Knowing you people, you’re probably too cool for dress ups. So we have assembled the best cinematic Halloween events across Australia to keep you indoors.
We’ve highlighted some picks in main centres, then Australian-wide screenings at the bottom.
While we’re Halloween-ing… click here to win 10 terrifying DVDs/Blu-rays, and see our Top 10 Movies for Halloween here.
Sydney
Gremlins and The Shining
WHERE: The Ritz
WHEN: From 7pm
Starting off with Steven Spielberg-produced, family-friendly Gremlins, followed by Kubrick’s Stephen King adaptation The Shining. Each film costs nine bucks. Deal!
The Babadook and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
WHERE: Dendy Newton
WHEN: From 9.30pm
Tobe Hooper’s grissly 1974 classic is followed by Australian director Jennifer Kent’s scary-as-hell debut, The Babadook (which incidentally has done extremely well at the UK Box Office, debuting last week at number ten). Follows a young boy and his widowed mother who are haunted by a storybook. “Who thinks up a film like The Babadook?… has the narrative chutzpah to show [Kent’s] entire hand in the pop-up story and then make us squirm as foretold events come true.” says Time Out New York.
WHERE: Blacktown Drive-In (playing in other locations in NSW and QLD – see here for all)
WHEN: 11.15pm
Screening at Sydney’s only remaining Drive-In cinema, Richard O’Brien’s brilliantly bizarre story of creation, love, hate, adventure, and, most of all, sex; a young couple stumble upon a Transylvanian house party in this 1975 horror musical.
WHERE: Greater Union Hurstville
WHEN: 7pm
Must be seen on the big screen – William Friedkin’s masterful horror, considered by many as one of the scariest films of all time. Winner of two Oscars and four Golden Globes in 1973.
An American Werewolf in London
WHERE: Event George Street
WHEN: 9pm
John Landis’ monster movie classic (written when he was just 19-years-old) featuring pre-CGI effects from Rick Baker and equal lashings of terror and humour.
Melbourne
Creature Triple Feature: In the Mouth of Madness, Critters, Deadly Friend
WHERE: Cinema Nova – click here for triple-feature details.
WHEN: From 8.30pm
In the Mouth of Madness – another horror classic from John Carpenter starring Sam Neill as an insurance investigator sent to track down a missing horror fiction writer; Critters – what happens when a small town is infiltrated by very hungry, extra-terrestrials?; and Wes Craven’s Deadly Friend.
Canberra
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
WHERE: Canberra International Film Festival at Dendy Canberra
WHEN: 8.00pm
A Middle Eastern feminist vampire romance set in a fictional Iranian ghost-town, Bad City. New trailer landed yesterday, looks fantastic.
WHERE: Canberra International Film Festival at Dendy Canberra
WHEN: 6.00pm
Danish horror set on a small island sees family secrets come out into the open when timid 16-year-old Marie’s (Sonia Suhl) sexual awakening starts to – literally – bring out the beast in her.
Perth
WHERE: Ace Cinemas Midland and Rockingham
WHEN: From about 7pm
Third and fourth chapters of the found-footage supernatural horror franchise.
GET TICKETS FOR PA 3 HERE AND PA4 HERE
Across Australia
Ghostbusters and Halloween at Event Cinemas
WHERE: Most Event/Greater Union/BC&C cinemas
WHEN: From around 7pm
Event Cinemas doubles down with Ivan Reitman’s Ghostbusters followed by John Carpenter’s classic horror original, Halloween.
GET TICKETS FOR GHOSTBUSTERS HERE AND HALLOWEEN HERE
WHERE: In general release in cinemas.
WHEN: Night screenings.
Horror spin-off of 2013’s monster hit The Conjuring, following a creepy-looking three-foot doll named Annabelle who cries blood and torments a young couple.
WHERE: In general release in cinemas.
WHEN: Night screenings.
Kiwi vampire horror starring Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords). Introduces a world where friendship and camaraderie are just as important as feasting upon the flesh of mortals.
