Franken-BINGO 2026 (18)

Sick of pumpkin spice lattes and boring costume parties? Wish your spooky season came with a little more 'boo' and a lot more 'bing-ghosts'? This Halloween, The Garden Cinema are once again turning up the jump scares with another night of our highly cinematic Franken-BINGO.

Expect eerie movie clips, ghoulishly good cocktails, and plenty of tricks, treats, and prizes lurking in the shadows. Dressing up is also highly encouraged, as there will be a bonus prize for the best costume of the night!

So grab your broomsticks, dust off your masks, and get ready for a frightfully fun night you won’t forget…

Prizes up for grabs will include cinema vouchers, drinks, and a range of fantastic donations from local businesses, including:

• Vouchers from one of the world’s oldest and leading independent bookshops specialising in Esoterica, Watkins Books
• Hauntingly delicious Sea Buckthorn by Lakrids by Bülow, sure to lure even the most devoted liquorice haters to the dark side this Halloween
• A selection of blu-rays including The Hourglass Sanitorium, Vampire’s Kiss and Two Boxes: Televised Terror in Franco’s Spain, donated by the arthouse icons of Radiance Films
• The board game Escape the Dark Castle, courtesy of the wonderful team at Orcs Nest, Central London’s oldest specialist board game shop
• Iconic T-shirts by our friends at Girls on Tops, featuring the names of your favourite petrifying performers
• An 'Indie Negroni' gift set, featuring High Fidelity’s Bitter Orange, East London Liquor Company’s Gin, and Italo Disco’s vermouth, so you can make perfect creepy cocktails at home
• A bottle of East London Liquor Company’s excellent Blended Whisky, so you can enjoy an autumnal dram as the nights draw in
• A gift set of bone-chilling beers by our favourite Bristol-based Lost & Grounded Brewers
• Goodie bags from London Review of Books, to read by the fire in your gothic castle
• A bottle of Everleaf’s first ever special edition, which combines their classic Forest non-alcoholic aperitif with the deep smoky chilli heat of JD’s Hot Honey for a scarily spicy beverage
• Quad posters of three iconic horror films from our friends at Park Circus including Christine, The Descent and The Terminator
• A selection of bewitching books from our frightening friends at FOPP Covent Garden
• A selection of gruesome goodies by Labour and Wait, whose shop is just lurking around the corner from the cinema
• A range of ravenous reads from our sinister Covent Garden neighbours at Stanfords
• A handmade piece by our in-house spooky ceramicist Magdalene Lepri

Tickets for the event are £10 each, and members can book up to 2 tickets, which means you’re welcome to bring a friend or foe. Due to the nature of the selected video clips from a range of frightening films, the event will be 18+.

Doors will open from 19:30 to enjoy a terrifying tipple or two, with the bingo starting at 20:00. We expect to finish around 23:00, after which there will be a bit more time to stick around for drinks.