1. The Nickel Cinema
    Photograph: RIFF.underground | The Nickel Cinema on Clerkenwell Road
  2. The Nickel Cinema
    Photograph: Dominic Hicks | Inside The Nickel’s screening room
  3. The Nickel Cinema
    Photograph: Sab Astley | A Nickel membership card
  4. The Nickel Cinema
    Photograph: Sab Astley | The Nickel’s library of film reels

The Nickel Cinema

  • Cinemas | Independent
  • Holborn
Rosie Hewitson
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Time Out says

Clerkenwell’s new DIY cinema is a stellar addition to London’s movie-going scene. Beginning life as a pop-up in pubs across the city, the Nickel opened as a permanent venue in June 2025 after owner Dominic Hicks crowdfunded £15,000 to open London’s first proper grindhouse cinema. The programme features everything from Italian crime flicks to German industrial cinema, 70s neo-noir to pre-Code Hollywood gems, with regular Mystery Movie screenings and at least one film print per week. With its 37 cinema seats rescued from the now-closed Odeon Covent Garden, a lobby decorated with vinyl records, VHS tapes and film reels and a cosy little bar and video shop in the basement, it’s a real haven for the city’s film buffs, and proof that cinema lives on in London. 

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117-119 Clerkenwell Road
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Halloween at The Nickel

London’s newest – and cultiest – picturehouse, Clerkenwell’s Nickel Cinema is celebrating its first ever Halloween in style this October. A thoroughly DIY affair, the grindhouse cinema specialises is the perfect place to catch some niche horror picks. You won’t find Hocus Pocus and Ghostbusters on the programme here; instead, expect slashers, sexploitation films, Italian murder mystery, German industrial cinema and B movies galore, all leading up to an all-day marathon on October 31. Beginning at midday on Halloween, the first annual Nickel Cinema Halloween Psychotronic All-Dayer will feature six ‘mind-melting rarely (or never) screened movies’ alongside rarely-screened trailers, an exclusive poster sale and surprise guests. Costumes are very much encouraged!
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