Halloween Special 2026 - Black & Fright

Welcome to 'Matinee To Midnight' - a podcast for big screen enthusiasts.

Simon and Matthew take a break from their season 2 programming choices to put on a Halloween special at The Roundhay Garden Cinema, programming a series of black and white horror movies. But as they discover, films in black and white are no less black and fright. Halloween cosplaying is optional but encouraged.

SCREENING TONIGHT

Freaks (1932)

The City of The Dead (1960)

Psycho (1960)

Repulsion (1965)

At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964)

Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

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On this show, Simon and Matthew, the co-proprietors of the fictional 2-screen repertory cinema, 'The Roundhay Garden', will be discussing and recommending movies built around a particular topic.

The topic could be a genre, an actor, an actress, a director, a year in movie history or any other theme that comes to mind.

And they will each be choosing movies from the topic to programme at the cinema to fill the schedule - a 'Matinee' movie, a 'Prime Time' movie, and a 'Midnight Movie'.

This is a film recommendation show, but the movies Simon and Matthew choose to discuss are not necessarily their favourite films on a subject. They are the films that they feel are interesting and worthy of discussion - and best fit into these programming slots.