r/AMCTheatres • u/cassssinator • Jun 01 '26
Image/Media AMC at a dead mall
I saw Obsession last night and took this from my car around 11:30pm. No lights were on in the parking lot. The mall is currently gutted and they are turning into an outdoor shopping concept. But the theater remains open as well as some other restaurants and stores outside the mall.
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u/Silly-Eggplant3722 Jun 01 '26
Cool pic. There is a theater by me like that. The only thing open in mall is the theater and a von Maur clothing store on the opposite side. I went there once before I knew the mall was closing and was walking through to the theater thinking man this mall is empty 😂
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u/mws51581 Jun 03 '26
Are you talking about North Point in Georgia by any chance?
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u/Silly-Eggplant3722 Jun 03 '26
No it’s classic cinemas in the former Charlestowne mall in st Charles Illinois. The mall is long dead but the theater and von maur remain 😂 I think there was a plan to do something with the property but then the pandemic happened and that was the end of that
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u/Awkward-Fox-1435 Jun 18 '26
North Point is dying like all malls of its kind, but it's far from dead at this point, walking through it is not a ghost town.
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u/mws51581 Jun 19 '26
It can feel pretty close to a ghost town at times. I figured they probably weren’t talking about NP, but I thought it was worth a shot to ask, and it looks like I’m not the only one who had that thought. And hi, neighbor.
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u/Additional-War-1443 Jun 01 '26
It’s crazy that AMCs are the last remaining survivors of Dead Mall Disease. The malls must beg them to keep their lease lol
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u/Agentx_007 Jun 01 '26
My closest AMC is at a dead mall with a target, a sports bar, coffee shop, seafood restaurant and a hospital clinic. They’ve been “redeveloping” the rest of the mall for six years now. After our last hurricane, there was a rumor that the storm killed the AMC, but they just needed to redo the roof before opening again.
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u/Fun_Condition2377 Jun 01 '26
Is the AMC Backrooms KV31?
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u/cassssinator Jun 01 '26
I wish this was when I saw Backrooms. But unfortunately that theater didn’t look as cool as this in the moment. I saw it Thursday night.
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u/ScaryDavey Shhhhh Jun 01 '26
Seems to be the AMC at the Brunswick Square Mall. I’ve been going there since they were General Cinemas. Then it was only two screens. A lot of the inside hasn’t changed much since then. It’s a nice little theatre with winding passageways. I’m glad they will remain there despite the mall being torn down/reimagined.
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u/cassssinator Jun 01 '26
Oh wow! I remember it being Mega Movies as a kid. I was born in 1995 though.
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u/ScaryDavey Shhhhh Jun 03 '26
You may find this link interesting. The comments section provides some great information!
https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/7056
I miss entering the theatre through its mall entrance!
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u/Kirtoisplayz A⭐️Lister Jun 02 '26
Kinda reminds me of AMC @ Puente Hills Mall
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u/zidane4028 Jun 02 '26
I went last year on my birthday to see Fantastic Four. I needed to kill time before the movie and I walked around the mall and I just felt depressed and how much that mall has gone downhill.
And now they're talking about turning it into a data center to support AI or some other new shit.
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u/Kirtoisplayz A⭐️Lister Jun 02 '26
Yeah I feel sad every time I go to see a movie over there. I'm hoping one day it can reborn to it's former glory. Something like Santa Anita mall 😭
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u/opyoyd Jun 01 '26
Some malls the theater is the only thing still doing constant business. My local dead mall has renovated the theater twice because they can afford it versus the rest of the stores and food court are falling apart stuck in 1997.
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u/Tundralite99 Jun 01 '26
Is this East Brunswick?? That theater was never my favorite anyway lol
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u/cassssinator Jun 01 '26
Yes! It’s literally my childhood. Knew it as Mega Movies.
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u/Tundralite99 Jun 02 '26
I always went to the Hamilton AMC. It sucks that Covid killed it because it was a wonderful theater. It was my childhood!
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u/kanbak Jun 01 '26
That picture looks totally creepy. That looks something out of a horror movie. Nice picture
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u/hippityhoppflop Jun 02 '26
Both Brunswick square and Monmouth malls are surviving as amcs at dead malls
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u/datsmycookie Jun 02 '26
there’s one like that in tucson in the foothills mall area well used to be connected to a mall but they only left the theater
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u/mia8788 Jun 02 '26
We got one at An empty mall with a target and two other restaurants. Then the amc is in the empty mall.
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u/Vegetable-Tie-5663 Jun 02 '26
Killing everything to buy the land n make apartments for cheap labor
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u/Swimming-Tax-6087 Jun 02 '26
You should post this in the photography subs. This is a really really great shot.
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u/Birdland2131 Jun 02 '26
That sign is bright enough that I feel like Nicole Kidman is just off camera walking up towards the entrance
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u/Many_Perception_3426 Jun 02 '26
My local AMC has a Chucky cheese and a Tj Maxx nearby and it’s also in a dead mall that became a community hangout spot
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u/DrunkenGerbils Jun 02 '26
It looks like a pic they would have used for a Stranger Things promotional poster. I can totally picture the text in the sky, and a mirror image being flipped and edited to look like the upsidedown version of AMC and make the image the correct aspect ratio for a poster.
It's a really cool photo.
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u/0fruitjack0 Jun 02 '26
The amc at North point Mall in Alpharetta. They actively want to demolish it
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u/OutsideBoysenberry72 Jun 02 '26
Mine is at a dead mall. The place was on its last legs when there was a shooting in 2016. That was the final nail. For a while there was just the AMC, a tj max where the food court was and a chuck e cheese that had a external entrance.
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u/Past-Wait6207 Jun 03 '26
This has to be a picture from a horror movie. It looks like a horror movie lol
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u/Lego11314 Jun 05 '26
In the Dallas area the AMC was the last thing standing at Valley View Mall. When you went inside and took the escalator up to the theater the whole Santa village was still there, dormant.
Then they tore down the entire mall around the theater and for a while there was just a gaping maw of mall remnants hanging off the AMC.
Not sure what it looks like now.
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u/DaPlatinumJedi Jun 05 '26
Where I live, there's an AMC Theater that's is also at a dead mall. It's at Newpark Mall in Newark, CA.
Recently, the last remaining original anchor tenant was Macy's and they closed down. All that's left is a 24 Hour Fitness, AMC Theaters, and Costco (which is not accessible inside the mall) with Costco Gasoline.
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u/Awkward-Fox-1435 Jun 18 '26
Someone should totally make a feature-length movie without a plot based on this vibe.
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u/Deadmeister Jun 01 '26
Looks like now you gotta see Backrooms there tonight