Calgary 
Events Description
An annual CUFF tradition! This Halloween, the Calgary Underground Film Festival returns to Globe Cinema for our annual 12-Hour Horror Movie Marathon. Stay awake all night and enjoy 7 movies from 7pm until 7am the next morning, including a costume contest, and other surprises throughout the night.
Come for one film, or stay for them all
Costume contest at midnight
Giveaways and surprises throughout the night.
FOOD & CONCESSION:
Globe concession will be open and available all night long
Bar is open until 2 am
Only Debit, Visa, and Mastercard will be accepted at the concession.
CUFF will have additional food & coffee options made avaialble to you as well throughout the night!
Admission restricted to 18+
HOW MUCH
Tickets : $25 regular / $23 members, students & seniors
How to get tickets?
WHEN & WHERE
Date & Time:
Saturday, October 25 | 7:00 PM – Sunday, October 26, 2025 | 7:00 AM
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. There will be a 10-minute intermission between all films.
- Costume contest at 12:00 am
- 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 5:30 am
- Bar is open until 2 am
7:00 pm – HOLD THE FORT (2025)
75 min, Director William Bagley
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. (view teaser)
8:30 PM – FREAKED (1993)
82 min, Directors Alex Winter, Tom Stern
A vain actor, his best friend, and an activist end up at a mutant freak farm run by a weirdo scientist. (view trailer)
10:00 PM – YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974)
106 min, Director Mel Brooks
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. (view trailer)
11:45 PM – INTERMISSION COSTUME CONTEST & BURGERS!
12:05 AM – INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978)
115 min, Director Philip Kaufman
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. (view trailer)
2:15 AM – ALLIGATOR (1980)
94 min, Director Lewis Teague
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. (view trailer)
4:00 AM – BLACK SUNDAY (1960) *dubbed version
87 min, Director Mario Bava
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. (view trailer)
5:25 AM – BATES MOTEL BREAKFAST IS SERVED
5:40 AM – PSYCHO II (1983)
113 min, Director Richard Franklin
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. (view trailer)
7:30 AM – FINISH!
Venue & Address :
Globe Cinema, 617 8 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2P 1H1
