Manchester art centre HOME is hosting a feast of Halloween horrors this October.

Film Fear runs from Friday 26th to Wednesday, October 31st, and features a collection of dark and disturbing tales, cult favourites, extreme cinema and sights and sounds that’ll stay with you ‘til it’s time to do it all again. Sneak previews, classics back on the big-screen and special guests make for six strange, spooky and sinister nights at the cinema, in a season summoned and then spawned by Film4 and HOME.

Making welcome returns to the big screen are a couple of John Carpenter movies – the beautifully told, spooky ghost story  The Fog and the cult favourite They Live, whilst the still terrifying Sam Raimi original The Evil Dead closes the season on Halloween night itself.

There’s also the chance to see some new films heading our way later this year, including Border, based on a story by John Ajvide Lindqvist, author of Let the Right One In, a cult sensation from Japan, the zombie action comedy One Cut of the Dead, plus one of the stand-out discoveries at August’s FrightFest, Videoman.

Two US films that are making a name for themselves and which will be screening are Assassination Nation, in which a clique of high school girlfriends find their lives suddenly exposed when a stranger starts revealing their digital secrets to the world and, arguably most excitingly, Mandy, the Panos Cosmatos follow-up to Beyond the Black Rainbow. This sees leading man Nicolas Cage going off the deep end when love of his life Andrea Riseborough is spirited away by a dark-magic cult, and the very film itself goes right along with him. This is one you have to see on the big-screen, not just for the visuals but also for the score by the late Jóhann Jóhannsson (Sicario, Arrival). If you’ve seen the trailer, you know that this one is going to be batshit crazy.

The season features a number of Q&As too, plus some surprises in the line-up, so check the website to find out what’s on when: homemcr.org/filmfear.