The concept of repertory double-bills, late-night screenings and creative one-off programming suffered the same fate as the characters in Night of the Living Dead. In a single decade, film distribution and exhibition had been transformed. Sadly, the Scala sold its last pair of cardboard 3D glasses in 1992. High points in the 1980s included the world premiere of The Evil Dead and a week of the entire Prisoner TV show, plus liberal dollops of Lynch, Cronenberg and Oshima, cult kung fu and zombie marathons, and the Cramps live on stage. When the Scala moved to King's Cross in 1981 it never strayed from the basic blueprint if anything, the programme became more extreme.
