Deep Red

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To kick off the Jubilee weekend celebrations, the Cult Film Club Extreme brings to Hastings a celebration of Scream Queens!

Prominent women in horror like Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween) or Heather Langencamp (Nightmare on Elm Street) have become known as Scream Queens thanks to their screen presence, determination to fight back, and powerful lungs.

In Italy, the reigning Scream Queen was Daria Nicolodi, who appeared in many iconic films including Suspiria (which she also co-wrote), Inferno, Delerium and The Sect. Join us at the Electric Palace for a screening of her first film with Dario Argento: Deep Red (Profundo Rosso) which is regularly hailed as his best film, and one of the greatest horror films ever made.

Co-starring David Hemmings as a jazz pianist who witnesses a brutal murder, Deep Red features startling imagery, a pounding rock soundtrack, creepy puppets and a logic-defying mystery that the police just cannot solve!

"A trashy masterpiece" - Little White Lies

With introduction from film historian, Dr Adrian Smith.

About The Cult Film Club  EXTREME

The brainchild of film historian Dr Adrian Smith, The Cult Film Club was established in Eastbourne in 2018 following a screening of Evil Dead II at the Royal Hippodrome Theatre. A season of highly entertaining films followed, including such classics as The Warriors, The Man With Two Brains and Enter the Dragon before the club relocated to the Towner Cinema where fans gathered for The Thing, Labyrinth, Heathers and The Dead, before lockdown intervened.

This new EXTREME version of the club will see us bringing a mix of films to the Electric Palace that are shocking, controversial, or just extremely silly. With an emphasis on crowd-pleasing, a good time is guaranteed for all brave enough to join us.

About Dr Adrian Smith

Dr Adrian Smith is a film historian and lecturer at the University of Sussex. He co-hosts two film podcasts (Second Features and Wild, Wild Podcast), writes for Cinema Retro magazine, has provided essays and commentary tracks for a number of cult film blu ray releases, and is co-author on the recently published book Norman J. Warren: Gentleman of Terror. He will talk endlessly about films to anyone who will listen.

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