’The Nightmare Before Christmas’ is, of course, the perfect gateway from Halloween to Christmas. The evergreen animation is getting a welcome Kids Club screening at Portobello’s magical Electric Cinema at 9am on Saturday October 29, while for the grown-ups, there’s a double bill of ‘A Nightmare On Elm Street’ and ‘Scream’ that night. If Sunday afternoon spooks are more your vibe, head to the Bela Lugosi ‘Dracula’ at 2pm.
Some people like to watch scary movies from the safety of their sofa with a cushion in front of their eyes. We prefer the communal experience: sitting in a huge, dark space with loads of fellow thrillseekers, all reacting to every collective gasp and shriek. If you’re with us, then you need to get your brave self to one of these Halloween film screenings.
And when we say scary movies, we sometimes mean genuine horrors like ‘The Shining’ and ‘The Omen’, but many now-classic Halloween films are actually camp as Christmas: think ‘Hocus Pocus’ or ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’. Whether you like to be chilled to the bone or raucously entertained, London has a Halloween movie screening for you.
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