Halloween
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FilmScene’s Halloweek is giving fright film fans a chance to create their own FilmScream-like marathon
‘Twas the night before Halloween, when all through the city Not a theater was open, not even FilmScene But what to my wondering eyes should appear, Five horrifically fun movies to stream virtually — with a beer. The spooky tradition of FilmScream is just one of the dozens of FilmScene’s programming initiatives that has been […]
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Halloween and Hawkeye football will look very different this Saturday
Traditionally, Halloween is a night of fun about town, with kids collecting candy from neighbors and young adults enjoying themed drink specials at bars downtown. There’s nothing stopping these traditions from taking place in 2020, despite a continued COVID-19 surge in Iowa, but Johnson County health officials have offered guidance for locals hoping to haunt […]
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After the light goes out in your jack-o’-lantern, Iowa City will compost it
According to Irish legend, the original jack-o’-lantern was an accursed object carried by a man doomed to walk the Earth forever. On the plus side, that meant it never rotted. (It was also a hollowed-out turnip with a burning coal inside, not a smiling, candle-lit pumpkin.) Contemporary jack-o’-lanterns, pumpkin or turnip, aren’t immortal, but their […]
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Cedar Rapids’ newest haunt attracts all levels of fear aficionados
Nevermoor 4444 1st St NE, Suite 3001, Cedar Rapids — Open Thursday-Sunday through October, as well as Monday-Wednesday, Oct. 29-31 Thursday, Oct. 4 saw the opening of the newest haunted attraction to grace the Cedar Rapids area: Nevermoor, an ambitious new take on the genre, located alongside Lindale Mall in the former Planet X location […]
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The Iowa City Public Library is hosting its first Halloween Costume Exchange on Friday
Tired of buying a new Halloween costume for your child every year, then stuffing it in the back of a closet after it’s been worn only once? The Iowa City Public Library has a solution for you.
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‘Stranger Reads’ exhibit to feature sci-fi/horror items that inspired ‘Stranger Things’
Stranger Things fans who can bear to pause their Netflix streams are invited to get acquainted with the hit show’s heritage at the University of Iowa Main Library.
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New parade kicks off Halloween early in Cedar Rapids
When it comes to Halloween, you might be on the lookout for floating phantasms and the like. But floats of a different kind will celebrate the spooky holiday as the Halloween Parade wends its way through the streets of the New Bohemia District and Czech Village on Friday night, Oct. 27.
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Local legends: The Black Angel, Coe College’s ghost and the haunted Edinburgh Manor
These eastern Iowa attractions are the subjects of eerie speculation, from a cursed statue to a ghostly mascot to Iowa’s most haunted asylum.
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Saturday’s Halloweenapalooza in Ottumwa brings a day filled with spooky films, performances and contests
Meet horror movie icons, get a tattoo, embody a zombie. The eighth-annual Halloweenapalooza horror showcase — taking place in the purportedly haunted Hotel Ottumwa — is full to the brim with film screenings, vendors, contests, live music and other features befitting Halloween.
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All-night horror marathon FilmScream to feature classic and unreleased movies
This Friday the 13th, pack your sleeping bag, head to FilmScene and steel yourself for 12 hours of horror.
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Granger House kicks off a spooky season with an exploration of ‘Macbeth’
‘Macbeth’ Granger House Victorian Museum — Saturday, Sept. 30 at 7 p.m. Things are about to get spooky at the Granger House Victorian Museum. Beginning this weekend and through October and beyond, the uncanny will take center stage. The Granger House (970 10th St, Marion) is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It […]
