Scala!!! at the Electric Palace

We've put it on again due to popular demand!

Heartfelt big screen documentary about the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll repertory cinema which inspired a generation during Britain's turbulent Thatcher years. The cinema was housed in a wonderfully stately building with a cupola in London’s scuzzy and pre-gentrified King’s Cross between 1981 and 1993; the building in fact now survives and thrives as a nightclub.

The Scala also became legendary for its wonderful monthly poster-style foldout sheets advertising the forthcoming attractions which were sexier and more exciting than the earnest booklets in other cinemas; it became a movie theatre with the excitement of a 24/7 punk festival, not a college of further education. And this was the pre-Google, pre-YouTube age, when simply finding out about the existence of films, never mind actually seeing them, was very difficult.

Who you'll see in the film: John Waters, Cathi Unsworth, James O'Brien, Mary Harron, John Akomfrah, Ben Wheatley, Isaac Julian, Caroline Catz, Stewart Lee, Adam Buxton, Peter Strickland, Thurston Moore, and Jah Wobble.

Part of National Cinema Days Weekend celebrating and supporting communal film watching and independent cinemas in August!

You may also like the following events from ElectricPalace Hastings:

• This Friday, 29th August, 07:30 pm, Human Traffic - 4K restoration at the Electric Palace in Hastings
• This Saturday, 30th August, 10:30 am, Electric Palace Open House - Part of National Cinema Days weekend and Coastal Currents 2025 in Hastings
• This Sunday, 31st August, 07:30 pm, B Movie Fan Club present: Plan 9 from Outer Space at the Electric Palace in Hastings

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