Shocktober Film Festival

Overview

If you've long been wanting to impress your cinephile friends with your knowledge of classic horrors, here's your chance to educate yourself. Throughout October, the Ritz Cinema in Randwick is playing cult classic horrors, thrillers, dramas, sci-fi and fantasy movies. Get ready to gasp, gawk and grab the edge of your seat.

Start with the all-time scaries The Exorcist and The Shining, or check out 2018 flicks Bad Times at the El Royale, Venom or the remake of Halloween. And if you've ever been to a costume party and wondered who the people in the black and white stripes or the girl with the black bob, white shirt and cigarette have come as, well, after watching Beetlejuice and Pulp Fiction, you'll have your party parlance down pat.

And on Halloween Eve there'll be a preview of the much anticipated, Golden Lion-nominated flick Suspiria, which is an homage to the 1977 film of the same name.