Film / Drama
Bohemian Rhapsody
Mr. Robot star Rami Malek wears the Freddie Mercury teeth in this long-gestating Queen flick
Film
Bristol Bad Film Club: The Pit
Meet an evil teddy bear in the other BBFC's craptabulous Halloween treat
Bohemian Rhapsody is this week’s biggest release, with wall-to-wall screenings everywhere.
But we’ve also got an absolutely packed calendar of Halloween horror on the big screen – from reissued classics to previews of Suspiria and Slaughterhouse Rulez. Plus, if you dare, the Bristol Film Festival’s Horror in the Caves weekend in Redcliffe Caves.
To assist those burdened with nippers, we’ve also separated out some family-friendly Hallowen film events. Follow the links below for more information and screening times – and go here for our comprehensive film listings.
Film / Drama
Mr. Robot star Rami Malek wears the Freddie Mercury teeth in this long-gestating Queen flick
Film / Drama
Black teenager witnesses her best friend being shot dead by white cop in YA novel adaptation
Film / Art House
Classy, tense & Hitchcockian Danish single location thriller
Film / Art House
Single-take reconstruction of Norway's deadliest mass shooting
Film / Drama
Joaquin Phoenix stars in Gus Van Sant's biopic of quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan
Film / Horror
Soldiers fleeing the Napoleonic Wars find something 'orrible in the Black Forest
Film / Drama
Low-budget, Loach-style drama about an unemployed Londoner struggling to make ends meet
Film / Horror
Clive Barker's unholy 1987 horror movie returns from the dead
Film / Horror
Back by popular demand: a cave-set horror screened in a cave
Film / Comedy
Lame vampire flick kicks off Halloween season of horrors in spooky Redcliffe Caves
Film / Drama
The Shining meets The Crucible in superior period horror screened in spooky Redcliffe Caves
Film / Comedy
Kevin Bacon takes on 'graboids' in classic comedy-horror screened in Redcliffe Caves
Film / Festival Screening
Don Siegel's Cold War science fiction classic screened in Redcliffe Caves
Film / Festival Screening
Ridley Scott's original Alien screened in spooky Redcliffe Caves
Film / Action
James Cameron's superior sequel screened in Redcliffe Caves
Film / Festival Screening
Jacques Tourneur’s classic 50s chiller screened in Redcliffe Caves
Film / Festival Screening
Haunted WWI trench drama, aptly screened in Redcliffe Caves
Film / Festival Screening
Jeff Goldblum comes over all revoltingly insectoid in Redcliffe Caves
Film / Comedy
Dysfunctional vampire mockumentary screened in Averys wine cellar
Film / Festival Screening
Neil Jordan's adaptation of Anne Rice's gothic vampire yarn, screened in Averys wine cellar
Film / Animation
Pixar's outer space masterpiece screened at the Planetarium
Film / Festival Screening
George Clooney and Sandra Bullock are adrift in space at the Bristol Planetarium
Film / Fantasy
Dakota Johnson stars in a thrilling fever dream makeover of Dario Argento's horror classic
Film / Comedy
Shaun of the Dead duo Simon Pegg and Nick Frost team up for another horror comedy
Film / Horror
Halloween triple bill of The Thing, The Fog and (the original) Halloween
Film / Comedy
Sam Raimi's original cult horror-comedy classic returns for Halloween
Film / Horror
Rare screening for Halloween of this 'notorious', if rather shoddy '80s video nasty
Film / Horror
Meet an evil teddy bear in the other BBFC's craptabulous Halloween treat
Film / Comedy
Drive-in screening of Tim Burton's Oscar-winning supernatural comedy
Film / Horror
Wes Craven's first nightmare, introducing Freddy Krueger
Film / Horror
50th anniversary restoration of George Romero's ground-breaking no-budget zombie flick
Film / Festival Screening
John Carpenter's overlooked gem of an atmospheric chiller screened in Redcliffe Caves
Film / Horror
John Carpenter introduces his original horror classic
Film / Horror
Jamie Lee Curtis returns in a John Carpenter-approved direct sequel to the 1978 Halloween
Film / Horror
Nunsploitation spin-off from the Conjuring horror series
Film / Horror
Soldiers fleeing the Napoleonic Wars find something 'orrible in the Black Forest
Film / Animation
Pixar's Day of the Dead animation screened at Arnos Vale Cemetery
Film / Comedy
The Cube's Halloween treat for kids
Film / Comedy
Jack Black-free sequel to the R.L. Stine kiddie horror adaptation
Film / Family
Jack Black stars in an adaptation of the '70s gothic kiddies' yarn
Film / Animation
Comedy monsters go on a cruise in animated threequel
Film / Comedy
Both parts of the movie starring the legendary Tommy Wiseau of The Room fame + intro by Greg Sestero
Film / Musical
Historic Totterdown cinema reopens with ground-breaking '40s musical
Film / Event Cinema
Alan Bennett's sharp and funny NHS drama, filmed during its limited London run
Film / Event Cinema
Part two of Wagner's Ring Cycle, with The Ride of the Valkyries.
Film / Event Cinema
Yee-haw! Puccini's 'gunpowder western' returns to the stage on which it premiered in 1910
Film / Art House
One woman's extraordinary life, as reconstructed by her daughter-in-law
Film / Event Cinema
Sheridan Smith stars in a hit production of the venerable biographical musical
Film / Event Cinema
Successful litigant recorded live at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall
Film / Drama
Recently restored silent gangster flick starring the great Lon Chaney
Film / Comedy
John Landis provides a rare tolerable showcase for Eddie Murphy's undoubted comic talents
Film / Drama
Shane Meadows' disturbing masterpiece makes a welcome return to the big screen
Film / Animation
W&G make their feature debut in Nick Park's great animation
Film / Art House
A child custody drama set in New York's ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jewish community
Film / Drama
Bradley Cooper directs and stars in the third remake of this crowd-pleasing musical romance
Film / Art House
Gomorrah director Matteo Gorrone's true-life tale of a nerdy dog groomer-turned-cocaine dealer
Film / Drama
La La Land director Damien Chazelle's biopic of first man on the Moon Neil Armstrong
Film / Horror
Jamie Lee Curtis returns in a John Carpenter-approved direct sequel to the 1978 Halloween
Film / Comedy
Jack Black-free sequel to the R.L. Stine kiddie horror adaptation
Film / Action
Rowan Atkinson spoils us with a belated threequel to his unfunny spy spoofs
Film / Action
Tom Hardy is possessed by an alien 'symbiote' rotter in this Spider-Man spin-off
Film / Animation
Family animation in which a yeti scientist becomes convinced that mythical humans actually exist
Film / Documentary
Michael Moore does Donald Trump, asking: "How the fuck did this happen?"
Film / Drama
Glenn Close is on top form as a dutiful spouse who begins to question her life choices
Film / Family
Jack Black stars in an adaptation of the '70s gothic kiddies' yarn
Film / Drama
Mike Leigh's epic Peterloo Massacre drama
Film / Comedy
Queer Vision presents John Cameron Mitchell's surreal adaptation of his stage musical
Film / Drama
Ben Wheatley turns his hand to the dysfunctional family drama
Film / Event Cinema
Back in Bristol with four new adventure and exploration films
Film / Musical
Cast and crew discuss Camden-set musical romance
Film / Event Cinema
Alfred Molina plays abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko in this revival of John Logan's play
Film / Comedy
"A story of love, theft, athletic swimming, and a magical magical event"
Film / Horror
Ancient evil invades New York in Dario Argento's follow-up to the original Suspiria
Film / Event Cinema
Nico Muhly's second new opera for the Met is based on the story that inspired the Hitchcock thriller
Film / Event Cinema
Gregory Doran gives the Bard's epic tale a Mad Max-style post-apocalyptic makeover
Film / Documentary
Contain your excitement - it's the Coldplay story!
Film / Event Cinema
Mark Gatiss takes the title role in Alan Bennett's multi-award-winning drama
Film / Event Cinema
The Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical