Celluloid Screams is Sheffield’s very own horror film festival. The event takes place every October – just in time to get you sufficiently spooked for Halloween.
Since 2009, Celluloid Screams has been bringing the frights to the Showroom cinema. Its programme features some of the best new international feature films that lean towards the gruesome, nightmarish or bizarre.
Join them when they return in 2026.
2026 Celluloid Screams programme highlights:
- In the Mouth of Madness – a 1994 American supernatural psychological horror film directed and scored by John Carpenter, starring Sam Neill as an insurance investigator looking for missing horror author
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When the Wind Blows – a naive elderly British rural couple face the initial onslaught of a nuclear war in this devastating 1986 animated classic based on Raymond Briggs’ 1982 graphic novel.
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Fifteen – two best friends preparing for their quinceañera face desire, cruelty, and social pressure – until one girl's body begins to transform into something monstrous in this coming-of-age nightmare set in Mexico City.
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Never After Dark – a travelling spirit medium encounters an unexpected and deadly presence in this chilly supernatural thriller.
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The Glorious Dead – a small-town sheriff and her deputy awaken to a changed world where blood drips from taps, people vanish, creatures roam the woods, and the dead rise as the town descends into chaos.
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