Bram Stoker festival programme includes spooky classics and an Irish premiere

By day, Bram Stoker Festival presents gothic intrigue at family-friendly events, talks, and interactive experiences. When night falls, though, the city will embrace the darkness as a host of venues deliver deadly adventures for festival goers in search of macabre thrills. The festival programme includes theatre, spectacle, walking tours, panel discussions, and immersive experiences in haunting locations across the city celebrating Dublin’s gothic and supernatural traditions.

It isn’t Halloween without scary movies, and Bram Stoker Festival is celebrating three creepy cult classics with a packed weekend at Meeting House Horrors. Voted on by Bram Stoker Festival’s audience and taking place in the dead of night in Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, there’s a fright, and serious craic, in store for every type of horror fan at these dress-up screenings.

Come dressed to distress with your best '90s chokers, long black dresses and deadpan one-liners and get into the spooky spirit starting with The Craft on Friday 25 October. The ultimate '90s goth girl cult classic, The Craft follows four troubled teenage girls who practice witchcraft and must face the consequences of their dark deeds.

Before the screening, the new Irish short horror-comedy, The Early House will be premiered. The film follows Glen, a troubled teenager with revenge on the mind. An after-hours Dublin boozer plays host to a nest of vampires in this new short from award-winning filmmakers Derek O’Connor and Ian Whelan, AKA Doris/Magee and produced by Emily O'Callaghan, created especially for this year’s Bram Stoker Festival.

Saturday night features An American Werewolf in London. The iconic 1981 film combines macabre horror and dark humour to tell the tale of an American backpacker bitten by a werewolf while on holiday in England.

Rounding things off is iconic vampire thriller The Lost Boys on Sunday night. Follow '80s duo Corey Feldman and Corey Haim as they face off against a vampire biker gang.

Tickets can be purchased for each event here.