Playhouse of Horror 2023

Playhouse of Horror creeps back to our big screen for the month of October! With a selection of ghost stories, possessions, body-horror, the wicked and the weird, our programme is sure to delight. Take special note of our 4K and rare 35mm film print screenings!

Scroll down to see our sinister selections!

The Others - NEW 4K Restoration

October 7, 8 & 11

The Exorcist in 35mm

(The Version You've Never Seen)

October 10

Videodrome in 35mm

October 13 & 15

Carnival of Souls

October 15

The Conjuring in 35mm

October 17

Dead Ringers in 35mm

October 20, 22 and 25

Coraline

October 24 & 28

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

October 28, 29 & 31

VOC Silent Film Harmonic presents:

The Hands of Orlac

October 30

The Others: 4K Restoration

During World War II, a woman who lives with her two photosensitive children on her darkened old family estate in the Channel Islands becomes convinced that the home is haunted.

In 1945, Grace Stewart (Kidman) and her two children live an unusually isolated existence behind the locked doors and drawn curtains of a secluded mansion on one of the Channel Islands.

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Videodrome in 35MM

A programmer at a TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.

As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn (James Woods) is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel.

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Carnival of Souls

After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.

Mary Henry (Candace Hilligoss) ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man (Herk Harvey).

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The Conjuring in 35mm

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse.

In 1970, paranormal investigators and demonologists Lorraine (Vera Farmiga) and Ed (Patrick Wilson) Warren are summoned to the home of Carolyn (Lili Taylor) and Roger (Ron Livingston) Perron. The Perrons and their five daughters have recently moved into a secluded farmhouse, where a supernatural presence has made itself known.

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Dead Ringers in 35MM

Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.

Elliot (Jeremy Irons), a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly (also Irons). Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference.

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Talking Pictures: Dead Ringers in 35MM

Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.

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Coraline

An adventurous 11-year-old girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets.

While exploring her new home, a girl named Coraline (Dakota Fanning) discovers a secret door, behind which lies an alternate world that closely mirrors her own but, in many ways, is better. She rejoices in her discovery, until Other Mother (Teri Hatcher) and the rest of her parallel family try to keep her there forever.

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VOC Silent Film Harmonic: The Hands of Orlac

A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he doesn't know they once belonged to a murderer.

Reuniting the star and director of The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, The Hands of Orlac is a deliciously twisted thriller that blends body horror with the visual splendor of German Expressionism.

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