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Holiday favorites, from “Hocus Pocus” to “The Muppet Christmas Carol,” are headed back to the big screen.

The very big screen.

Starting this weekend, the Rangos Giant Theater at the Carnegie Science Center will show a different classic flick every Saturday night. The selections are decidedly seasonal, with favorite films for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas on the schedule.

“We’re building off some great successes in the Rangos Giant Theater,” says Marcus Harshaw, the Science Center’s senior director of museum experiences. “We thought we could tap into some of the nostalgia that’s in the community for some of these really great films.”

It’s not the first time that Hollywood blockbusters have appeared at the theater, as several revivals have been featured since the Rangos in 2017 replaced the Omnimax theater. 4K restorations of favorites such as “Jaws” and “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” have appeared on the screen; this is the first time, however, that an extended weekly series has been offered.

Picking the films was a group effort, Harshaw says. “The Rangos operating management team as well as myself came together and we picked a lot of films that we all loved from our childhoods.” The group also took input from Science Center guests who asked for favorite flicks on the Rangos screen, which is the largest in the city of Pittsburgh.

The series kicks off with a quartet of spooky classics leading up to Halloween. The teen horror flick “Carrie,” based on Stephen King’s debut novel, launches the series on Oct. 7, followed by the original “Ghostbusters” on Oct. 14. Family favorite “Hocus Pocus” will follow on Oct. 21, and the locally made classic “Night of the Living Dead” will groan to life on Oct. 28.

Nov. 4 will be given to the classic film that’s both fully a Halloween movie and a Christmas movie: The stop-motion favorite “The Nightmare Before Christmas.”

Afterward, the Rangos will show yuletide picks, reviving “The Muppet Christmas Carol,” “Die Hard,” “Gremlins,” “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” and “Home Alone.” Thanksgiving won’t be neglected, either, as the Turkey Day comedy “Planes, Trains & Automobiles” will take the screen on Nov. 18.

Harshaw says that classic films could become a regular fixture at the Rangos, particularly themed to certain times of the year.

“I would love for this to be a year-round, Saturday-night thing … We’re looking at some great themes that we can execute in 2024.”

Most films on the schedule will screen at 5:30 and 8 p.m., with a few of the December offerings only shown once. Tickets for all films are available at the Rangos’ website.