Narrow Rooms Philly presents Penda's Fen

Stephen is a little prick whose fiery conservative rants earn the ridicule of his schoolmates and the eye rolls of his parents. They can tell exactly what’s behind his uptight behavior. He’s a homosexual! When clueless Stephen begins having vivid erotic nightmares about his hunky milkman, it forces him into an epic internal awakening. He soon begins questioning his strident beliefs and mania for Jesus in favor of a worldview that stands in direct opposition to the very nature of modern English identity. Could it all have something to do with a secret experimental military base nearby? Or the legend of the long-dead pagan King Penda? Legendary British director Alan Clarke’s astonishing queer coming-of-age TV movie is laden with potent symbology and scary surrealistic flourishes which led some film programmers to lump it in with the “British folk horror” genre. But Penda's Fen can also be seen as an offspring…