Belfast Film Festival turned heads when it announced screenings of The Exorcist in a former church, but there are plenty of other site-specific summer events lined up to take your breath away including Top Gun at Ulster Aviation Society (9th September).

The Tom Cruise vehicle is up there with the best of the best high octane airborne movies, so where better to see it than in an aircraft hangar surrounded by some vintage planes that themselves have seen plenty of action?

If slapstick sports comedies are your thing, Belfast Film Festival is teeing up a screening of Caddyshack in Ormeau Golf Club (17th September). Joe Lindsay dons his best plaid pants as host for the evening and there will be prizes for the best ‘golf costumes gone wrong’.

Starring Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield and Bill Murray, this classic from 1980 takes a good-natured swing at a snob-infested golf club in the lead up to its Caddy Day tournament. With hilarious scenes of an inept greenskeeper’s attempts to kill a pesky gopher, Caddyshack will definitely cheer you up if you’re feeling below par.

Building on the success of the T13 urban park in Titanic Quarter, the new South 13 venue on Boucher Road (formerly B&Q warehouse) will be transformed into a Central American jungle for a 30th anniversary screening of Predator (2nd September).

Directed by John McTiernan and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Predator is one of the greatest sci-fi action horror thrillers. This special screening features full cosplay, interactive events and set design to bring you into the experience!

Belfast Film Festival has programmed three cinematic events as part of BFI Britain on Film: Coast and Sea. Celebrating the UK’s coastal and maritime heritage, this BFI Film Audience Network project is funded by the National Lottery.

Grabbers is a 2012 horror thriller about the residents of an island off the coast of Ireland who learn that the only way to survive an invasion of blood-sucking aliens is to stay inebriated. Better get the drinks in then for this outdoor beer garden screening on 15th September at Daft Eddy’s Bar & Restaurant, a beautiful location near the shores of Strangford Lough.

Drumalis House in Larne is the atmospheric setting on 10th September for ‘I Know Where I’m Going!’ Part of the run of consecutive classics that Powell & Pressburger made in the 1940s, it’s the story Joan Webster, a headstrong English woman who embarks on a journey north to meet her wealthy new fiancé, only to become stranded on the Isle of Mull during a tempest.

One of the best films ever made offshore, onshore or anywhere, this is a magnificently expressive and entertaining tribute both to the Western Isles and to the intoxicating effect that people and places can have upon the imagination.

And If you’re blue and you don’t know where to go to, why don’t you go to Young Frankenstein on 23rd September?

Belfast Film Festival brings the Mel Brooks comedy classic to the creepy surrounds of the derelict Downhill Demesne, a stunning National Trust property near Castlerock on the North Coast.

The remains of Downhill House provide the perfect backdrop for this affectionate parody of the horror film genre set in a Transylvanian castle.

Tickets are available online at www.belfastfilmfestival.org or from Visit Belfast on (028) 9024 6609.