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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deranged, medical student Herbert West arrives at Miskatonic Medical School and immediately sneers at his professor's outdated views on death.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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

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. Second up on the day arguably the biggest characters to make their way from from the SNL stage to the silver screen: WAYNE'S WORLD! The adventures of two amiably ...

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. Rounding out the day is the debut feature film from the trio that put YouTube on the map with Lazy Sunday, and changed the face of SNL for modern audiences; The Lo...

Make A Scene Film Club returns with a chance for friends of Dorothy and their friends to get together and watch fabulous films with a new monthly mid-week screening at CULTPLEX. This is a place to discover or re-discover those films that make up the queer and camp canon. Each month we’ll show our favourite movies with an LGBTQ+ theme or ones that have been taken to heart by the community. Fo...

PLATFORM is our special event for the games industry created to showcase work from developers of all sizes from across the region, to provide a stage for figures within industry to take attendees behind the scenes of their hard work, and open up a new space for the games development community to regularly connect. We aim to provide an opportunity for people to Platform themselves, their games and ...

When slacker teen Anton Tobias (Devon Sara) has his right hand possessed by a demonic force, he finds that his life gets a lot more interesting. While Anton himself is an amiable guy, his hand proves to be an appendage of death, killing his two best buddies, Pnub (Elden Hensen) and Mick (Seth Green), who return to life as wisecracking zombies. In addition to murdering those closest to him, Anton’s...

The Muppets are back in action as they sail the high seas in their own twist of the classic tale by Robert Louis Stevenson! Having heard the legend of Captain Flint's massive treasure, young cabin boy Jim Hawkins, along with The Great Gonzo and Rizzo the Rat set out on a frantic search for it on a mysterious island. Accompanied by Squire Trelawney (Fozzie Bear) and Captain Smollett (Kermit the Fr...