WATCHERS
An Untitled Anthology Film
The feature film is going to be a anthology film.
Each member of the Watchers team has written a short film;
these three shorts will be presented along with an overarching wraparound story to create the full feature.
New to us, what is Strange Tales and who are we?
We are a non-profit production organisation based in Cardiff. Founded in 2011, we have over a decade of experience of creating web series, podcasts, theatre productions, and short films.
Since 2019, we have made a series of self-contained short films known as Strange Tales, standalone shorts with a twist in the tale, collaborating with writers, directors, cast and crew from South Wales and further afield. We currently have ten films completed, with another two in various stages of post-production. Several of the shorts have been selected for major festivals, including the Cannes Short Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, Carmarthen Bay Film Festival, and the FantaSci Short Film Festival (winning Best Comedy Film in 2021 for Deliver Us From Gee).
So, we thought, what’s the natural progression from producing short films? A feature film, of course!
About the feature
The feature film is going to be a portmanteau/anthology film, similar to movies like Dead Of Night (1945), Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), and the V/H/S franchise (2012-present). Each member of the Watchers team has written a short film; these three shorts will be presented along with an overarching wraparound story to create the full feature.
In a meeting room at the headquarters of a prestigious horror film festival, the jury is convened to watch the nominees for Best Short Film. Over the course of the day, as each of the individual shorts are screened, tensions run high, true agendas are laid bare, and the jurors come to realise that- when it comes to horror- reality can often be so much stranger and more terrifying than fiction...
We plan to film the feature in four blocks over the next couple of years; we are all working professionals with full-time jobs, so this is an unpaid side project for everybody involved.
Block 1: The Devil’s In The Detail
Broadcaster Erin Flint has made her living by being an unapologetically right-wing provocateur, and she has landed an exclusive one-on-one interview with a very special guest: Lucifer himself. After millennia, the Son of the Dawn is ready for his moment in the spotlight, a decision that will change Erin’s life forever.
Written by Matthew Ford and directed by Rhys Jones, The Devil’s In The Detail is a tense, bloody drama. Matthew has won several awards (including Best Horror Script [International] at the 2025 International Horror Hotel Film Festival) for his scripts, whilst Rhys was chosen to be part of the BBC’s It’s My Shout scheme in 2017 to direct the short film Rory Romantic, which won the Best Sci-Fi Short Film at the New York International Film Festival.
The cast includes Sarah-Louise Tyler as Erin, Jenn Cooper as Rachel, Devante Fleming as Sam, and A.J. King as Lucifer.
Filming will take place in Cardiff during August and September 2026 which includes two days at Llanrumney Hall, which is our primary location.
