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.
Scientists in an isolated research facility become the prey as a trio of intelligent sharks—genetically altered in the name of medical research—fight back. On an island research facility, Dr. Susan McAlester is harvesting the brain tissue of DNA-altered sharks as a possible cure for Alzheimer’s disease. When the facility’s backers send an executive to investigate the experiments, a routine proced...
On Halloween, Jackie, a trans woman in Keyport NJ, chases her escaped crow. After tragedy strikes, she’s possessed by Baphomet and seeks revenge. Lucy and Max get caught in the chaos while heading to a party. GASP! will kick off the Halloween special Horror All-Dayer with a perfect slice of Halloween fun. Carrying the same irresistibly enjoyable indie spirit that often came with 90s SOV horror fi...
Synopsis – DJ, a mentally-plagued electronica musician, stumbles upon the “Master Frequency”—a dangerous sound wave that distorts the body and mind. As DJ falls deeper into the frequency’s grasp, they must save their mind and loved ones. Bringing some sci-fi into the mix for the Horror All-Dayer, GASP! is very proud to present Bosmo Kosmerly’s mind-bending Dark Frequencies. This is a great exampl...
GASP! presents five Short Film Showcases at their main festival each year, and this Horror All-Dayer showcase works as a great example of what you can expect from those showcases as well as GASP! Horror Film Festival as a whole. From an intimate relationship with a TV to a surprise party gone very wrong and from a Mexican slasher to a ballet creature feature, this showcase is sure to provide somet...
GASP! All Dayer: Dracula's Daughter (90th Anniversary)
Sat 3 Oct
When Countess Marya Zaleska appears in London, mysterious events occur that lead Dr. Von Helsing to believe that the Countess must be a vampire. Each year, GASP! includes an anniversary screening of a horror classic on their lineup, and for the Horror All-Dayer, they’ve gone way back to the year 1936 to bring you a 90th anniversary screening of the first-ever lesbian vampire film, Dracula’s Daugh...
A relaxing weekend at their remote lake house appears to be the perfect remedy for stressed newlyweds Max and Baker. When Baker suggests that they use the getaway to finally pursue an illicit encounter he's been pressuring, Max reluctantly agrees, hoping it will add a much needed spark to their relationship. What results is an unimaginable blood soaked nightmare and will require unthinkable measur...
A late night screening of a queer horror classic that is either about queer people, made by queer people or containing queer allegories – that’s all that the GASP! team are willing to tell you… to give anymore away would ruin the surprise. All of our screenings are 18+ unless otherwise stated, and the film start time is as advertised above.
A haunting horror fairytale set against the backdrop of Mexico’s devastating drug wars, TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID follows a group of orphaned children armed with three magical wishes, running from the ghosts that haunt them and the cartel that murdered their parents. Filmmaker Issa López creates a world that recalls the early films of Guillermo del Toro, imbued with her own gritty urban spin on magic...
Screening as part of STAB! The Master of Horror unleashes everything you were ever afraid of. In 1990, ABC presented a two-night TV miniseries event, based on Stephen King’s 1986 novel of the same name, written by Lawrence D. Cohen and directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. The series went on to become perhaps one of the greatest TV Horror Adaptations of all time. Set in 1960, seven outcast kids known a...
This thesis on auto-canibalism and voyuerism stands as a slight outlier in the New Extremity movement, being one of the few films directed, written and starring a woman. A precursor to the works of Julia Ducournau and Coralie Fargeat (and undoubtedly an influence on RAW) this film is a deeply distressing, incredibly resonant and shocking portrayal of the dysmorphia forced upon women under patriarc...
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...
Scientists in an isolated research facility become the prey as a trio of intelligent sharks—genetically altered in the name of medical research—fight back. On an island research facility, Dr. Susan McAlester is harvesting the brain tissue of DNA-altered sharks as a possible cure for Alzheimer’s disease. When the facility’s backers send an executive to investigate the experiments, a routine proced...
On Halloween, Jackie, a trans woman in Keyport NJ, chases her escaped crow. After tragedy strikes, she’s possessed by Baphomet and seeks revenge. Lucy and Max get caught in the chaos while heading to a party. GASP! will kick off the Halloween special Horror All-Dayer with a perfect slice of Halloween fun. Carrying the same irresistibly enjoyable indie spirit that often came with 90s SOV horror fi...
Synopsis – DJ, a mentally-plagued electronica musician, stumbles upon the “Master Frequency”—a dangerous sound wave that distorts the body and mind. As DJ falls deeper into the frequency’s grasp, they must save their mind and loved ones. Bringing some sci-fi into the mix for the Horror All-Dayer, GASP! is very proud to present Bosmo Kosmerly’s mind-bending Dark Frequencies. This is a great exampl...
GASP! presents five Short Film Showcases at their main festival each year, and this Horror All-Dayer showcase works as a great example of what you can expect from those showcases as well as GASP! Horror Film Festival as a whole. From an intimate relationship with a TV to a surprise party gone very wrong and from a Mexican slasher to a ballet creature feature, this showcase is sure to provide somet...
GASP! All Dayer: Dracula's Daughter (90th Anniversary)
Sat 3 Oct
When Countess Marya Zaleska appears in London, mysterious events occur that lead Dr. Von Helsing to believe that the Countess must be a vampire. Each year, GASP! includes an anniversary screening of a horror classic on their lineup, and for the Horror All-Dayer, they’ve gone way back to the year 1936 to bring you a 90th anniversary screening of the first-ever lesbian vampire film, Dracula’s Daugh...
A relaxing weekend at their remote lake house appears to be the perfect remedy for stressed newlyweds Max and Baker. When Baker suggests that they use the getaway to finally pursue an illicit encounter he's been pressuring, Max reluctantly agrees, hoping it will add a much needed spark to their relationship. What results is an unimaginable blood soaked nightmare and will require unthinkable measur...
A late night screening of a queer horror classic that is either about queer people, made by queer people or containing queer allegories – that’s all that the GASP! team are willing to tell you… to give anymore away would ruin the surprise. All of our screenings are 18+ unless otherwise stated, and the film start time is as advertised above.
A haunting horror fairytale set against the backdrop of Mexico’s devastating drug wars, TIGERS ARE NOT AFRAID follows a group of orphaned children armed with three magical wishes, running from the ghosts that haunt them and the cartel that murdered their parents. Filmmaker Issa López creates a world that recalls the early films of Guillermo del Toro, imbued with her own gritty urban spin on magic...
Screening as part of STAB! The Master of Horror unleashes everything you were ever afraid of. In 1990, ABC presented a two-night TV miniseries event, based on Stephen King’s 1986 novel of the same name, written by Lawrence D. Cohen and directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. The series went on to become perhaps one of the greatest TV Horror Adaptations of all time. Set in 1960, seven outcast kids known a...
This thesis on auto-canibalism and voyuerism stands as a slight outlier in the New Extremity movement, being one of the few films directed, written and starring a woman. A precursor to the works of Julia Ducournau and Coralie Fargeat (and undoubtedly an influence on RAW) this film is a deeply distressing, incredibly resonant and shocking portrayal of the dysmorphia forced upon women under patriarc...
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...
