This year’s BFI blockbuster season is In Dreams Are Monsters – charting how the monsters of horror have evolved, made physical the anxieties of their times, and how we react when faced with the monster within.
Our programme of films dives into the topic. Examining fear, introducing the genre of horror, and encouraging us to face and share our own fears. We will explore our relationship with the sea and monsters on film. For those of us living on islands water surrounds us, it offers a livelihood but also a threat to life. It is an elemental force and the last wilderness, the great unknown where lurk monstrous creatures from the deep….