Join us on Saturday 4th October as we kick off our brand new Fright’s Out! season of spooky classics with a double-feature screening celebrating cult 1950s b-movie director, Ed Wood. See Tim Burton’s affectionate 1994 biopic back-to-back with Wood’s most lauded (and laughable?) disasterpiece, Plan 9 From Outer Space. Both screenings will be introduced by season curator Dr Michael Goodrum. Book a double-feature ticket to save money on both screenings.

5.30pm – Doors open

6pm – Ed Wood
Burton’s biopic is a beautifully made tribute to Wood and the era of 1950s exploitation films in which he worked. Instead of laughing at Wood and his work, Burton’s film invites the audience into its lovingly crafted storyworld to meet the cast of marginalised people at its centre: a celebrity psychic, a TV horror host, a faded film star addicted to morphine, and Wood himself, the cross-dressing writer, director and actor. Part of the Fright’s Out! season, with an introduction by Dr Michael Goodrum.

8.15pm – Intermission

8.45pm – Plan 9 From Outer Space 
Heralded as one of the worst films of all time by one of cinema’s worst directors, Plan 9 is an unwitting triumph of camp 1950s sf/horror. Watch as aliens try to invade Earth by raising the recently dead (including Vampira and Bela Lugosi, who actually died during filming and was replaced by a chiropractor)! Give the (failed) psychic turned narrator, The Amazing Criswell, an accurate prediction: “some of us laugh at outer space”! Presented as part of the Fright’s Out! season, with an introduction by Dr Michael Goodrum.