Horror nights at CECUT: Noches de Terror screens Del Toro, Kubrick and Coppola, Oct. 22–31

CECUT’s Cineteca Tijuana gives the last ten days of October over to horror. Noches de Terror, the fifth edition of its international horror film showcase, runs from Thursday, Oct. 22, to Saturday, Oct. 31, with most screenings at 8 p.m., according to the program published by Tijuana Eventos, which lists CECUT as the organizer. It mixes Spanish-language classics, Hollywood favorites and two 2025 titles presented with Macabro.

The schedule

• Thu., Oct. 22, 8 p.m.: Horrorama, a free talk with Mike Sandoval and Juan Pablo de la Serna of the Horrorama podcast.
• Fri., Oct. 23, 8 p.m.: opening film, El espinazo del diablo (Guillermo del Toro, 2001).
• Sat., Oct. 24: El orfanato (J.A. Bayona, 2007) at 6 p.m. and the Danish Adorable Humans (2025) at 8 p.m.
• Sun., Oct. 25: Theatre Is Dead (Katherine Dudas, 2025) at 6 p.m. and The Others (Alejandro Amenábar, 2001) at 8 p.m.
• Tue., Oct. 27, 8 p.m.: Ringu (Hideo Nakata, 1998).
• Wed., Oct. 28: Animacabro, a free session in the Sala de Video, at 6 p.m., and Vacaciones de terror (René Cardona III, 1989) at 8 p.m.
• Thu., Oct. 29, 8 p.m.: The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980).
• Fri., Oct. 30: a second free Animacabro session at 6 p.m. and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992) at 8 p.m.
• Sat., Oct. 31, 8 p.m.: The Return of the Living Dead (Dan O’Bannon, 1985).

Tickets

General admission is MX$50, and students, teachers and seniors with an INAPAM card pay MX$30. Wednesdays are two-for-one, and the Horrorama talk and both Animacabro sessions are free, per the listing. Promotions apply only at the box office; tickets are also sold at CECUT’s shops and online through the center’s website. Ratings run from B to C, Mexico’s adults-only category, so check each film before you bring teenagers.

Before you go

The Cineteca is inside CECUT at Paseo de los Héroes 9350 in Zona Río; directions are on our CECUT profile, and the opening film has its own event page. Programs can change, so confirm showtimes on cecut.gob.mx before you cross. More Halloween plans are in our fall planner and on the calendar.