FROM DEEP SPACE… THE SEED IS PLANTED… TERROR GROWS
he first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion, from a small town to the city of San Francisco and starts as Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are in some way different.
When questioned later they themselves seem changed, as they deny everything or make lame excuses. As the invaders increase in number they become more open and Bennell, who has by now witnessed an attempted “replacement”, realises that he and his friends must escape or suffer the same fate. But who can he trust to help him and who has already been snatched?
A whip-smart statement on urban paranoia and loss of individuality, this 1978 chiller combines a dazzling screenplay, masterful cinematography from Raging Bull's Michael Chapman, and awe-inspiring special effects to create the perfect big screen classic for this Halloween season.
Police Lt. Kinderman (George C. Scott) notices similarities between his current murder investigation and the methods used by the Gemini killer (Brad Dourif) who was executed 15 years before. He soon discovers a hospitalized mental patient (Jason Miller) claiming to be the dead serial killer, but who looks uncannily like a priest Kinderman knew who died during an exorcism. As more bodies are found,...
Screening as part of STAB! Social codes and conventions become fateful in a captivating and satirical nail-biter about a Danish family who becomes ensnared in a situation they find it increasingly difficult to escape. During a vacation to Toscana, Louise and Bjørn meet a Dutch couple who has a son of the same age as their daughter. A few months later they are invited to visit the Dutch family an...
STAB: Make A Scene Presents: Ghost Hunting with Girls Aloud
Fri 9 Oct
Screening as part of STAB Make A Scene are Manchester's queer and camp film club showing film and TV since 2016...they join STAB at CULTPLEX for a very special Halloweeny classic TV screening of Halloween favourite Ghosthunting with Girls Aloud. Yvette Fielding's iconic series of ghost hunts screened in the early 2000s on ITV2 as celebrity guests including Emmerdale's The Dingles, McFly, Paul O ...
Screening as part of STAB! By day, Kyung-chul (Choi Min-shik) is a school bus driver, happily and safely ferrying children to and from school. But this is a mask he wears because at night, he transforms into his true nature; one of the most disturbing and sadistic serial killers Korea has ever known. One evening, a young women, Ju-yeon, falls into the manic murder’s sights, resulting in a brutal ...
Screening as part of STAB! YOU THINK YOU KNOW THE STORY. Five college friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods. From fan favourites Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard comes The Cabin in the Woods, a mind blowing horror film that turns the genre inside out. This screening...
Screening as part of STAB! "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" Academy Award winner Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall star in director Stanley Kubrick's disturbing adaptation of Stephen King's blockbuster horror novel. Aspiring writer Jack Torrance (Nicholson) travels to a remote Colorado hotel with his wife (Duvall) and son (Danny Lloyd) to take up the position of winter caretaker. In...
Screening as part of STAB! A work of dense visual and technical complexity, HOUSE is perhaps best remembered as a psychedelic, cinematic pop-up fairytale of the Grimm brothers variety, but Obayashi's darkly comic fable of seven schoolgirls is deceptive in its simplicity. While the girls' stay in a haunted house results in a series of sinister, stylized, and undeniably silly slashings, HOUSE subt...
Screening as part of STAB! From legendary Italian horror master Lucio Fulci comes the ultimate classic of supernatural terror. A remote and cursed hotel, built over one of the seven gateways, becomes a yawning malevolent abyss that begins devouring both the bodies and the souls of all who enter in a graphic frenzy of gory crucifixions, chunk-blowing chain-whippings, eyeball impalements, sulphuric...
Screening as part of STAB! They’re heeeeeeere. It’s time to summon Tobe Hooper and Steven Spielberg’s 1982 masterpiece Poltergeist to close our Haunted House All Nighter. Nothing is as it seems in sunny suburbia, where cookie-cutter homes and smiling families mask a gateway to the beyond. When the Freeling family’s youngest daughter mysteriously vanishes into the television set, their idyllic l...
FROM DEEP SPACE… THE SEED IS PLANTED… TERROR GROWS he first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion, from a small town to the city of San Francisco and starts as Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are in some way different. When questioned later they themselves seem changed, as they deny everything...
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...
STAB: The Independent Horror Society: Indie Film Showcase
Thu 15 Oct
The Independent Horror Society has been dedicated to supporting grassroots horror cinema for over 10 years, and they are so proud to have 2,300+ committed horror fans and filmmakers in our ranks. They have launched the Indie Film Showcase to do what they love best -- bringing incredible short genre films from hugely talented filmmakers, to the wonderful UK horror community. And in January they ho...
STAB: Cult School: BODY HORROR 101: FALLING APART - REFLECTIONS ON BODY HORROR AND THE MIND
Thu 15 Oct
Welcome back to CULT SCHOOL at CULTPLEX, where the syllabus is the world of cult film! CULT SCHOOL isn’t academic, it’s an enthusiastic dive into why these films continue to fascinate cult fans, horror heads, and film critics around the world. BODY HORROR 101: FALLING APART - REFLECTIONS ON BODY HORROR AND THE MIND Since Frankenstein , the horrors of the body have revealed so much about humanit...
OBSCURE FILM PRESENTS: BEASTIE BOYS IN... AWESOME: I F*CKIN' SHOT THAT! + VINYL DJ SET
Fri 16 Oct
7-10pm, Saturday 16th October, 2026 at FAIRFIELD SOCIAL CLUB Hold it now… Hit it! The ninth in a series of feature and short film screenings presented by Obscure Film in association with CULTPLEX in 2026 is a special one, the 20th anniversary screening of AWESOME: I F*CKIN’ SHOT THAT! For their Madison Square Garden concert in 2004, the Beastie Boys gave 50 audience members camcorders and created ...
Hammer Films / Kaleidoscope Entertainment in partnership with Warner Bros resurrects the classic horror DRACULA in a landmark new 4K restoration featuring long-lost footage unseen for over 60 years! The recovered material has never been released before in the UK. It’s the cut the censors tried to bury. T his landmark 4K restoration from original film elements reinstates footage that was believ...
Four films of fur ripping, scab picking, maggot ingesting, orifice stretching fun at STAB with VISCERAMA - a celebration of the wonderfully visceral Practical Effects from some of the greatest of their craft including Screaming Mad George, Rick Baker and Shinya Tsukamoto! It's easy to see why visceral visionary David Cronenberg was attracted to this remake - it neatly reflected his pet obsessions...
Four films of fur ripping, scab picking, maggot ingesting, orifice stretching fun at STAB with VISCERAMA - a celebration of the wonderfully visceral Practical Effects from some of the greatest of their craft including Screaming Mad George, Rick Baker and Shinya Tsukamoto! A teenager uncovers an elite ritualistic society in Brian Yuzna's stomach-churning mix of body-horror and social commentary. ...
Four films of fur ripping, scab picking, maggot ingesting, orifice stretching fun at STAB with VISCERAMA - a celebration of the wonderfully visceral Practical Effects from some of the greatest of their craft including Screaming Mad George, Rick Baker and Shinya Tsukamoto! There's a bad moon on the rise... As they make their way across the Yorkshire Moors, two backpacking US students are attacke...
Four films of fur ripping, scab picking, maggot ingesting, orifice stretching fun at STAB with VISCERAMA - a celebration of the wonderfully visceral Practical Effects from some of the greatest of their craft including Screaming Mad George, Rick Baker and Shinya Tsukamoto! Experience the cyberpunk body-horror of Shinya Tsukamoto's boundary-pushing techno-horror cult classic, as we revisit the jour...
The Wolf House is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, with uncanny world-building and untraditional horror that breaks all the rules of animation The Wolf House - or La Casa Lobo in the original Spanish - is an animated horror film like no other. Our protagonist Maria escapes a religious colony in Chile, and takes refuge in an abandoned house in the woods. As the interior begins to transform around her,...
Police Lt. Kinderman (George C. Scott) notices similarities between his current murder investigation and the methods used by the Gemini killer (Brad Dourif) who was executed 15 years before. He soon discovers a hospitalized mental patient (Jason Miller) claiming to be the dead serial killer, but who looks uncannily like a priest Kinderman knew who died during an exorcism. As more bodies are found,...
Screening as part of STAB! Social codes and conventions become fateful in a captivating and satirical nail-biter about a Danish family who becomes ensnared in a situation they find it increasingly difficult to escape. During a vacation to Toscana, Louise and Bjørn meet a Dutch couple who has a son of the same age as their daughter. A few months later they are invited to visit the Dutch family an...
STAB: Make A Scene Presents: Ghost Hunting with Girls Aloud
Fri 9 Oct
Screening as part of STAB Make A Scene are Manchester's queer and camp film club showing film and TV since 2016...they join STAB at CULTPLEX for a very special Halloweeny classic TV screening of Halloween favourite Ghosthunting with Girls Aloud. Yvette Fielding's iconic series of ghost hunts screened in the early 2000s on ITV2 as celebrity guests including Emmerdale's The Dingles, McFly, Paul O ...
Screening as part of STAB! By day, Kyung-chul (Choi Min-shik) is a school bus driver, happily and safely ferrying children to and from school. But this is a mask he wears because at night, he transforms into his true nature; one of the most disturbing and sadistic serial killers Korea has ever known. One evening, a young women, Ju-yeon, falls into the manic murder’s sights, resulting in a brutal ...
Screening as part of STAB! YOU THINK YOU KNOW THE STORY. Five college friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods. From fan favourites Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard comes The Cabin in the Woods, a mind blowing horror film that turns the genre inside out. This screening...
Screening as part of STAB! "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" Academy Award winner Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall star in director Stanley Kubrick's disturbing adaptation of Stephen King's blockbuster horror novel. Aspiring writer Jack Torrance (Nicholson) travels to a remote Colorado hotel with his wife (Duvall) and son (Danny Lloyd) to take up the position of winter caretaker. In...
Screening as part of STAB! A work of dense visual and technical complexity, HOUSE is perhaps best remembered as a psychedelic, cinematic pop-up fairytale of the Grimm brothers variety, but Obayashi's darkly comic fable of seven schoolgirls is deceptive in its simplicity. While the girls' stay in a haunted house results in a series of sinister, stylized, and undeniably silly slashings, HOUSE subt...
Screening as part of STAB! From legendary Italian horror master Lucio Fulci comes the ultimate classic of supernatural terror. A remote and cursed hotel, built over one of the seven gateways, becomes a yawning malevolent abyss that begins devouring both the bodies and the souls of all who enter in a graphic frenzy of gory crucifixions, chunk-blowing chain-whippings, eyeball impalements, sulphuric...
Screening as part of STAB! They’re heeeeeeere. It’s time to summon Tobe Hooper and Steven Spielberg’s 1982 masterpiece Poltergeist to close our Haunted House All Nighter. Nothing is as it seems in sunny suburbia, where cookie-cutter homes and smiling families mask a gateway to the beyond. When the Freeling family’s youngest daughter mysteriously vanishes into the television set, their idyllic l...
FROM DEEP SPACE… THE SEED IS PLANTED… TERROR GROWS he first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion, from a small town to the city of San Francisco and starts as Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are in some way different. When questioned later they themselves seem changed, as they deny everything...
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...
STAB: The Independent Horror Society: Indie Film Showcase
Thu 15 Oct
The Independent Horror Society has been dedicated to supporting grassroots horror cinema for over 10 years, and they are so proud to have 2,300+ committed horror fans and filmmakers in our ranks. They have launched the Indie Film Showcase to do what they love best -- bringing incredible short genre films from hugely talented filmmakers, to the wonderful UK horror community. And in January they ho...
STAB: Cult School: BODY HORROR 101: FALLING APART - REFLECTIONS ON BODY HORROR AND THE MIND
Thu 15 Oct
Welcome back to CULT SCHOOL at CULTPLEX, where the syllabus is the world of cult film! CULT SCHOOL isn’t academic, it’s an enthusiastic dive into why these films continue to fascinate cult fans, horror heads, and film critics around the world. BODY HORROR 101: FALLING APART - REFLECTIONS ON BODY HORROR AND THE MIND Since Frankenstein , the horrors of the body have revealed so much about humanit...
OBSCURE FILM PRESENTS: BEASTIE BOYS IN... AWESOME: I F*CKIN' SHOT THAT! + VINYL DJ SET
Fri 16 Oct
7-10pm, Saturday 16th October, 2026 at FAIRFIELD SOCIAL CLUB Hold it now… Hit it! The ninth in a series of feature and short film screenings presented by Obscure Film in association with CULTPLEX in 2026 is a special one, the 20th anniversary screening of AWESOME: I F*CKIN’ SHOT THAT! For their Madison Square Garden concert in 2004, the Beastie Boys gave 50 audience members camcorders and created ...
Hammer Films / Kaleidoscope Entertainment in partnership with Warner Bros resurrects the classic horror DRACULA in a landmark new 4K restoration featuring long-lost footage unseen for over 60 years! The recovered material has never been released before in the UK. It’s the cut the censors tried to bury. T his landmark 4K restoration from original film elements reinstates footage that was believ...
Four films of fur ripping, scab picking, maggot ingesting, orifice stretching fun at STAB with VISCERAMA - a celebration of the wonderfully visceral Practical Effects from some of the greatest of their craft including Screaming Mad George, Rick Baker and Shinya Tsukamoto! It's easy to see why visceral visionary David Cronenberg was attracted to this remake - it neatly reflected his pet obsessions...
Four films of fur ripping, scab picking, maggot ingesting, orifice stretching fun at STAB with VISCERAMA - a celebration of the wonderfully visceral Practical Effects from some of the greatest of their craft including Screaming Mad George, Rick Baker and Shinya Tsukamoto! A teenager uncovers an elite ritualistic society in Brian Yuzna's stomach-churning mix of body-horror and social commentary. ...
Four films of fur ripping, scab picking, maggot ingesting, orifice stretching fun at STAB with VISCERAMA - a celebration of the wonderfully visceral Practical Effects from some of the greatest of their craft including Screaming Mad George, Rick Baker and Shinya Tsukamoto! There's a bad moon on the rise... As they make their way across the Yorkshire Moors, two backpacking US students are attacke...
Four films of fur ripping, scab picking, maggot ingesting, orifice stretching fun at STAB with VISCERAMA - a celebration of the wonderfully visceral Practical Effects from some of the greatest of their craft including Screaming Mad George, Rick Baker and Shinya Tsukamoto! Experience the cyberpunk body-horror of Shinya Tsukamoto's boundary-pushing techno-horror cult classic, as we revisit the jour...
The Wolf House is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, with uncanny world-building and untraditional horror that breaks all the rules of animation The Wolf House - or La Casa Lobo in the original Spanish - is an animated horror film like no other. Our protagonist Maria escapes a religious colony in Chile, and takes refuge in an abandoned house in the woods. As the interior begins to transform around her,...
