- 7:30pm  Donnie Darko  (Richard Kelly, 2001)

27 year old Richard Kelly broke onto the scene in 2001 with one of the strangest and oddest films in the last 20 years, starring a young Jake Gyllenhaal alongside Patrick Swayze and a giant rabbit. From the future. Or a different dimension. Or something.

A subversive, satirical, comedy / sci-fi / horror, like any true cult film it wasn't a massive hit on release probably due to nobody quite knowing what it was, or indeed what it was about. But word of mouth spread, and the film has since developed a huge fanbase and undeniable cult film status with frequent entries in best film lists and hundreds of websites and forums devoted to discussing the film and its meanings.
Ooh baby it's a mad world...

Doors 7pm, films from 7:30pm
£3 cover charge (free to members)

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Screening as part of Cult Film Season at Roxy Bar & Screen in association with Jameson Irish Whiskey

28th Feb - Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)
7th March - Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (Russ Meyer, 1965)
14th March - Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
21st March - The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1975)
28th March - Blade Runner - The Director's Cut (Ridley Scott, 1982)

What makes a cult film? Well, we're offering up five of our favourite cult films, starting with time travel, jet engines, giant rabbits and Patrick Swayze, then jumping back to the wonderful world of Russ Meyer, on to the ‘King of Cult' Mr David Lynch and his stunning breakthrough film, stopping off for some high camp at the Annual Transylvanian Convention before finishing with the legendary Blade Runner. In the cult fan's Director's Cut obviously.
Dark, sexy, twisted,.... Avatar these ain't.