“Look for the fog…” The final event in our Folklore on Film programme is bringing John Carpenter’s masterpiece THE FOG to St George’s Theatre.

The Norfolk Folklore Society invites you to step into the mist for a night of maritime menace, coastal curses and creeping dread. Carpenter’s 1980 cult classic is a ghost story drenched in regret, sea air, and the unshakeable knowledge that some places remember more than they forgive.

It’s a film about coastal towns that live comfortably with half-told histories, about crimes smothered by time and about the sea’s habit of remembering everything. When the fog rolls in, it does not rush: it advances with deadly purpose. Watching a film about maritime ghosts in a haunted theatre while the real sea sits just outside is exactly the sort of decision folklore exists to warn you about. Don’t say we didn’t warn you…

Before the screening, Siofra Connor and Stacia Briggs of the Norfolk Folklore Society will introduce the film and its folkloric roots, including a chilling local ghost story from nearby Hopton, where mist, memory and malice are said to arrive together. We’ll also be screening ‘Great Yarmouth – It’s Got the Lot’ from the East Anglian Film Archive, a short compilation of historic and rarely-screened promotional films by the Great Yarmouth Tourist Board introduced by Guy Martin.

On the night, browse eerie folk horror artwork from Shuck Zine and The Folklore Box’s Matt Willis, and take home a free special-edition badge; a small, solid thing to reassure you that you were here, just in case you are swallowed by The Fog as you try to make it home…