled to be at this screening. 

United Palace History  

The ornate United Palace opened in 1930 as the Loew's 175th Street Theatre, a deluxe movie theater and vaudeville house, the last of the five Wonder Theaters in New York City and New Jersey. Its first act as a movie theater ended in April 1969 with a screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey. 

With a groundswell of community support and our good friend, patron, and neighbor Lin-Manuel Miranda, movies returned to the United Palace in 2013. Since then, we have screened over 100 feature films, from world premieres (In the Heights, Halftime, and Rebecca as part of the Tribeca Festival) to all-time classics (It's A Wonderful Life), and community favorites (Mad Hot Ballroom). 

Our goal is to have the cinematic experience come alive for audiences too used to watching movies on their phones or TVs. 

One of our highest compliments came from Robert DeNiro who, speaking before a 50th anniversary screening of The Godfather, described watching a movie at the United Palace as: “The moviegoing experience doesn't get any better.”