Things to do for Halloween in San Sebastián

Plasticine puppets, models and stop-motion monsters in the Horror Week exhibition in Gros. 🎃🎬

The show covers 25 years of work by Sam Ortí and his Valencian studio Conflictivos Productions, a benchmark of Spanish stop-motion animation, with titles such as Encarna (2003), The Werepig (2008), Pos eso (2014) and La valla (2024). The whole process is on display: storyboards, puppets, models, sets and props.

🎨 CONFLICTIVOS PRODUCTIONS

📅 Until 4 November 2026, Monday to Saturday

🕐 Monday to Friday 10.00 am-2.00 pm and 4.00-8.30 pm; Saturdays 10.00 am-2.00 pm and 4.30-8.00 pm

📍 Okendo Kultur Etxea, Gros, Donostia / San Sebastián

🎟️ Free admission

🎨 Part of the Horror Film Week

The 37th San Sebastián Horror and Fantasy Film Week runs from 30 October to 6 November at the Principal and Victoria Eugenia theatres, Tabakalera and other venues across the city. Alongside the screenings, Donostia Kultura organises free exhibitions that can be visited throughout Halloween week. On 3 November Okendo screens the documentary about the studio and Sam will give a guided tour.

✨ Monsters, demons and creatures for Donostia's scariest week.

Two classics of fantastic cinema in one night, with the Teatro Principal as the venue. 🎬🧟

As part of the 37th San Sebastián Horror and Fantasy Film Week, the double bill organised by Bang! Bang! Zinema screens Matrix and [•REC].

🎬 MATRIX + [•REC]

📅 Saturday 24 October 2026

🕐 7.30 pm

📍 Teatro Principal, Kale Nagusia, 3, Donostia / San Sebastián

🎟️ Ticket €12

🧟 The two films

Matrix (1999), by Lana and Lilly Wachowski, with Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne and Carrie-Anne Moss: a programmer who is the hacker Neo by night receives a mysterious visit. Running time 131 minutes.

[•REC] (2007), by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza: a reporter and her cameraman are trapped in a Barcelona building during a zombie outbreak. A classic of Spanish horror that spawned a whole saga.

ℹ️ Good to know: it is a double bill, so plan for the total running time.

✨ A night of fantastic cinema before Halloween.

Eight days of horror, fantasy and science fiction cinema in Donostia, right in Halloween week. 🎃🎬

The 37th edition of the San Sebastián Horror and Fantasy Film Week runs from 30 October to 6 November at the Teatro Principal, the Teatro Victoria Eugenia, Tabakalera and other venues across the city. It is organised by Donostia Kultura.

🎬 HORROR AND FANTASY FILM WEEK

📅 From Friday 30 October to Friday 6 November 2026

📍 Teatro Principal, Teatro Victoria Eugenia and Tabakalera, Donostia / San Sebastián

🎟️ Tickets from €4.50 per screening

🕷️ What's on in the 37th edition

The Basque film Salitre, by Norma Vila, opens the festival on 30 October at the Teatro Principal. It is the first feature by the Bilbao-born director, starring Nagore Aranburu and Haizea Carneros, and approaches the dark side of motherhood through psychological horror.

The programme includes an official section, premieres, short films, retrospectives and special screenings in different venues. Check the festival website for the schedule and tickets for each film.

ℹ️ Good to know: tickets are sold screening by screening. Some screenings have their own listing in this agenda.

✨ Halloween week, the cinema way.

Yokai, demons and supernatural beings from Japanese folklore take over the Old Town during Horror Week. 🎃👹

Artist Álvaro Herranz, creator of Fuego Fatuo Art, takes visitors on a journey through the Japanese supernatural world with 20 sculptures and photographs of yokai, the monsters and spirits of Japanese art, literature and oral tradition. With the support of the Japan Foundation.

🎨 HYAKKI YAGYŌ

📅 30 October to 15 November 2026, every day

🕐 Monday to Friday 5.00-8.00 pm; weekends and holidays 11.00 am-2.00 pm and 5.00-8.00 pm

📍 Sala San Jerónimo (Central Library), San Jerónimo kalea, 18, Old Town, Donostia / San Sebastián

🎟️ Free admission

🎨 Part of the Horror Film Week

The 37th San Sebastián Horror and Fantasy Film Week runs from 30 October to 6 November at the Principal and Victoria Eugenia theatres, Tabakalera and other venues across the city. Alongside the screenings, Donostia Kultura organises free exhibitions that can be visited throughout Halloween week.

✨ Monsters, demons and creatures for Donostia's scariest week.

This year the Horror Week's fantasy exhibition pays tribute to illustrator Mai Egurza. 🎃🖌️

The regular Euskadi Fantastikoa show surveys the last decade of illustrations by Mai Egurza (1986-2025), illustrator and comic author, many of them never shown before: a world full of life, colour and fantastic creatures. Curated by Jorge Madejón.

🎨 EUSKADI FANTASTIKOA

📅 30 October to 21 November 2026, Monday to Saturday

🕐 Monday to Friday 10.00 am-8.30 pm; Saturdays 10.00 am-2.00 pm and 4.30-8.00 pm; closed Sundays and holidays

📍 Central Municipal Library, Alderdi Eder, 1, Donostia / San Sebastián

🎟️ Free admission

🎨 Part of the Horror Film Week

The 37th San Sebastián Horror and Fantasy Film Week runs from 30 October to 6 November at the Principal and Victoria Eugenia theatres, Tabakalera and other venues across the city. Alongside the screenings, Donostia Kultura organises free exhibitions that can be visited throughout Halloween week.

✨ Monsters, demons and creatures for Donostia's scariest week.

Virginia Imaz takes the stage at Lugaritz to present a unique theatrical ritual filled with humour and critical insight. 🎭✨

The company Oihulari Klown presents this clown theatre production performed by Virginia Imaz, designed to provoke reflection through comedy.

🎭 Akelarre

📅 31 October 2026

🕐 19:30

📍 Sala Imanol Larzabal (Lugaritz), Donostia / San Sebastián

🎟️ 12 €

📖 About the performance

In this production, Virginia Imaz plays Pauxa, an apprentice witch who invites the audience to an improvised coven. The protagonist dismantles traditional tales and explains that witches are just ordinary people: good and bad, generous and mean, sociable and antisocial, yet always old and wise.

Through clown parody, the piece reviews the stereotype of the witch. With witty and sharp reflections, Pauxa addresses concerns surrounding historical and contemporary femicide, pointing out how trivializing the character masks continuing violence against women.

🎭 Virginia Imaz and Oihulari Klown

Oihulari Klown and Virginia Imaz have an established background exploring clowning through a social lens. In this playful performance, humor becomes a vehicle to question stereotypes and connect directly with the audience in the venue.

ℹ️ Good to know: Recommended for youth and adult audiences.

✨ An unmissable theatrical event blending sharp comedy and critical thinking on stage.

A lost Hong Kong horror film, recovered in 4K, at Tabakalera. 🎬🕯️

As part of the 37th San Sebastián Horror and Fantasy Film Week, The Black Magic with Buddha (Hong Kong and Thailand, 1983), directed by Lo Lieh, is screened.

🎬 THE BLACK MAGIC WITH BUDDHA

📅 Wednesday 4 November 2026

🕐 7.00 pm

📍 Tabakalera, Andre Zigarrogileen plaza, 1, Donostia / San Sebastián

🎟️ Ticket €4.50

🕯️ The film

Ben, a Chinese man living in Thailand, steals the preserved brain of an ancient mummy, a supernatural relic able to grant wishes. When he fails to keep his promise to destroy it, a nightmare of black magic, possession and gruesome deaths is unleashed.

Directed by Hong Kong cult actor Lo Lieh and starring two Shaw Brothers icons, Chen Kuan-Tai and Candice Yu, this lost horror film resurfaces 43 years later, restored in 4K and with a cut never seen before.

ℹ️ Good to know: horror cinema with strong scenes, not suitable for children.

✨ A gem of Asian horror, back on the big screen.