12/04/2025
🔫SCREENING ANNOUNCEMENT(S)! 📢
Join us for three distinct descents into madness at this summer! A season of independent American horror films steeped in dread and dream logic, blurring the boundary between reality and paranoid delusion.
Tuesday 27th May
MESSIAH OF EVIL (1974)
Lovecraftian horror meets neon California gothic in one of the most idiosyncratic and visually stunning American horror movies of the 1970s. Searching for her missing father, Arletty travels to the eerie seaside town of Point Dune. Local legend says that one hundred years ago the townsfolk were driven into a frenzy of madness and cannibalism by a mysterious ‘Dark Stranger’. Then he vanished, walking into the ocean with the promise that he would return with the coming of the blood moon.
Tuesday 24th June
CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962)
An uncanny masterpiece of 60s psychotronic cinema, its nightmare ambience and dark Americana prefigure the work of directors like David Lynch. After barely escaping a horrific car accident, Mary moves to Salt Lake City, hoping for a fresh start. But plagued by visions of a silent, menacing figure and feeling increasingly disconnected from reality, she begins to unravel. Is any of this actually happening? And why is she drawn to the abandoned carnival on the shores of the Great Salt Lake?
TUESDAY 29th July
LET’S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH (1971)
Burnt out, post-hippie American gothic with a beautifully subtle central performance from Zorah Lampert. Following her stay in a mental health facility, Jessica and her husband flee New York for rural Connecticut in order to help her ‘get better.’ But their new life is threatened by hostile locals and eerie rumours about their new home’s former owners. Following a series of bizarre occurrences, Jessica fears that she may be losing her grip on reality.
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