A new first-look image from Ghosts: The Possession of Button House has been released, bringing the Button House gang back together ahead of their big-screen return. The image shows the ghosts gathered inside the house and looking very unimpressed by something just out of frame.
The feature-length family adventure continues the award-winning BBC comedy and will arrive in cinemas across the UK and Ireland on 23 October 2026, just in time for Halloween.
Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond return as the film’s stars, writers and creators. Lolly Adefope, Charlotte Ritchie and Kiell Smith-Bynoe are also back, reuniting the original Button House ensemble.
The first trailer arrived in June and opened like a classic horror film, with a group of teenagers entering the apparently abandoned Button House and attempting to contact the dead through a Ouija board. The ghosts soon appear, only for the tension to be broken by another brilliantly timed Julian moment.
Further story details remain under wraps, although the film will continue the original series after its final episode aired in 2023. The creators previously explained that they never planned to return, but a new idea left them unable to resist “returning to our haunted home for one more adventure.”
Simon Hynd directs the film after previously working on the fourth and fifth series of Ghosts. Alison Carpenter and Andy Brunskill serve as producers, with Lionsgate releasing the film in the UK and Ireland and BBC Studios handling worldwide distribution.
At CultureCues, we are so happy to see the Button House ghosts back together. The new image has made the wait until October feel even longer, and a Halloween cinema trip to Button House sounds perfect. We are more than ready for one more haunting.
Ghosts: The Possession of Button House arrives in UK and Irish cinemas on 23 October 2026.
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