Electric Palace, Hastings | Blockhead + Danny Horn & Director's Q&A

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Wed 21 Oct

Fishnets, fabulousness and absolute nonsense. Virgin or veteran, don't dream it—see it. Audience participation gloriously encouraged. Now also showing as a tribute to the incandescent Tim Curry, the core and heart of the film. Our annual foray into the world of Frank-N-Furter, the transvestite mad scientist from outer space who is about to unveil his greatest creation. Let's do the Time Warp aga...

Living for Kicks (Subtitled)

Thu 22 Oct

The rise of the teenager! Find teddy boys, coffee bars, pop stars and a Brighton and Liverpool frothing with late-50s/early 60s subcultures. BFI National Archive presents Living for Kicks. Step into the burgeoning British youth culture of the 1950s and 60s with this selection of excerpts from the BFI National Archive’s Associated-Rediffusion collection. Launched in 1955 as part of the fledgling ...

Bitter Christmas

Thu 22 Oct to Thu 29 Oct

Pedro Almodóvar’s very personal melodrama circles grief, loss and women’s creativity in a multi-layered, kaleidoscopic work. In 2004: After her mother dies, director Elsa (Bárbara Lennie) immerses herself in work. When a migraine forces her to stop, she travels to Lanzarote with a friend (Victoria Luengo) while her fireman/stripper boyfriend (Patrick Criado) stays behind. Desperate to break her w...

Revolution Anyone + Director's Q&A

Fri 23 Oct

RevolutionAnyone is a positive, timely documentary that says ‘yes we can’ change our society to better reflect the needs of all its citizens. With Jeremy Corbyn, Mhairi Black, Ken Loach and Gary Younge. STORM THE PALACE! is a set of political documentaries curated by Hastings’ BAFTA Award-winning Producer/Director Archie Lauchlan. “As a lecturer in documentary filmmaking, I would always start s...

13 Going on 30 + FREE Mocktail

Sat 24 Oct

Noughties body-swap story with Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo. Glittery, pink, and goofy! Jenna Rink wishes she could just grow up after being humiliated at her 13th birthday party — only to wake up as a 30-year-old fashion magazine editor. Join us for this coming of age body swap story that will remind teens what its like to be an adult, and adults what its like to be teens. With mocktails ...

Carrie - 50th Anniversary Screening

Sat 24 Oct

Boarding on Insanity + Director's Q&A

Sun 25 Oct

Many of our global leaders have been to boarding school. From Boris Johnson to Mark Zuckerberg, Rupert Murdoch to Richard Branson. The world is going through a crisis: war, environmental collapse and poverty. Could the world?s challenges be because some of the world?s political and business leaders are psychologically traumatised by boarding school? Boarding on Insanity explores the trauma that re...

The Virgin Suicides

Sun 25 Oct

Dreamy, mysterious, and stylish, Sophia Coppola’s ode to suburban teen angst has become a cult classic. Starring Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett and Kathleen Turner. Adapted from the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, Sophia Coppola masterfully captures adolescent longing, dreamy nostalgia, and the haunting mystery of youth. A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who live s...

How to Make a Monster

Sun 25 Oct

When a master monster make-up artist is sacked by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge. A self-contained sequel of sorts to American International Pictures’ previous hit films I Was a Teenage Werewolf and I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, the tongue-in-cheek film is set almost entirely at a fictional movie studio. A mild attempt at satire on the movi...

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

Mon 26 Oct

Partly shot in Eastbourne, this noughties classic captures the rollercoaster agonies and ecstasies of adolescence, but above all, the push-and-pull of teen friendships. On the verge of turning 15, Georgia sets her sights on the new guy at school, “gorgeous sex-god” Robbie (a very young Aaron Taylor-Johnson), band member of the Stiff Dylans. Millennial cult favourite, this coming-of-age film is f...

Pride

Tue 27 Oct

The true, 80s-set story of the unlikely alliance between gay and lesbian activists and striking miners. Uplifting, smart and with sharp period detail. With Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton and Paddy Considine. In the summer of 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. But there’s an issue: the NUM appears to be reluc...

Human Traffic

Tue 27 Oct

Rocks

Wed 28 Oct

A young teenage girl struggles to take care of herself and her younger brother after being abandoned by their single mother. Shot naturalistically this earthy, bittersweet coming-of-age tale is heart-breaking and life-affirming in equal measure. 'Rocks', a Nigerian British girl may not be academic, but she’s a whizz with a make-up brush. When her troubled mum leaves her and her younger brother to...

Music Video Night

Wed 28 Oct

Ish

Thu 29 Oct

Two 12-year-old best friends struggle with their relationship after a police stop and search. Set in Luton’s South Asian and Middle Eastern community, it’s a story of political and racial tension, loss and growing up. Written and directed by artist, musician and film-maker Imran Perretta and co-written by Enda Walsh (Hunger), Ish was shot in lustrous black and white by cinematographer Jermaine Ca...

Charlie Shaw's Revenge + Director's Q&A

Thu 29 Oct

Introducing another clown to the horror genre, this bloody, emotionally-charged slasher is packed with practical effects and dripping with suspense. A group of workers preparing for the re-opening of a remote adventure park on the brink of bankruptcy, find themselves stalked by a silent killer. Cut off from any form of rescue, the survivors must band together to fight for their lives. Cerys Knig...

Sheep, Actually

Fri 30 Oct

Baa! This month’s Knitflix screening is appropriately sheep-themed. From fleece to fashion house; the origins and journey of wool. Sheep Actually started with the first photo filmmaker Paul Wyatt ever took: a blurred sheep's nose on a school trip when he was just nine. This lifelong love of animals and a deep-seated curiosity to understand their lives drove Wyatt to make this film. It opens a ...

Fright night Halloween Special: The Evil Dead + Intro

Fri 30 Oct

Join us for a Fright Night Halloween Special! Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell’s gory, no-budget, shot on 16mm, classic was one of the original 'video nasties'. It’s a now-familiar story: five high schoolers in a woodland cabin for the weekend, summon demonic forces that possess them. Unpleasant, creepy and wince-inducing. The opening salvo to a long, cult horror franchise. ?? “Rites-of-passage vie...

Fright night Halloween Special: The Evil Dead + Intro

Get Out

Sat 31 Oct

Blackity Black Halloween Double Bill Directed by Jordan Peele this bold horror-comedy explores themes of white insecurity, slavery and the fetishisation of Black bodies. Daniel Kaluuya is the nice guy wary of meeting his white girlfriend’s rich, liberal family. With good reason. Creepy, funny, and merciless. “Is it too early to call this a modern genre classic?” BFI

Blacula

Sat 31 Oct

Blackity Black Halloween Double Bill An 18th century 'African' prince is transformed into a vampire while visiting Transylvania, 200 years later, he awakens in 1970s Brooklyn - New York. Part of the blaxploitation movement, starring the smooth William Marshall, and created by a Black director William Crain this 1972 horror is endearingly trashy, has costumes & facial hair to die for and was made f...

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Wed 21 Oct

Revolution Anyone + Director's Q&A

Fri 23 Oct

Boarding on Insanity + Director's Q&A

Sun 25 Oct

Withnail & I (Interactive)

Fri 13 Nov

A pre-Traitors Richard E Grant and Paul McGann are two 'resting' actors who go on holiday by mistake. Expect drinks service, quote-a-long lines and goodie bags! London, 1969 - two unemployed and unemployable actors, Withnail and Marwood, fed up with damp, cold, piles of washing-up, mad drug dealers and psychotic Irishmen, decide to leave their squalid Camden flat for an idyllic holiday in the co...

Linda Linda Linda 4K Restoration + Intro by Japanese Film Club

Sat 14 Nov

When their band breaks up three days before the annual festival at their Tokyo high school, three girls hastily form a new outfit with a Korean exchange student. They must work around the clock to learn two songs by their favourite punk group, navigating old and new allegiances along the way. Joyful, triumphant, funny, and, in a genre susceptible to cliches, very real. Japanese Film Club bring...

Linda Linda Linda 4K Restoration + Intro by Japanese Film Club

Rocky III & Rocky IV Double Bill (+ Interval and Quiz)

Sun 13 Dec

Going two rounds with Stallone, Mr T and Dolph Lundgren. Knockout! The Electric Palace Cinema presents two rounds of classic boxing with a one-two punch screening of Rocky III and Rocky IV. Sylvester Stallone returns to the character who made him famous in these wildly successful and hugely entertaining sequels. Rocky III starts with the Italian Stallion as world champion, so famous his like...

Rocky III & Rocky IV Double Bill (+ Interval and Quiz)

Revolution Anyone + Director's Q&A

Fri 23 Oct

How to Make a Monster

Sun 25 Oct

Sheep, Actually

Fri 30 Oct

Fright night Halloween Special: The Evil Dead + Intro

Fri 30 Oct

Blacula

Sat 31 Oct

Beachcomber + Director's Q&A

Sun 1 Nov

Hastings' Aristotelis Maragkos' haunting and evocative tale of a sailor’s son who obsessively dreams of building a boat from scrap metal. Elias dreams of building a boat from scrap metal, chasing the shadow of his sailor father’s legacy. But as his creation crumbles, so does the myth he’s built around himself—forcing him to confront the fragile truth of who he really is. Hastings Own, Aristoteli...

Straight Talk: A Tribute to Dolly Parton

Sun 1 Nov

Dolly Parton was iconic in the truest sense of the word and, for many of us, her death at the age of 80 was a devastating blow. In parallel with her stellar musical career and life as a generous philanthropist, Parton was also an acclaimed actor. This month we remember her with a rare screening of Straight Talk, showing the sass and sweetness Dolly was so famous for off-screen. This romantic c...

Straight Talk: A Tribute to Dolly Parton

Where is Heaven?

Sun 1 Nov

Maverick soulmates Ged and Dave are on a mission through the winding lanes and hidden tracks of North Devon, to record the lives and experiences of people living without mains electricity. Where is Heaven is about life off-grid in Devon and an awful lot more. Gerard Bryan and David Rafique's award-winning film, captured over 10 years, shows not only the beauty of an often-harsh rural environment, ...

NAZA + Introduction

Fri 6 Nov

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

Sun 8 Nov

A quiet, queer icon, Mary Oliver writes poems that are beloved across the globe. This dazzling film is rooted in her language and the landscapes that shaped her writing. Celebrated across the spectrum, by liberals and conservatives, atheists and believes, nature-lovers and city dwellers, Mary Oliver’s poems serve as solace and affirmation. She’s beloved by young people, shared widely on social med...

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

Living for Kicks (Subtitled)

Thu 22 Oct

13 Going on 30 + FREE Mocktail

Sat 24 Oct

Carrie - 50th Anniversary Screening

Sat 24 Oct

The Virgin Suicides

Sun 25 Oct

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

Mon 26 Oct

Pride

Tue 27 Oct

Human Traffic

Tue 27 Oct

Rocks

Wed 28 Oct

Music Video Night

Wed 28 Oct

Ish

Thu 29 Oct

Labyrinth 40th Anniversary

Fri 6 Nov

Family Fridays screening: includes FREE workshop (at 4pm) led by teacher and animator Silas Money which this month will focus on making Monster Finger Puppets you can take home, and use to ward off Jareth evil! You remind me of the babe! Bowie-meets-Henson in this wild and dark fairytale with plenty of twisty turns. Description written by Young Electrics: Labyrinth is a visually spectacular f...

Home Alone + Booby Trap Christmas Card Making Workshop

Fri 4 Dec

Mum forgets Kevin. Kevin booby-traps the house. Two burglars wish they’d picked literally any other Christmas address. The film that made a megastar of Macauley Culkin, and with an atypical comic turn by Joe Pesci, this is a confident, funny, and very Christmassy classic. With booby-trap Christmas card workshop.

Home Alone + Booby Trap Christmas Card Making Workshop

Home Alone (Relaxed)

Tue 22 Dec

Living for Kicks (Subtitled)

Thu 22 Oct

Bitter Christmas

Thu 22 Oct to Thu 29 Oct

Super Nature (Subtitled)

Thu 5 Nov

Super Nature (2026) is a collaborative film project written and produced by Ed Sayers, compiled from Super8 footage sourced from around the world. The brief was simple - film nature where you are - which results in an unfolding, dynamic collage of animals and plants, micro and macro, land, water and sky. Much of the film includes the filmmakers too, many of them amateur wildlife lovers, underscori...

Super Nature (Relaxed Screening)

Sat 7 Nov

The Invite (Subtitled)

Thu 12 Nov

Olivia Wilde stars and directs this dark dinner-table comedy starring Seth Rogan, Penelope Cruz and Edward Norton. Surprised to learn his wife, Angela, has invited their wall-shaking upstairs neighbours, Pina and Hawk, over for dinner, East Bay music associate Joe braces himself for an uncomfortable evening. After all, it's a done deal; Angela has planned everything down to the last detail and e...

Nova '78 (Subtitled)

Thu 19 Nov

Resurrected through UK-led archival restoration, NOVA 78' shows never-before-seen footage of the legendary New York convention where William Burroughs, Patti Smith, Zappa, Ginsberg and more collided in an explosion of ideas, art and rebellion. Part of Poetry on Screen curated by Chris McKenna.

The Odyssey (Subtitled) + Interval

Thu 26 Nov

At last! See the epic fantasy film as Nolan intended; on a medium-sized screen (with very good, home-made cake)! The screening will include an interval. IMAX screenings might still be sold out, but the Electric Palace has seats to spare. Grab a freshly made coffee, pint of beer and some home-made cake, and settle in. Christopher Nolan’s epic fantasy is an adaptation of Homer's ancient Greek ta...

Father Mother Sister Brother (Subtitled)

Thu 3 Dec

Jim Jarmusch’s all-star portmanteau flick showcases tense family relationships and emotionally distant parents. With Tom Waits, Charlotte Rampling and Cate Blanchett. This triptych shines a spotlight on the awkwardness of parent-and-grownup-child relationships, and the guilt, sadness and — sometimes — closeness involved. The three dramas take place in the US, Dublin and Paris, with a cult, all-s...

Father Mother Sister Brother (Subtitled)

Whispers in the Woods (Subtitled)

Thu 10 Dec

Lynx, deer, owls and three generations of nature-lovers. A mesmerising journey into the wild, where patience, instinct and family rule. Celebrated wildlife photographer Vincent Munier invites us into the heart of the Vosges forests. It is here Vincent’s father Michel, a naturalist, taught him everything. Now, it is time for them to pass on this wisdom to Vincent’s son, Simon. Three perspectives,...

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Wed 21 Oct

Living for Kicks (Subtitled)

Thu 22 Oct

Bitter Christmas

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Fri 23 Oct

13 Going on 30 + FREE Mocktail

Sat 24 Oct

Carrie - 50th Anniversary Screening

Sat 24 Oct

Boarding on Insanity + Director's Q&A

Sun 25 Oct

The Virgin Suicides

Sun 25 Oct

How to Make a Monster

Sun 25 Oct

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

Mon 26 Oct

Pride

Tue 27 Oct

Human Traffic

Tue 27 Oct

Rocks

Wed 28 Oct

Music Video Night

Wed 28 Oct

Ish

Thu 29 Oct

Charlie Shaw's Revenge + Director's Q&A

Thu 29 Oct

Sheep, Actually

Fri 30 Oct

Fright night Halloween Special: The Evil Dead + Intro

Fri 30 Oct

Get Out

Sat 31 Oct

Blacula

Sat 31 Oct

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Wed 21 Oct

Revolution Anyone + Director's Q&A

Fri 23 Oct

Boarding on Insanity + Director's Q&A

Sun 25 Oct

Withnail & I (Interactive)

Fri 13 Nov

Linda Linda Linda 4K Restoration + Intro by Japanese Film Club

Sat 14 Nov

Rocky III & Rocky IV Double Bill (+ Interval and Quiz)

Sun 13 Dec

Revolution Anyone + Director's Q&A

Fri 23 Oct

How to Make a Monster

Sun 25 Oct

Sheep, Actually

Fri 30 Oct

Fright night Halloween Special: The Evil Dead + Intro

Fri 30 Oct

Blacula

Sat 31 Oct

Beachcomber + Director's Q&A

Sun 1 Nov

Straight Talk: A Tribute to Dolly Parton

Sun 1 Nov

Where is Heaven?

Sun 1 Nov

NAZA + Introduction

Fri 6 Nov

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

Sun 8 Nov

Living for Kicks (Subtitled)

Thu 22 Oct

13 Going on 30 + FREE Mocktail