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The Grand Opera House is getting into the holiday spirit too with a fantastic 3-night double-feature movie festival that hits a lot of the best chillers and thrillers that have ever been filmed.

It begins 2 nights before the witching eve itself, with a kid-friendly double feature of James Whale's Frankenstein and the rated-PG Poltergeist.

Monday the 30th is the more adult Shadow of the Vampire and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (not The Shinning), which probably gets my vote for the creepiest movie ever made.

And it all ends on Halloween night with The Exorcist and A Nightmare on Elm Street. Following these a midnight tour will be given of the supposedly very haunted Grand. Perhaps the movies that night were chosen to put the audience on edge…?

A festival pass is available for $15 a person; individual nights are $6 Sunday and Monday and $8 Tuesday. Movies begin at 7p every might.