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Prince Charles Cinema

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Time Out says

The legendary Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square is central London’s wild-card cinema. Its two screens offer a fantastic blend of new-ish blockbusters, independent and arthouse titles with horror, sci-fi and teen-flick all-nighters, double bills and short seasons. The basic premise of the cinema is, ‘If they can screen it, they will’. Akira Kurosawa seasons run alongside strands celebrating the performances of Greta Gerwig and Richard Pryor; epic 70mm presentations of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ run take place in one screen while people aca-alonged to ‘Pitch Perfect’ in the other, and if you’ve ever fancied watching every ‘Harry Potter’ films back-to-back in one 22-hour sitting, yep, they do that too.

It’s comfy, cheap and very cheerful, and the programming is as good as it gets. Voted 'best for fun' in Time Out's cinema awards, it’s also Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson’s favourite UK cinema.

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Address:
7 Leicester Place
London
WC2H 7BP
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Transport:
Tube: Leicester Sq
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HorrOctober at the Prince Charles Cinema

As usual, beloved central London repertory cinema The Prince Charles will be showing more frightening films than Dracula has had bloody dinners during its wildly eclectic month-long season of spooky cinema this October. From 1922 German Expressionist classic ‘Nosferatu’ and the original 1932 ‘Dracula’ movie to recent hits like ‘Get Out’ (2017) and ‘Last Night in Soho’ (2021), via 1970s giallo film ‘A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin’, French noir ‘Les Yeux sans visage’ (1960) and a trans sexploitation movie from 1977 called ‘Let Me Die a Woman’, there really is something for absolutely everyone. Our pick of the bunch? The ‘Friday 13th I-IV’ mini-marathon on Friday 13. Grab the popcorn, and take a look at the full programme here. 

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