Brisbane city's cult-house cinema Tribal Theatre, which opened on the old Dendy on George Street site last year, will be killed off later this year as the owners are forced to sell.

But they reckon the venue's ghosts will remain, quite literally.

Ghostly ... Tribal Cinema.

“Haunted” is how Katie Robertson, manager of the latest incarnation of what was built in 1910 as the Lyceum Theatre, home of silent film in city, describes the site.

“Whoever takes over from us will have to contend with the ghosts of this place, and they really don't want us to leave,” she said.