Fear in the Fens Festival 2025 |
Saturday 25th October 2025 10:00 - 22:00 |
| Website:www.fearinthefens.com |
| Corn Exchange Tuesday Market Place KING'S LYNN Norfolk PE30 1JW |
| 10am to 10pm Fear in the Fens Film Festival main event. A packed day of vintage horror films, speakers and locally made horror shorts) 10am to 11.00 am Opening comments and talk Selene Paxton-Brookes Something ‘Orrible! Carry on Screaming and the monstrous link between horror and humour. 15-minute break 11.15 am to 1.00 pm Film 1: Carry on Screaming (1966) Simply one of the best Carry-On films and also one of the best horror comedies of all times. This homage to Hammer Horrors is the perfect tribute to the Creature Feature genre. 15-minute break 1.15 pm to 2.00 pm Nasty, Brutish and Short Fear in the Fens brings you the cream of locally made horror shorts - with your chance to vote for the winner of this year's Golden Shuck award. ?Lunch until 3pm 3pm to 3.45pm Talk: Becoming Wolf: The English Eerie and History of the UK Werewolf Sam George is Associate Professor of Research at the University of Hertfordshire and the Co-Convenor of the Open Graves, Open Minds Project. Her research focusses on the intersection between folklore and the gothic. Her books include Representations of Vampires, 2013, In the Company of Wolves: Werewolves: Wolves and Wild Children, 2020 & The Legacy of John Polidori: The Romantic Vampire and Its Progeny, 2024. She is the co-editor of the first ever issue of the journal Gothic Studies on vampires (2013) and werewolves (2019).She uses her research into wolf folklore and werewolf myth to promote ecological conservation, working with the UK Wolf Conservation Trust to help inform public perceptions of wolves. 15-minute break 4pm to 5.35 pm An American Werewolf in London (1981) Featuring a superb Anglo-American cast with outstanding British supporting actors, American Werewolf is the rarest of rarities - a comedy horror which is both very funny and very scary. This film was also noted for it's ground-breaking use of practical effects, which still look great when subjected to the scrutiny of a Blu-ray transfer 40 years later. 15-minute break Dinner until 7.15pm 7.15 pm to 8pm Gavin Baddeley: Occult Zoology 101 Fear in the Fens are delighted to welcome back festival veteran Gavin Baddeley to take this class on the most bizarre and macabre lore concerning all creatures great and small. From the mystical secrets of Ancient Egypt’s animal kingdom, to the weirdest entries to be found in medieval bestiaries, Gavin gives us the kind of priceless (un)natural knowledge you’ll never find in a David Attenborough documentary. 15-minute break 8.15 pm to 9.50pm Film 3: The Fly (1958) A true classic of the Creature Feature genre, an intelligent story that builds tension throughout the film, a great cast that takes the material seriously, ... and some genuine moments of horror. |
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