HORROR lovers: Oxford's Phoenix Picturehouse continues its week-long Halloween spectacular with further classic films this weekend.

Tomorrow (Friday), the Jericho cinema is showing THE EXORCIST- DIRECTOR'S CUT (18) at 9pm,

William Friedkin's exemplary essay in suspense and edge-of-seat audience manipulation is still one of the scariest films ever made.

Linda Blair is the apparently normal 12-year-old girl whose body is possessed by the Devil, Max von Sydow her saintly adversary, and Jason Miller the troubled priest who must confront the demon within and without.

The director's version contains ten minutes of previously cut footage, including some unseen and genuinely unsettling additional effects.

On Saturday, there's GHOSTBUSTERS (re:2014), which is being screened at 9.15pm.

When nightmarish apparitions run amok in the Big Apple, the Ghostbusters (Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd) charge up their proton packs and send them back where they came from.

Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis co-star in this much-loved comedy romp.

And for the children, CORALINE, a spectacular stop-motion animated adventure from the visionary director of THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS and based on Neil Gaiman's bestselling book, is being shown on Friday (10.30am) and Saturday (11am) mornings.

Coraline Jones (Fanning, CHARLOTTE'S WEB) is bored in her new home until she finds a secret door and discovers an alternative version of her life on the other side. On the surface, this parallel reality is eerily similar to her real life and the people in it - only much better. But when this seemingly perfect world turns dangerous, and her other parents try to trap her forever, Coraline must count on her resourcefulness, determination and bravery to escape this increasingly perilous world - and save her family.

 

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