Paracinema Cult Film Festival 2 - 5 May 2025

Paracinema is Derby’s film festival celebrating off-mainstream movies – bringing together a mix of horror, fantasy, science-fiction, comedy and plenty of genre-bending features and shorts each year!

Tickets are available to individual events, or purchase a pass at this page to attend all events at a significant discount. Once you have bought a pass you will need to secure your seats in each individual screening. Please do this by adding tickets to the relevant films to your basket. These will reduce down to zero cost during the checkout process.

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What's On

What's On

Gazer – Preview Screening

TBC

A young mother takes a risky job from a mysterious woman…

03rd May 2025

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The Dark Crusader

18

A superhero must battle his ego when his girlfriend achieves major stardom.

03rd May 2025

The Dark Crusader

18

A superhero must battle his ego when his girlfriend achieves major stardom.

03rd May 2025

Night Of Death

18

A nurse at a secluded care home becomes suspicious when her colleague disappears.

03rd May 2025

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Razor Blade Smile + Jake West Q+A

18

Jake West’s classic UK indie horror is back on the big screen in a restored version.

03rd May 2025

Razor Blade Smile + Jake West Q+A

18

Jake West’s classic UK indie horror is back on the big screen in a restored version.

03rd May 2025

The Surfer – Preview Screening

15

A man’s life slowly unravels as he is drawn into an escalating conflict.

03rd May 2025

A Final Exorcism

18

Anne, believing herself possessed, requests an exorcism.

03rd May 2025

Paracinema Talk – How ITC Entertained The World

A talk on the company behind Saint, The Prisoner, Randall And Hopkirk (Deceased), The Persuaders and more.

03rd May 2025

ITC Showcase – The Prisoner / Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)

TBC

Featuring two classic episodes of British television

03rd May 2025

Phantom Of The Paradise

15

Brian De Palma’s cult 1974 musical odyssey screens as part of Cult Film Club.

03rd May 2025

Exorcismo

18

How the end of Franco’s regime emboldened Spanish cinema.

03rd May 2025

Life’s A Bitch

18

An anthology movie, both dark and hilarious.

03rd May 2025

Paracinema Talk: The Female Vampire

Sink your teeth into the captivating history of female vampires on screen.

03rd May 2025

Paracinema Shorts Showcase

18

A mix of the dark to the downright ridiculous.

03rd May 2025

Chainsaws Were Singing

18

An absolutely bonkers action-horror-musical-comedy B-movie epic from Estonia.

03rd May 2025

Doctor Cerebro

18

A slice of grindhouse sci-fi that has all the hallmarks of a future cult classic.

03rd May 2025

My Imaginary Life for Someone

18

Surreal, hilarious and sometimes tragic.

03rd May 2025

1978

18

A group of torturers breaks into a home and kidnaps a group of young people.

03rd May 2025

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