What's On at Cultplex

INTERFERENCE FILM: Tromaville Double Bill

Fri 21 Mar

Interference returns to Tromaville with a double feature screening of TROMEO AND JULIET and CITIZEN TOXIE: THE TOXIC AVENGER IV - and this time around they have invited Refuse Films along for the ride! Introducing the films they will have a special appearance from Refuse Films head honcho LIAM REGAN, director of My Bloody Banjo and Eating Miss Campbell! Liam has worked on many Troma productions...

INTERFERENCE FILM: Tromaville Double Bill

Bring It On (Cheer-A-Long Screening)

Sat 22 Mar

The Toro cheerleading squad from Rancho Carne High School in San Diego has got spirit, spunk, sass and a killer routine that's sure to land them the national championship trophy for the sixth year in a row. But for newly-elected team captain Torrance, the Toros' road to total cheer glory takes a shady turn when she discovers that their perfectly-choreographed routines were in fact stolen... The c...

Consume and Obey LIVE: In the Mouth of Madness

Sat 22 Mar

The Consume & Obey Podcast invites you to join multi-award-winning comedian Nick Helm and Nathaniel Metcalfe (collectively, The John Carpenter Appreciation Society/The JCAS) in their club house as they meet up to talk about what films they’ve been consuming that week. In this special at CULTPLEX, we'll be screening John Carpenter banger IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS and then jumping into a live podcast...

Consume and Obey LIVE: In the Mouth of Madness

MOVIE CHURCH: Persepolis

Sun 23 Mar

Here at CULTPLEX we've long regarded movie-going as a religious experience and the cinema as a sacred temple of worship! Week in, week out people don their best to celebrate the gods of cinema on the big screen as they intended us to. We could never quite put a name on this but in 2023 one of our religion's patron saints Greta Gerwig talked of the Movie Church she assembled before her sermon Barbi...

Questing Time

Sun 23 Mar

Questing Time is Manchester's newest oldest Dungeons & Dragons comedy show! Improv comedian, Paul Foxcroft (Ted Lasso) returns to Manchester for the first time with his improv show/RPG/game show - Questing Time! Every month, Foxcroft assembles a renegade crew of the funniest comics and the coolest TTRPG folks to play a literal game of Dungeons & Dragons at Cultplex! Returning from a break af...

Dig! XX + Video Introduction

Tue 25 Mar

DIG! looks at the collision of art and commerce through the star-crossed friendship and bitter rivalry of dueling rock bands — The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Through their loves and obsessions, gigs, arrests and death threats, uppers and downers, and ultimately to their chance at a piece of the profit-driven music business, they stage a self-proclaimed revolution in the music ...

Re-Animator + Introduction

Wed 26 Mar

Brilliant, if somewhat deranged, medical student Herbert West arrives at Miskatonic Medical School and immediately sneers at his professor's outdated views on death. West has his own outlandish theories and has concocted a serum that will bring the dead back to life. Roping in fellow student Dan Cain their shocking experiments work all too well with horrific and very messy results. Introduction ...

Mystery Shit Film Club

Thu 27 Mar

Join us in a celebration of bargain bin cinema, of the filmmaking masterpieces you see at supermarkets and think 'What? That is a real film was was made by humans and is now in front of me?'. Your Sharknado's of the world, but we're aiming for worse (or better) than that! Each film pick will be a total mystery until the first frames hit the cinema screen. Previous films have included Velocip...

Cruel Britannia: When the Wind Blows

Sat 29 Mar

Screening as part of our CRUEL BRITANNIA season This cautionary tale is both humorous and macabre in its consideration of one of the most horrific possibilities of modern life. When the Wind Blows is a story about love, tenderness, humanity and hope. Adapted by Raymond Briggs (The Snowman) from his best-selling book, When the Wind Blows features an original soundtrack by Roger Waters, and title s...

Cruel Britannia: Scum

Sat 29 Mar

Screening as part of our CRUEL BRITANNIA season After the banning of their original 1977 BBC TV version, director Alan Clarke (The Firm) and writer Roy Minton (Funny Farm) set out to remake their drama for the big screen to ensure that their vision got the audience it deserved. The resulting film was an even more vitriolic portrait of a corrupt and violent institution which stunned cinema audienc...

Cruel Britannia: Shallow Grave

Sat 29 Mar

Screening as part of our CRUEL BRITANNIA season The diabolical thriller Shallow Grave was the first film from director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald, and screenwriter John Hodge (the smashing team behind Trainspotting). Macabre but with a streak of offbeat humor, this stylistically influential tale of guilt and derangement is a full-throttle bit of Hitchcockian nastiness. Synopsis:...

Cruel Britannia: 28 Days Later

Sat 29 Mar

Screening as part of our CRUEL BRITANNIA season Director Danny Boyle brings Alex Garland’s post-apocalyptic script and the country's capital vividly to life, with iconic scenes of Murphy wandering through an eerily abandoned Westminster and a nail-biting set-piece with a taxi tearing through the Blackwall tunnel. The film masterfully captures the grim atmosphere of a world plagued by a deadly vir...

Cruel Britannia: Possum

Sun 30 Mar

Screening as part of our CRUEL BRITANNIA season Writer-director Matthew Holness is best known for satirising British Gothic in his comedy series Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, but humour is jettisoned here for this deeply disturbing and singular psychological horror. A stylish, unique, dark and twisted tale that examines the cyclical nature of abuse, the abused and abusers. Synopsis: A disgraced...

Cruel Britannia: The Football Factory

Sun 30 Mar

Screening as part of our CRUEL BRITANNIA season A smash hit with audiences, The Football Factory spurred a number of low-budget imitations, many of them feeding a lively straight-to-DVD British indie scene, which itself offered a much needed foot in the door for the kind of working-class filmmakers too often shut out of the filmmaking mainstream. Nick Love’s films are far less politically dida...

Cruel Britannia: Fish Tank

Sun 30 Mar

Screening as part of our CRUEL BRITANNIA season Winning the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival and the BAFTA for Best British Film, Andrea Arnold’s blistering portrait of a disaffected teenage girl yearning for an escape is a heart-breaking but essential watch. Director Arnold famously discovered lead actress Katie Jarvis after overhearing her loudly arguing at a train station. Jarvis’ engross...

Cruel Britannia: The Long Good Friday (4K)

Sun 30 Mar

Screening as part of our CRUEL BRITANNIA season Universally regarded as one of the greatest gangster films ever made, The Long Good Friday rocketed Hoskins to international stardom. Connecting the glamorous thuggery of the Kray twins to Thatcherite enterprise culture with visual and narrative ingenuity, The Long Good Friday proves prophetic in many ways, not least its striking use of soon-to-b...

Cruel Britannia: The Long Good Friday (4K)

Global Justice Now Youth MCR Present: Utama

Wed 2 Apr

Global Justice Now Youth MCR are a youth-run activist organization helping mobilize young people in Manchester for change by drawing attention to global issues to challenge the powerful and help work towards a fairer and more equal world. The group wanted to feature a film that highlights the realities experienced by those on the front line of the climate crisis. They will be presenting Utama, ...

Global Justice Now Youth MCR Present: Utama

Quiz Show

Thu 3 Apr to Thu 1 May

Join us for Manchester’s only cult film pub quiz! Every other month our own in-house quizmaster writes a completely original six round quiz which can ONLY be played within the walls of our cinema, YES IT’S A MOVIE PUB QUIZ THAT HAPPENS IN A CINEMA! This means you can expect a feast of multimedia rounds on top of the uber nerdy, classic trivia questions. Example rounds include… DRAW US A PI...

P-Rock The Doc

Sat 5 Apr

IN THE ERA OF BOYBANDS AND POP MUSIC, THE EARLY 2000S TV CHANNELS DIDN’T OFFER MUCH FOR THE “ALTERNATIVE” MUSIC SCENE. TWO SOUTH LONDONERS TRIED TO CHANGE THAT, STARTING UP THEIR OWN MUSIC VIDEO CHANNEL, THEY SOARED ABOVE THE TOP DOGS, UNTIL THOSE AT THE TOP TRIED TO BRING THEM DOWN. Through Interviews with bands, fan’s and the creator’s of P-Rock TV we look into the DIY nature of the punk, ska...

SNL@50: The Blues Brothers

Sun 6 Apr

Join us for a day of screenings to celebrate 50 years of Saturday Night Live! We'll be screening three of our favourites featuring era defining cast members and writers from the show - and playing a few iconic sketches before the film. First up on the day are OG cast members Belushi and Aykroyd with their timeless characters THE BLUES BROTHERS After the release of Jake Blues (Belushi) from pris...

Movie Church: Persepolis

Based on Satrapi's graphic novel about her life in pre and post-revolutionary Iran and then in Europe. The film traces Satrapi's growth from child to rebellious, punk-loving teenager in Iran

Re-Animator + Intro!

Perfectly mixing humour + horror, Re-Animator returns to the big screen on March 26th with an introduction by film obsessed comedian Beth Moore

Cruel Britannia: 28 Days Later

Director Danny Boyle brings Alex Garland’s post-apocalyptic script and the country's capital vividly to life...

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What's On

INTERFERENCE FILM: Tromaville Double Bill

Bring It On (Cheer-A-Long Screening)

Consume and Obey LIVE: In the Mouth of Madness

MOVIE CHURCH: Persepolis

Questing Time

Dig! XX + Video Introduction

Re-Animator + Introduction

Mystery Shit Film Club

Cruel Britannia: When the Wind Blows

Cruel Britannia: Scum

Cruel Britannia: Shallow Grave

Cruel Britannia: 28 Days Later

Cruel Britannia: Possum

Cruel Britannia: The Football Factory

Cruel Britannia: Fish Tank

Cruel Britannia: The Long Good Friday (4K)

Global Justice Now Youth MCR Present: Utama

Quiz Show

P-Rock The Doc

SNL@50: The Blues Brothers

SNL@50: Wayne's World

SNL@50: Hot Rod

Make A Scene: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Platform - April

Graveyard Shift Presents: Idle Hands + Beth Moore Stand Up

The Muppet Treasure Island

Gilmore Girls 25th Anniversary Quiz Special

Urban Artistry Presents: 1UP: One United Power

Movie Church: Paris, Texas

Barbarella

PBPB: Lana Del Rey 'Did you know there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd.'

PBPB: Nina Simone ''Live At Montreux'

PBPB: Angelo Badalamenti 'Soundtrack From Twin Peaks'

Tokyo Pop

A Knight's Tale

Ghost World

Singalong-A-Wicker-Man

Blue Velvet

The Handmaiden

Taxi Driver

The Room With Greg Sestero LIVE

Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote!

GASP! FF 2025: Welcome to Praeris

GASP! FF 2025: Short Film Showcase

GASP! FF 2025: Splatter Double Bill

GASP! FF 2025: Chainsaws Were Singing

GASP! FF 2025: World Cinema Short Film Showcase

GASP! FF 2025: LGBTQIA+ Short Film Showcase

GASP! FF 2025: Tales from the Hood: 30th Anniversary Screening

GASP! FF 2025: In Our Blood

GASP! FF 2025: Mystery Queer Horror Classic

GASP! FF 2025: The House on the Lake

GASP! FF 2025: Scarlet Blue

GASP! FF 2025: Women in Horror Short Film Showcase

GASP! FF 2025: TBC

GASP! FF 2025: The Most Terrible Time in My Life

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INTERFERENCE FILM: Tromaville Double Bill

INTERFERENCE FILM: Tromaville Double Bill

Fri 21 Mar

Bring It On (Cheer-A-Long Screening)

Sat 22 Mar

Consume and Obey LIVE: In the Mouth of Madness

Sat 22 Mar

MOVIE CHURCH: Persepolis

Sun 23 Mar