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Halloween on the silver screen

What's happening around the UK this year

by Jennie Kermode

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Halloween is here and that means hordes of horror films at the cinema. There are special events happening all around the UK and we've listed the biggest ones here to help you find something suitably spooky to do on or near the big day. Some films are accompanied by special events and there are child-friendly films as well as ones that will make grown adults one to sleep with the lights on (if they can sleep at all). Check out what's going on near you.

Aberdeen

30 Oct - Get Out at the Belmont
31 Oct - Rosemary's Baby and Night Of The Living Dead at the Hop & Anchor
31 Oct - The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Belmont

Belfast

29 Oct - Hocus Pocus at Fratelli Belfast
31 Oct - Halloween at The Perch rooftop bar

Cardiff

29 Oct - The Rocky Horror Picture Show at Fuel
30 Oct - Hocus Pocus and Scream at Cardiff Castle
31 Oct - The Addams Family, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Ghostbusters at Cardiff Castle
3 Nov - The Sixth Sense at Cardiff Castle

Carlisle

31 Oct - Ghostbusters at the Vue Cinema
2 Nov - Nosferatu with live score at Appleby Public Hall

Edinburgh

28 Oct - Hocus Pocus at the Three Sisters
29 Oct - Nosferatu with live guitar score at Leith Depot
31 Oct - A Nightmare On Elm Street in the Out of the Blue Drill Hall
31 Oct - The Terror at Linlithgow Palace
31 Oct - The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari with live guitar score at the Outhouse

Glasgow

30 Oct - Halloween at Barras Art & Design
31 Oct - The Tingler and The Wicker Man (final cut) at the GFT

Leeds

31 Oct - The Lost Boys at the Midnight Ball in the Round Foundry
1 Nov - Hocus Pocus at Kirkstall Abbey
2 Nov - Interview With The Vampire at Kirkstall Abbey

Liverpool

28 Oct – Hocus Pocus and A Nightmare On Elm Street at Liverpool Floating Cinema
28 Oct - 28 Days Later at Sefton Park Palm House
29 Oct - The Blair Witch Project at Sefton Park Palm House
29 Oct – Beetlejuice and Paranormal Activity at Liverpool Floating Cinema
30 Oct - Nosferatu at Sefton Park Palm House
1 Nov - The Nightmare Before Christmas and Scream at Liverpool Floating Cinema

London

29 Oct - The Silence Of The Lambs with a four course meal by Taste Film at the Parlour Kensal
30 Oct - Under The Skin at Regent Street Cinema
30 Oct - Ghostbusters at the Everyman Cinema
31 Oct - The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Mercato Metropolitano
31 Oct - The Shining at the Rivoli Ballroom
31 Oct - Doctor Sleep at Rich Mix in Shoreditch
31 Oct - A Nightmare On Elm Street at Genesis Cinema
31 Oct - Us presented by Bounce Cinema at the Hoxton
31 Oct - Scream at the Everyman Crystal Palace
31 Oct - The Exorcist at the Castle Cinema in Homerton
31 Oct - Beetlejuice plus dinner and after party by Meals on Reels at The Signal in Forest Hill
1 Nov - Little Shop Of Horrors (director's cut) plus after party at the BFI Southbank
2 Nov - Frightfest Halloween: Candy Corn, We Summon The Darkness, Uncanny Annie, Swallow, Trick, Scare Package and The Haunted Swordsman at Cineworld Leicester Square
2 & 3 Nov - The Hunger plus HallowQueen Ball drag show, disco and games at the Fox & Firkin in Lewisham
3 Nov - Hocus Pocus in the secret garden at South Place Hotel