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Screening as part of STAB! The claustrophobic walls of grief have been closing in on Sarah, who tragically lost her husband and daughter in a car accident. One year later, she and her girlfriends go on their annual adventure trip and are reunited at a cabin in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, this time to go spelunking in the caverns hidden deep in the woods. T he intended bonding-an...

Penda 's Fen is a surreal, at times nightmarish picture of quaint country provincialism turned upside down. This 70s television play by Alan Clarke challenges the traditional heteronormative England of church on Sundays and cadet drills in school. Reminiscent of the folk horror films like The Wicker Man, Penda 's Fen is a story of a teenagers awakening, charged with demons, ancient rites and sexua...

A Priest who can turn into a dinosaur and his Hooker-Doctor-Lawyer girlfriend travel to the port city of Milan, Italy, where they have to solve a series of murders committed by a Sex Maniac Killer at an Italian Fertility Festival. Also Soviet Spies because it’s the 80s. The much-anticipated sequel to the micro-budget genre sensation brings its mind-melting experience to CULTPLEX with a special UK...

Northern Folklore Archive: Northern Folklore Archive are a duo hellbent on championing folklore from the North of the U.K. Purveyors of the strange and creepy, they have launched the Go Folk Yourself Folk Horror Film Club to highlight fantastic folk horror cinema. The Wolf of Snow Hollow: John Marshall, a recovering alcoholic and local police officer, never believed in werewolves. Until, that is...

Can't handle a double feature, how about a monster midnight screening? A night of claws, coffee, and a man of the cloth. A Priest who can turn into a Dinosaur and his Hooker-Doctor-Lawyer girlfriend travel to the port city of Milan (in Italy), where they have to solve a series of murders committed by a Sex Maniac Killer at an Italian Fertility Festival. Also Soviet Spies because it’s the 80s. Co...

Screening as part of STAB! Zoinks! Treat your inner child to a big-screen adventure with Scooby and the gang! With plenty of Boozy Snacks! The Mystery Inc. gang must save Coolsville from an attack of their past monsters brought to life by an evil masked figure trying to take down the gang. And as if the monsters aren’t enough, the gang must deal with television journalist Heather Jasper-Howe, w...

Screening as part of STAB! Michael Haneke turns the unflinching gaze of the camera back on itself in this provocative, profoundly disturbing study of emotional disconnection in the age of mass-media saturation. Benny (a frighteningly affectless Arno Frisch), the teenage son of wealthy, disengaged parents, finds release in the world of violent videos—an obsession that leads him to create his own ...

Longlegs: After making the rounds in American cinemas to loud and polarising acclaim, Longlegs comes to CPX to disturb the living daylights out of you. FBI Agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) is assigned to an unsolved serial killer case that takes an unexpected turn, revealing evidence of the occult. Harker discovers a personal connection to the killer and must stop him before he strikes again. Sta...

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 recently one of our religion's patron saints Greta Gerwig talked of the Movie Church she assembled before her most recent...

This Halloween, Movie Church turns satanic... Having brought British cinema into exalted realms of fantasy and imagination, Michael Powell took a dark detour into obsession, voyeurism, and violence with this groundbreaking metacinematic investigation into the mechanics of fear. Armed with his killer camera, photographer and filmmaker Mark Lewis (Carl Boehm) unleashes the traumas of his childhood...

Screening as part of STAB! From the directing duo who made their extraordinarily creepy debut Talk to Me, their second film follows a brother and sister who uncover a terrifying ritual at the secluded home of their new foster mother. When their father suddenly collapses and dies, Andy and Piper are sent to live at a new foster home. But while their foster mother is welcoming, something is most d...

Cemetery Screening Presents Ken Russell's ' The Lair of the White Worm ' on 29th October alongside a live podcast recording , as part of CULTPLEX's STAB Film Season. Cemetery screening invites you to join the two decaying deadbeats in their crypt where they discuss the world of horror, cult classics, as well as some hidden gems. In this first Birthday special at CULTPLEX, they will be screening K...

Join us for Manchester’s only cult film pub quiz with a spooky twist for the haunted season! Every other month our own in-house quizmaster writes a completely original five round quiz and it takes place in Screen One – our 100-seater cinema! That’s right, a film quiz, in a cinema! Which means you can expect multimedia rounds showcasing a range of questions from the super nerdy to accessible trivi...

Partisan Cinema are proud to present their latest collaboration with CULTPLEX where we will be screening Jerzy Skolimowski’s 1978 British horror/thriller The Shout . The Shout captures an eerie ethereality like the ammonite unearthed upon the Devonshire shores where it is set. What may seem as ordinary and chipper as a cricket match, soon gives way to a tale of a mysterious wanderer who upends t...

Interference Films XXXtreme: EDEN LAKE (2008) & MARTYRS (2008) Going straight for the jugular for CULTPLEX's STAB Horror Season, Interference Films invites you to test yourself with two of the most brutal films ever committed to celluloid. Kicking off proceedings with the British horror classic EDEN LAKE and following it up with the creme-de-la-creme of french extremity MARTYRS in blood soaked 4...

Screening as part of STAB! For years the Sanderson Sisters have been casting spells, now see them back on the big screen! Conjured up by some unsuspecting pranksters, a tricky trio of 300-year-old witches set out to cast a spell on the town and reclaim their youth. But first, they must get their act together and outwit three kids and a talking cat. This is a family friendly screening! PG - mild sc...

Screening as part of STAB! Sissy Spacek delivers a startling and unforgettable performance in the first film adaptation of a Stephen King work, now celebrating its 50th anniversary! Stephen King’s debut novel – and his first to be adapted to the screen – is a blistering account of cruel teenagers, pathological parents and (literally) fiery revenge. Few people come out of high school unscathed bu...

Go crazy? Don't mind if we do… The best damn Simpsons Pub Quiz in town returns to Fairfield Social Club! Join veteran quizmaster John Stansfield (Quizimodo, Pencil's Down) for an afternoon of trivia based around Springfield's finest on Saturday 31st October but this time with an extra spooky Treehouse of Horror edition for STAB season! Can you outwit Kang, Kodos, and the cursed Krusty doll? Do ...

The American slasher (as well as John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis’ careers) gets solidified when the indestructible Michael Myers make his big screen debut in Halloween. It all begins one Halloween night when little Michael murders his sister while his parents are out. Locked away in an asylum for years, he makes his escape back to the scene of his crime where he, you guessed it, terrorizes yo...

The latest hit horror fans have been obsessed with, arrives CPX! Writer-director Curry Barker follows up $800 YouTube hit Milk & Serial with a frighteningly effective, and entertainingly gory cautionary tale for all. Bear, a hopeless romantic, purchases a supernatural “ One Wish Willow” to make his longtime crush, Nikki, fall in love with him. He gets exactly what he asked for, but soon discove...