Genre: Horror – Wimbledon Film Club

Theatre Of Blood

50th anniversary screening of this cult classic black comedy, featuring a stellar British cast. Shakespearean actor Edward Lionheart conspires with his daughter to get revenge on the London theatre critics who panned his work.
Saint Maud

A private nurse for palliative care is convinced that God has a special purpose in store for her. Her new client is a terminally ill choreographer whose cynical bohemianism jars and spars with her own ecstatic asceticism. 31-year old National Film & Television School graduate Rose Glass, who was working five years ago as an…
The Ghoul

As a detective, Chris, (Meeten) investigates a double murder, the case begins to indicate the best way to follow up leads is to go undercover as a patient seeking psychotherapy for depression. What follows is a sinister story where nothing and no one seems reliable and Chris begins to doubt himself. An intense psychological thriller,…
Only Lovers Left Alive

Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive was nominated for Palme d’Or but won the Soundtrack Award. The film is full of music from different centuries, much of it performed by Jarmusch’s own band, SQÜRL. It spans from Paganini to Wanda Jackson and the Lebanese singer Yasmine Hamdan. Equally, the sources of the music also vary…
Young Frankenstein

Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder’s loving pastiche of the old Universal Studios series of monster movies, some of which was shot using the original Hollywood props from the 1930s. While the critics were often sniffy on its release, the film has gone on to be considered a classic in its own right, being recognised by…
What We Do in the Shadows

Wonderful mockumentary on flat-sharing vampires struggling with the practicalities of modern life. A new challenge faces them when Stu, a human, triggers bromantic feelings and the vampires feel honour-bound not to bite him. With Flight of the Conchords team behind the script there are lots of laughs. An audience favourite and voted top comedy of…
Peeping Tom

There’s something wrong with Mark, (Boehm). He’s a lonely, unfriendly sort of chap. He has a lowly job at a film studio and makes extra money selling photographs to porn shops. But its his hobby that’s the real problem. He’s obsessed with how people register fear through facial expression and he films young women’s faces…
The Queen of Spades

In 1806 St Petersburg, Captain Suvorin of the Engineers (Walbrook) becomes resentful of his rich friend, Prince Andrei (Howard), and the circle of Guards officers who gamble their money at faro, a form of snap in which fortunes can be won or lost on the turn of a card. Convinced by an old book that…
Let The Right One In

Oskar (Hedebrant) is a 12 year old loner, bullied at school he is full of suppressed rage. Eli moves in next door – she’s a bit of a misfit too and they become friends. She encourages Oskar to stand up to the bullies. As the two young people find solace in each other Oskar begins…
The Orphanage

Hitchcock explained the difference between surprise and suspense like this: if people are seated at a table and a bomb explodes, that is surprise. If they are seated at a table, and you know there’s a bomb under the table attached to a ticking clock, but they continue to play cards – that’s suspense. Well,…