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The Mellow Film Tour UK is coming to Manchester for the first time. Watch the trailer --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCtv7xHfvjI Four films. Intimate screenings. One unforgettable night. Step inside the world’s hardest ascents with Brooke Raboutou, Sean Bailey, and Connor Herson - pushing the limits of what’s possible on rock. Then, an unexpected twist: deep in the Alaskan mountains, elit...

Welcome back to CULT SCHOOL at CULTPLEX, where the syllabus is the world of cult film! For the second session of 2026, presenter and author Nathan Lunn (@geordiefilmsclass) stomps onto the scene for Kaiju 101: Monstrous Trauma Writ Large. Delving into a body of cinema so massive its presence is globally shared, unavoidable and entirely mutable, our session will explore cinematic allegories for hi...

Godzilla (a.k.a. Gojira ) is the roaring granddaddy of all monster movies! Experience Ishiro Honda's Kaiju masterpiece which started it all. Godzilla is also a remarkably humane and melancholy drama, made in Japan at a time when the country was reeling from nuclear attack and H-bomb testing in the Pacific. Its rampaging radioactive beast, the poignant embodiment of an entire population’s fears, ...

A landmark of Japanese monster cinema, this thrilling clash of titans blends apocalyptic spectacle with environmental anxieties and moments of surprising beauty. Directed by Ishiro Honda, the visionary behind the original Godzilla , the film pits the King of the Monsters against the divine guardian Mothra after corporate greed and natural disaster unleash chaos across Japan. With dazzling miniat...

The original Godzilla team of director Ishiro Honda, special-effects supervisor Eiji Tsuburaya, and composer Akira Ifukube reunited for this kaiju extravaganza, which features no fewer than eleven monsters. Set in the remote future of 1999, when the people of Earth have achieved world peace by confining destructive creatures to Monsterland (until an alien race intervenes), Destroy All Monsters mou...

As part of Kai- June Godzilla Marathon! Our mystery GODZILLA pick... Screening as part of our iconic celebration of Kaiju's throughout June! Single tickets and All Day Passes available. All of our screenings are 18+ unless otherwise stated, and the film start time is as advertised above.

Peter Jackson's passionate 2005 reimagining of the 1933 classic is filmmaking on the grandest scale, a three-hour spectacular that honors the original while expanding it into a fully realized world. The director brings the same meticulous craft that defined his Lord of the Rings trilogy to create a Skull Island teeming with terrifying creatures and breathtaking danger—from a harrowing battle with...

Global Justice Now returns to Cultplex, this time featuring a screening of ' All That Breathes '. Winner of both Sundance and Festival des Cannes for 'Best Documentary' in 2022, the documentary follows the brothers Nadeem and Saud in their efforts to protect the black kite, a bird of prey essential to New Delhi's ecosystem, which is threatened by the air pollution in the city. All profits from th...

A ragtag group including a local Deputy Sheriff, the Deputy's estranged wife, a young pregnant woman and her grandfather, an assortment of locals and a vengeful father and son, find themselves in a remote hospital besieged by mysterious cultists. As the night passes the group are beset by nightmarish horrors and begin a descent into the darkest recesses of a twisting reality Steven Kostanski and ...

The sixth in a year-long series of feature and short film screenings presented by Obscure Film at Cultplex in 2026! Each of the Genre Identities programmes will feature two hours of short films by local and international filmmakers, exploring the relationship between themes and concepts of a wide variety of film genres and the identities of the filmmakers and their communities. This screening fea...

Returning for its second year and now on the main screen due to popular demand, GASP! will once again be hosting a horror movie quiz the week before their 2026 festival! With various rounds focusing on various areas of the genre as well as additional points up for grabs for best team name, the GASP! The team will test your knowledge and give you a chance of winning two full festival passes for th...

The Experimental Fiction Film Festival returns on 20 June for a one-night-only showcase of bold international cinema and experimental storytelling. Bringing together emerging and established filmmakers from across the world, the programme explores surreal narratives, speculative worlds, fractured realities, and visually adventurous filmmaking rarely seen on mainstream screens. Expect an evening of...

The Experimental Fiction Film Festival returns on 20 June for a one-night-only showcase of bold international cinema and experimental storytelling. Bringing together emerging and established filmmakers from across the world, the programme explores surreal narratives, speculative worlds, fractured realities, and visually adventurous filmmaking rarely seen on mainstream screens. Expect an evening of...

The Experimental Fiction Film Festival returns on 20 June for a one-night-only showcase of bold international cinema and experimental storytelling. Bringing together emerging and established filmmakers from across the world, the programme explores surreal narratives, speculative worlds, fractured realities, and visually adventurous filmmaking rarely seen on mainstream screens. Expect an evening of...

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 recently one of our religion's patron saints Greta Gerwig talked of the Movie Church she assembled before her most recent...

Oscar winner Jordan Peele disrupted and redefined modern horror with Get Out and Us . Now, he reimagines the summer movie with a new pop nightmare: the expansive sci-fi epic, Nope . After their father's death, siblings OJ (Daniel Kaluuya) and Emerald Haywood (Keke Palmer) inherit his horse ranch located in a lonely gulch of inland California. When they and other residents glimpse a mysterious ob...

“Little Latin boy in drag, why are you crying?” Make A Scene proudly presents: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar - the glitter-soaked 1995 road movie comedy that got an entire generation of straight Hollywood stars to put on heels! Following three New York drag queens stranded in a small conservative town is has a strangely similar plot to the more well known The Adventures of Pris...

As pioneers of emo rock and youth subculture My Chemical Romance embark on a worldwide tour, come and celebrate the return of 2006 at CULTPLEX with a screening of the documentary MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE: LIFE ON THE MURDER SCENE. Screening Thursday 25th June, 7:30pm at Cultplex, this is a very rare opportunity to see the infamous documentation of the band's early touring life on the big screen. Altho...

GASP! takes place during summer each year, but we are not against providing autumnal vibes a few months early, and that’s exactly what Don’t Let the Cat Out delivers! Tim Cruz’s creepy Halloween-set slasher film is guaranteed to have you on the edge of your seat with its excellent pacing, intense set pieces, amusingly dark humour, and terrifying cat costumes. It’s a deeply personal tale of grief a...

This year, GASP! will present five Short Film Showcases, starting with the opening night showcase that features all things camp, creepy, thought provoking, and unsettling whilst working as a great example of what you can expect from the festival as a whole. From witches in the Dark Ages to a killer orange and from gooey French body horror to found footage with a terrifying serial killer, this show...