FILMS
'The Microscope', 2022 (dir. Elliot & Reuben Vick), 10 min
An eccentric microscopist finally gets his hands on some rare samples, but he could never have imagined what he’ll see through the lens.
Our first horror film is a short about the dangers of looking too closely, and it had its premiere as part of the 2022 Arrow FrightFest London.
‘The Hunter’, 2022 (dir. Reuben Vick), 8 min
A hunter walks alone through what seems to be a familiar forest, but on this particular day he is unprepared for what he will encounter there...
A surreal horror short.
'The Death of Kings', 2020 (dir. Elliot Vick), 38 min
An actor’s life, and quite possibly his mind, slowly goes to pieces over the course of an extended West End run of Richard II.
Filmed on a specially created dressing room set, this dark comedy explores the madness of method.
'The Piano in the Old Front Room', 2020 (dir. Reuben Vick), 32 min
A piano tuner is called to a mysterious old house, where he meets an elderly man with a very unusual story to tell about the nature of sound.
This 1970’s set two-hander was inspired equally by drawing room plays and Roald Dahl’s ‘Tales of the Unexpected’.
'The Solace of Orpheus', 2018 (dir. Niall Donegan & Elliot Vick), 79 min
Daria travels to her partner’s family home near the picturesque Mountains of Mourne. She hopes that being there will help to bring their relationship back to life, or at least provide some degree of solace, but things do not go as planned.
Shot in the stunning Irish countryside in the summers of 2016 and 2017, our first feature ‘The Solace of Orpheus’ had a brief festival run in 2018, spent two years on Amazon Prime Video, and is now available to watch here on our website.
‘The Orchard’, 2017 (dir. Reuben Vick), 22 min
A boy walks to a country orchard on an autumn day.
A short experimental drama.
MUSIC VIDEOS
'The Cross', 2017 (dir. Elliot & Reuben Vick), 8 min
A hooded figure travels through a mysterious landscape to a strange destination.
A brief, monochrome mood piece shot in just one day in the Mourne mountains.
'Wild - Rory Nellis', 2017 (dir. Niall Donegan)
‘You've been wasting time for as long as I can remember...’
Outer Dark collaborated with Belfast musician Rory Nellis to create our first ever music video, inspired by the wilderness of County Down in Northern Ireland.
'Old Song - Young Professional', 2017 (dir. Elliot Vick)
‘...And for your sake I'm sorry that there's no heaven to reach.'
Outer Dark presents the music video for the first single from Andrew Everitt, aka Young Professional.