Deciding what makes a film a cult movie is relatively arbitrary.
It can be a film that is so bad it’s good, a film that is in some way sexually or socially perverse or a title that has come to attain a sizeable following after being initially ignored by the masses.
Our new ‘Cult’ strand explores all of the above. We’ll take you on some weird and wonderful journeys, and to places both familiar and unknown.
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Cult/ Dead of Night
Ground-breaking both as a 1940s British horror film (production was paused during WWII) and as the blueprint for the horror anthology genre, Dead of Night…
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Cult/ Battle Royale
Fukasaku's brutal and harrowing yet totally bonkers action cult classic returns to our cinemas. Following 42 junior high schoolers as they're dumped on a remote…
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The Blues Brothers
An anti-authority classic from John Landis, Akroyd and Belushi are a dream team, whilst Aretha Franklin, James Brown are amongst those providing the scintillating sounds
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Cult/ The Lost Boys
After moving to a new town, two brothers are sucked into the mysterious and dangerous world of bikers, vampires and vampire hunters.
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Cult/ The Room
The definition of contemporary cult classic and the fruits of labour of Tommy Wiseau, the narrative involves a semi-autobiographical love triangle and considers the curse…
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Cult/ Horror Express
A classic 1970s horror film that brings together genre icons Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing alongside Telly Savalas on a Trans Siberian Express heading for…
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Cult/ Deep Red
Musician Martin is haunted by a children’s song, and eyewitness to the murder of a psychic medium. Teaming up with a young reporter, can the…
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Cult/ Harold and Maude
Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets Maude at a funeral. This screening will be preceded by an…
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Cult/ Demon Seed
After a scientist creates Proteus, an organic super-computer with artificial intelligence, it slowly becomes obsessed with its creator's wife, memorably played by Julie Christie. Cammell’s…
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Cult/ Vampire’s Kiss
The movie that launched a thousand memes, Vampire’s Kiss is classic Nic Cage. His performance is completely committed, unfiltered and features the most notorious, glorious…
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Cult/ Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
A. A. Milne’s charming story of cuddly teddy bears and bucolic bliss in the British countryside gets a radical reimagining in Rhys Frake-Waterfield's brutal, bizarre…
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The Silent Star
The first science-fiction film made in East Germany – and released in the midst of the US / USSR Space Race – The Silent Star…
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Double Bill: Deerskin + Preview/Smoking Causes Coughing
For our cult screening this June we’ll have special double-bill screening of absurdist comedy sci-fi/horrors for you with a special preview of Quentin Dupieux’s new…
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Cult/ Children of the Corn
A young couple find themselves lost on the backroads of Nebraska, eventually winding up in the seemingly deserted town of Gatlin. But the town is…
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Cult/ Tenebrae
A razor-wielding psychopath is stalking the thriller writer Peter Neal, in Rome to promote his latest work, Tenebrae. But the author isn't the obsessive killer's…
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Cult/ Dracula
Dracula is seen by many as the film that consolidated Hammer studios reputation as the ‘house of horror’, Christopher Lee, a Rank charm school ‘graduate’,…
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Cult/ The Greasy Strangler
When Big Ronnie and his son Big Brayden meet lonely tourist Janet, a fight for Janet’s heart erupts between father and son, and the infamous…
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Cult/ The Love Witch
Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment, she makes spells and potions, then…