In X: The Movies That Horrified Ulster, the former Belfast Telegraph film critic will chart the province’s hysterical response to many classic flicks.
From the earliest inklings of a potential censoring of the new cinematic art form to 21st-century outrage, it is an epic tale not even a Hollywood screenwriter would dare make up!
Andrew’s informative and entertaining lecture will reanimate the 1932 banning of ‘blasphemous’ Frankenstein, resurrect organised religion’s quest to ‘save’ 1970s audiences from The Exorcist and take a stab at the ‘video nasties’ panic of the 1980s.
Elsewhere, there are race rows, peacenik protests, anti-porn pickets and much more.
The story will flicker to life accompanied by lurid, original poster art and rare press clippings from a feverish chapter in the north’s cultural annals.
Andrew’s regular Terror Talks on horror and true crime at Belfast’s Sunflower bar consistently pack the house, while his show Burke and Hare: Body Snatchers, Serial Killers, Ulstermen sold out its full run at the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Age 18+.
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