Penda's Fen 1974

I'm Nothing Pure

7.4 / 10   35 vote(s)
TV Movie Drama Fantasy Horror

Through a series of real and imagined encounters with angels, demons, and England's pagan past, a pastor's son begins to question his religion and politics, and comes to terms with his sexuality.

Release Date 1974-03-21
Runtime 1h 30m
Director Alan Clarke
Producer David Rose
Writer David Rudkin

This tv movie/play definitely hit on topics among religion and politics with a sprinkling of "becoming a man" mixed in there. Definitely sets the date of this movie quite a bit but some of the talk of religion is still out there.

Then we get to King Penda, he is a creepy little thing. I love it. Just giving you that night terror realness in that one scene.

This can be a bit of a slow pace in this very British horror (psychological horror maybe?) which many might not find entertaining or interesting. I dig the tone and camera work in this film.

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