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The Weird and the Eerie II - Day Pass
27 Jun 2026
4:00pm
Quick summary
- Price
- £12.00
- Audience type
- 15+
- Running time
- 7 hours
- Venue
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- Arts Centre Washington
Additional information
Event description
Sunderland Film Club presents The Weird and the Eerie II: Wyrd Albion – a one-day film festival celebrating left-field and offbeat British folk horror.
Join us at Arts Centre Washington this June as as we screen some of the most idiosyncratic folk horror films from this green and pleasant land. Including screenings of:
Robin Redbreast – After a bad break-up, script editor Norah Palmer moves to a remote English country village to rebuild her life. At first, she finds that the villagers are friendly, if a little eccentric but when she becomes pregnant to the handsome gamekeeper Rob, she begins to suspect the locals of conspiring against her.
Penda’s Fen – In the pastoral landscape of Three Choirs England, a clergyman’s son, in his last days of school, has his idealistic value-system and the precious tokens of his self-image all broken away – his parentage, his nationality, his sexuality, his conventional patriotism and faith. Below the slopes of the Malvern Hills he has encounters with an angel, and with a demon, with the ghost of Elgar, the crucified Jesus, and with Penda, England’s last pagan king.
A Field in England – A trio of deserting soldiers and an alchemist’s assistant are commandeered by sinister Irishman O’Neil and forced to join a bizarre hunt for buried treasure. Along the way, the group transgresses the thin line between civilization and nature, throwing the entire film into delightful chaos.
Alongside the screenings, we will be joined for performances by Newcastle-based fiddle trio Hyem and County Durham-based experimental guitarist Lucy Valentine.
Timings:
4pm – Doors open
4:30pm – Introduction
4:35pm – Robin Redbreast screening
5:52pm – Intermission
6:12pm – Hyem performance
6:42pm – Penda’s Fen screening
8:12pm – Intermission
8:32pm – Lucy Valentine performance
9:02pm – A Field in England screening
10:33pm – Event ends
The Weird and the Eerie II: Wyrd Albion
This screening is part of The Weird and the Eerie II: Wyrd Albion – a one-day film festival celebrating left-field and offbeat British folk horror.
Sunderland Film Club is supported by Film Hub North with National Lottery funding on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network.
