Original poster design // Danilo Tranquilo
Prints // shop
Earth in 2022 is overcrowded, polluted and hungry. Homelessness and unemployment are endemic, and food is limited to a scarce supply of Soylent Green – an artificial foodstuff manufactured by the Soylent Corporation. When an executive at the Soylent Corporation is murdered, NYPD detective Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston) is sent to investigate – and slowly starts to uncover a corporate conspiracy that runs to the heart of this dystopian society…
Richard Fleischer, US 1973, 15, 97mins
“As a science fiction film that relies more on viewers’ intelligence than special effects, it represents something that is sorely missed in today’s Hollywood”
–Rec.Arts.Movies.Reviews
“This influential vision of an overpopulated future has a horrific plausibility that’s hard to shake off”
–Urban Cinefile
“Where so many science fiction visions of the era have dated, this gritty creation of a depressed (and depressing) future… looks all the more real”
–Seanax.com
“This futuristic thriller just seems to keep getting better with age”
–Fantastica Daily
Where: The Victoria, 451 Queensbridge Road, E8 3AS
When: Monday 21st September 2015, 8pm
Tickets: £3.50 advance | £5 door
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Science Fiction Theatre 