Manchester’s Chapeltown Picture House (CPH) is to celebrate Halloween with the STAB Film Season.
Taking place over the Halloween weekend, from Thursday October 27 to Halloween itself, Monday October 31, the season will screen spooky films including Jorge Grau’s locally set, 1974 cult favourite The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue, which shot extensively around Manchester, the Peak District and Cumbria.
Grau’s film is in esteemed company, with genre classics including Tobe Hooper (or should that be Stephen Spielberg)’s 1982 chiller Poltergeist, Clive Barker’s seminal body horror Hellraiser and Alice Lowe’s pre-natal slasher Prevenge also on the bill.
Jason Bailey, director of both social space, bar and eatery GRUB, where the cinema is located, and the Chapeltown Picture House itself, said: “Audiences always flock to our little cinema over the Halloween period. Our beloved annual tradition has always been a screening of Jorge Glau’s classic The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue, but as CPH’s programme and bums on seats are constantly growing, now is the time to create a larger big screen cinema tradition for Manchester audiences over Halloween weekend.”
Chapeltown Picture House is an independent cinema dedicated to celebrating the best in cult cinema, TV, video games and more on the big screen. Full listings can be found on the Grub and CPH websites.
