Alt.Fiction 2011

25th & 26th June, QUAD, Derby

We've teamed up with Derby's ace Alt.Fiction festival and the QUAD's Fright Club to screen some classic films and TV and some gory grindhouse alongside their programme of talks, workshops and readings from the far reaches of genre fiction.

Find out more about Alt.Fiction here

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Saturday 25th June at 8:00pm

A cult classic double bill of furry, feline fear:

Cat People (PG)

USA 1942 73 mins

Dir: Jacques Tourneur

Cat People stars Simone Simon as the exotic Irena, whose new husband comes to believe is affected by an old Serbian curse which turns people into fearsome cats. Thick with suggestion and heavy with repressed passions and anxieties, the film established Lewton's signature style for the next decade.

"Chilling, thought-provoking, and surprisingly erotic for its time" - Classichorror.com

Watch the trailer

The Curse Of The Cat People (U)

USA 1944 70 mins

Dir: Gunther von Fritsch & Robert Wise

Curse of The Cat People gave Robert Wise (The Haunting) his first credit as director. A tale of childhood alienation loosely spun out from the events of the first film, Curse is a ghost story whose "disturbingly Disneyesque fairy tale qualities have perplexed horror fans for decades" - Joe Dante.

Watch the trailer

Tickets: £10:00 (£8:00 concessions)

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Saturday 25th June at Midnight!

Hobo with a Shotgun (18)

Director: Jason Eisener

Origin: USA

Year: 2011

Duration: 86 minutes

Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner) is the homeless vigilante tackling corrupt cops, armed robbers and street gangs and bringing justice to the streets once again! Spawned from a trailer for the Grindhouse film, Hobo With A Shotgun is exactly what it says on the tin: A Hobo With A Shotgun!!!

Watch the trailer

Usual Quad ticket prices apply.

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Classic Ghost Stories

Throughout the weekend, we'll be screening some classic TV ghost stories from yesteryear, guaranteed to send a shiver down your spine!

Saturday 25th June at 12 noon

THE SIGNALMAN (1976)

Adapted from the story by Charles Dickens

Directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark The legendary directors focus on suggestion gives way briefly to terrifying shock as a brilliant Denholm Elliott tips into insanity in one of the best ghost stories ever filmed and is without doubt the most critically acclaimed of the series of Yuletide terrors.

"A sense of awful inevitability about it that makes the preceding horrors even worse." - Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film & Television.

Introduced by writer Stephen Volk (Ghostwatch)

Normal cinema ticket prices apply.

Sunday 26th June at 2.00pm

THE PHOTOGRAPH (1978)

By Nigel Kneale

Read by TOM BAKER Late 70's BBC series Late Night Story featured the then Doctor Who tell four macabre stories on the theme of childhood, this episode, from the pen of Quatermass creator Kneale, tells the tale of a boy who meets a demonic photographer.

"...delicious lines about "fingernails being cracked and open from chemicals" for Mr Baker to roar around." - Headpress

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THE EXORCISM (1972)

An original story for television By Don Taylor

A truly rare screening of a genuinely piece of cult TV. Weird events grip four friends gathered for Christmas dinner, first a power failure, then the food makes them ill and the wine turns to blood... and then things get really strange! A surreal and political piece very much of its time, originally screened as part of the BBC series, DEAD OF NIGHT.

"Retains the ability to chill all these years later... thoroughly recommended." - British Horror Television.

Normal cinema ticket prices apply.

Click here to book your tickets, or contact the QUAD Box Office on 01332 290 606.