Halloween 2025 at Depot
October 2025
Enjoy seasonal scares to haunt your dreams, including new folk horror doc The Last Sacrifice, Ken Russell’s Gothic, a screenwriting workshop for anyone who’s ever wanted to pen their own horror short, a new documentary about cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show and everyone’s favourite gothic family, The Addams Family.
Halloween Night at Depot
The Last Sacrifice
Fri 31 October, 17:50
Post-film Q&A with director Rupert Russell
Cert: 15
The Last Sacrifice delves into the real-life 1945 witchcraft killing of Charles Walton—the terrifying event that inspired The Wicker Man and birthed the folk horror genre.
This unsettling true-crime interrogation probes into the eerie, enigmatic cultural undercurrents that shaped 1970’s folk horror genre, leaving an indelible mark on cinema and public psyche.
The Last Sacrifice uncovers an unflinching portrayal of Britain’s profound identity crisis, both during the tumultuous early 1970s and the resurgence of folk horror today, ominously coinciding with yet another national descent into madness. Its conclusion: The Wicker Man is more fact than fiction.
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Gothic
Fri 31 October, 20:30
Introduced by Rupert Russell, son of director Ken Russell
Cert: 18
Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley.
Together with Byron’s lover Claire Clairmont, and aided by hallucinogenic substances, they devise an evening of ghoulish tales.
However, when confronted by horrors, ostensibly of their own creation, it becomes difficult to tell apparition from reality.
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