Halloween at the Kentucky Theatre

Lexington’s historical downtown theatre released a lineup of spooktacular film screenings for the month of October.

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Sppoky movies — from classic to scary to kid-friendly — will be showing at the Kentucky Theatre all month. | Photo by LEXtoday

Watching horror movies in a 100-year-old theater might be exactly what you need to kick-start the Halloween season.

The Kentucky Theatre recently released a slew of spooky showings that will be playing this month.

The first Halloween-themed screening kicks off this weekend with showings of “Scooby-Doo.”

  • Scooby-Doo | Sun., Oct. 9 | 1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m. + 7:30 p.m. | The Kentucky Theatre, 214 E. Main St. | $7.75+ | Zoinks — Scooby + the gang get trapped on a spooky carnival-themed island.

Dates + times for the rest of the October screenings will be released soon, but check out which films will be screening this month in the meantime.

  • “Frankenstein”
  • “House of 1000 Corpses”
  • “Hocus Pocus”
  • “A Nightmare on Elm Street 3"
  • “The Masque of the Red Death”
  • “Only Lovers Left Alive”
  • “All Jacked Up and Full of Worms”
  • “Twilight”
  • “The Hunger”
  • “Coraline”
  • “Cure”
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