Dean Puckett

The Land Demands Blood: Hammer Horror and the Legacy of Cornish Gothic

Ryan Mackfall

Dean Puckett, Jane Darke

Water, woods, rock, and 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 special feature examines Hammer Films use of Cornwall as a setting and location for its films, exploring the "new weird Britain" of contemporary Cornish folk horror with filmmakers, playwrights, and historians, and drawing on creative work from the region.

Grasp the Nettle

Dean Puckett

Grasp the Nettle follows the exploits of a ragtag band of land rights activists in London as they struggle against corporations, government, police - and themselves - in their efforts to create alternative communities outside the framework of consumer society. When an eco-village pops up on a piece of disused land in West London , film-maker Dean Puckett (The Crisis of Civilization) gives up everything - his flat, job and normal life - to live among its eclectic inhabitants in an effort to understand what makes them tick.

The Crisis of Civilization

Dean Puckett

Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed

The Crisis Civilization is a documentary feature film investigating how global crises like ecological disaster, financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages are converging symptoms of a single, failed global system. Proving that 'another world' is not merely possible, but on its way.

The Sermon

Dean Puckett

Grant Gillespie, Molly Casey

A young woman’s secret rocks an isolated church community in this folk horror tale. Backed by Creative England and the BFI.

Circles

Dean Puckett

Oliver Maltman, Lucy Montgomery

Circles is a comedy/sci-fi/horror which follows a pair of parnormal investigators as they discover a string of crop circles around their small town of Totnes, Devon.

Seagull

Dean Puckett

Max Harwood, Paul Cooper

A recovering drug addict is about to have a very strange night on The English Riviera.

The Red Book Ritual

Daniel Rübesam, Jiwon Moon

Paulo Vilela, Bruno Giacobbe

Three friends decide to play The Red Book game. What they don't know is that in the house evil is waiting to be released. A long time ago a witch died as part of a satanic ritual. Every question they ask, they get closer and closer to her. The book will reveal the answers to all your questions… but what if your host is an evil entity with a thirst for blood?

Satan's Bite

Dean Puckett

Emilia Copeland, Oliver Monaghan

Made for straight 8's 2018 competition on one cartridge of super 8mm film with only in-camera edits and no post-production. Premiered on may 14th 2018 at straight 8's Cannes film festival screening.