Bristol Film Festival’s Halloween programme is in full swing

Bristol Film Festival’s Halloween programme is in full swing

Posted on: 13 Oct 2022

The ever-popular multi-venue film festival has a screening schedule jam-packed with some of the spookiest flicks around in some of Bristol’s most unusual locations. 

 

Bristol Film Festival will be screening Halloween-themed films in spooky spots such as Arnos Vale Cemetary and Redcliffe Caves throughout October 2022.

 

Head to the festival website to browse the full programme and to purchase your ticket.

With so much on offer throughout October at Bristol Film Festival 2022, we’ve rounded up some of the spooky highlights…

 

The audience should need no invitation to dress up tonight (Thursday 13 October) as the cult musical comedy The Rocky Horror Picture Show hits the big screen at Bristol Improv Theatre at 7 PM. 

 

Tomorrow night (Friday 19) film lovers can see cinema’s most ghoulish family amongst the gravestones of Arnos Vale Cemetery. The Addams Family will screen in the Anglican Chapel at 5:30 PM. 

With the long-anticipated sequel just landed, Friday also sees a double screening of a Halloween family classic. Reacquaint yourselves with the Sanderson sisters in this double screening (7:45 PM and 10:00 PM) of Hocus Pocus at Arnos Vale.

 

Saturday 20 also sees a packed schedule at Arnos Vale. At 5:30 PM immerse yourself in the weird and wonderful world of Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, at 7:30 PM unleash your inner teenager with the first Twilight movie and, at 10:10 PM, Anne Rice’s Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Kirsten Dunst-starring Interview With The Vampire will round off proceedings.

For those who fancy a dose of comedy during the spooky season, Clifton Observatory will host a duo of frightfully funny classics on Wednesday 26. At 6 PM, join Kenneth Williams, Harry H. Corbett and co for Carry On Screaming and, at 8:45 PM, try and contain your laughs for Mel Brooks’ spoof horror, Young Frankenstein. 

 

A blood-curdling classic takes over Bristol Museum on Thursday 27 with 2013’s ‘true story’ horror The Conjuring screening at 9:15 PM. Friday 28 sees a dose of comedy come to Avery's Wine Cellar in the shape of hilarious vampire mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows at 6:45 PM. 

Friday 28 also sees the start of 'Horror in the Caves', a series of slashers screened in the depths of Redcliffe Caves with showings taking place every day up until Halloween. 

 

Some of the Saturday 29 highlights include the Christopher Lee starring Dracula (1958) at 11 AM, claustrophobic horror The Descent at 3:40 PM, microbudget sensation Paranormal Activity at 8:15 PM and Ari Aster’s astonishing debut, Hereditary at 10:30 PM.

 

Sunday 30 sees a slew of spooky mainstays mark the last day of Bristol Film Festival’s Halloween season, including seminal zombie flick Night of the Living Dead (1:15 PM), Danny Boyle’s post-apocalyptic thriller 28 Days Later (3:45 PM) and, as always, another showing of The Descent (9PM).

As well as a packed Halloween programme, Bristol Film Festival 2022 have a schedule stretching all the way until the end of the year. Visit the festival website for more details.

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Stanley Gray

Stan is a born and bred Bristolian, recently graduated from studying English Literature in Sheffield. His passions are music and literature and he spends the majority of his time in venues all over the city, immersing himself in Bristol’s alternative music scene. A lifelong Bristol City fan, Stan’s Saturdays are spent watching his team both home and away.