Myskatonic - The Weird & The Eerie - A Film Production Company

Myskatonic is a film, television, and media production company.

We’re passionate about the power of the horror genre and how filmmaking can serve as a Trojan horse to convey political ideas.

We’re interested in identity and place and are drawn to stories where characters find themselves displaced from the everyday into otherworldly situations that challenge their perceptions.

We’re intrigued by the unknown, the weird & the eerie, in stories where personal identity collides with psychogeography to say something beyond the literal.

TONY IOMMI - WORLD ALONE


Director: Ryan Mackfall. Writer: Ryan Mackfall.
Producers: Myskatonic
Executive Producers: Tony Ioomi, Ralph Baker, Ben Baker, Miles Hackett
Music: Tony Iommi and Mike Exeter
Cast: Darcy Vanhinsbergh (Maleficent: Mistress of Evil)

Synopsis
Trapped inside the neon-lit, industrial decay of a bleak dystopian world, a reclusive hacker code-named 'The Believer' has spent years preparing for a reckoning. Surrounded by the hum of illegal servers and a mountain of forbidden research, his isolation is broken when an unexpected delivery arrives at his doorstep. Inside is a fragmented map and a mysterious, high-tech cartridge - the final pieces of a puzzle he has risked everything to solve. With the walls closing in, he slots the cartridge into his virtual reality machine and enters a new world. He is thrown headfirst into a nightmarish, glitch-ridden video game world designed to break his mind and kill his avatar. To survive the simulation, he must conquer a series of deadly trials, while being chased by an ominous black smoke called ’the darkness’,. If he outsmarts the system and follows the tattered map to its final destination, he might find what he’s been looking for all these years. But as the boundaries between virtual reality and real-world survival blur, he discovers what truly awaits him at the end of the simulation. He is left with one question - is salvation worth the ultimate cost?

Screenings
Birmingham Film Festival, 6-15 November 2026, Birmingham
World Premiere: 5 August 2026, Birmingham

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HOWLSAVLA GWAV


Directors: Ryan Mackfall and Joe Gray. Writer: Joe Gray. Original Soundtrack: Daisy Rickman.
Producers: Kingsley Marshall, Joe Gray & Ryan Mackfall
Cast: Darcy Vanhinsbergh (Maleficent: Mistress of Evil), with Morgan Val Baker (Bait), Daisy Rickman, Richard Ballinger (Bronco’s House), and the Guilds of Montol.

Synopsis
A wanderer, lost within the landscape of West Penwith through misadventure, blunders across mythical realms and is drawn into the Winter Solstice celebration of Montol - the long-held tradition of marking the year's turning at the earth's edge. For one night, he blurs the lines of reality and folklore, joining with the Guilds, dancing with beasts, enacting the rituals and customs of distant ancestors to call back the sun.

Screenings
Greenwich Film Festival, 22 October 2026, London
World Premiere: OffBeat Folk Film Festival, 10 May 2026, London

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THE LAND DEMANDS BLOOD


Directors Ryan Mackfall. Writer: Kingsley Marshall. Editor: Jake Potter.
Producer: Kingsley Marshall
Contributors: Jane Darke, Carl Grose, Ruth Heholt, Mark Jenkin, Dean Puckett, Ryan Mackfall

Synopsis
Water, woods and rock, drifted stream. Storms overhead, fields of salt water, wicked moor. Lightning strokes and standing stones, ground hard as iron and oak, granite swallowing tin and slate. This documentary examines Hammer Film’s use of Cornwall as a setting and location for the films The Reptile and The Plague of the Zombies, exploring the “new weird Britain” of contemporary folk horror with filmmakers Mark Jenkin, Dean Puckett, Jane Darke and Ryan Mackfall, playwright Carl Grose, and film historian Ruth Heholt.

Screenings
World Premiere: Worcester International Film Festival, September 2026, UK (BIFA Qualifier)

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THE BIRDWATCHER


Director: Ryan Mackfall. Producer: Kingsley Marshall. Writer: Lachlan Marks.
Cast: Craig Russell (Protein, Edge of Summer, Queen Cleopatra), Mary Woodvine (Rose of Nevada, Enys Men, Bait), Rimca Karmakar (Pendulum, Nation Down), Kevin Horsham (The Northman).

Synopsis
Investigators visit the site of a strange disappearance - a solitary birdwatching hut deep in the forest. Situated in Cornwall and drawing upon the county’s natural environment, seafaring tradition, Celtic history, and Cornish language, The Birdwatcher takes its themes from a time when the world seemed much larger, mysterious, and frightening, drawing parallels with the fears and xenophobia of the contemporary moment.

Awards
Winner - H.P. Lovecraft Award - Rhodes Island International Film Festival (Vortex), USA, 2025
Winner - Best Horror Film - Cambridge Short Film Festival, UK, 2025
Winner - Best UK Short Film - Cineverse, UK, 2025
Winner - Best Science Fiction Film, Global Short Film Awards, USA, 2026
Finalist - LA International Horror Film Festival, USA, 2025
Finalist - Abertoir Film Festival, 2025

International Premieres
World Premiere - Frightfest/Glasgow Film Festival, March 2025
US Premiere - Chicago Horror Film Festival, May 2025
Scandinavian Premiere - Ravenheart International Film Festival, May 2025
London Premiere - Offbeat Folk Film Festival, May 2025
Spanish Premiere - GFFF Galician Freaky Film Festival, Vigo, Spain, 19-27 September 2025
German Premiere - British Shorts, Berlin, February 2026
Online Premiere - Director’s Notes, June 2026

Directors Notes - The Birdwatcher Interview
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Interview
Ryan Mackfall & Kingsley Marshall (Director / Producer, The Birdwatcher) - Directors Notes

Interview
Ryan Mackfall (Director, The Birdwatcher) - The New Current, 2026

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BACKWOODS


Director: Ryan Mackfall. Producer: Kingsley Marshall. Writer: Neil Fox.
Cast: Kevin Horsham (The Northman), Ciaran Clarke, Noah Wallace.

Synopsis
1907, Massachusetts. A scholar drifts from his path and finds himself in a house he takes for deserted. Deserted, apart from a beguiling book containing dark secrets that exerts a powerful hold over those who come into contact with it.

Backwoods Trailer: https://vimeo.com/307522810
Backwoods Full Film: https://youtu.be/ADypzr6KyBI

Screenings
Licensed: Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched (2021): https://youtu.be/aSYBpdDSh9A
World Premiere: H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, Portland, US
UK Premiere: London Short Film Festival, UK (BIFA/BAFTA Qualifier)
Winner: HP Lovecraft Award, Rhode Island International Film Festival, US
Fastnet Film Festival, Ireland
Two Short Nights Film Festival, UK
Bizarre Bazaar, US
SciFi Terror and Fantasy Film Festival, Mexico
Online Premier, Profile & Interview: Director’s Notes: https://bit.ly/3QLmYt1

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