Electric Palace Hastings

Electric Palace Hastings The Electric Palace is an independent bijou cinema in the heart of Hastings Old Town. We also put on live comedy, music and theatre events. Visit us soon!

This specially developed cinema aims to bring to Hastings a wide choice of films and film related events, with regular screenings of Contemporary, Classic and World Cinema. Please note: private bookings are looked after separately to our social media accounts. Please email the manager at [email protected] for private hire booking queries. We have a licenced bar and offer a tempting ran

ge of refreshments such as Green & Blacks Chocolates, organic wine, local beers including Hastings Brewery ales, miniature bottles of Prosecco, and alcoholic ginger beer. We rely on a team of volunteers to staff the screenings and on your ongoing support to maintain a diverse and exciting programme. The Electric Palace is open to everyone. You are welcome to book tickets in advance through this website or simply turn up before the screenings. Doors open 45 minutes before each performance. Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Electric_palace

The Electric Palace Team:

Rebecca (director and co-founder),
Alan (manager),
Annie (marketing manager/co-director),
Kim (bar and cinema supervisor),
Judith (screenings and private hire supervisor),
Dani (marketing officer),
Natalia (programmer),
Sean (programmer), and
all our fabulous volunteers!

18/07/2026

🎞️ Coming soon: IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU Thur 23 July 11am (with free hot drink) + Thur 30 Jul 7.30pm

🗣️A24’s pitch-black comedy about the stresses of motherhood, illness, a missing person and therapy, with a monumental performance by Rose Byrne. Also starring Conan O'Brien and A$AP Rocky. Thursday morning screening subtitled and with free hot drink.

"Bronstein is brilliant at conveying mounting panic and a terrible, all-consuming sadness." Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian.

17/07/2026

💀COMING NEXT WEEK! Sat 25 July 7.30pm THEATRE OF HORRORS: THE SORDID STORY OF PARIS' GRAND GUIGNOL + WRITER'S INTRO

Tickets on sale now via the Electric Palace web site, or in person 30 minutes before showtime.

🫦 Tracing the story of the centuries-old, taboo-busting theatre dedicated to the bizarre, the bloody and the shocking. With writer’s introduction from Madeline Despenser.

🩸In 1897 Oscar Méténier invented the Grand-Guignol. Live depictions of death, bloody melodramas, screams of the victims and the audience: here is the story of this Parisian theatre of horrors that revolutionized the depiction of death in art. In a back alley in the seedy Pigalle district of Paris, a former chapel became a theatrical institution forged in naturalism, controversy and grisly spectacle.

Over the next 65 years, it would actively provoke revulsion, celebration and begrudging global esteem.

More than a half century after its final performance, the Grand Guignol remains one of the most wildly misunderstood and profoundly influential traditions in entertainment history.

From horror films to tabloid journalism, avant-garde theatre to the true-crime genre, France’s ‘Theatre of Death’ is still slicing, gouging and spurting its pervasive way through culture both high and low.

17/07/2026

🎬 Fri 24 July 7.30pm YOU'RE GONNA MISS ME: A FILM ABOUT ROKY ERICKSON

Booking online now.

🍄 The roller coaster story of American psychedelic pioneer Roky Erickson (13th Floor Elevators); a trip of a life in and out of institutions, poverty, filth and family disputes.

🌞 Part of James Endeacott's Summer Music Meltdown

🌞 Showing this Saturday; for fans of Americana, alt.rock, rebel country and rock n' roll.... 🎸Selected by Summer Music M...
16/07/2026

🌞 Showing this Saturday; for fans of Americana, alt.rock, rebel country and rock n' roll....
🎸Selected by Summer Music Meltdown curator James Endeacott.

❤️‍🩹 Sat 18 7.30pm BE HERE TO LOVE ME + Larry Jon Wilson short + late bar
The turbulent life of alt.rock pioneer Townes Van Zandt, who sacrificed everything for his music. Plus Larry Jon Wilson short.

James says:

"Singer-songwriter Townes van Zandt was at the center of Austin's outlaw country scene in the 1970s, but, while friends like Waylon Jennings and Steve Earle went on to mainstream stardom, the mercurial Van Zandt retreated into a haze of alcoholism and mental illness.

Through interviews and rarely seen live footage recorded throughout Van Zandt's performing and recording career, this sympathetic documentary traces his work and life, which was cut short on New Year's Day 1997, when he was 52.

We will also be showing a 30 minute short about another country outlaw Larry Jon Wilson. A Perfect Why Not chronicles the recording of Larry's first album for almost 30 years in 2007 and has never been seen in public before.

Prepare to fall in love with these two late, great singer songwriters this weekend."

16/07/2026

🎬 Showing NEXT week: psychedelic heroes, A24 dark comedy, cross-generational inspiration, and the incredible real-life horror show of Paris' Grand Guignol theatre! Plus classic Italian gothery and Supermarionation!

🎟 Tickets online now or in person 30 minutes before showtime.

❤️‍🔥 Thu 23 11am If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (subtitled)
A24’s tunnel-dark comedy about the stresses of motherhood, illness, a missing person and therapy, with a monumental performance by Rose Byrne.

🗝 Thu 23 7.30pm Familiar Touch
A coming-of-old-age tale of a woman’s transition into assisted living. Made in collaboration with an US retirement community’s real-life residents and careworkers.

👩‍🚀 Fri 24 7.30pm You’re Gonna Miss Me
The roller coaster story of American psychedelic pioneer Roky Erickson (13th Floor Elevators); a trip of a life in and out of institutions, poverty, filth and family disputes.

🩸Sat 25 7.30pm Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris' Grand Guignol + intro
Tracing the story of the centuries-old, taboo-busting theatre dedicated to the bizarre, the bloody and the shocking. With an in-person introduction by the film's writer.

🚀 Sun 26 3pm Thunderbirds 60th Anniversary 4k
We celebrate the Supermarionation stars’ big birthday with two of the most exciting episodes made. Scrubbed up and looking and sounding better than ever!

🦇 Sun 26 7.30pm Black Sunday
Decades after being executed for witchcraft, vengeful Princess Asa Vajda and her fiendish servant are resurrected and begin a bloody campaign. Groundbreaking Italian gothic horror.

Overheard today... “There are few things better when it’s really, really hot than going to your local cinema during the ...
16/07/2026

Overheard today...

“There are few things better when it’s really, really hot than going to your local cinema during the day. It is air-conditioned… someone has spent millions of pounds producing something to entertain you, and you can have a mint choc chip ice-cream.*”

Richard Osman, The Rest Is Entertainment Podcast, July 16th 2026

*Ice-cold drink and pack of Poppets in our case.

16/07/2026

🎞 Calling all 16-25-year old film obsessives!

🎬 FREE! Young Electrics Film Camp (July 2026) Immersive Work Experience for 16-25s

📆 Tuesday July 28th-Thursday July 30th

🍿Join the annual youth project run by the Electric Palace, the micro-indie cinema based in Hastings Old Town.

👩‍🎓This three-day immersive work experience is for enthusiastic 16-25 year olds who want to learn about working in the film exhibition industry.

❤️‍🔥 You will join the team to research and plan a week-long youth film festival as part of the Young Electrics takeover.

✏ To apply for a place or to find out more please email Julia Andrews-Clifford at [email protected] with a short paragraph or video message telling us why you'd like to join.

⏰ Deadline is Wednesday July 22nd 12pm FREE (includes refreshments).

🧛‍♂️This Friday at 7.30pm CRONOS 4K 🎟 Tickets available now! ⌛ Guillermo del Toro’s bracing feature debut announced the ...
15/07/2026

🧛‍♂️This Friday at 7.30pm CRONOS 4K
🎟 Tickets available now!

⌛ Guillermo del Toro’s bracing feature debut announced the arrival of a strikingly original cinematic voice, and his take on the vampire movie has become regarded as one of the most important Mexican - and horror - films of all time. In sparkling 4K.

🦇A Fright Night presentation with intro by Emily Booth and Kim Foster-Taylor.

And the board is UP! 🎬 Showing at the Electric Palace this week. Book your tickets online or in person before showtime. ...
14/07/2026

And the board is UP!

🎬 Showing at the Electric Palace this week. Book your tickets online or in person before showtime.
Groundbreaking horror, live football, flamboyant drag and rock and roll!
💎 Thu 16 11am ASHES AND DIAMONDS (subtitled + free hot drink)
Andrzej Wajda’s 1958 Polish classic in which a Second World War Polish resistance fighter falls in love with a barmaid is a delirious, sad, intense exploration of identity and conflict.
🥾Thu 16 7.30pm OUR LAND
Who has the right to roam the British countryside? This documentary takes us to the heart of the mass trespassing, hard campaigning Right to Roam movement, while also exploring landowners’ concerns.
🧛‍♂️ Fri 17 7.30pm CRONOS + INTRO 4K
Guillermo del Toro’s breakthrough Mexican vampire movie blends skin-crawling body horror with a steampunk aesthetic. With Ron Perlman and Federico Luppi. Presented by Frightnight, our monthly classic horror night presented by Emily Booth and Kim Foster-Taylor.
🐟 Sat 18 3pm ROSE OF NEVADA (relaxed)
The third film in Mark Jenkin’s Cornish trilogy, this time-slipping, unsettling ghost ship story explores a claustrophobic coastal community.
🎸Sat 18 7.30pm BE HERE TO LOVE ME + short + late bar
The turbulent life of alt.rock pioneer Townes Van Zandt, who sacrificed everything for his music. Plus Larry Jon Wilson short. Part of our Summer Music Meltdown season.
🫦 Sun 19 11am OUTRIDER
Rock and roll beat poet Anne Waldman is the 'fast speaking woman'; see — and hear — her roar.
💄Sun 19 3pm THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT
A tribute to the late Terence Stamp. Two flamboyant drag queens (Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce) and transgender woman Bernadette (Stamp in a tour de force performance), journey across the Australian Outback on a tour bus named Priscilla.
⚽️ Sun 19 7pm WORLD CUP LIVE
A properly big screen. Comfy seats. Cold beer. Huge sound. And the coolest crowd in town. Watching football doesn’t get more luxurious.

⚽ Last minute screening! ENGLAND VS ARGENTINA Men's World Cup Football. £3 Tickets on sale NOW via our website, and are ...
14/07/2026

⚽ Last minute screening! ENGLAND VS ARGENTINA Men's World Cup Football. £3 Tickets on sale NOW via our website, and are strictly limited!

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇦🇷 England meet Argentina for the much anticipated second semi-final at the Atlanta Stadium, with an 8pm kick-off. Watch the big match in style at the Electric Palace!

🍺 The bar will be open selling beer, wine and our very own Electric Pale ale. Limited seating so book early for your guaranteed clear, comfy air-conditioned view to this year's must-see sporting event!

Doors will open at 7pm.

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39A High Street
Hastings
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