Abbeygate Cinema

Hatter Street,
Bury St Edmunds, IP33 1NE

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MovieGeek2024
MovieGeek2024 on December 28, 2024 at 3:43 pm

Visited this cinema today to watch Sonic 3. First time I have seen a film here in over 23 years. Back then it was a Canon Cinena and was quite a flea pit. It’s now more stylish and upmarket. The original screens 1 and 2 are still very small. I watched Sonic in the newer ‘Premier’ screen, nice manually reclining seats, sight lines. The 4K projector gave an excellent image, sound was less noticeable. The screen is of average size, it does have curtains, but sadly these were not used.

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez on April 9, 2019 at 10:16 am

Manager/Projectionist Patrick Church wrote a book with details on his days at this theatre. It is called THE SMALLEST SHOW ON EARTH.

Simon Overton
Simon Overton on October 17, 2011 at 10:09 am

Can any other cinema or theater boast the number of owner and name changes? Local movie-goers must be dizzy when trying to remember the present name!

Ken Roe
Ken Roe on June 5, 2008 at 2:04 pm

Photographed as the ABC Cinema in 1998:
http://flickr.com/photos/12494104@N00/348004656/
Photographed as the Odeon in March 2005:
http://flickr.com/photos/kirknorthrop/96825874/
Photographed as the Hollywood Cinema in May 2007;
http://flickr.com/photos/12494104@N00/503322311/