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After collaborating on Baby In The Basket, Flickering Myth and Shepka Productions are now working on Death Among The Pines.

The Baby In The Basket, a gothic horror from Flickering Myth and Shepka Productions, is now out digitally in the UK and the US, but the teams behind the film are already looking ahead.

Flickering Myth, Shepka Productions and Jolliffe Productions are teaming up again, this time to craft a suspense thriller set in Scotland. Tom Jolliffe has written the script and Nathan Shepka is in the director’s chair. He’ll also star and will be joined by Nicolette McKeown, Stephen Kerr, and Olly Bassi.

Titled Death Among The Pines, it will be set in the late 1970s. One day, a stranger knocks on Angela’s door, but the night takes another turn as the police show up. Death Among The Pines is going into production in March in southern Scotland,...

Samuel L. Jackson leads a venerated European cast off a cliff in an absurd, mindless, and macabre serial killer thriller. Damaged strains credulity from the start and proceeds to lower Iq points with each passing frame. The seemingly straightforward plot of an American detective helping Scottish police find a Satanic murderer has numerous critical flaws. The biggest problem, and central to the supposed mystery, is the competence of the investigators. A melodramatic subplot further muddies these dreadful waters. Every psychotic murderer would be running loose like rabbits with these guys on the case.

Damaged opens in Edinburgh, Scotland, with a young woman (Nicolette McKeown) leaving her synagogue after worship. She doesn't see a mysterious man in a raincoat following from a distance. The shrouded figure knocks on her door with malicious intent. She foolishly opens to a frenzy of stabbing. The killer removes a hacksaw from a bag to begin his grisly work.

Following its acclaimed theatrical bow, you can now visit Mercy Falls from the comfort of your own home. This wickedly enthralling survival horror starring acclaimed actor Lauren Lyle (Outlander, Karen Pirie) and directed by award-winning filmmaker Ryan Hendrick (Lost at Christmas, Sundown) is set to receive its highly anticipated digital release on 6th November 2023 from Bingo Films.

This tense and terrifying psychological thriller follows a tight-knit group of friends – Rhona (Lauren Lyle), Heather (Layla Kirk – Two Doors Down), Scott (James Watterson – Kirk), Donnie (Joe Rising – Casualty) and Andy (Eoin Sweeney) – who arrive in the Scottish Highlands in search of a long-lost family cabin… but their trip turns into a nightmare when a fatal accident leads to suspicion, bloody betrayal and brutal murder.

As they travel deeper into the wilderness their journey takes an unexpected turn when the group pick up hitchhiker Carla (Nicolette McKeown – Convergence) and bring her along for the ride…...

Stars: Lauren Lyle, Layla Kirk, Joe Rising, James Watterson, Eoin Sweeney, Nicolette McKeown | Written by Ryan Hendrick, Meliá Grasska | Directed by Ryan Hendrick

Going into this review, I don’t think I have much to say about Mercy Falls other than, with all respect to the cast and crew, you all came together and made a movie. Not a great one mind you but I have never made a movie so I respect the achievement.

Although, if the idea of a horror/thriller set in the Scottish Highlands from a director whose previous project was a Christmas movie tickles your fancy, I guess Mercy Falls would be the exact kind of movie you need in your life. Or if like me you are acutely aware that every now and then when taking a punt on an indie horror, it has turned out to be a bit of an unsung gem,...

From characters’ irrepressible horniness to a deeply confusing instigating incident, Ryan Hendrick’s hiking slasher has all the hallmarks of a dud

‘Oh and Rhona … remember, the secret is to never look back,” says sinister hitchhiker Carla (Nicolette McKeown), as she climbs a cliff. “You mean down,” someone corrects her. Yes, we get the point, given that half the characters in the film are nursing past traumas, from random acts of rural brutality to Middle Eastern combat theatre flashbacks. But such is the unsubtle way of Ryan Hendrick’s overblown Highland horror; it can’t settle for simply being a stripped-down descent into wilderness atavism. It also chucks in an irrepressibly horny crew of hikers, creepy Scottish folktales and gratuitous Homeric quotations for good measure.

The real killer is the highly implausible instigating incident. Rhona (Lauren Lyle) and pals set off on to the moors to locate the family cabin she has been bequeathed,...

It will be released in UK cinemas from September 1.

Scotland-set survival horror Mercy Falls, starring Outlander’s Lauren Lyle, is getting a UK theatrical release courtesy of 108 Media’s newly-created film distribution label, Bingo Films.

Bingo Films will release the film in UK cinemas from September 1. Priscilla Ross Smith’s France-us sales outfit The Coven represents sales on the project, which has also sold to Bingo Films for Japan and Great Movies for Latin America. It is currently available in North America on streaming platform Tubi.

Mercy Falls is directed by Scottish filmmaker Ryan Hendrick, and follows a group...

"We know she's coming, we know she'll find us." Tubi has revealed an official trailer for an indie horror thriller mystery film from Scotland titled Mercy Falls, directed by Scottish filmmaker Ryan Hendrick. It'll be available for streaming for free on Tubi next week. A group of friends sets off into the Scottish highlands in search of a long lost cabin, but an unforeseen tragedy befalls the group when one of them is injured. After making a decision about how to proceed, the friends uncover a secret that leads to suspicion, betrayal, and murder. Yet another mysterious murder & crime thriller on streaming services - serving up more of what everyone is addicted to these days. This stars Lauren Lyle, Nicolette McKeown, James Watterson, Layla Kirk, Joe Rising, and Eoin Sweeney. It doesn't look so bad, with foggy forest horror atmosphere. // Continue Reading ›...

Filming on the feature, directed by Ryan Hendrick, is underway in Scotland.

Outlander star Lauren Lyle has joined the cast of UK director Ryan Hendrick’s Mercy Falls, as production gets underway in Scotland.

Set in a remote region of the Scottish Highlands, the horror feature follows Rhona, played by Lyle, and her friends as they set off in search of her late father’s long-lost cabin, only for tragedy to befall the group.

UK actress Lyle is best known for her role in Starz historical drama Outlander and returned for the sixth season, which began this month. She is...

Exclusive: Ryan Hendrick, the Scottish Bafta-nominated filmmaker, has signed with the UK wing of management firm Zero Gravity.

The news comes as Hendrick heads into production on feature movie Perfect Strangers, a Scotland-set Christmas tale about two strangers who find themselves stranded in the Scottish Highlands on Christmas Eve. Putting aside their own personal turmoil they reluctantly decide to team up to try and get home for Christmas.

The feature is based on Hendrick’s own short film of the same name, which was nominated for a Scottish BAFTA.

Cast includes Natalie Clark (Still Game), Kenny Boyle (Hero Worship), Sylvester McCoy (The Hobbit), Sanjeev Kohli (Stan & Ollie), Clare Grogan (Gregory’s Girl), Caitlin Blackwood (Dr Who), Frazer Hines (Outlander), Karen Bartke (Scot Squad), Nicolette McKeown (Convergence), theater actor Alasdair McCrone and newcomer Alexander Teunion.

The project comes from Hendrick’s own company Magic Monkey Films, which he founded with David Newman.