With Halloween just around the corner, we asked TE staff to tell us about their favourite horror movies!

Kay Hadley – Deputy Sales and Marketing Manager (Orchard Theatre)
Horror is my favourite genre, so how could I possible pick one? It’s the villains I love most; Chucky, Pennywise, Annie Wilkes, Mr Howdy, Lord Summerisle, Ghost Face… but if I could only watch one, no THREE horror movies for the rest of time, they would be Rosemary’s Baby, Psycho (main picture) and Jaws.

Nigel Howlett – Building & Technical Manager (Beck Theatre)
My ultimate horror movie is The Silence of the Lambs (above). As a young tech, we showed this film at the theatre I was working in at the time. In those days it was on proper 35mm film, not digital as is the norm nowadays, which meant you had to stay with the projectors in the projection room to look after the running of the film and to perform the change over from one projector to the other. Well, it’s dark and eerily in a projection room, I lost count how many times I would check to see that Hannibal Lecter was NOT in the corner about to eat my liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti!

Briony Tanner – Senior Marketing Executive (Stagecoach)
For me it’s Scream. At the time the plot was completely mind blowing!

Duncan Bennetts – Creative Studio Manager (Stagecoach)
My ultimate horror film has to be Texas Chainsaw Massacre (above) – the original version – for its relentless terror which is exhausting and stayed with me for days when I first saw it.

Georgia Pridden – Content Marketing Executive (Stagecoach)
My ultimate horror film for Halloween is Hocus Pocus (above) – the first one, although I thought the sequel was great too. It’s not a scary horror movie by any means but as soon as the leaves start falling, no matter how old I get, I start getting twitchy for my re-watch. The ‘I Put a Spell on You’ scene is the bit I look forward to most, it’s just iconic. If we’re talking actually scary horror movies though, maybe A Quiet Place but that’s picking from a pool of about 5 genuine horror movies I can honestly say I’ve watched. I’m just a total wuss!

Hazel Smith – Welcome Team (Churchill Theatre)
Suspiria (above) – the 2018 version: This intensely moody horror-thriller is perfect if you’ve got the patience for a slow burn, with an incredible triple performance from Tilda Swinton as the matriarchs of the eerie dance troupe-come-cult-come-coven, and the psychiatrist who witnesses it all. Rainy divided Berlin, dark magic, and body horror – ideal.

Matt Powder – General Manager (Churchill Theatre)
The Lighthouse (2019): This brilliantly acted film by Robert Eggers is part horror part, part psychological thriller but totally brilliant and unsettling.

Katie Piper – Marketing Apprentice (Churchill Theatre)
Midsommar (2019): The cinematography is really good, set in broad daylight in the middle of Sweden. It’s got a good story and is pretty disturbing from start to finish!

Lucy Harrington – Box Office & Stage Door Manager
(Churchill Theatre)
Too many to name, but the one I most recently watched was Bone Tomahawk (below), a 2015 American Western starring Kurt Russell and Patrick Wilson. It’s about a small-town sheriff who leads a group into the mountains to rescue three people, who it turns out have been abducted by cannibals.