Glue Gun
A pop-up cinema screening cult and genre film in Leeds/Brighton/London
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Screenings
Upcoming
Glue Gun presents: Woman in the Dunes
20th Aug 2026 at 19:00
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Blending erotic drama with proto-folk horror, Hiroshi Teshigahara’s sensuous existential nightmare is one of the defining films of the Japanese new wave.
Searching for rare insects, an amateur entomologist travels to a remote seaside village surrounded by sand dunes. After missing his last bus back to Tokyo, he is persuaded by the villagers to spend the night with a local widow, who lives in a shack at the bottom of a deep pit. But the next morning, he discovers that nobody has any intention of letting him leave.
Adapted by Kobo Abe from his own novel, Woman in the Dunes was an international arthouse hit upon its release in 1964, with Oscar nominations for best director and best foreign language film.
Additional Info
Screening at Pictureville Cinema in Bradford as part of their Summer Takeovers series
Location
Glue Gun, Pictureville Cinema, National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, BD1 1NQ
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Archive
Glue Gun Presents: Messiah of Evil
27-05-2025 at 19:00
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The only horror film made by writer/director team Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck, with production design by Joan Mocine (Badlands) and Jack Fisk (Mulholland Drive), Messiah of Evil is one of the most idiosyncratic and visually stunning American horror films of the 1970s, a waking nightmare of post-hippie pessimism and neon California Gothic.
In search of her missing father, Arletty travels to the eerie seaside town of Point Dune. Local legend says that one hundred years ago the townsfolk were driven into a frenzy of madness and cannibalism by a mysterious ‘Dark Stranger’. Then he vanished, walking into the ocean with the promise that he would return with the coming of the blood moon.
“Brilliantly captures a lightning essence of horror that no other ever bothered to bottle: the horror of neon by night, of 24-hour gas stations and grocery stores, of muzak that sounds as if it's played by long-dead musicians.” - Tim Lucas, Sight & Sound
Additional Info
Doors: 7pm
Film Starts: 7:30pm approx
Film Ends: 9:00pm approx
Bar closes 11pm
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Location
Glue Gun Presents: Messiah of Evil, Pictureville Cinema, National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, BD1 1NQ
Glue Gun Presents: Carnival of Souls
24-06-2025 at 19:00
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After barely escaping a horrific car accident that claimed the lives of her two companions, Mary moves to Salt Lake City, hoping for a fresh start. But plagued by visions of a silent, menacing figure and feeling increasingly disconnected from reality, she begins to unravel. Is any of this really happening? And why is she inexorably drawn to the abandoned carnival on the shores of the Great Salt Lake?
An uncanny masterpiece of low-budget horror, Carnival of Souls' dreamlike atmosphere and dark Americana prefigure the work of directors like David Lynch.
“Watch Carnival of Souls and wonder about its influence on others. Think about Night of the Living Dead, Blue Velvet and Eraserhead.” - Michael J. Weldon, The Psychotronic Video Guide
Additional Info
Doors: 7pm
Film Starts: 7:30pm approx
Film Ends: 8:50pm approx
Bar closes 11pm
Please note that The Rose Hill is a mixed use venue and seating for film screenings is allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Location
Glue Gun Presents: Carnival of Souls, Pictureville Cinema, National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, BD1 1NQ
Glue Gun Presents: Let's Scare Jessica to Death
29-07-2025 at 19:00
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Following her stay in a mental health facility, Jessica and her husband move to an isolated farmhouse in rural Connecticut in order to help her ‘get better.’ But their new life is threatened by the hostility of the locals and eerie rumours about their home’s former owners. Following a series of bizarre occurrences, Jessica fears that she may be losing her grip on reality.
Join us for a rare screening of this burnt out, post-hippie American gothic horror with a beautifully subtle central performance from Zohra Lampert.
“One of the most subtle masterpieces of ‘70s genre cinema.” - Kier-La Janisse, House of Psychotic Women
Additional Info
Doors: 7pm
Film Starts: 7:30pm approx
Film Ends: 9:00pm approx
Bar closes 11pm
Please note that The Rose Hill is a mixed use venue and seating for film screenings is allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Location
Glue Gun Presents: Let's Scare Jessica to Death, Pictureville Cinema, National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, BD1 1NQ
Glue Gun Presents: The Visitor
25-09-2025 at 18:30
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From director “Michael J. Paradise” (not his real name), The Visitor is a beautiful and baffling sci-fi horror mash up of The Omen, Rosemary’s Baby and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Posing as a kindly babysitter, mysterious cosmic entity Jerzy Colsowicz travels to Earth in search of foul mouthed eight year old Katy Collins, the only living descendant of the evil alien mutant Zatine. Their battle of wills may determine the fate of humanity, and even the universe!
Perhaps the best film to earn a 5.2 average rating on IMDb, The Visitor is what you get when you mix heavy handed Christian allegory with a total disregard for narrative coherence and hundreds of real pigeons.
“A genuinely stupefying experience…the Mount Everest of insane ‘70s Italian movies.” - Mondo Digital
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Location
Glue Gun Presents: The Visitor, Pictureville Cinema, National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, BD1 1NQ
Glue Gun and Siren Screen present: Dead Ringers
05-06-2026 at 18:30
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Join Glue Gun and Siren Screen to celebrate Gemini season with a doppelgänger double bill at The Cinema Museum on 5th June, with feature Dead Ringers on 16mm and accompanying short A Kind of Testament.
DEAD RINGERS (1988) is David Cronenberg’s tragic, clinical character study of gynaecologists Elliot and Beverly (Jeremy Irons), identical twins who share everything - their home, their medical practice and even their sexual conquests. Dead Ringers avoids explicit body horror while still demonstrating Cronenberg’s fascination with physical and mental transformation, charting the slow steady unravelling of the twins’ relationship and the toll it takes on them. Don’t miss this rare chance to see it projected on 16mm film, from The Cinema Museum’s own collection.
Stephan Vuillemin’s eerie animated short A KIND OF TESTAMENT (2023) grafts Cronenbergian body horror onto digital space. A young woman's world begins to unravel when she discovers a series of bizarre internet animations created from her private selfies, and tries to uncover the identity of their creator.
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Location
Glue Gun and Siren Screen present: Dead Ringers, Pictureville Cinema, National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, BD1 1NQ