{"title": "Category H Halloween Special: BLACULA + MA", "start": "2026-10-30T23:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Rio Cinema", "address": "Kingsland High Street 107, E8 2PB London", "price": "", "price_from": "17.50", "price_to": "17.50", "tickets_url": "https://riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_436.TcsWebTab_437", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "Category H, a late night horror film club co-programmed by Molly Miles and Scary Claire, presents a Halloween double bill celebrating black horror villains through two enjoyable films. First comes BLACULA, a blaxploitation classic about an African prince cursed with vampirism in the 1700s who, after his sealed coffin is bought by two naive interior decorators, breaks out and unleashes his thirst for blood across 1970s Los Angeles. After a short break comes MA, starring Octavia Spencer as a lonesome woman who befriends a group of teenagers by letting them party in her basement, until her true intentions begin to show and they must outwit her to stay alive. The club can be found on Instagram as @categoryhfilms.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/category-h-halloween-special-blacula-ma-38164/", "official_url": "https://riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/WhatsOn?f=2968302", "image": "https://noky.io/images/df9e9556a64b816a1ed739b2684e9994a1a277e91bd9f4e06361d3c102e6f7cc-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-30T23:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Rio Cinema", "address": "Kingsland High Street 107, E8 2PB London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "TRANSMISSIONS PRESENTS: HELLRAISER (1987) WITH INTRO BY ALISON RUMFITT + THE DYSPHORIA (2025)", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T22:00:00Z", "place": "Dalston Superstore", "address": "Kingsland High Street 117, E8 2PB London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "An evening of horror at Dalston Superstore, presented by Transmissions as part of the venue's Flowering Flesh II: The Long Dark Halloween season. It shows Hellraiser (1987) with an introduction by Alison Rumfitt, followed by The Dysphoria (2025). Subtitles are displayed for The Dysphoria only due to format, and seating on benches, backed chairs, bar stools, and floor space is first come, first served. The venue invites visitors to find out what the spill of blood might buy them, and what they'll be when it's over.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/transmissions-presents-hellraiser-1987-with-intro-by-alison-35518/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/893e5c3077c907ecdf5765c149fa09e9bf5ca01e14f0b4e18c504acd943a9a7e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Vampire, The Ghost, and the Zombie", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Goldsmiths CCA", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror/short-film", "history/colonialism"], "description": "A screening night presenting short horror films that critique colonial legacies, capitalism, and environmental degradation. It features works by Adam Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer and Oba, Riar Rizaldi, and the Karrabing Film Collective, including 'Nosferasta: First Bite', 'Notes from Gog Magog', and 'The Family (A Zombie Movie)'. The films are warned to contain horror images and jump scare moments.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-vampire-the-ghost-and-the-zombie-60636/", "official_url": "https://goldsmithscca.art/event/the-vampire-the-ghost-and-the-zombie/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/88a0597e67e50a995d91e95bf54829bd2e07b27269baed7e1259abd9084f65e5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Vampire Ball: Live Viola, Cocktails + The Hunger", "start": "2026-10-30T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "£19 members / £21 non-members", "price_from": "19.00", "price_to": "21.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror/vampire", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "Fruits on Film hosts a vampire ball with live violin by Amirah de Bourg, cocktails and cupcakes by Mise-en-Crème, followed by an introduction from curator Anna Lily Dean and a screening of Tony Scott's The Hunger. Vampiric couture is encouraged, and tickets include a cupcake, a cocktail and an allocated seat. In the film, Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie and Susan Sarandon star in an erotic supernatural thriller about a five-thousand-year-old vampire whose lovers face a price for her promise of eternal life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/vampire-ball-live-viola-cocktails-the-hunger-39219/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/vampire-ball-live-violin-cocktails-the-hunger/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a8cf53a515f3f314c912fd1d95e4ab366b61561f2900e33f052850c493229671-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Halloween at The Garden Cinema", "start": "2026-10-16T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "Halloween at The Garden Cinema is a season of Halloween screenings at The Garden Cinema, running into early November. The programme includes restored anniversary reissues of Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth and The Others, a screening of Donnie Darko introduced by film historian Ellisha Izumi, and Pay What You Can screenings of Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom for younger audiences. It also features a live score for F. W. Murnau's Faust by mutterichbindoom, Fruits on Film's inaugural vampire ball with live violin and cocktails, member-suggested films such as Ravenous and Theatre of Blood, a free members' screening of The Exorcist III, and Franken-BINGO on Halloween night.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/halloween-at-the-garden-cinema-39286/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/75aec25b71f00730f9eadc790faf668bc467e2c948d6b0d57ad39ffc6856f2e0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Hocus Pocus", "start": "2026-10-30T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Bloomsbury Theatre", "address": "Gordon Street 15, WC1H 0AH London", "price": "£6.50", "price_from": "6.50", "price_to": "6.50", "tickets_url": "https://link.dice.fm/A56c7be2e4d9", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror/comedy-horror", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "A Halloween sing-a-long film screening of the 1993 classic Hocus Pocus, presented by Students' Union UCL. It follows the Sanderson Sisters, played by Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy, who are accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night and cause supernatural mischief. Expect witches, spells, talking cats and plenty of Halloween magic, with fancy dress highly encouraged. Tickets include a complimentary drink on arrival and the event is recommended for ages 16 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hocus-pocus-60067/", "official_url": "https://www.bloomsburytheatre.com/event/2026/10/hocus-pocus-film-screening", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7caab6f3dafca1b5a3b15de602c48eb88a9343c93ee62528fdd288cb6ab0b620-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Halloween Marathon", "start": "2026-10-31T23:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror/slasher", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "The Halloween Marathon is an all-night horror film event screening six Halloween films back to back, strictly for audiences aged 18 and over, with no admissions after midnight. It is presented by the Prince Charles Cinema as part of its HALLOWEEN : The Month He Comes Home!, MARATHONS, DOUBLE & TRIPLE FEATURES!, and HORROCTOBER - 31 NIGHTS OF THRILLS, CHILLS & BLOOD SPILLS seasons. The programme includes HALLOWEEN (1978), HALLOWEEN II (1981), HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH (1982), HALLOWEEN 4: THE RETURN OF MICHAEL MYERS (1988), HALLOWEEN 5: THE REVENGE OF MICHAEL MYERS (1989) and HALLOWEEN: THE CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS [Producer's Cut] (1995), directed by John Carpenter among various directors and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, The Shape, Danielle Harris and Paul Rudd. The films follow killer Michael Myers as he escapes a mental hospital, returns to the town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again, stalks his niece Jamie, and continues his reign of terror, alongside a standalone story in which Dr. Daniel Challis investigates a nightmarish conspiracy involving popular Halloween masks.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/halloween-marathon-64010/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/31617462/halloween-marathon", "image": "https://noky.io/images/48b20be9a94d8086636efaf5bb2132937ced863122a2279177f9f023c66aa703-1200.webp"}, {"title": "THE NICKEL'S PSYCHOTRONIC HALLOWEEN MYSTERY MOVIE MASH - DAY TWO 1/11", "start": "2026-11-01T14:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Nickel Cinema", "address": "Clerkenwell Road 117-119, EC1R 5BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://thenickel.co.uk/store", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "A Halloween-themed mystery film event showing four secret horror films, with every title revealed only at showtime. It is run by the Nickel Cinema, a small cult picturehouse in Clerkenwell, as the second day of its Psychotronic Halloween Mystery Movie Mash. The films dug up include regional nightmares, exploitation oddities and video-era mutations that slipped through horror history's cracks. Costumes are highly encouraged, and the film certificate is 18.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-nickels-psychotronic-halloween-mystery-movie-mash-day-tw-39473/", "official_url": "https://thenickel.co.uk/screening/776", "image": "https://noky.io/images/430b3296730089fac873e1d5f59fa714017a88fe50ff776ffa52e6bc7682f02b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Spooky Bangers – Halloween Special", "start": "2026-10-31T21:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Queen of Hoxton", "address": "Curtain Road 1-5, EC2A 3JX London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "party-club", "tags": ["music/hip-hop", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "Spooky Bangers – Halloween Special is a Halloween club night at the Queen of Hoxton with two floors of music. It is organised by the Queen of Hoxton and is based on their popular club night 'Strictly Bangers'. Expect R&B, hip-hop and party anthems from pop and beyond, spun by DJs with dancers and spooky decor such as cobwebs and bats. Fancy dress is encouraged but props are not allowed, and the night is for ages 18 and over.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/spooky-bangers-halloween-special-38101/", "official_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spooky-bangers-halloween-special-tickets-2002635691262", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c1c59f8365b2fcedb3110472c73439e500912a9e32f3c43e056fa868b4e09635-600.webp"}, {"title": "Rerun: Mystery LGBTQ+ Horror Preview", "start": "2026-11-01T16:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Arzner", "address": "Bermondsey Square 10, SE1 3UN London", "price": "", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://thearzner.com/TheArzner.dll/WhatsOn?f=361479", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "A rerun screening of a mystery horror film, shown as a preview as part of the cinema's Halloween Week. The film has not yet been released in UK cinemas, and its identity is kept secret, with the only clue given being that it is LGBTQ+. It is the same film as the previous Thursday's mystery preview screening, runs 105 minutes and is rated 18. Member free tickets are not applicable for this screening.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rerun-mystery-lgbtq-horror-preview-65410/", "official_url": "https://thearzner.com/TheArzner.dll/WhatsOn?f=375557", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a42a61644a9609b40b90a159c31315fc92ecba4539b3f8d0de30ad33ffe0cdab-2000.webp"}]}