ABOUT US

Dark Rift Horror is the multi-media horror studio behind the award winning movies BOOK OF MONSTERS and HOW TO KILL MONSTERS. Driven by our unique brand of blood-soaked popcorn horror, we create community driven horror entertainment for a worldwide audience.

FILM PRODUCTION

Founded in 2015 as genre film production company Dark Rift Films by Paul Butler & Stewart Sparke, THE CREATURE BELOW was the studio's debut feature film and premiered at FRIGHTFEST London in 2016. Self financed by Paul & Stewart with a budget of only £12,000 and shot over just fourteen days, the film proved critically and commercially successful. The film is currently available in over ten territories on DVD, Blu-ray and digital.

BOOK OF MONSTERS was the studio’s second feature and began life as a Kickstarter campaign with a unique twist – backers could to vote on six key elements of the movie including what form the monsters would take and how they killed their victims. The Kickstarter campaign became one of the 15 most funded horror movies on the crowdfunding platform at the time. The film had its World Premiere at FRIGHTFEST London 2018 and picked up 7 awards, including “Best Film” and “Best Special FX” at the New York City Horror Film Festival. Book of Monsters is now available on Blu-ray and streaming platforms around the world.

Following the critical & commercial success of its first two features, Dark Rift Films rebranded as Dark Rift Horror in 2021 to reflect the multi-media scope of the studio’s future projects. HOW TO KILL MONSTERS marks this exciting new direction for the studio with a multi-media project that includes a feature film, video game and comic book. How to Kill Monsters has won twenty one awards at international film festivals including five for “Best Film” and will be released in 2024.

Learn more about our movies HERE

DISTRIBUTION

Recognising the extraordinary demand among the UK horror fanbase for premium Blu-ray releases in an industry oversaturated by streaming platforms, the studio launched its sister company Dark Rift Releasing in 2020, debuting with the release of Book of Monsters on Blu-ray.

Limited to 300 copies and presented in a hand-numbered Slipcover, the Collector’s Edition release sold out during the pre-order window and demonstrated the demand for high quality physical media among the horror community.

With the goal of bringing a curated selection of “blood-soaked popcorn horror” to Blu-ray, the Dark Rift Presents label will showcase the best home grown horror movies from British filmmakers that we think deserve a place in every horror fan’s movie collection.

If you have a completed horror movie that you think will be a good fit for a Dark Rift Presents Blu-ray release then please get in touch.