Five years after a nuclear apocalypse. The survivors: post-nuke, thrill-freaks looking for a kick. Able to exist, to sense, to feel everything... but pleasure. In a world destroyed, survivors break down to those who can and those who can't. 99% are Sex Negatives; call them "erotic casualties". They want to make love, but the mere touch of another person makes them violently ill. The rest, the lucky one percent, are Sex Positives, those whose libidos escaped unscathed. After the Nuclear Kiss, the Positives remain to love, to perform; and the others can only watch - can only come to Café Flesh. 

An inspiration for a generation of writers, artists and filmmakers, including Hunter S. Thompson, Dinos Chapman, Nick Knight and Bertrand Mandico, Café Flesh is a post-apocalyptic “adults-only” reworking of Bob Fosse’ Cabaret. One of the original midnight movies, it replaced John Waters’ Pink Flamingos at the famed NuArt theater in Los Angeles, and played on a double bill with Curt McDowell’s Thundercrack at London’s legendary Scala cinema. Café Flesh is a dystopian sci-fi oddity from one of American cinema's true underground originals.

This screening is the UK Premiere of the 4K Restoration of the film and will be introduced by filmmaker Stephen Sayadian.

Content warning: This film contains references and/or depictions to/of pornography, and unsimulated sex.