Short film

Backwoods
2019 · 15 min
A quiet, creeping dread settles in as a lone scholar's curiosity pulls him into a haunted stillness that lingers after it ends.
- Directed by
- Ryan Mackfall
- Genres
- Horror
- Starring
- Ciaran Clarke, Kevin Horsham, Noah Wallace
- Overview
- 1907, Massachusetts. A scholar drifts from his path and finds himself in a house he assumed to be deserted - apart from a beguiling book containing dark secrets that exerts a powerful hold over those who come into contact with it.
- How it feels
- Eerie, dark, tense and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Obsession, isolation, deception, madness
- Content
- Mild violence and gore. No sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Ryan Mackfall
- Genres
- Horror
- Starring
- Ciaran Clarke, Kevin Horsham, Noah Wallace

