Tradfest screens Welsh horror!

Huw and Jent noticed an event taking place as part of Edinburgh Tradfest – a Welsh horror film, with a mini-concert first. It’s on Monday 5 May at 6.00pm at The Cameo, 38 Home Street, Edinburgh.

The first horror film to be made in the Welsh language, in 1981, O’r Ddaear Hen (From the Old Earth) follows a mysterious stone head that is unearthed in a council house garden in Bangor. When this ancient head is brought inside into the home of local archaeologist, their family begins to begins to experience terrifying visions of a half-man, half-animal creature, with a terrifying ties to the ancient gods of the land. Will anyone survive the encounter unchanged?

The film will be introduced with a special mini-concert from Welsh harpist and singer Gwen Màiri Yorke.

Information and tickets at this link.