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.

CONTACT
Operations Manager, Jeremy Chance e-mail

Exhibition Manager, Toby Bramwell e-mail
Ph. (08) 8410 0979

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TICKET SALES

Call 8410 0979 9-5:30 Mon to Fri with you credit Card handy.
Call into the MRC 13 Morphett St Adelaide (behind the Mercury) 8-5:30 Mon-Fri
Buy tickets at the box office from one hour prior to the advertised screening time.

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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!

LARRY COHEN: CREATURE DOUBLE FEATURE

21 August

Larry Cohen (b. 1938) is a film producer, director, and screenwriter best known as one of the key filmmakers in the blaxploitation boom of the seventies and a series of low-budget but inventive horror films and thrillers that remained popular well into the eighties. While Cohen never quite escaped his genre origins, his idiosyncratic body of work remains highly influential and he remains in demand as a writer to this day.

IT'S ALIVE || IT LIVES AGAIN

7:30pm Thursday 21 August

IT’S ALIVE (R18+)

Dir: Larry Cohen
US 1973 90mins 16mm
Frank and Sharon give birth to a monstrous baby, who goes on a murderous rampage through Los Angeles. Conflicted by an instinctive love for his child and the gravity of its crimes, Frank decides that he is the person to hunt it down. Deftly shifting the audience’s sympathies, Cohen takes an outrageous concept and gives it a surprising depth, helped in part by a earnest performance by John Ryan as the tormented father. Features a stirring Bernard Herrman score and special effects from the legendary Rick Baker.

9:15pm Thursday 21 August

IT LIVES AGAIN (R18+)

Dir: Larry Cohen
US 1978 90mins 16mm
As the epidemic widens, Frank returns as the leader of an underground organisation helping parents protect their deadly offspring from harm. When a new couple elude the police and escape to a secret hideaway, they discover that they are not alone. The police now have three mutant babies to contend with! Stars Frederic Forrest and John Ryan.