45 Years

Horror Minus Horror is a two-night film series that tests and expands the boundaries of the genre: a conversation between films that employ horror’s aesthetic conventions without being considered horror, and films that explore horror’s themes without using those aesthetics.

This April, join us for screenings of Stephen Karam’s The Humans and Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years: a family drama set within a sinister frame, and a ghost story without the ghost.

To ensure that Horror Minus Horror is accessible to everyone, regardless of circumstances, our tickets are offered on a sliding scale.

45 Years

Adapted by All of Us Strangers director Andrew Haigh from a David Constantine short story, 45 Years follows a complacently happy couple, Kate (Charlotte Rampling) and Geoff (Tom Courtenay), whose lives are thrown into disarray when the long-lost body of Geoff's first love is discovered in the Swiss Alps, frozen and unchanged after decades in a glacier.

While 45 Years is a moving and beautifully acted drama about an unexpected marital crisis, it is also, at heart, a haunting: the story of a woman returning from the dead to possess a couple's house, and attempt to destroy their union.

‘At the center of it is Rampling, all eyes on her, showing us everything that’s going through this woman’s mind. But even when it’s just her in the frame, when the camera has come in for a close up, there’s someone else there just out of view—the invisible third party of her marriage, the ghost over her shoulder.’ A.A. Dowd, AV Club