Fancy catching a film on Saturday night (25 Oct)? Over at the Cinema Museum they’ll be screening the schlock horror/comedy/camp classic ‘Return of the Living Dead’. The name describes perfectly the endless blind dates some office staff have endured over the years, which left us wishing that we too were blind.

Described as ‘celluloid Rock n Roll trash’, the plot of the film involves some very naughty corpses who are brought back to life after toxic gas enters the air. The only thing that makes the zombies feel better about having been stuck in a coffin for all those years is eating people’s brains. Having had their brains eaten, the otherwise kindly townfolk become zombies themselves and then everything gets very messy indeed.  The film ends (spoiler alert) by the town being wiped out my a nuclear weapon, which must have been a real downer for those still fighting for their lives. The film has a great ‘80’s post punk sountrack.

In case you’re not in the loop, the Cinema Museum is housed in the former administration block of Lambeth Workhouse, which we wrote about in 2019. The building would have been the dropping off place for a destitute Charlie Chaplin and his mum and many others on hard times. The museum has a packed collection of film related ephemera including posters, projectors, scary mannequins, scripts, costumes and lights. Your ticket to this talk will allow you to whiz through some of the museum, which is rarely open to the public. And yes, the place has a fully stocked bar (as we know what you lot are like).

If you’re unable to attend this film but nevertheless possess a burning urge to see the living dead, we suggest you pop over to Vauxhall nightclub ‘Fire’ after it closes on a Sunday morning as the dazed zombies emerge. We call them ‘fire damage’. If you can go, good for you snd you can nab tickets here.