12-HOUR HALLOWEEN HORROR MOVIE MARATHON 2025

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An annual CUFF tradition! This Halloween, the Calgary Underground Film Festival returns to Globe Cinema for our annual 12-Hour Horror Movie Marathon. 7 movies from 7pm until 7am the next morning, including a costume contest, and other surprises throughout the night. 

When: Saturday, October 25 @ 7pm
Where: Globe Cinema (617 8 Ave SW)
Tickets: $25 regular / $23 members, students & seniors

Tickets are on sale!

The 2025 Film Lineup

HOLD THE FORT (2025) - view teaser
Dir. William Bagley (1h15m)
7:00 pm
After moving to the suburbs, a young couple finds themselves trapped in an epic battle between their new HOA and an onslaught of monsters from hell.

FREAKED (1993) - view trailer
Dir. Alex Winter, Tom Stern (1h22m)
8:30 pm
A vain actor, his best friend, and an activist end up at a mutant freak farm run by a weirdo scientist.

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) - view trailer
Dir. Mel Brooks (1h46m)
10:00 pm
An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body. Costume Contest & Burgers @ 12:15 am

Costume Contest & Burgers @ 11:45 pm

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978) - view trailer
Dir. Philip Kaufman (1h55m)
12:05 am
When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, replicating the city's residents one body at a time.

ALLIGATOR (1980) - view trailer
Dir. Lewis Teague (1h34m)
2:15 am
A pet baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives in the city sewers. Twelve years later, it grows to an enormous size thanks to a diet of discarded laboratory dogs injected with growth hormones. Now, humans have entered the menu.

BLACK SUNDAY (1960) *dubbed version - view trailer
Dir. Mario Bava (1h27m)
4:00 am
Decades after being executed for witchcraft, vengeful Princess Asa Vajda and her fiendish servant are resurrected and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of Asa Vajda's beautiful look-alike descendant Princess Katia.

Breakfast @ 5:25 am

PSYCHO II (1983) - view trailer
Dir. Richard Franklin (1h53m)
5:40 am
After twenty-two years of psychiatric care, Norman Bates attempts to return to a life of solitude, but the specters of his crimes - and his mother - continue to haunt him.

Marathon Concludes @ 7:30 am 

OTHER DETAILS

• Costume contest at 11:45 pm
• Intermission between all films
• Globe concession will be open and available all night long
• Hot Dogs & Soup available at CUFF Concession
• Burgers at midnight break!
• Free breakfast served before the final film at 5:25 am
• Bar is open until 2 am
• Only Debit, Visa, and Mastercard will be accepted at the concession.

All film start times are approximate. Hey, it's a 12-hour marathon, we might be running a few minutes late. If there's a film that you don't want to miss the beginning of, we recommend arriving approximately 15 minutes before the suggested start time. 10 minute intermission between all films.