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Oh Hi Greg! This May we're super excited that our best friend Greg Sestero is back in Manchester to bring the greatest piece of cult cinema ever aka THE ROOM to our big screen! We will of course be screening The Room in full; before the screening Greg will be with us for a Q&A on his experience working with the maestro Tommy Wiseau plus other onstage fun, and then after the film Greg will st...

Kim’s Video follows modern-day cinephile and filmmaker, David Redmon, on a seemingly quixotic quest to track down the whereabouts of the massive video collection of the now-defunct Kim’s Video, an iconic NYC video rental store with more than 55,000 beloved and rare movies. Playing with the forms and tropes of cinema, David’s bizarre and increasingly obsessive quest takes him to Sicily, where he b...

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...

In the year 2050, global economic turmoil has destroyed the middle class in Cape Town, South Africa, which is now divided between the ultra-rich and the displaced. Ronald and a group of fellow houseless friends uncover a plot by the local government to 'wash away' the houseless population with a sinister chemical agent called 'V.' Now, they must risk everything to expose the truth and resist a soc...

We are very proud to present ARROW VIDEO CLUB, a new collaboration with the almighty lords of physical media Arrow Video; where we will present some of the best titles from their back catalogue on our lovely big screen! Expect a variety of cult classics, deep cuts, Arrow Video trailers and a raffle for Arrow Video blu-rays at every event! Synopsis: Hedonist Frank Cotton finds a mysterious puzz...

Interference Films is proud to present a very special screening of Lars Von Trier's magnum opus ANTICHRIST. Love him or loathe him, no one can ignore the impact Lars Von Trier has had upon transgressive cinema as a whole. His controversial body of work can be described as both transcendental and abhorrent in the same breath, always challenging and defiantly unflinching, Von Trier is the agent p...

This radically non-linear structure, with its profound implications about the fallibility of perspective, impressed judges at the 1951 Venice Film Festival. They awarded Akira Kurosawa’s film the Golden Lion, helping to encourage a broader interest in Japanese film in the west. With its snaking bolero-like score and poetic use of dappled forest light, Rashomon is a work of enduring ambiguity. B...

Cult hit event Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote returns to Manchester with an interactive screening of the classic Murder, She Wrote episode “Keep the Home Fries Burning”. A new café in Cabot Cove proves a winner with the locals, until there’s a murder that only Jessica Fletcher (or you!) can solve! Our last show sold out, so grab tickets whilst you can! Doors 19:00 Show start 19:30 Solve-Along-A...

PARAPHYSIS CINEMA AND SPEED AND STRIKE PRESENT; A MANCHESTER PREMIER OF LOUISE WEARD'S CASTRATION MOVIE: ANTHOLOGY I. TRAPS After a premier at Glasgow's Weird Weekend and subsequent screenings across North America, the film comes to Manchester!. This is not one to be missed and will be a very special night celebrating truly independent and truly transgender filmmaking. The film will be presented ...

Join us at Fairfield Social Club for a special quiz dedicated to the greatest bunch of jabroni's there ever was, the gang from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia! We're very excited to present a quiz which will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the longest running live action american sitcom in history! Through various quizzical multimedia rounds we'll be testing your knowledge of Paddy's Pub, The...

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...

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 ...

The whiplash, double-pronged Chungking Express is one of the defining works of 1990s cinema and the film that made Wong Kar Wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung Chiu Wai), both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out food stand, where the ethereal pixie waitress Faye (Faye Wong) works. Anything goes in Wong’s gloriously sh...

Part of our Kai-June Godzilla Marathon! Reporter Goro Maki stumbles upon scientists conducting weather experiments on Sollgel Island in the South Seas. He discovers the island is inhabited by giant mantis and a woman named Saeko who's been cast away since the death of her father. The pair soon find a helpless infant monster that Godzilla must adopt and learn to raise as one of his own. Single ...

As part of Kai- June Godzilla Marathon! An Okinawan prophecy that foretells the destruction of the Earth is seeming fulfilled when Godzilla emerges to return to his destructive roots. But not all is what it seems after Godzilla breaks his ally Anguirus's jaw. Matters are further complicated when a second Godzilla emerges, revealing the doppelgänger as a mechanical weapon. Single film tickets...

As part of Kai-June Godzilla Marathon! Intended to address the crisis levels of pollution in postwar Japan, Godzilla vs. Hedorah finds the King of the Monsters fighting an alien life form that arrives on Earth and steadily grows by feeding on industrial waste. Director Yoshimitsu Banno infuses the film with equal parts ecological horror, humorous monster antics, and sixties psychedelia straight...

An idyllic summer turns into a nightmare of unspeakable terror for yet another group of naïve counselors. Ignoring Camp Crystal Lake's bloody legacy, one by one they fall victim to the maniacal Jason, who stalks them at every turn... This is the sole entry in the franchise that was presented in old school 3D - Glasses will be provided upon entry! Friday the 13th Part III plays as part of our F...

Jason ships out aboard a teen-filled "love boat" bound for New York, which he soon transforms into the ultimate voyage of the damned. Friday the 13th: Jason Takes Manhattan plays as part of our FRIDAY 13TH All-Nighter! Both single film tickets and a full night pass option is available for this event. Friday 13th All Nighter Lineup 19:30 Friday the 13th Part III (3D) 21:45 Friday the 13th: Jaso...

Jason Voorhees is tracked down and blown to bits by a special FBI task force, reborn with the bone-chilling ability to assume the identity of anyone he touches. Jason Goes to Hell plays as part of our FRIDAY 13TH All-Nighter! Both single film tickets and a full night pass option is available for this event. Friday 13th All Nighter Lineup 19:30 Friday the 13th Part III (3D) 21:45 Friday the 13t...

In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled, not to live, but to research the ancient, rusting artifacts of the long-gone civilizations. But it's not the harmful environment that could prove fatal to the intrepid, young explo...