Your guide to spooky and scary film screenings in London around Halloween 2025. Find other Halloween parties, events, and things to do in London this year — and don't forget to swing by one of these fancy dress shops for a costume.
Halloween films at Prince Charles Cinema, Leicester Square
Leicester Square's independent Prince Charles Cinema hosts its HorrOctober season once again. It's almost two months of scary films, and as you'd expect from the cinephiles who run the place, it's not just the obvious flicks. Sure, The Exorcist (Extended Cut), A Nightmare on Elm Street, Ghostbusters, The Shining and Nosferatu are on the bill, but so are lesser-known movies, such as 1997 Japanese film The Cure, and 2009 release Jennifer's Body.
Halloween itself is an absolute fright-fest, including a sing-a-long screening of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and an all-nighter mystery horror film marathon, with five scary films shown throughout the night, but you won't know what they are until they're shown.
HorrOctober at Prince Charles Cinema runs 1 October-28 November 2025.
Halloween season at Genesis Cinema, Whitechapel
A sporadic Halloween season runs at this east London institution, with a handful of films at the start of the month (including Radiohead Vs Nosferatu, a mash-up of the 1922 film and Radiohead's Kid A and Amnesiac albums), winding up October with stone cold classics, including The Night of the Living Dead and an extended cut of Halloween.
Halloween season at Genesis Cinema, 2 October-31 October
Halloween at Throwley Yard, Sutton
This Sutton indie gets in on the horror action early, with a 3 and 4 October screening of The Phantom of the Opera (that is, the 100-year-old movie starring Lon Chaney). Mid-month, House on the Haunted Hill sees Vincent Price play a millionaire who offers $10,000 to five people who agree to be locked in spooky mansion (what could go wrong). On the big day itself, there's a screening of Halloween.
Halloween at Throwley Yard, 3-31 October 2025.
Halloween films at the Cinema Museum, Kennington
In the run up to (and aftermath of) Halloween, this enchanting museum-cinema — established in a former workhouse chapel — lures you in with a short season of vintage horror flicks, including PEPCOT's (Peckham Experimental Prototype Cinema of Tomorrow) double-bill of two slasher films set in LA's Sherman Oaks Galleria Mall; and the Mel Brooks spoof Dracula: Dead and Loving It, featuring a Q&A with star Lysette Anthony.
Halloween films at the Cinema Museum, 24 October-7 November 2025.
Halloween film screening at the Musical Museum
Brentford's wonderful Musical Museum occasionally screens silent films, with live musical accompaniment on its Wurlitzer organ. For Halloween it's showing Phantom of the Opera — a specially prepared print of the original 1925 version, and apparently there's quite a difference between the original cut and the later cut (often shown) from 1929.
Phantom of the Opera at the Musical Museum, 26 October 2025.
Halloween films at Rivoli Ballroom/ Crofton Park Pictures
Before Rivoli Ballroom was a dancing venue, this building was the Crofton Park Picture Palace. It often returns to its cinematic heritage with Crofton Park Pictures, a regular series of film screenings, including a Halloween selection.
Pick from Psycho, Carrie, The Crow, The Lost Boys, Hocus Pocus, and the Rocky Horror Picture Show, shown across consecutive nights, with two screenings on Halloween itself. The venue has two bars, and popcorn, ice cream and hot dogs are available to nosh on.
Halloween at Rivoli Pop-Up Cinema, 27-31 October 2025.
Halloween at Nickel Cinema, Clerkenwell
A handful of Halloweeny horrors are on the bill at this relatively new cinema, including folksy classic The Wicker Man, Torture Dungeon (in which a sadistic duke plots to claim the throne, by killing off all the heirs), Frankenhooker (in which a medical student attempts to 'rebuild' his girlfriend using the body parts of prostitutes), and — on Halloween itself — an all-dayer, featuring six mind-melting, rarely (or never) screened movies, sprinkled with various guests and surprises. Costumes encouraged.
Halloween at Nickel Cinema, 28-31 October 2025.
Halloween films at Clapham Grand
Clapham Grand loooves Halloween: it's putting on a frightening amount of events in October, including film screenings. There's a Hocus Pocus Movie Night on 28 October, with the film shown on a 25ft screen alongside themed cocktails, a witchiest costume competition and dance-offs. That's followed up with The Rocky Horror Picture Show on Halloween itself (31 October) with a drag host, full sing-along, dance-offs and another costume competition.
Halloween films at Clapham Grand, 28 and 31 October 2025.
Spooky season 2025 at Rooftop film Club, Peckham
Summer staple Rooftop Film Club is keeping its Peckham doors open for Halloween, showing three spooky films on 31 October. Choose between a family screening of Disney witch caper Hocus Pocus, romantic fantasy film Practical Magic (which has a sequel coming out next year) and classic slasher Scream
Various other Halloween-adjacent films are shown throughout October too, including Beetlejuice, The Silence of the Lambs, Psycho and The Exorcist.
Halloween at Rooftop Film Club Peckham, 31 October 2025.
Halloween at Rio Cinema, Dalston
The Rio moonlights as a 'haunted leather bar' on 31 October, for a Queer Horror Nights double-bill, featuring 1980 Al Pacino flick Cruising, about a sadistic serial killer who preys on the patrons of the city's kink bars; and A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge. Dress-up very much encouraged.
Halloween at Rio Cinema, 31 October 2025.
Halloween at David Lean Cinema, Croydon
Just the one Halloween film at Croydon's indie gem of a cinema; 2024's acclaimed documentary Children of the Wicker Man is screened on Halloween itself, and is followed by a Q&A with director Justin Hardy, and producer Dr Chris Nunn.
Halloween at David Lean Cinema, 31 October 2025.
