Afflecks Palace to host Halloween pop-up cinema showing spooky classics

Afflecks Palace is hurling itself headlong into Halloween with a host of harrowing events for the spooky holiday. Among them, the iconic shopping arcade will be turning its third floor into a pop-up cinema over the Halloween weekender.

Happening on October 29 and 30, the movie theatre will show The Nightmare Before Christmas and Johnny Depp classic Edward Scissorhands on rotation over the two days. The screenings will begin at 11am and 2pm on both days.

Other ghostly goings on include spellcasting and spirit stone talks, which will be happening courtesy of Occult Patches & Pins on the arcade’s ground floor. Meanwhile, Ritual Interest will be performing interactive seances every hour on the hour from 11am on Saturday and Sunday.

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Elsewhere, Make Up or Break Up will be doing Halloween face painting all weekend, beauty collective Doll Parts will be doing a trick or treat tombola, and jewellery shop Sour Cherry will be giving away 50 goody bags as well as hosting ghostly games.

Food and drinks-wise, Kong’s Chicken Shop will be setting up a pop-up store for the whole weekend, knocking out fried chicken sandwiches and tacos, while Witch Kings Rum will be hosting tasting classes.

In addition to all this, the best fancy dress turning up at Afflecks over the weekend will be in the running to scoop a £50 voucher. Entry is through the Afflecks Instagram page, tagging in @afflecks_manchester

The world famous shopping emporium, which was opened in 1982, recently celebrated its 40th anniversary.

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