HALLOWEEN OF HORRORs 4

Thursday October 30th, Friday October 31st,
Sunday November 2nd

Three Nights of Fear:
The Horror Classics You Demanded

Welcome to our fourth annual Halloween celebration – and this year, you chose the films.

After your phenomenal survey response, votes, and passionate pleas, I’ve assembled three nights of pure terror featuring the horror classics that keep you awake at night.

From meta-slasher brilliance to extended cuts of legendary chillers, from body horror masterpieces to transformation nightmares, this is Halloween horror exactly as you wanted it.

Each screening is a chance to experience these films as they were meant to be seen: in the dark, with an audience, where every scream is shared and every shock hits harder. Because the best horror films aren’t just movies—they’re communal experiences that remind us why we love being scared together.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 30TH At 8.30pm

SCREaM (1996)

Horror was dead.

The slasher genre had been stabbed, sliced, and sequeled into oblivion by the mid-90s. Then Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson did something brilliant—they made a horror film about horror films, and in doing so, brought the genre screaming back to life.

SCREAM isn’t just a slasher movie—it’s a love letter to horror wrapped in a razor-sharp thriller. Neve Campbell’s Sidney Prescott faces off against Ghostface, a killer who knows all the rules of horror movies and uses them as a playbook.

But here’s the genius: so does the audience. We know the rules too, which makes it even more terrifying when Craven starts breaking them.

What makes SCREAM endure isn’t just its clever meta-commentary or its genuinely shocking twists. It’s how it manages to be both a deconstruction of horror tropes and a masterclass in using them.

The opening sequence alone, featuring Drew Barrymore in a performance that redefined the meaning of “surprise cameo,” remains one of cinema’s most effective pieces of sustained terror.

This is horror filmmaking at its most intelligent and entertaining: a film that respects its audience’s knowledge while delivering scares that work whether you’ve seen every slasher ever made or this is your first time in Woodsboro.

Book now to experience the film that saved horror—and discover why the rules have never been the same since.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 31ST At 8.30pm

HALLOWEEN: RARE EXTENDED CUT

The Night He Came Home: Experience Carpenter’s Masterpiece Like Never Before

On Halloween night itself, we’re presenting something truly special—the rare Extended Cut of John Carpenter’s genre-defining masterpiece. This isn’t just any screening of HALLOWEEN; this is the version most audiences have never seen, featuring additional scenes that deepen the mythology and extend the terror.

Carpenter’s 1978 classic didn’t just create the slasher template—it perfected it. Michael Myers stalking the streets of Haddonfield remains one of cinema’s most chilling creations, a figure of pure, inexplicable evil given terrifying form. Jamie Lee Curtis’s Laurie Strode became the blueprint for the “final girl,” while Carpenter’s synth score created an atmosphere of dread that seeps into your bones and stays there.

The Extended Cut adds crucial moments that enhance the film’s psychological depth—more time with Dr. Loomis as he hunts his former patient, additional scenes of Michael’s methodical stalking, and extended sequences that build the suffocating atmosphere of a small town under siege. These aren’t just deleted scenes thrown back in—they’re integral pieces that make Carpenter’s vision even more complete.

What makes HALLOWEEN timeless isn’t its violence (which is surprisingly restrained) but its understanding of fear itself. Carpenter knows that what we don’t see is often more terrifying than what we do, and Michael Myers works precisely because he’s a void—pure malevolence in human form, impossible to reason with or understand.

Book now for your only chance to see the Extended Cut on the big screen—because some nights, evil walks among us, and tonight is Halloween.

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2ND FROM 6pm

AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON + THE THING

Transformation Terror: Two Masterpieces of Physical Horror

By overwhelming demand, we’re bringing back two of horror cinema’s greatest achievements in practical effects and body horror. You voted for them, you demanded them, and now they’re back—because some films are so extraordinary, they deserve to be experienced again and again on the big screen.

AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (6pm)

John Landis achieved something remarkable with this 1981 masterpiece—he created a horror-comedy that’s genuinely hilarious and absolutely terrifying, often within the same scene. David Naughton’s doomed American tourist faces the ultimate transformation, aided by Rick Baker’s Oscar-winning makeup effects that remain unsurpassed four decades later.

The werewolf transformation sequence is legendary for good reason—it’s a masterclass in practical effects that makes CGI look like child’s play. But what makes the film endure is Landis’s perfect balance of humor and horror, creating a film that can make you laugh at a zombie’s advice one moment and genuinely disturb you the next. Griffin Dunne’s decomposing best friend Jack provides both comic relief and existential dread, while London itself becomes a character—foggy, ancient, and hiding monsters in plain sight.

THE THING (8.15pm)

John Carpenter’s 1982 paranoia masterpiece remains the gold standard for isolation horror. In the Antarctic wasteland, Kurt Russell and his team face an alien entity that can perfectly imitate any living thing—meaning anyone could be the enemy, and trust becomes the most dangerous luxury of all.

Rob Bottin’s creature effects are the stuff of nightmares—grotesque, imaginative, and utterly convincing transformations that showcase the artistry of practical horror. But THE THING works because it’s as much about human psychology as alien biology. Carpenter traps us in that research station with characters who can’t trust each other, can’t escape, and can’t be sure who’s still human. The result is a masterpiece of sustained tension that builds to one of cinema’s most ambiguous and haunting endings.

Both films prove that the best horror comes from transformation—whether it’s a man becoming a monster or the slow dissolution of trust and humanity itself. Join us for a double dose of practical effects mastery and psychological terror that reminds us why these films topped your survey.

Book now for an evening of transformation terror that showcases horror at its most visceral and unforgettable..

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