Scottish Film Events: October 2022

‘Tis the spooky season, so get set for scary movies of all stripes coming to Scottish cinemas in October. Summerhall will be serving up a series of horrors focused on teens like Jennifer’s Body (6 Oct), Scream (20 Oct) and Carrie (27 Oct). We at The Skinny get in on the act too with the return of our CineSkinny Film Club at Summerhall (13 Oct) with a retrospective of the transgressive short films of Bryan M Ferguson followed by a screening of the gorgeous chiller It Follows. We’ll also be bringing Ferguson’s retrospective to CCA in Glasgow on 25 October.

Glasgow Film Theatre also get their creep on, with a Late Night showing of John Carpenter's The Thing (28 Oct), a screening of F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (still brilliant as it turns 100 years old) with a live score by David Allison (27 Oct) and a run in 4K of Francis Ford Coppola’s take on Bram Stoker's Dracula (15-20 Oct). That Nosferatu presentation also happens at Filmhouse on 19 October to kick off their Centenary! strand celebrating movies released in 1922.

For the gorehound diehards, there’s All Night Horror Madness (8 Oct, Cameo), with a stellar marathon of horrors with some trailers and a raffle thrown in (more info p46). On Halloween itself, Filmhouse welcomes Kier-La Janisse, the writer of House of Psychotic Women, the iconic book on the female neurotic in cinema. Janisse will take part in a Q&A followed by a screening of The Brood.

That screening is part of a wider season hosted by Matchbox Cineclub which is nestled inside Matchbox’s Weird Weekend (28-30 Oct). The eclectic lineup is teeming with weird, unheralded movies. The strand Squint looks particularly interesting. It’s composed of Frankenstein movies stitched together from other works, like Soda Kerk’s Terror Nullius, which remixes the history of Australian cinema, and Doggiewoggiez! Poochiewoochiez!, a remake of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain constructed from dog videos.

Terror Nullius, Soda_Jerk

Elsewhere there’s GFT’s season dedicated to the genius costume designer Sandy Powell. The lineup includes Orlando (4&6 Oct), The Wings of the Dove (9-12 Oct), Velvet Goldmine (16-19 Oct) and The Favourite (26-26 Oct) – the first three all screen on 35mm. There’s also a whole mess of film festivals happening, including Scotland Loves Anime (21-30 Oct), Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival (1 Oct-4 Nov), Taiwan Film Festival Edinburgh (15-20 Oct), Queer East Film Festival (1-6 Oct), and Edinburgh Short Film Festival (28 Oct-13 Nov).

We're also super excited to be partnering with one of our favourite film distributors, MUBI, for the release of their new film African Desperate. It's a wickedly funny satire of the art scene in New York. Channelling gonzo cinema and 1990s high-school movies, it follows an art school student navigating microaggressions and social dynamics that anyone familiar with the art world will recognise. Best of all, tickets are free. The screenings are at Cameo in Edinburgh on 19 October and at the CCA in Glasgow on 20 October. For tickets, head to theskinny.co.uk/tickets.