The Dark of the Matinee

The Dark of the Matinee

A season full of thrills, chills, smiles, tears, scares and buckets of blood, with films from across the service that are set in the cinema or theatre and inspired by ‘The Last Matinee’, ‘The Dark of the Matinee’ highlights the refuge that the cinema can be for us, but also all the scary things that could happen in there… once the lights go down.

So, get your run to the snack bar done before the trailers start, turn your phone off - not just to silent -  scooch down low in your seat and get ready for a collection of films that will remind you why you love the movie theater experience so much, but also maybe make you realise that its dim, sticky-floored confines could also make the perfect hunting ground.

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The Dark of the Matinee
  • Theater of Blood

    "Re-Animator: The Musical" lyricist Mark Nutter on adapting the cult classic for musical theater.

  • Tale of Cinema

    Tale of Cinema uses the trope of a film within a film to tell two stories, that of a depressive young man (Ki-woo Lee) who forms a suicide pact with a friend (Ji-won Uhm); and the tale of a filmmaker (Kim Sangkyung) who sees a film that he believes was based on his life, and who meets the actress...