Dark Rift Horror

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. 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 seventeen awards at international film festivals including four for “Best Feature Film” and will be released in 2024