Halloween 2025 at the Irish Cultural Centre: a Celtic Horrors film festival to scare the bejesus out of yourself

The Centre culturel irlandais invites you to a film festival. Come along, if you dare, to the "Celtic Horrors" screenings on October 30 and 31, 2025, to coincide with the Halloween festivities.

In Paris, Halloween rhymes with amusement parks, dance parties, escape games and zombie runs... However, there's a deeper, cultural significance to this celebration, which has its origins in Celtic folklore. Over 2,500 years ago, the Celtic people gathered to celebrate Samhain, a religious festival held around our own November 1st. Samhain was a time for paying homage to the spirits of the dead. Over the centuries, this pagan festival evolved into the Halloween we know today.

To honor this cultural and traditional heritage, the Centre culturel irlandais is organizing its own events for Halloween 2025. On October 30 and 31, the cultural center will be hosting two terrifying evenings... Take note!

For Halloween, the Centre culturel irlandais is offering a mini film festival at Les 3 Luxembourg, in the 6th arrondissement. With Celtic Horrors, (re)discover four horror films by Irish, Welsh and Scottish filmmakers. Book your screening now, and enjoy a horrific evening with some of the great Celtic artists of the 7th art.

The program for the Celtic Horrors festival at Les 3 Luxembourg cinema, with the Centre culturel irlandais :

Thursday, October 30

7pm: The Mill Killers (Wales, 100 mins., VOSTF)
Director: Aled Owens. With : Ioan Hefin, Steffan Cennydd, Nathan Sussex
This town is haunted. Not by ghosts, but by memories. Four girls return to an abandoned steel mill to recover stolen money. Locked inside and hunted, the secret that binds them will be what tears them apart.
9pm: Oddity (Ireland, 98 mn, VOSTF)
Director: Damian McCarthy. Starring : Caroline Menton, Gwilym Lee, Carolyn Bracken, Jonathan French, Tadhg Murphy
Darcy, a young blind woman working in a curio store, is convinced she can communicate with the beyond. After the murder of her twin sister, she seeks to unmask the killer using a disturbing wooden mannequin from a collection of cursed objects...

Friday, October 31st

7pm: Fréwaka ( Ireland, 103 mins., in Irish with French subtitles)
Director: Aislinn Clarke. Starring : Clare Monnelly, Bríd Ní Neachtain, Aleksandra Bystrzhitskaya
One of the very first Irish-language horror films, Fréwaka is inspired by traditional mythology. Shoo is a home carer haunted by a personal tragedy. She is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman who fears her neighbors as much as the Na Sídhe, sinister entities she believes abducted her decades ago. As the two women develop a strangely deep bond, Shoo is consumed by the old woman's paranoia, rituals and superstitions, eventually confronting the horrors of her own past.
9pm: Kill (Scotland, 90 mins, VOSTF)
Director: Rodger Griffiths. Starring : Brian Vernel, Daniel Portman, Calum Ross, Paul Higgins, Anita Vettesse, James Harkness, Joanne Thomson
A hunting trip turns tragic when three brothers plot to eliminate their abusive father.

For more horror films and nightmare-filled nights, check out the cinema program for Halloween in Paris.

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