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| It's time for some spooky fun! Photo: Tim Regan |
We know you love film and we know you love Halloween, so as we do every year, we’re presenting you with a selection of fun things to do for the spooky season. This year it’s a little bit different as physical events have opened up again but we know you won’t all feel safe to go out. With that it mind, we’ve split our listings into two sections. The first contains listings of events taking place around the UK, many of which are socially distanced and some of which are drive-ins – about as safe as you can get. The second contains listings of fun things you can do at home. There are no tricks here, just treats all the way.
Going Out
Aberdeen
- 30 Oct: The Rocky Horror Picture Show at Aberdeen Arts Centre
Belfast
- 24 Oct: Hocus Pocus at the Treehouse
- 30 Oct: Coco at Ulster Museum
- 31 Oct: The Fog on the Belfast Barge
- 31 Oct: The Addams Family outdoors with hot chocolate and toasted marshmallows at Dobbins Inn
- 31 Oct: The Howling and An American Werewolf In Londonat The Black Box
- 31 Oct: The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Treehouse
- 31 Oct: The Witches at Ulster Museum
Birmingham
- 30 Oct: The Lost Boys and wine tasting at Brindley Point
- 31 Oct: Hocus Pocus, Mosely Cricket Club Drive In
- 31 Oct: The Phantom Of The Opera with live score at Birmingham Town Hall
Brighton
- 31 Oct: Scream Queen - drag queen Fuchsia Van Steel takes the audience on a tour of some of the worst horror films ever made at the Electric Arcade.
Cardiff
- 25 Oct: Corpse Bride, Coco, The Witches and The Joker at Street Food Cinema
- 26 Oct: Caspar, Cruella, The Craft – Legacy and Jaws at Street Food Cinema
- 27 Oct: Wallace & Grommit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit, Hotel Transylvania, Addams Family Values and The Rocky Horror Picture Show at Street Food Cinema
- 28 Oct: Edward Scissorhands and Host at Street Food Cinema
- 29 Oct: Coco and Coraline at Street Food Cinema
- 30 Oct: Silence Of The Lambs at Street Food Cinema
- 31 Oct: Ghostbusters at Street Food Cinema
Edinburgh
- 22 Oct: Censor at Summerhall
- 25 Oct: Hocus Pocus at The Three Sisters
- 30 Oct: The Phantom Of The Opera and Nosferatu with a live score at St Vincent’s Chapel
- 31 Oct: Little Shop Of Horrors with a two course meal at Out of the Blue Drill Hall
Fife
- 30 Oct: The Witches and Poltergeist at Methil Drive In
- 31 Oct: Hocus Pocus and Halloween at Methil Drive In
Glasgow
- 28 Oct: Psycho Goreman and Spookies at the Ice Box
- 29 Oct: The Addams Family, Hocus Pocus and It with quiz and car-a-oke at Loudoun Castle Drove In
- 29 Oct: Nosferatu with live score at Govan and Linthouse Parish Church
- 29 Oct: The Rocky Horror Picture Show at Platform
- 30 Oct: Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone, Hocus Pocus, Beetlejuice and Scream with quiz and car-a-oke at Loudoun Castle Drove In
- 31 Oct: Goosebumps, Cruella, The Conjuring and A Nightmare On Elm Street with quiz and car-a-oke at Loudoun Castle Drove In
- 31 Oct: Nosferatu with live score at the Panopticon
Leeds
- 28 Oct: Hocus Pocus at The Cross Keys
- 28 Oct: The Witches at Leeds University Union
- 29 Oct: Coco and The Witches at Farmer Copley’s Drive In
- 30 Oct: Hocus Pocus and Beetlejuice at Farmer Copley’s Drive In
- 31 Oct: The Addams Family and Ghostbusters at Farmer Copley’s Drive In
- 31 Oct: An American Werewolf In London at Horsforth Brewery
- 31 Oct: House at the Carriageworks
- 31 Oct: Shaun Of The Dead and beer tasting ay Northern Monk Refectory LDS
Llantwit Major
- 30 Oct: Scoob!, Hocus Pocus and The Lost Boys at St Donat’s Castle
Liverpool
- 31 Oct: The Shining at the Bombed Out Church
- 1 Nov: The Addams Family and Zombieland at the Bombed Out Church
London
The big event 1 – Frightfest. See the line-up and check out our coverage so far on our Frightfest festival page.
The big event 2 - J-Horror Weekender, 29 to 31 Oct: Ring, Dark Water, Cure, Pulse, Audition and Ichi The Killer at the BFI Southbank.
- 22 Oct: Hocus Pocus at The Exhibit Cinema
- 22 Oct: The Bird With The Crystal Plumage, The Evil Dead, Manhunter, Scream and The Silence Of The Lambs at the Prince Charles Cinema
- 23 Oct: Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein, Death Becomes Her and The Exorcist at the Prince Charles Cinema
- 23 Oct: A Nightmare On Elm Street at the Rivoli Ballroom
- 23 Oct: The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Rivoli Ballroom
- 24 Oct: Eyes Without A Face, Little Shop Of Horrors and The Thing at the Prince Charles Cinema
- 24 Oct: Silence Of The Lambs at The Exhibit Cinema
- 25 Oct: Alien, Dr Jekyll And Sister Hyde and Psycho at the Prince Charles Cinema
- 26 Oct: Cruella and The Omen at The Exhibit Cinema
- 26 Oct: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Under The Skin at the Prince Charles Cinema
- 27 Oct: The Crow at the Rivoli Ballroom
- 27 Oct: The Keep at the Prince Charles Cinema
- 27 Oct: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street at the Ricco Lounge
- 28 Oct: Carrie and Donnie Darko at the Prince Charles Cinema
- 28 Oct: The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Rivoli Ballroom
- 29 Oct: Hocus Pocus at the Rivoli Ballroom
- 29 Oct: Labyrinth at The Exhibit Cinema
- 29 Oct: The Shining at the Rivoli Ballroom
- 30 Oct: Beetlejuice and The Craft at the Prince Charles Cinema
- 30 Oct: Halloween all-nighter: The Thing, The Shining, The Exorcist, A Nightmare On Elm Street and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre back to back at the Prince Charles Cinema
- 30 Oct: Teen Horror marathon: Scream I Know What You Did Last Summer, Urban Legend, The Faculty and Final Destination back to back at the Prince Charles Cinema
- 31 Oct: Ghostbusters with spooky drinks and snacks at Dirty Bones
- 31 Oct: The Omen at the Prince Charles Cinema
- 31 Oct: The Shining with pizza and cocktails at The Hawk’s Nest
- 31 Oct: The Shining with sparkling wine and a three course meal at One Aldwych
Manchester:
The big event – Film Fear, 28 to 31 Oct: A Banquet, In The Mouth Of Madness, We’re All Going To The World’s Fair, Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes, Bull, Kill List, The Scary Of Sixty-First and Titane at HOME.
- 26 Oct: Hocus Pocus at the Den
- 28 Oct: Orphan at Fives Soccer Centre Drive In
- 31 Oct: Halloween at Peak Cavern
- 31 Oct: Hocus Pocus and Night Of The Living Dead at The Beagle
- 31 Oct: It at King Street Townhouse
- 31 Oct: Shaun Of The Dead and beer tasting at Northern Monk Refectory MCR
- 31 Oct: spooky short films and creepy cocktails at A4 Studios
Newcastle
- 24 Oct: Coco at Quorum Park Drive In
- 29 Oct: It at Newcastle International Airport
- 30 Oct: Halloween all-nighter 1: Psycho, The Omen, The Return Of The Living Dead and The Fly back to back, with live entertainment, cocktails and a spooky ration pack, at the Tyneside Cinema
- 30 Oct: Halloween all-nighter 2: The Wicker Man, Prisoners Of The Ghostland, Mandy and a surprise film back to back, with live entertainment, cocktails and a spooky ration pack, at the Tyneside Cinema
- 30 Oct: Halloween all-nighter 3: An American Werewolf In London, The Evil Dead, Scanners and My Bloody Valentine back to back, with live entertainment, cocktails and a spooky ration pack, at the Tyneside Cinema
- 30 Oct: Halloween all-nighter 4: Saint Maud, a surprise film, Possessor and Host back to back, with live entertainment, cocktails and a spooky ration pack, at the Tyneside Cinema
- 30 Oct: Hocus Pocus at Newcastle International Airport
- 31 Oct: The Exorcist and Scream at Newcastle International Airport
- 31 Oct: The Rocky Horror Picture Show followed by live DJs at the Cluny
Nottingham
- 28 Oct: The Shining at Works Social
- 1 Nov: The Lost Boys at Savoy Cinemas
Port Talbot
- 27 Oct: Beetlejuice and Goosebumps at Gower Dough Drive In Cinema
- 28 Oct: Little Shop Of Horrors and The Rocky Horror Picture Show at Gower Dough Drive In Cinema
- 29 Oct: The Addams Family and V For Vendetta at Gower Dough Drive In Cinema
- 30 Oct: Monsters Inc at Gower Dough Drive In Cinema
Rotherham
- 30 Oct: Frankenweenie and [id=21692]The Woman In Black[/film] at Wentworth Woodhouse
- 31 Oct: Hocus Pocus and The Others at Wentworth Woodhouse
Sheffield
- 26 Oct: Beetlejuice at Church – Temple of Fun
- 28 Oct: Hocus Pocus at Abbeydale Picture House
- 29 Oct: It at the Utilita Arena
- 29 Oct: The Nightmare Before Christmas at the Utilita Arena
- 30 Oct: Hocus Pocus at the Utilita Arena
- 30 Oct: The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Utilita Arena
- 31 Oct: Ghostbusters at the Utilita Arena
- 31 Oct: Scream at the Utilita Arena
- 31 Oct: The Exorcist at the Utilita Arena
- 31 Oct: The Wicker Man and The Blood On Satan’s Claw at Abbeydale Picture House
York
- 25 Oct: The Shining at York St John Students’ Union
Staying in
The Horror Channel is running a Classic Horror Halloween event on 30 and 31 October this year, with iconic monster movies including Dracula, Frankenstein, Bride Of Frankenstein, Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman, The Wolfman The Invisible Man, The Mummy, The Mummy’s Hand, Creature From The Black Lagoon and Revenge Of The Creature.
Arrow is celebrating the season with a series of documentaries which look behind the scenes at horror classics and the people who made them. These include Ban The Sadist Videos, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Shocking Truth, Hell On Earth: The Desecration And Resurrection Of Ken Russell's The Devils, Phil Tipett: Mad Dreams And Monsters and Fulci For Fake. On the fiction front, it has Zombie 4 and Death Screams for you to look forward to.
On 29 October, Arrow is hosting a live watch-along of The Mutilator. This starts at 3am in the UK, but it's not a school night, and if you join in then you can spend the night talking about the film as it plays, with a great line-up of guests including Jill Gevargizian (The Stylist), Chad Crawford Kinkle (Jug Face, Dementer), Adam Stovall (A Ghost Waits), Powell Robinson & Patrick Young (Threshold) and Chelsea Stardust (Satanic Panic).
There’s a treat to look forward to on Turner Classic Movies, which will present the first ever television screening of As The Earth Turns on the night of Halloween itself. There’s an extraordinary story behind this film and it’s well worth checking out. You can find it on Amazon and TUBI.
MUBI is holding a Halloween watch party on the 31st, starting at 18:00, when Prano Bailey-Bond will be talking about her film Censor live on Instagram. The film itself will screen from 19:00 with live Twitter commentary from the Final Girls.
Netflix has The Killing Of A Sacred Deer and Werewolves Of The Third Reich available to UK audiences from next week and has recently added the Dawn Of The Dead remake and indie horror gem Bad Hair.
Recent Shudder additions worth checking out include new films V/H/S/94 and The Medium, and old favourites Re-Animator, Phantasm and Scanners, plus Elvira, Mistress of the Dark’s 4oth Anniversary Very Scary Very Special Special. “It’s always tough turning 40, but what better way to mark the occasion than a one-night stand with Shudder, the spookiest of streamers? It’s going to be the ultimate Hallow-anniversa-ween bash, and you don’t want to miss it,” says the lady herself.
Our US readers can enjoy FilmRise Creature Feasture weekends on The Roku Channel US and VIZIO WatchFree+, with titles including Crocodile, Glass Trap, Lavalantula and Snake Island. There will also be a Halloween special featuring Along Came The Devil, Danika, Prom Night and George A Romero Presents: Deadtime Stories Vol. 1 & 2.
If you prefer to kick back with a DVD, Acorn Media is releasing Monstrum, Son and Psycho Goreman this month, while over at Epic Pictures there’s 31% off all horror DVDs.
