THE MERCURY CINEMA

The Mercury and Iris Cinemas are run by the Media Resource Centre to enhance screen culture and to give screening opportunities to emerging South Australian film, video and digital media artists.

Cinemas are also available for hire. For more information CLICK HERE.

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Ph. (08) 8410 0979

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MERCURY for hire

The Mercury and Iris Cinemas are available for hire. We offer highly competitive rates for your screening, conference, lecture or party. We can screen just about anything from 35mm CinemaScope to your Powerpoint or web based presentation. AND we can look after your catering and liquor requirements with the minimum of fuss!

Get Hammered!
A guide to hammer horror

Adelaide Cinematheque 2010

1 -11 November

Hammer Studios, founded in 1934, made it’s indelible mark on film history with a series of Gothic Horror films spanning the mid-Fifties to the mid-Seventies. Lavish sets, lurid lighting, heaving bosoms and copious gore for the era set them apart and made them substantial hits on both sides of the Atlantic, not to mention making genre heroes of Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Oliver Reed. Hammer prints courtesy of the National Film and Sound Archieve.

THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN || HORROR OF DRACULA
THE NANNY || THE LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES

7:30pm Monday 1 November

The Curse of frankenstein (G)

DIR: TERENCE FISHER
US 1982 86mins 35mm
Baron Victor Frankenstein sits on Death Row and confesses his sordid past to a priest, seeking absolution for the crime he committed while awaiting execution for the crime he didn’t. Creating life from scratch may have been a brilliant theory but turns out to be a poor career move as everything is violently torn from the Baron and his life shattered. Hammer’s first colour film sets the template for all that would follow, and follow they did with this film alone spawning six sequels. Try to keep your eyes off Peter Cushing, or Christopher Lee’s Hammer debut, to spot Patrick Troughton in a small role.

Brews & Reviews proudly sponsored by Barossa Valley Brewing.

7:30pm Thursday 4 November

Horror of Dracula (M)

DIR: TERENCE FISHER
UK 1958 82mins 35mm
Vampire hunter Jonathan Harker insinuates himself into the castle of Count Dracula with the simple plan of dispatching the elegant bloodsucker. Distracted by a generous cleavage attached to an apparently helpless young lady he finds himself on the wrong end of a pair of generous canine teeth. Close friend Van Helsing puts him on the wrong end of a stake and sets out to put an end to it all by staking the Count himself. Lee’s seductively aristocratic vampire is one of the most iconic ever to grace the screen and he’d reprise the role in six of the eight sequels.

Listed in 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

7:30pm Monday 8 November

The Nanny (M)

DIR: SETH HOLT
UK 1965 91mins 35mm
Ten year-old Joey Fane is home from his ‘special school’ after apparently murdering his sister, but not even he trusts the family’s nanny. Tension builds in the household as truth and lies expose themselves, begging the question as to which one is more dangerous. One of the less famous Hammer excursions into Hitchcock territory, Bette Davis gives another of her sterling psycho-biddy performances.

WINNER Screen London Award for most groupies on set 1966

7:30pm Thursday 11 November

The Legend of the 7 golden vampires (G)

DIR: ROY WARD BAKER/CHANG CHEH
UK/HK 1974 83mins 35mm
Van Helsing is on a lecture tour in the exotic East when he hears that a legend of a village terrorised by vampires is true. Taking the opportunity to stake the bloodsuckers in new and exciting locations he travels to the village with local medical student Hsi Ching and six kung-fu masters to deal out crosscultural mayhem. This collaboration between Hammer and Shaw Brothers brings together vampires and martial arts in strange and spectacular fashion, with two of their leading stars; Peter Cushing and David Chiang. Look for some hopping vampires in the background, a taste of things to come in Hong Kong cinema.