The theater’s annual Halloween series “A Nightmare on Franklin Street” is set to kick off Oct. 14 and run through the end of the month with tons of frights and fun for the whole family.
With new and returning special events, the 18-night series will be filled with horror classics, creepy cult favorites, guest stars, ghost tours and more Halloween happenings.
Guests can look forward to classic film showings of “The Shining” “Friday the 13th,” “Hocus Pocus,” “Dead & Buried” and “Ghostbusters” – to name a few. They’re will be plenty of Ghosts of Tampa Theatre Tours, an evening of creepy campfire stories, family-friendly “Mummy & Me” screenings with free entry for kids 12 and under and two screenings of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”
New this year, the theater will host interactive murder mystery “SpiritsFest: ‘Opening Night,’” a day of Spanish-language films like “El libro de la vida,” a visit from the supernatural television stars The Ghost Brothers, a Humane Society of Tampa Bay benefit night and more.
A complete schedule and tickets for “A Nightmare on Franklin Street” can be found via tampatheatre.org.