The midnight movie lives on in Dalston! Venture forth from your home cinema cocoon, or your laptop, to savour the delights of cult movies, forbidden pleasures and dark thrills on the big screen in the comfort of the Rio's atmospheric art deco auditorium. Ticket prices for these shows are £7.50 (except where stated).

And if you fancy hosting your own late show, why not choose a film (subject to availability) for a Friday or Saturday late night show on a date of your choice. You need to be a Friend of the Rio (cost £20) and the cost of the late show is £320 (including VAT) which includes admission for up to 50 guests. The screening will also be open to the public, at our regular late night admission price of £7.50 Other options including private screenings are also possible. For further details contact Charles at charles@riocinema.org.uk or on 7241 9415.

FRI 7 Oct • Late Night

Late Show repeat due to popular demand!

THE STORY OF LOVERS ROCK (12A) 11.30pm

(UK 2011) dir. Menelik Shabazz 96m. Digital.
Maxi Priest, Aswad, Janet Kay, Sugar Minott.

Lovers Rock, often dubbed ‘romantic reggae’ is a uniquely black British sound that developed in the late 70s and 80s against a backdrop of riots, racial tension and sound systems. A forgotten period of music, social and political history is recalled and recreated with live performances, comedy sketches, dance, interviews and archive material all of which shed light on both the music and the generation that embraced it.

Trailer

£7.50

SAT 8 Oct • Late Night

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (12A) 11.30pm

(US 2011) dir. Rupert Wyatt 105m.
Tom Felton, James Franco, Andy Serkis, John Lithgow, Frida Pinto.

The Summer's big-budget special effects extravaganza also delivers a killer backhand worth thinking about. Scientist James Franco creates supernaturally intelligent chimp Caesar (Andy Serkis + CGI) who goes from wide-eyed innocent to reluctant revolutionary as a new generation of intelligent apes launch a battle for world supremacy.

Trailer

£7.50

FRI 14 Oct • Late Night

LUX and Modern Painters present for one night only

At the Heart of Everything a Row of Holes
Torsten Lauschmann

12 midnight start til 1am

A unique one off site specific cinema performance, ‘At the Heart of Everything a Row of Holes’ is a satirical celebration of the conquest of technology and the clash of homo faber, the making man, with homo ludens, the playing man.

Commissioned by Glasgow FIlm Festival through the Margaret Tait Award, supported by Creative Scotland and in partnership with LUX.

This event is presented with the kind support of HFM Lighting Ltd.

Torsten Lauschmann’s work is characterised by a sense of playful experimentation and generosity. He works in a wide range of media including video projection, animation, photography, sculpture and performance. Since 2000 he has been developing techniques through which to explore the sculptural qualities of video projection. This has often involved projecting manipulated found footage or animation onto sculptural objects or elaborate geometric wall drawings to produce an illusion of three-dimensionality.

£4

SAT 15 Oct • Late Night

BLACK MAMA WHITE MAMA (18)

(US 1973) dir. Eddie Romero 85m. Digital.
Pam Grier, Margaret Markov, Sid Haig, Lynn Borden, Zaldy Zshornack, Laurie Burton.

The legendary Pam Grier is one of two feisty prisoners, one black, one white, one a former prostitute and the other a revolutionary, now chained together and on the run from lesbian warders, a murderous pimp and a lecherous cowboy. 70's blaxpoitation was never as morally dubiously entertaining as this great all-action showcase for Ms. Grier.

N.B. Women only, men welcome with female friends

Trailer

£7.50

FRI 21 Oct • Late Night

Late Show repeat due to popular demand!

THE STORY OF LOVERS ROCK (12A) 11.30pm

(UK 2011) dir. Menelik Shabazz 96m. Digital.
Maxi Priest, Aswad, Janet Kay, Sugar Minott.

Lovers Rock, often dubbed 'romantic reggae' is a uniquely black British sound that developed in
the late 70s and 80s against a backdrop of riots, racial tension and sound systems. A forgotten period of music, social and political history is recalled and recreated with live performances, comedy sketches, dance, interviews and archive material all of which shed light on both the music and the generation that embraced it.

Trailer

£7.50

SAT 22 Oct • Late Night Cigarette Burns Cinema

VIDEODROME (18) 11.30pm

(USA 1983) dir. David Cronenberg 89m. Digital
James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits.

Enter an exploding world of hardcore porn, sadomasochism, mind control and living television as a sleazy James Woods unravels a sprawling conspiracy of mind control and world domination in one of David Cronenberg's most acclaimed cult classic explorations of dangerous sexuality and technological obsession.

+ dj set after screening!

Trailer

£7.50

SAT 29 Oct • Late Night

THE EVIL DEAD (18)

(US 1981) dir. Sam Raimi 85m. Digital.
Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker, Theresa Tilly.

Still bursting with more energy and ideas than the myriads of schlock nothings which followed it, Sam Raimi's classic is still as enjoyable as ever. The great Bruce Campbell is one of the group of friends who shouldn't have gone down to the woods today, And if only they hadn't played that tape, All Hell would not have been let loose...

Trailer

£7.50

FRI 4 Nov * Late Night

Late Show repeat due to popular demand!

THE STORY OF LOVERS ROCK (12A) 11.30pm

(UK 2011) dir. Menelik Shabazz 96m. Digital.
Maxi Priest, Aswad, Janet Kay, Sugar Minott.

Lovers Rock, often dubbed 'romantic reggae' is a uniquely black British sound that developed in the late 70s and 80s against a backdrop of riots, racial tension and sound systems. A forgotten period of music, social and political history is recalled and recreated with live performances, comedy sketches, dance, interviews and archive material all of which shed light on both the music and the generation that embraced it.

Trailer

£7.50

SAT 5 Nov • Late Night

TROLL HUNTER (15)

(Norway 2010) dir. Andre Ovredal 103m. Subtitles. Digital.
Otto Jespersen, Robert Stoltenberg, Knut Naerum, Johanna Mork, Tomas, Alf Larsen.

A very smart riff on the horror mockumentary genre as a group of college filmmakers journey into a remote frozen landscape and discover Norwegian fairy tales can be a bigger problem than killer bears. As the absurdity increases, things get funnier... and more frightening.

Trailer

£7.50

SAT 12 Nov • Late Night

SILENT RUNNING (U) 11.30pm

(UK 1971) dir. Douglas Trumbull 89m. Digital.
Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint, Steven Brown.

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY's special effects creator directs one of the best sci-fi movies of the 70s. Sometime in the future, all Earth plant life is extinct and survives only aboard the ‘Valley Forge’ floating in deep space. When dedicated botanist Bruce Dern receives the order to destroy and return, a haunting and spectacular adventure begins.

Trailer

£7.50

SAT 19 Nov • Late Night Cigarette Burns Cinema

THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY (18) 11.30pm

(Italy 1981) dir. Lucio Fulci 86m.
Catriona MacColl, Paolo Malco, Giovanni Frezza.

A visceral classic from the ‘Godfather of Gore’. A researcher and his family move from NYC to a small New England town, into, yes, a house by a cemetery where greater horrors than the disco soundtrack await in all their uncut glory. Once a long banned ‘Video Nasty’, Lucio Fulci's masterpiece now shows via a newly remastered HD transfer.

+ dj set after screening!

Trailer

£7.50

SAT 26 Nov

Programme to be announced