Who are we?

Aled Owen, Writer - Director - Producer

Aled Owen is an award-nominated screenwriter whose prose has been published in Storgy and Call Me Brackets respectively. He recently worked on the upcoming Timothy Spall film Bolan's Shoes and the Alec Baldwin film 97 Minutes.

Tom Rawding, Producer

Tom has produced multiple ambitious pieces, always keen to push the boundaries of what can be achieved on a budget. He received a Royal Television Society Student Award for Yorkshire for his involvement in the short film Argot.

Ioan Ings, Co-Producer

Ioan started his producing career with the Welsh BAFTA-nominated short film Jackdaw now available on the BBC. His feature film Protein starred Steve Meo, Charles Dale and Justice League's Julian Lewis Jones.

What’s the story?

10 years after the horrific collapse of Milton, the place is a ghost town, and Rhiannon finds herself returning for a reunion with her old friends. They had all moved away from Milton as teenagers during the collapse, and in the meantime, Rhiannon developed Scopophobia - the fear of being stared at. This stems from her guilt over what they did 10 years ago. Rhiannon, peer pressured by these friends as a girl, was the one who stole the money. The guilt has become too much.

After more peer pressure, Rhiannon agrees to take them back to the mill, to locate the money she hid in the walls all those years ago. She lies and says she can’t find it, believing they don’t deserve the money, only to find the four of them locked inside with a stranger who speaks through an electrolarynx. At the film’s midpoint, the girls defend themselves, believing (as does the audience) that this is a typical horror movie. But it is not. The stranger was no threat to them, and now they have blood on their hands! Thus, the true horror ensues…

Target Audience

A Horror-Loving Community Tired of the Genre's Questionable Baggage

Horror has a history of questionable social prejudices. Disability as monstrous, mental illness as insanity, and let’s not mention the skimpy outfitted heroines! By supporting this project, you will be supporting:

• The subversion of genre during this exciting cinematic movement of “elevated horror”
• Young women (dressed practically!) becoming empowered and villainous, respectively
• The twist that the disabled person was not the monster - Rhiannon’s fake friends are!

Wales and the Growing Welsh Horror Market

The film was dreamed up when writer and director Aled Owen would walk around his hometown of Carmarthen during the pandemic, picturing the misdeeds of our characters unfolding before him. 

We feel we can target horror enthusiasts (particularly fans of Giallo) worldwide, as well as specifically targeting UK and Wales-based horror enthusiasts. Welsh horror has made huge waves in recent years, becoming its own respected subgenre with filmmakers such as Gareth Evans (Netflix's Apostle) and Prano Bailey-Bond (Censor) plus films such as Saint Maud and The Feast.

We believe in the importance of regional storytelling. This isn’t set in some nameless town that could be anywhere in the world. This takes place in post-industrial Milton, a true ‘Paradise Lost’. The film, like its entire cast, is distinctly and proudly Welsh.