Halloween listings 2023

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The spooky season is here again, so we’re looking at the sinister cinema events happening across the UK. From treats you can shre with the kids to hardcore all-nighters, there’s plenty here to provide you with Halloween chills and thrills.

Aberdeen

• 28th - The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ashdale Hall, 14:30
• 31st - Scooby-Doo, the Four One Two Film Club, Robert Gordon University, 17:30
• 31st - The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Belmont Filmhouse, 18:10

Belfast

• 27th - A Nightmare On Elm Street & Scary Movie, Let’s Go Hydro drive-in, 19:00
• 27th - The Lost Boys, The Strand, 20:00
• 28th - Hocus Pocus & Insidious, Let’s Go Hydro drive-in, 19:00
• 29th - Hocus Pocus & The Conjuring, Let’s Go Hydro drive-in, 19:00
• 29th - The Invisible Man (1933) & Black Narcissus, The Strand, 18:00
• 30th - Hocus Pocus & The Exorcist, Let’s Go Hydro drive-in, 19:00
• 31st - Halloween, Let’s Go Hydro drive-in, 19:00
• 31st - Cinemagic Film Festival: Pooh’s Heffalump Halloween Movie, The Ghastly Ghoul, Hocus Pocus, Scooby-Doo And The Witch’s Ghost, The Halloween Tree & Room On The Broom, multiple venues
• 1st - Ghostbusters & Saw, Let’s Go Hydro drive-in, 19:00
• 2nd - Twilight & Scream, Let’s Go Hydro drive-in, 19:00
• 3rd - E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial & Insidious, Let’s Go Hydro drive-in, 19:00
• 4th - The Nightmare Before Christmas & The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Let’s Go Hydro drive-in, 19:00

Birmingham

• All week - Casper, The House Of The Devil, Poltergeist, The Others, House & Suspiria, Sidewalk Cinema.
• All week - Horrors of the Silver Screen: experience what it’s like to be in a horror film, with different scary scenarios in the Botanic Gardens.
• 27th - Halloween Horrorthon: Beetlejuice, The Addams Faily, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the Electric, from 15:00
• 28th - Halloween Horrorthon: Beetlejuice, Coraline, Hocus Pocus, Shaun Of The Dead & cocktails, the Electric, from 11:00
• 29th - The Phantom Of The Opera (1927), Alabama Theatre, 14:00
• 30th - The Conjuring with popcorn, Curzon Building, 18:00
• 31st - The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1923) with live pipe organ accompaniment, Town Hall, 19:30

Cardiff

• 29th - The Orphanage, Insole Court, 17:00 & 20:00
• 31st - Darkened Rooms presents Monster House, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Hocus Pocus & Beetlejuice, Cardiff Castle, from 10:00

Dundee

• 27th - Dundead presents Minore, DCA, 20:30
• 28th - Dundead presents Hocus Pocus, DCA, 13:15
• 29th - Dundead presents Peeping Tom, DCA, 18:00
• 30th - Dundead presents The Exorcist, DCA, 20:30

Edinburgh

• 31st - Assorted horror film soundtracks performed live by a string quartet, in candlelight, Ghillie Dhu
Li>1st - Ani/mates spooky short animated films by Animated Women, the Banshee Labyrinth, 19:00

Glasgow

• 27th - Singalong presents The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the Polo Lounge, 19:00
• 28th - The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari with live orchestral score, Britannia Panopticon Music Hall, 19:00
• 28th & 29th - Hocus Pocus, Glasgow Science Centre, various times
• 29th - The Rocky Horror Picture Show & Halloween party, Oran Mor, 20:00

Leeds

• 28th - Hocus Pocus drive-in, Kirkstall Abbey, 18:00
• 29th - The Lost Boys, Cottage Road Cinema, 20:00
• 29th - Hocus Pocus drive-in, Kirkstall Abbey, 16:45
• 29th - What The Film Club presents The Howling 2 and The Howling 3, 94 Kirkstall Road, 18:30
• 30th - Halloween horror film quiz, the Hive, 19:00
• 31st - The Fall Of The House Of Usher & Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1920), with live organ accompaniment, Howard Assembley Hall, 19:30
• 2nd - Suspiria, Left Bank Leeds, 19:00

Liverpool

• 27th - Lavender Film Night presents Coraline, Black Lodge Brewing, 19:00
• 29th - Hocus Pocus, Chorley Cinema, 19:30
• 29th - Beetlejuice, St Luke’s Bombed Out Church, 17:30
• 29th - The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Leigh Film Factory, 19:30
• 30th - Night Of The Living Dead, Penwortham Arts Centre, 19:00
• 31st - Hoteln Transylvania, Baltic Market, noon
• 31st - Scary Movie, Baltic Market, 19:00
• 31st - The Exorcist, St Luke’s Bombed Out Church, 19:00
• 31st - Hocus Pocus with food and cocktails, Duke Street Market, 20:30
• 31st - Psycho with live score by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Philharmonic Hall, 19:30
• 31st - Lavender Film Night presents Scream, Black Lodge Brewing, 19:00

London

• 27th & 28th - Halloween Frightfest, Cineworld Leicester Square
• 27th - Hocus Pocus, Rivoli Ballroom, 19:00
• 28th - Romford All-Day Film Event – Carrie, Cat’s-Eye, Christine, Village Of The Damned & Terrorvision, Premiere Cinemas
• 28th - Alien, The Yellow, 19:00
• 28th - The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Clapham Grand, 21:00
• 29th - The Phantom Of The Opera (1925) with live organ accompaniment and choir, St Giles Church, 19:00

Manchester

• 27th - Hocus Pocus, King Street Townhouse, 20:00
• 27th - The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Everyman Altrincham, 22:00
• 28th - A Nightmare On Elm Street, King Street Townhouse, 20:00
• 29th - The Addams Family, King Street Townhouse, 17:00
• 29th - The Shining, King Street Townhouse, 20:00
• 31st - Halloween, King Street Townhouse, 17:00

Newcastle

• 29th - What We Do In The Shadows, the Grove, 18:00
• 31st - Night Of The Living Dead, the Grove, 18:00
• 31st - The Lost Boys, Ouseburn Garden, 20:00

Nottingham

• 27th - Hocus Pocus outdoors, Nottingham Racecourse, 17:00
• 30th - The Lost Boys outdoors, Wollaton Hall, 18:00
• 31st - Daughters Of Darkness, Nottingham Contemporary, 18:30
• 31st - Scream outdoors, Wollaton Hall, 18:00

Sheffield

• 27th - free Soviet cinema: Mister Designer & Flight To The Monster Country, Chesterfield Library, 18:00
• 27th - The Conjuring underground, Peak Cavern, 18:00
• 28th - The Living Dead At Manchest Morgue & Nightmare City, Abbeydale Picture House, 16:00
• 28th & 29th - Beetlejuice underground, Peak Cavern, various times
• 31st - The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Cemetery Road, 20:30