Be Kind Rewind Bristol Cinema Club

Be Kind Rewind Bristol Cinema Club Screenings of cult films downstairs at The Ill Repute

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On Thursday 18th June, we're celebrating three years of Be Kind Rewind Bristol the only way that makes any sense: with P...
02/06/2026

On Thursday 18th June, we're celebrating three years of Be Kind Rewind Bristol the only way that makes any sense: with Pink Flamingos and a John Waters party afterwards!

Before the main feature, we'll be screening A Love Letter to Edie, a short tribute to the unforgettable Edith Massey; egg enthusiast, Dreamlander, and one of the most beloved outsiders in underground cinema history.

Then comes Pink Flamingos.

Part midnight movie, part endurance test, part work of genuine cinematic rebellion, John Waters' legendary cult classic remains as funny, shocking and defiantly tasteless today as it was in 1972. At the centre of it all is Divine, cinema's undisputed queen of filth, battling to retain her title as "the filthiest person alive."

Love it, hate it, laugh at it, recoil from it but you'll almost certainly never forget it.

And when the credits roll, the celebration continues upstairs from 9:30pm with our John Waters-themed party. Expect camp classics, trash glamour, sleaze, bad taste and a room full of people paying tribute to one of cinema's greatest champions of outsiders, weirdos and troublemakers.

📍 The Ill Repute, Old Market - downstairs cinema room + bar
🕗 Doors 7:30pm - films start at 8:00pm
🎉 John Waters Party from 9:30pm
🎟 Free entry (first come, first served for films downstairs)

SCREENING THIS THURSDAY For nearly fifty years, Suspiria has sat in a category of its own. Not because it's the scariest...
01/06/2026

SCREENING THIS THURSDAY

For nearly fifty years, Suspiria has sat in a category of its own. Not because it's the scariest film ever made, but because it feels unlike anything else. The colours are impossibly vivid. The music pounds like a panic attack. Logic dissolves. Every corridor feels cursed.

A young dancer arrives at a prestigious academy. Strange things begin to happen. Beyond that, it’s best experienced rather than explained.

Part fairy tale, part nightmare, part art installation drenched in blood-red light, Suspiria is the kind of film that reminds you horror can be beautiful, overwhelming and genuinely strange.

If you've never seen it on the big screen before, you're in for a treat. If you have, you already know why people keep coming back to it.

📍 The Ill Repute, Old Market - downstairs cinema room
🕗 Doors 7:30pm / Film 8pm sharp (no late entry)
🎟 Free entry - first come, first served
🍷 Drinks and snacks available at the bar

DIRGE FILM FESTIVAL 2026 IS OVER.To everybody who came down to spend last weekend with us at The Ill Repute, thank you. ...
23/05/2026

DIRGE FILM FESTIVAL 2026 IS OVER.

To everybody who came down to spend last weekend with us at The Ill Repute, thank you. Seriously.

What started as an idea between the team at Be Kind Rewind Bristol turned into two days of disturbing, challenging, beautiful, disgusting and unforgettable cinema shared with a room full of people who genuinely care about underground film culture.

From transcendental odysseys to absolute depravity, from The Holy Mountain and Salo to Cannibal Holocaust and Begotten, every screening was packed and every corner of the bar was buzzing with conversation. The atmosphere across the entire weekend was something really special.

This was our first ever festival and the support honestly meant the world to us. Thank you to every single attendee, guest, volunteer, and member of staff who helped make DIRGE happen.

We’ll be back in 2027 👀

DIRGE FOREVER.

TONIGHT, we’re screening The Telephone Book in the downstairs cinema at The Ill Repute; a wild, satirical deep-dive into...
21/05/2026

TONIGHT, we’re screening The Telephone Book in the downstairs cinema at The Ill Repute; a wild, satirical deep-dive into desire, anonymity, and urban absurdity.

Directed by Nelson Lyon, this gloriously unhinged cult comedy follows a woman who receives an obscene phone call and becomes determined to track down the mystery voice behind it. Sensible? Not remotely. Entertaining? Absolutely.

What follows is a headlong sprint through seedy corners of New York, where every doorway seems to open onto another bizarre encounter. Equal parts s*x farce, underground comedy, and social prank, The Telephone Book turns bad manners into an art form.

But beyond the outrageous hook, it’s also a snapshot of a vanished city. It's scrappy, grubby, unpredictable, and buzzing with possibility. The kind of film that feels discovered rather than manufactured.

Loud, tasteless, inventive and strangely charming, this is cult cinema doing exactly what it should: taking risks and making trouble.

📍 The Ill Repute, Old Market - downstairs cinema room
🕗 Doors 7:30pm / Film 8pm sharp (no late entry)
🎟 Free entry - first come, first served
🍸 Drinks and snacks available at the bar

“Filth are my politics, filth is my life.” Thursday 18th June 2026 marks THREE YEARS OF Be Kind Rewind Bristol! And hone...
19/05/2026

“Filth are my politics, filth is my life.”

Thursday 18th June 2026 marks THREE YEARS OF Be Kind Rewind Bristol! And honestly, there was only ever going to be one film for the occasion: Pink Flamingos.

Directed by the Pope of Trash himself, John Waters, and starring the one and only Divine alongside John Waters' other Dreamlanders, Pink Flamingos remains one of the most gloriously confrontational cult films ever made. Sick, hilarious, sleazy, shocking and weirdly beautiful, it’s a film that still feels shocking over fifty years later.

To start the night, we’ll also be screening A Love Letter to Edie (1975), a celebration of underground icon Edith Massey, whose warmth and chaos helped make the Dreamlanders immortal.

Three years ago we started showing strange films in the pub basement because we loved them and hoped a few other people might too. Somehow it turned into this great little community of cult film obsessives, regulars, first-timers, and beautifully curious people. So this one’s a celebration of all of you as much as the film itself.

And when the film ends at 9:30pm, we’re carrying on upstairs with a full John Waters-themed party to celebrate three years of Be Kind Rewind Bristol. Expect trashy tunes, cheap glamour, bad taste in the best possible sense, and a room full of people who probably should’ve been banned from polite society years ago.

Three years of cult films in a pub basement. Three years of filth, community, and beautiful oddballs showing up every fortnight. We genuinely couldn’t imagine a better way to celebrate it.

📍 The Ill Repute, Old Market - downstairs cinema room + upstairs bar
🕗 Doors 7:30pm / Films start at 8pm
🎉 John Waters party upstairs from 9:30pm onwards
🎟 Free entry - first come, first served

SCREENING IN ONE WEEK - THE TELEPHONE BOOK (1971)Directed by Nelson Lyon, this notorious cult curio follows Alice, who r...
14/05/2026

SCREENING IN ONE WEEK - THE TELEPHONE BOOK (1971)

Directed by Nelson Lyon, this notorious cult curio follows Alice, who receives an obscene phone call and decides, quite reasonably, to dedicate herself to finding the man on the other end of the line. What unfolds is a feverish odyssey through peep shows, side streets, strange apartments and the kind of urban chaos cinema rarely captures anymore.

Shot on the streets of early-70s Manhattan, The Telephone Book is less interested in good taste than pure momentum. It’s vulgar, witty, anarchic, unexpectedly stylish and packed with comic detours, surreal characters and enough bold design to wallpaper an art gallery.

Beneath the outrageous premise is a time capsule of a city and an era when independent filmmaking could be reckless, cheap, inventive and completely unbothered by respectability.

📍 The Ill Repute, Old Market - downstairs cinema room
🕗 Doors 7:30pm / Film 8pm sharp (no late entry)
🎟 Free entry - first come, first served
🍺 Drinks and snacks available at the bar upstairs (bring 'em down with you)

This is the sort of film best discovered in a dark room with other curious people.

More info: https://hdfst.uk/e153328

12/05/2026

THIS WEEKEND

We are super excited to welcome you all to the very first DIRGE Film Festival at The Ill Repute ☠

A full weekend of secret screenings; cult cinema, drinks, filth, and absolute depravity.

Thank you to everyone who has bought tickets and supported this weird little nightmare of a festival. We genuinely can’t wait to share it with you.

Haven't got a ticket yet? Tickets are now very close to selling out, so grab the remaining tickets while you still can. Message us for more info, listings and ticket links.

See you in the dark.

This Thursday, we’re slipping into something far less comfortable downstairs at The Ill Repute with Lost Highway (1997)I...
05/05/2026

This Thursday, we’re slipping into something far less comfortable downstairs at The Ill Repute with Lost Highway (1997)

If you’ve been circling it, this is your nudge. If you’ve seen it before, you already know; it doesn’t play the same way twice.

David Lynch builds a world here that feels sleek on the surface and completely rotten underneath: late-night drives, flickering headlights, anonymous hotel rooms, and the creeping sense that something is very, very wrong. Narrative gives way to instinct. Logic dissolves. You just have to follow it.

With Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, and Robert Blake at its core, the film drifts between identities and realities without warning. It's ice cold, seductive, and deeply unsettling.

📍 The Ill Repute, Old Market - downstairs cinema room
🕗 Doors 7:30pm / Film 8pm sharp (no late entry)
🎟 Free entry - first come, first served
🍸 Drinks and snacks available at the bar

https://hdfst.uk/e152905

"The only thing more terrifying than the last 12 minutes of this film are the first 92"On Thursday 4th June 2026, we des...
04/05/2026

"The only thing more terrifying than the last 12 minutes of this film are the first 92"

On Thursday 4th June 2026, we descend into colour, sound, and pure nightmare logic in the downstairs cinema at The Ill Repute with a screening of Suspiria.

Directed by Dario Argento, this is horror as sensory overload. It's a fever dream of lurid reds, deep shadows, and creeping dread. When an American dancer arrives at a prestigious ballet academy in Germany, she finds herself surrounded by whispers, disappearances, and something far older and more malevolent lurking beneath the surface.

Plot is secondary here. Suspiria works like a spell; disorienting, hypnotic, and overwhelming in the best way. Every frame is drenched in colour, every sound heightened, every moment pushing you deeper into its nightmarish rhythm.

With its iconic, pounding score by Goblin, the film doesn’t just build an uneasy tension, it assaults you with it. It’s beautiful, grotesque, and completely unforgettable.

This is one to experience properly: loud, dark, and on a big screen.

📍 The Ill Repute, Old Market - downstairs cinema room
🕗 Doors 7:30pm / Film 8pm sharp (no late entry)
🎟 Free entry - first come, first served
🍷 Drinks and snacks available at the bar

Before the internet made everything strange, cinema got there first.On Thursday 21st May 2026, we’re screening The Telep...
03/05/2026

Before the internet made everything strange, cinema got there first.

On Thursday 21st May 2026, we’re screening The Telephone Book in the downstairs cinema at The Ill Repute; a wild, satirical deep-dive into desire, anonymity, and urban absurdity.

Directed by Nelson Lyon, this gloriously unhinged cult comedy follows a woman who receives an obscene phone call and becomes determined to track down the mystery voice behind it. Sensible? Not remotely. Entertaining? Absolutely.

What follows is a headlong sprint through seedy corners of New York, where every doorway seems to open onto another bizarre encounter. Equal parts s*x farce, underground comedy, and social prank, The Telephone Book turns bad manners into an art form.

But beyond the outrageous hook, it’s also a snapshot of a vanished city. It's scrappy, grubby, unpredictable, and buzzing with possibility. The kind of film that feels discovered rather than manufactured.

Loud, tasteless, inventive and strangely charming, this is cult cinema doing exactly what it should: taking risks and making trouble.

📍 The Ill Repute, Old Market - downstairs cinema room
🕗 Doors 7:30pm / Film 8pm sharp (no late entry)
🎟 Free entry - first come, first served
🍸 Drinks and snacks available at the bar

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