The Ill Repute

Free entry! An unmissably batshit fantasia of emo musical theatre and high camp gore from Bristol Queer Cinema Club: Repo! The Genetic Opera explodes across a plague-ravaged 2056, where biotech lackeys serenade you while repossessing your collateralized organs. Baffling casting choices include Paris Hilton and Anthony Stewart Head in leather daddy mode, as if we weren’t already convinced… Be Kind Rewind Bristol + Bristol Queer Cinema CluFb present MONSTERS, MANIACS & MISITS; a series of cult halloween film screenings throughout October 2025.

John Frankenheimer’s daring psychological thriller-cum-allegory follows a middle-aged man faking his death to be reborn as a bohemian Californian painter. Grainy black-and-white cinematography, expressionistic camera work, and Rock Hudson’s anxious, haunted performance create a surreal, countercultural nightmare. Be Kind Rewind Bristol is a film club dedicated to screening cult classics, hidden gems, and cinematic oddities.

Free entry! Descend into Bad Boy Bubby: Rolf de Heer’s delirious, taboo-scorching odyssey of a manchild loosed on the world after 35 years in one room. Thirty-two cinematographers chart his dizzying baptism in cruelty, kindness, and noise. Be Kind Rewind Bristol is a film club dedicated to screening cult classics, hidden gems, and cinematic oddities.

Renegade mariachi rockabilly veterans who’ve been slapping the Edmonton scene silly for 25 years with brass licks, double bass stomp, and country twang. Raygun Cowboys are locked and loaded and ready to blow away all fans of: The Stray Cats, The Hillbilly Moon Explosion, Hola Ghost, Tiger Army, Rocket from The Crypt. Canadian Rocka-Psycha-Rolla-Billies!

Free entry! Original rudeboy sounds from the diggers behind the Bristol Northern Soul renaissance. Expect silky smooth Caribbean soul, strictly 60s ska and rousing rocksteady hosted by St. Pauls via Misty In Roots legend Simbarashe Tongogara. No pretenders here - these cats like to dance! Ska, Rocksteady, Ska, island Soul and Lovers