A girl I’ve been seeing is hosting a Halloween party with her flatmates. So of course this means fancy dress, right? The problem is I think Halloween is rubbish and I hate costumes. But I don’t want to be uptight about it. What should I …
With Halloween traditionally a time for some serious gig going spectaculars, this year’s a little bit of a damp squib, what with Marilyn Manson retiring from creeping folks out and concentrating on his new make up range and his Alma Mater, Alice Cooper, not yet …
TV is going monster mad this week, in the run-up to Halloween. There are vampires (The Real Vampire Chronicles, Tue 10.55pm C4 – about Allan Menzies, the maladjusted Anne Rice fan who took his Vampire: The Masquerade LARPing way, way too seriously), demons (The Curse …
This week: Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, Broken Flowers and Into The Blue. Kicking off this week then with more half-term, stop-animation goodness in the form of Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride The film gets three stars from Pete Bradhsaw who thinks it will be “best be …
As promised we’ve been hunting around to try and find you a few things to do this Halloween, and we thought we’d better try and cover all the ‘spooky’ London walks you’ve got to choose from. London Walks has a good reputation as one of …
Over the next couple of weeks Londonist will be trying to highlight a few things to do on Halloween night. No, we don’t think we should start treating this ‘holiday’ as seriously as the Americans do, but there has to be a better option than …
If Londonist were invited to take part in the venerable comedy/chat show hybrid Room 101 (Wed 10pm BBC2), we are sure we would have no trouble coming up with a list of items to be sent to the titular chamber, never to return. Let’s see: …
We do love you guys. Very much. Not only do you read our purdy li’l ol’ website, engage in gentle banter with us and remind us that we’re not alone out there in this big scary blogiverse thing, but you also occasionally remind us of …
Whilst hanging out at the Korean Film Festival yesterday Londonist was shocked to hear that annual Fright Fest is moving venues this year. For as long as we can remember we’ve been deprived of sleep and scared the bejesus out of by our favourite horror …
Tonight sees the opening night of the Halloween short film festival at the ICA. Billed as the “edgiest film festival in the UK”, the Halloween festival has been around in some form or another since 1994, and in that time it has garnered itself a …
The supermarkets might go mad for pumpkins rather than fireworks; the TV programmes might be flooded with American imports mentioning Halloween rather than bonfire night; but in this dark quarter of South-East London, where electricity is still viewed with suspicion, if not seen as outright …
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