The Ill Repute

The Ill Repute

Quirky rocker's bar with surf/Mexico on the mind!


The Ill Repute's a quirky rocker's bar making a name for itself in Old Market. With a unique music policy of rockabilly / surf / 2tone / garage rock from resident DJs and live bands, the 50s appropriate tiki-style decor's the perfect environment to enjoy some of the best Mexican food in town.

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The Ox-Bow Incident at The Ill Repute
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DIRGE Film Festival at The Ill Repute
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King Zepha at The Ill Repute
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Free entry! The Gregg Araki revival continues with the first in his audacious Teenage Apocalypse trilogy. Totally F***ed Up is his arthouse imagining of a ‘queer John Hughes flick’, flipping 80s teen films tropes into a groundbreaking DIY portrait of adolescent alienation, makeshift-family dynamics, and the looming shadow of the AIDS crisis, charted through a patchwork of raw to-camera confessionals. Biweekly screenings of cult films and cinematic oddities at The Ill Repute

Free entry! Must-watch revisionist western, initially reviled for its proto-feminist leads and OTT style that didn't fit anywhere in the studio genre rulebooks. Now bursting out of cult status with its histrionic script, lurid colours and a truly twisted Joan Crawford, Johnny Guitar easily stands as one of the most distinctive cowboy flicks of the 50s. Biweekly screenings of classic Westerns at The Ill Repute

'Ever drive a hearse, Harold?' Life affirming, faintly horrifying, and initially brutally panned 70s black comedy Harold & Maude screens at The Ill Repute as blessed angels of the cozzie livs Be Kind Rewind continue to churn out a sickening line-up of free entry cult classics. Biweekly screenings of cult films and cinematic oddities at The Ill Repute

Free entry! Intergalactic drag divas versus the Planet Clitoris!!! Sensational DIY cult classic Vegas in Space feels like John Waters and the B52s trying to make a Barbarella sequel with five dollars, a borrowed video camera and a skipful of surplus cardboard. So trashy it’s honestly transcendent. Biweekly screenings of cult films and cinematic oddities at The Ill Repute

Free entry! Bogie launches the first of Ill Repute’s fortnightly basement noir screenings with incomparable style. A surly Chandler-penned private investigator, universal female desire for said investigator, bodies piling up in mean low-lit Hollywood streets, ever-present Marlboro smoke ... The Big Sleep didn’t break the mold, it is the mold! Something of the Night presents classic film noir classics downstairs at The Ill Repute