Curses, Cults & Covens: The Birth of British Folk Horror
Until Sun 26 May
Curses, Cults & Covens is a (non-exhaustive!) season that winds its way through the roots of the folk horror genre.
Spanning five films from the late 60s through to early 70s, from BBC adaptions of M.R. James stories to cult classic Witchfinder General, this season is steeped with the eerie and occult.
PS: If Wicker Man seems conspicuously absent as one of the ‘unholy trinity’ of classic folk horror, it’s because we showed it several times last year in honour of its 50th anniversary!
Upcoming screenings in this season
Penda’s Fen
classified 12A Curses, Cults & CovensA clergyman’s son experiences a bizarre series of encounters with angels and demons, the composer Edward Elgar, and King Penda, the mythical last pagan ruler of England.
Witchfinder General
classified 15 Curses, Cults & CovensHorror favourite Vincent Price excels in one of his best roles as pious monster Matthew Hopkins - the notorious self-styled Witchfinder General - in this cult classic.