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...
We’re thrilled to be back for a second season of events, and this time we’re bringing endurance cyclist, expedition runner and author Jenny Tough all the way to Manchester. For one evening only, Jenny will be talking us through some of her recent adventures, as well as teaching us to find the confidence to go and forge our own solo adventures. Since growing up in the Canadian Rockies, Jenny Tou...
Get ready to re-enter the mind of the dreamweaver, the soul stealer, Garth Marenghi! After a sell out smash time, we are hosting another marathon of the legendary Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, where eyeballs explode, racism against scotland is allowed, and one man dares to tread where no doctor has gone before. Watch as Rick Dagless, MD battles evil forces and eclectic exploits of his colleagues. Ex...
TRASHFEST is compiled and edited by Andrew Leavold, Queensland-based director of the cult documentary The Search For Weng Weng, from his thirty-plus years of excavating film oddities. Here Leavold digs deep into the Trash Video vaults (his legendary Brisbane cult movie store from 1995 to 2010) to create the ultimate two-hour party mash-up for cine-generates and severely damaged pulp casualties: cl...
GASP! Horror Film Festival is a yearly film festival dedicated to the latest horror, sci-fi, fantasy and thriller films by female filmmakers, people of colour, people with disabilities, foreign language filmmakers and the LGBTQIA+ community. GASP! returns for another STAB! collaboration and this time, they’re hosting a screening of 70s Technicolor horror masterpiece, Suspiria! Written and di...
Join us for a horror themed edition our our monthly MAGL (Manchester Amatuer Gaming League) event! Bring your a team of your bravest gaming buddies for a frightful selection of competitive video games on the big screen! About MAGL: Join us for Manchester’s first amateur gaming league! It’s a pub quiz vibe with a gaming angle! Form your team of four pals and head down to sit in our cinema pla...
Join us for two noughties bangers back 2 back! Expect some grizzly kills, questionable performances, and of course, nu-metal soundtracks galore. Ghost Ship (2002) After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre occurrences happen and the ...
The Best Damn Simpsons Pub Quiz in Town returns! Join us for DOWN WITH HOMEWORK, an afternoon of trivia based around Springfield's favourite family. A multimedia pub quiz about The Simpsons that is so cromulent it will embiggen even the smallest team! Fancy dress is very much encouraged and prizes will be given out for the best on show! Teams no bigger than 6.
A group of five young friends face a nightmare of torment at the hands of a depraved Texas clan. This screening is 18+, and will feature subtitles to aid accessibility. The film will begin at the advertised time above.
Celebrate 40 years of terror with a Nightmare on Elm Street birthday party like no other! Step into a dreamscape of themed décor, eerie lighting, party games, and a soundtrack ripped straight from your nightmares. We're bringing Freddy's world to life with music inspired by and featured in the film, setting the perfect tone for this iconic horror milestone. Fancy dress is encouraged—so break out y...
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...
Pulses get going as Linnea leads viewers through routines while looking back on the films that made her a legend. Blood starts flowing as her jog is interrupted by zombies and a sexy sleepover becomes a nighty nightmare. Who will survive and how much will be left of them?!? This screening is 18+, and will feature subtitles to aid accessibility. The film will begin at the advertised time abov...
A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into ir...
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! When social worker Rika is sent to check on a traumatize...
When a charming 12-year-old girl takes on the characteristics and voices of others, doctors say there is nothing they can do. As people begin to die, the girl's mother realizes her daughter has been possessed by the devil--and that her daughter's only possible hope lies with two priests and the ancient rite of demonic exorcism. This screening is 18+, and will feature subtitles to aid accessibil...
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortun...
The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) Trish invites her high school basketball teammates over for a night they'll never forget -- or survive -- when an unexpected guest crashes the party: an escaped psychopath with a portable power drill. Slumber Party Massacre II (1987) Courtney is tormented by dreams of the infamous Driller Killer returning to wreak havoc... only to find that the murderous ...
Join us for a special quiz celebrating the 20th birthday of The Mighty Boosh! We're excited to present a quiz that dives deep into the quirky, strange, and fantastical world of one of our all-time favorite TV shows, with enough wild questions to fill the Nabootique! Through various multimedia rounds, we’ll be testing your knowledge of shamans, jazz, eels, talking animals, tasty soup and the ma...
Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once arch-rival Helen's fiance. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and steal back Ernest. Unfortunately for everyone, the introduction of a magic potion causes things to be a great deal more complicated than a mere murder plot. This screening is 18+, and will feature subtitles to aid accessibility. The film will begin ...
Harriet Kemsley: Everything Always Works Out For Me
Sat 2 Nov
Ridiculous things always happen to Harriet, but this year it’s out of control. She’s got to rebuild her whole life but she cannot work out which way the building blocks go. The multi award-winning Harriet Kemsley is back with a new show about break-ups, sloths and trying to think positively while everything descends into absolute chaos. As seen on Live at the Apollo, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Co...