Halloween listings 2025

Bride Of Frankenstein

The spooky season is here, and that means Halloween treats on the silver screen. We’ve listed some of the best from around the UK, so why not check out the ones nearest you? If that’s not practical, skip to the end, where we’ve listed a selection of scary films you can currently stream cheaply or for free.

Aberdeen

• 28th - Mystery film (free), Robert Gordon University nightline, Sir Ian Wood Building, 17:00
• 31st - Ghost (1990) (£5 or free for locals), Fittie Community Hall, New Pier Road, 19:00

Belfast

• 26th - Bride Of Frankenstein, Belfast International Horror Festival, Harland & Wolff Staff Club, 8-10 Dundela Avenue, 13:00
• 26th - Ginger Snaps, Belfast International Horror Festival, Accidental Theatre, 12-13 Shaftesbury Square, 18:00
• 26th - Scooby-Doo, Hocus Pocus & Insidious, Let’s Go Hydro Drive-in, from 15:00
• 27th - The Addams Family (1991), The Hills Have Eyes, Let’s Go Hydro Drive-in, from 18:00
• 28th - Practical Magic (plus dinner, drink and popcorn), Fratelli Belfast, 18:00
• 28th - Ghostbusters, The Babadook, Let’s Go Hydro Drive-in, from 18:00
• 28th - Candyman & Night Of The Living Dead (1990), Belfast International Horror Festival, Accidental Theatre, 12-13 Shaftesbury Square, from 19:00
• 29th - The Rocky Horror Picture Show, It (2017), Let’s Go Hydro Drive-in, from 18:00
• 29th - Jennifer’s Body, Belfast International Horror Festival, Movie House Cinemas City Side, 19:00
• 30th - Monster House, Ulster Museum, 13:00
• 30th - The Nightmare Before Christmas, Annabelle, Let’s Go Hydro Drive-in, from 18:00
• 30th - spooky short films by local filmmakers, Olive Tree House, 23 Fountain Street, from 19:00
• 31st - Dracula (1931) (presented by Mark Kermode, fancy dress), Queen’s Film Theatre, 18:00
• 31st - Ghostbusters, The Conjuring, Let’s Go Hydro Drive-in, from 18:00
• 31st - The Craft (1996), Belfast International Horror Festival, the Belfest Barge, from 20:00
• 1st - Casper, Hocus Pocus, Scream, Let’s Go Hydro Drive-in, from 15:00
• 2nd - Scooby-Doo, Coco, Annabelle, Let’s Go Hydro Drive-in, from 15:00

Birmingham

• 30th - Hocus Pocus & Halloween, Hatton Haunted Drive-in, from 18:00
• 31st - Scooby Doo: Spooky Island & Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Hatton Haunted Drive-in, from 18:00
• 31st - The Shining (plus Overlook Hotel soirée with punch), Birmingham Botanical Gardens, 18:30
• 31st - Nope, Lapworth Museum of Geology, 19:00
• 31st - The Creature From The Black Lagoon (plus wine tasting), Main House, 19:30
• 31st - The Rocky Horror Picture Show (and party), The Night Owl, from 20:00
• 1st - Dracula (1931) (plus red wine tasting), Mockingbird Cinema, 19:00
• 1st - Pan’s Labyrinth (plus wine tasting), Mockingbird Cinema, 19:30

Cardiff

• 27th - Coraline (free), Wallace Lecture Theatre, Main Building, Cardiff University, 18:30
• 31st - E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Hocus Pocus & The Lost Boys, The Undercroft, Cardiff Castle, from 10:00
• 31st - horror film music performed by a string quartet in candlelight, Llandaff Cathedral, from 21:00

Dundee

• 31st - The Phantom Of The Opera (1925) (with live score), DCA, 19:30

Edinburgh

• 26th - A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Leith Depot, 19:15
• 31st - Nosferatu (with live score), French institute of Scotland, West Parliament Square, 19:00 or 21:00

Glasgow

• 30th - The Addams Family (1991) (plus dinner, cocktail and bag of sweets), Sloans, 17:30
• 30th - Beetlejuice (with cocktails & popcorn), CCA, 19:00
• 31st - The Nightmare Before Christmas (with cocktails & popcorn), CCA, 19:00
• 31st - Scream (with cocktail & popcorn), Kimpton Blythswood Square Hotel & Spa, 19:30

Leeds

• 26th - The Nightmare Before Christmas (outdoors), Harewood House, 18:00
• 27th & 28th - horror film SFX workshop for kids, Hyde Park Picture House, 13:00
• 31st - Psycho (with live orchestra), Leeds Grand Theatre, 19:30

Liverpool

• 27th - The Lost Boys, British Music Experience, Cunard Building, 19:00
• 29th - Hotel Transylvania, Mansion House Gardens, Calderstone Park, 16:00
• 30th - Addams Family Values, Mansion House Gardens, Calderstone Park, 16:00
• 31st - The Nightmare Before Christmas, Mansion House Gardens, Calderstone Park, 16:00
• 31st - Nosferatu (with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra), Music Room, 20:00

London

• 26th - Phantom Of The Opera (1925) (with live Wurlitzer organ accompaniment), Musical Museum, 14:20
• 26th - Martyrs, Onibaba, Hausu, Night Of The Living Dead, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (with live score) & Day Of The Dead, Prince Charles Cinema, from 12:00
• 27th - Vampyr, Dracula (1931), Zoltan: Hound Of Dracula, Scream, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Scream 2 & Queen Of The Damned, Prince Charles Cinema, from 12:00
• 27th - Psycho, Rivoli Ballroom, 19:30
• 28th - Carrie, Rivoli Ballroom, 19:30
• 29th - Eyes Of Fire, The Nickel, 18:00
• 29th - The Crow, Rivoli Ballroom, 19:30
• 29th - In The Mouth Of Madness (presented by Garth Marenghi), Prince Charles Cinema, from 20:45
• 30th - Jaws, Donnie Darko, Nosferatu & Trouble Every Day, Prince Charles Cinema, from 12:30
• 30th - The Lost Boys, Rivoli Ballroom, 19:30
• 30th & 31st - Halloween Frightfest
• 31st - Cruising & A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (fancy dress), from 21:00, Rio Cinema
• 31st - mystery horror movie marathon, Prince Charles Cinema, from 23:00
• 31st - The Thing, The Exorcist, The Shining, Suspiria, Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Prince Charles Cinema, from 23:15
• 1st - The Wicker Man, The Nickel, 14:30
• 1st - Profondo Rosso, The Nickel, 17:00
• 2nd - Supervixens, The Nickel, 18:00

Manchester

• 29th - The Wicker Man, Home, 20:40
• 30th - The Last Sacrifice, Home, 18:00
• 30th - Scream (with food and cocktails), Dirty Martini, 18:00
• 30th - Beetlejuice (with pizza & cocktail), Cuckoo, 18:30
• 30th - To The Devil A Daughter, Home, 20:40
• 31st - The Omen, Home, 18:00
• 31st - Day Of The Dead, Cultplex, 21:30

Newcastle-upon-Tyne

• 26th - mystery 20 film Halloween all-nighter, Tyneside cinema, from 21:30
• 26th - Nosferatu, Newcastle Castle, 19:00
• 29th - The Blair Witch Project, Star and Shadow Cinema, 19:30

Sheffield

• 26th - Descendant, Tales From The Crypt, Confession, Noise & Alpha, Celluloid Screams, Showroom, from 11:00
• 28th - Freaks, Not Open Don’t Come, Orchard Street, 20:00
• 1st - Night Of The Living Dead, Sheffield General Cemetery, 20:00

If you’re going to be stuck at home this Halloween, don’t despair: there’s a selection of recently released spooky delights you can catch online. Amazon Prime has been stocking up on Vincent Price classics from The Oblong Box to The Pit And The Pendulum and The House Of Usher, as well as recent gems like Harpoon, The Seeding and All You Need Is Death. Netflix has Birth/Rebirth, the original Fright Night and The Block Island Sound. Studiocanal Presents has the original Evil Dead trilogy, Doctor Jekyll And Sister Hyde and The Plague Of The Zombies, while Shudder has David Cronenberg’s Scanners and The Brood.