Movies

It's the season of ghouls and ghosts, when the viscous membrane between worlds gets really thin! To get us in the autumnal mood, we're screening major works of spooky cinema all month. For our first film we're traveling back to 1935 for James Whale's Bride of Frankenstein, a film that upped the tongue-in-cheek ante of…

It's a Spooktacular Film Fest & Exhibitionists Book Club crossover event as we screen last year's Poor Things in anticipation of our discussion of the novel the movie is based on. Directed by Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth, The Favourite, The Lobster) and featuring an all-in, Oscar-winning performance from Emma Stone, Poor Things is, depending…

One of the greatest ghost movies ever made, 1963's The Haunting (based on Shirley Jackson’s novel The Haunting of Hill House) is a masterclass of unease and ratcheting suspense. Paranormal researchers and specially selected psychics converge on Hill House, a bad place like none other. While the film features little in the way of onscreen…

Get a jump start on Halloween with this family friendly spooky flick about a coven of kiddo-hating witches! From the bizarre mind of Roald Dahl and the inventive helming of Nicolas Roeg, it's the 1990 The Witches (the only one that will suffice). Some material may be too scary for littles. Rated PG.