Rue Morgue Film Club: Killers from Space at Sunflower Public House

What to Expect

The Rue Morgue Film Club, run under the name “Readers in the Rue Morgue,” brings a night of 1950s B-movie cinema to the upstairs room of the Sunflower Public House in Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter. The film on show is Killers from Space (1954), a low-budget American science-fiction picture about a scientist abducted by aliens after surviving a plane crash, screened in the spirit of pure schlock entertainment rather than as a serious retrospective. The club describes the evening simply as “a night of 50s B-Movie fun,” and it fits the pattern of pub-based film nights that have become a fixture of Belfast’s independent screening scene, pairing an obscure or campy title with a relaxed bar setting rather than a formal cinema.

Killers from Space belongs to the wave of low-budget Cold War-era sci-fi that played drive-ins and second-run cinemas through the 1950s, the kind of film that has since found a second life through club and pub screenings that treat the genre’s clunky effects and earnest dialogue as part of the fun rather than a flaw. The organisers’ choice of a pub upstairs room over a cinema screen is deliberate, giving the night more of a social, drinks-in-hand feel than a formal repertory showing, and fits alongside other small-scale genre and cult film nights that have grown up around Belfast’s independent bar scene in recent years.

Good to Know

• Date and time: Tuesday 18 August 2026, doors and screening from 7:30pm, running until around 10:30pm.
• Venue: Sunflower Public House, 65 Union Street, Belfast BT1 2JG, in the Cathedral Quarter.
• Tickets are sold through Eventbrite; the listing does not publish a price in advance, so check the booking page for current cost.
• This is an in-person screening and Eventbrite lists no refunds once booked.
• The Sunflower is a well-known Belfast pub venue that also hosts live trad music sessions on other nights, so check you have the right room and night when arriving.

Getting There

Sunflower Public House is on Union Street in Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter, a short walk from Donegall Street and the city centre. It is close to the Ulster University Belfast campus and within easy reach of Great Victoria Street and Lanyon Place train stations, with several Metro bus routes stopping nearby on Royal Avenue and York Street.