Celebrate the spooky season at Academy Cinemas with a month of nightmares, cult classics, psychological horrors and things that go bump in the night. From Suspiria, Carrie and The Silence of the Lambs to Angst, Onibaba, The Wailing and Jennifer’s Body, there's something to satisfy every horror fiend. Grab your tickets, bring your bravest friends and come along all month long, if you dare...
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11 OCT, 2026
Eyes Without a Face (1960) | 7pm
Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise, kidnaps young women and removes their faces in attempts to graft them on to Christiane's.
Blood and Black Lace (1964) | 9pm
Mario Bava's seminal, colour-soaked giallo classic is coming to Academy's big screen for the first time! Isabella, a young model, is murdered by a mysterious masked figure at a fashion house in Rome. When her diary, which details the house employees' many vices, disappears, the masked killer begins killing off all the models in and around the house to find it.
14 - 17 OCT, 2026
Funny Games (1997) | $5 | 14 OCT | 9pm
Funny Games spares no detail in its depiction of the agony of a bourgeois family held captive at their vacation home by a pair of white-gloved young men. In a series of escalating “games,” the sadistic duo subject their victims to unspeakable physical and psychological torture over the course of a night.
Onibaba (1964) | 17 OCT | 8:45pm
In Japanese with English subtitles. Deep in the windswept marshes of war-torn medieval Japan, an impoverished older woman and her daughter-in-law murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for the most meager of sustenance. When a bedraggled neighbor returns from battle, lust, jealousy, and rage threaten to destroy the trio’s tenuous existence, before an ominous, ill-gotten demon mask seals their horrifying fate.
21 - 30 OCT, 2026
Carrie | $5 | 21 OCT | 8:30pm
Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)| $5 | 28 OCT | 8:45pm
Young FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to another psychopath: Hannibal Lecter, who used to be a respected psychiatrist.
Angst | 30 OCT | 8:45pm
Angst follows ‘K’, recently released from prison for murder. He quickly begins to feel the need to kill again, and we follow the sadistic spiral into chaos as K embarks on a murderous spree in rural Austria.
Halloween Dario Argento Double Feature | 31 OCT | 6:45pm
On Halloween night, enter the lurid, nightmarish world of Dario Argento with a double feature pairing two of Italian horror’s most dazzling nightmares.
SUSPIRIA (1977)
When Susie travels to Berlin to join the Markos Tanz Company, she does not know her fate is about to change. A dark force targets the inhabitants of the company and tries to take over their lives.
DEEP RED (1975)
Jazz pianist, Marcus Daly, witnesses a murder. Things don't seem so bad afterwards, despite the fact that he's shaky, but then strange things start to happen.
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