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CULT THINGS HAPPEN IN MANCHESTER
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'I know when certain things are coming and I still jump…'
It Walks Around the House at Night. Its a scary play and it's coming to the Lowry. That's all we're allowed to say? Come on, we're Cult Manchester...
9 hours ago


The Halloween Three - Part III: The final reckoning. Cult Manchester’s Halloween film picks come to a grisly end.
In space, no one can hear you argue about whether its a horror movie or not... Five films that might not be horror films at all.
2 days ago


The Halloween Three - Part II. A seasonal selection of scary celluloid from a cabal of Cult Manchester contributors.
Horror goes abroad for Part II of our Halloween film selection.
3 days ago


Cult Things


'I know when certain things are coming and I still jump…'
It Walks Around the House at Night. Its a scary play and it's coming to the Lowry. That's all we're allowed to say? Come on, we're Cult Manchester...
9 hours ago


The Halloween Three - Part III: The final reckoning. Cult Manchester’s Halloween film picks come to a grisly end.
In space, no one can hear you argue about whether its a horror movie or not... Five films that might not be horror films at all.
2 days ago


The Halloween Three - Part II. A seasonal selection of scary celluloid from a cabal of Cult Manchester contributors.
Horror goes abroad for Part II of our Halloween film selection.
3 days ago


The Halloween Three - Part I. Cult Manchester's trio of writers choose their seasonal selection of scares.
Who better than Cult Manchester to help you with your choice of Halloween films?
4 days ago


Love at first riff: welcome to Damnation... in Trafford Park.
Damnation comes to Trafford park for the biggest indoor metal festival in the world.
6 days ago


‘Give people something to think about… without telling them what to think.’
Humanity! It's in short supply... but there's some available at Dylan Lisle's new exhibition in Oldham.
Oct 20


‘I like being a shadow… a strange, voyeuristic figure.’ Out on the streets of Manchester - at dawn - with the Not Quite Light photo project.
'I once had a kestrel fly past my thigh...'
The twilight world of Simon Buckley.
Oct 17


‘Too many drugs? Perfect for us!’ Front and centre with Backstage Books.
Neu! Manchester... Mad Fuckers! The exclamation mark-heavy world of Backstage Books.
Oct 14
MOST READ


Cult Manchester exclusive: ‘There was some sadness attached to those records…’
Looking though Ian Curtis’ record collection with Kelvin Briggs.


‘It's the newness and optimism of it. Then it starts going grey and rainy and decaying.’
Grief, coincidence and Asterix the Gaul - how artist Michael Cooke became the go-to illustrator for the Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan electronic music project.


‘Johnny Rotten wiped his nose on the curtains…’ Exclusive: the Pistols at Piccadilly in pictures.
Sex Pistols unseen! The day the band came to Piccadilly Radio by the people who swear they were there.
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