Nowhere does a cinema night quite like Bodmin Jail.
Settled within the heart of the ‘Dark Walk’, our featured horror film will be played in the courthouse, providing a viewing atmosphere like no other.
Following the screening, your Paranormal host will provide you with a unique insight into the stories of the prisoners once held at prison, including those who may still linger.
Check out our schedule for full film listings.
Attending one of our films? - then why not book a table for dinner first at the Courtyard.
Apr 2023

Insidious 2 (2013)
- Thursday 6th April
- Film starts at 9pm
- Suitable for 18yrs+
Soon after their showdown with evil spirits that possessed their son, the Lamberts, Renai (Rose Byrne) and Josh (Patrick Wilson), are ready for their lives to return to normal. However, something still is seriously off, especially with Josh, who -- unbeknown to Renai -- is possessed too. In order to free Josh's soul and finally defeat the malevolent forces around them, Lorraine Lambert (Barbara Hershey) and her ghost-hunting friends investigate the past to save her family's future.

The Haunting of Borley Rectory (2021)
- Thursday 13th April
- Film starts at 9pm
- Suitable for 18yrs+
In 1937, leading paranormal investigator Harry Price is given an opportunity to investigate the most haunted house in England, the infamous Borley Rectory, where he hopes to discover the truth behind the hauntings that have plagued the property.

The Good Neighbor (2016)
- Thursday 20th April
- Film starts at 9pm
- Suitable for 18yrs+
A pair of mischievous high school kids create the illusion of a haunting on an unsuspecting elderly neighbor while keeping his every reaction under surveillance. A series of coincidences leads to tragedy.

The Haunting in Connecticut (2013)
- Thursday 27th April
- Film starts at 9pm
- Suitable for 18yrs+
A historic Southern home's new residents (Abigail Spencer, Chad Michael Murray) come face to face with a malevolent force.
May 2023

You're Next (2011)
- Thursday 4th May
- Film starts at 9pm
- Suitable for 18yrs+
The Davisons, an upper-class family, are extremely wealthy -- but also estranged. In an attempt to mend their broken family ties, Aubrey (Barbara Crampton) and Paul (Rob Moran) Davison decide to celebrate their wedding anniversary by inviting their four children and their children's significant others to their weekend estate. The celebration gets off to a rocky start, but when crossbow-wielding assailants in animal masks suddenly attack, the Davisons must pull together or die.

Lovely Molly (2011)
- Thursday 11th May
- Film starts at 9pm
- Suitable for 18yrs+
A supernatural presence menaces a newlywed couple (Gretchen Lodge, Johnny Lewis) after they move into the wife's long-abandoned childhood home.

The Omen (1976)
- Thursday 18th May
- Film starts at 9pm
- Suitable for 18yrs+

Ghost Stories (2017)
- Thursday 25th May
- Film starts at 9pm
- Suitable for 18yrs+
Professor Phillip Goodman devotes his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans. His skepticism soon gets put to the test when he receives news of three chilling and inexplicable cases -- disturbing visions in an abandoned asylum, a car accident deep in the woods and the spirit of an unborn child. Even scarier -- each of the macabre stories seems to have a sinister connection to the professor's own life.
Jun 2023

Hannibal Rising (2007)
- Thursday 1st June
- Film starts at 9pm
- Suitable for 18yrs+
After witnessing the violent deaths of his parents at the end of World War II, young Hannibal Lecter (Gaspard Ulliel) flees to his uncle's home in Paris. He learns his uncle is dead, but the man's mysterious Japanese widow, Lady Murasaki (Gong Li) welcomes him nonetheless. An aptitude for science helps Hannibal gain acceptance to medical school, where he hones the skills he needs to exact revenge for the atrocities he witnessed.

The Shining (1980)
- Thursday 8th June
- Film starts at 9pm
- Suitable for 18yrs+
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.

premonition (2007)
- Thursday 15th June
- Film starts at 9pm
- Suitable for 18yrs+
Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) has an idyllic life, until one day she receives word that her husband (Julian McMahon) has died in an auto accident. However, when Linda wakes up the next morning and finds Jim beside her, she assumes she has just had an unusually vivid dream. Soon she finds out that what she experienced was not a dream, and she must battle time and destiny to save her family.

The Oak Room (2020)
- Thursday 22nd June
- Film starts at 9pm
- Suitable for 18yrs+
While a drifter tries to settle an old debt with a grizzled bartender by telling him a story, the night's events quickly spin into a dark tale of mistaken identities, double-crosses, and shocking violence.

Afflicted (2013)
- Thursday 29th June
- Film starts at 9pm
- Suitable for 18yrs+
Best friends Derek and Clif plan to travel the globe and live life to the fullest, but only days into the trip one of them shows symptoms of a mysterious illness. They rush to find the source before he is consumed completely.
Jul 2023

The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
- Thursday 6th July
- Film starts at 9pm
- Suitable for 18yrs+
The Rev. Moore (Tom Wilkinson) is prosecuted for the wrongful death of a girl thought to be demonically possessed, because he administered the church-sanctioned exorcism that ultimately killed her. Prosecuting attorney Ethan Thomas (Campbell Scott) contends that the young woman, Emily (Jennifer Carpenter), suffered from schizophrenia and should have been medically diagnosed. Meanwhile, defense lawyer Erin Bruner (Laura Linney) argues that Emily's condition cannot be explained by science alone.

The Dark and the Wicked (2020)
- Thursday 13th July
- Film starts at 9pm
- Suitable for 18yrs+

The Outsider (2020)
- Thursday 20th July
- Film starts at 9pm
- Suitable for 18yrs+
Set in a small Georgia town, "Outsider"Â follows the investigation of the horrific murder of a young boy. Detective Ralph Anderson (Ben Mendelsohn) arrests Terry Maitland (Bateman), the local high school baseball coach, after overwhelming physical evidence connects him to the crime

House Of The Devil (2009)
- Thursday 27th July
- Film starts at 9pm
- Suitable for 18yrs+
Desperate to make some money so she can move into a new apartment, college student Samantha Hughes (Jocelin Donahue) takes a mysterious babysitting job. When she arrives at the house, Mr. Ulman (Tom Noonan) mentions a full lunar eclipse and explains there is no child, but that Samantha will be watching his mother instead. After exploring the sinister-seeming house, Samantha soon comes to realize that her employers are hiding a horrifying secret and have plans to use her, dead or alive.
Aug 2023

I Saw The Devil (2010)
- Thursday 3rd August
- Film starts at 9pm
- Suitable for 18yrs+
On a dark road, taxi driver Kyung-chul (Choi Min-sik) comes across a scared female motorist stranded in a broken-down vehicle. He pulls over -- but not to help her. When the woman's head is discovered in a local river, her devastated fiancé, Kim Soo-hyeon (Lee Byung-hun), a trained secret agent, becomes obsessed with hunting down her killer. Once he finds Kyung-chul, things get twisted. After brutally beating the murderer, Kim lets him go free, and a demented game of cat and mouse begins.

Demonic (2015)
- Thursday 10th August
- Film starts at 9pm
- Suitable for 18yrs+
A psychologist and a police officer investigate the deaths of five people, who were killed while trying to summon ghosts.

The possession of Hannah Grace (2018)
- Thursday 17th August
- Film starts at 9pm
- Suitable for 18yrs+
A shocking exorcism spirals out of control, claiming the life of a young woman. Months later, morgue worker Megan Reed takes delivery of a disfigured cadaver during the graveyard shift. Locked inside the basement corridors, Megan's horrifying visions soon lead her to believe that the body is possessed by a demonic force.

Spell (2020)
- Thursday 24th August
- Film starts at 9pm
- Suitable for 18yrs+
While flying to his father's funeral in rural Appalachia, an intense storm causes Marquis to lose control of the plane carrying himself and his family. He soon awakens wounded, alone and trapped in Ms. Eloise's attic. Eloise claims she can nurse him back to health with a hoodoo figure she's made from his blood and skin. Unable to call for help, Marquis desperately tries to break free from her dark magic and save his family from a sinister ritual before the rise of the blood moon.

Sinister (2015)
- Thursday 31st August
- Film starts at 9pm
- Suitable for 18yrs+
Hiding from her abusive, estranged husband, Courtney Collins lives in a rural house with her 9-year-old twins, Dylan and Zach. Young Dylan receives nightly visits from ghoulish kids who show him disturbing images of families being slaughtered. It's all part of the grand plan of Bughuul, the evil spirit who recruits innocent children to murder their loved ones. The only hope for his intended new victims may be a former deputy who's familiar with Bughuul's fiendish work from the past.