Stewart Sparke
Writing
Biography
Stewart Sparke a writer, director and producer specializing in horror feature film and interactive storytelling. After completing a BA in Film & TV Production in 2010 and an MA in Directing Film in 2012, he worked as a freelancer in the UK film and TV industry for three years on projects including BBC's Blue Peter and the London 2012 Olympic Games. During this time, Stewart was also head of live action production at Glass Cannon, a production company specializing in educational video content for the UK Heritage sector. The company earned a Royal Television Society Award Nomination for its work on the WW1 short film series Loss & Legacy: The Tolson Story in 2013. In 2015 Stewart co-founded Dark Rift Horror, a multimedia studio that creates relentlessly entertaining, immersive horror experiences. Since the company launched, Dark Rift Horror have produced and sold two commercially successful feature films, The Creature Below (2016) and Book of Monsters (2018), both produced and directed by Stewart. A third feature film titled How to Kill Monsters is now in post-production, alongside a tie-in video game, due for release in 2023.
Known For
Sophie's 18th birthday becomes a bloodbath when monsters descend upon her house, devouring the guests and killing anyone who tries to leave. To survive the night, Sophie must face her destiny: monsters are real and she's the only one who can stop them.
Book of Monsters
In the future, through The Terminal technology, the population are physically reconfigured from the nervous system up to fit their next job.
Terminal
A young scientist discovers a malevolent entity which sets her on a bloody descent into the jaws of insanity.
The Creature Below
The sole survivor of a blood-drenched massacre must team up with a rag-tag bunch of rookie cops and lawbreakers to defend a police station from an invasion of monsters from another dimension.
How to Kill Monsters
A journalist desperately tries to find his missing fiancee and finally uncover the truth behind a sinister folklore, leading him down a dangerous road of discovery.
Blood Myth
A young woman finds her home plagued by mutant Rats from Outer Space.
Rats!
An anthology of the 23 best short films created for the Shortcuts to Hell UK Talent Competition with FrightFest, the Horror Channel and Wildseed Studios, by some of the UK’s hottest rising stars.
Shortcuts to Hell: Volume II
The film crew follow Sam, a free runner, as he goes about his daily business and challenges an old acquaintance to a challenge.
Nature of the Beast
Trapped in a terrifying death-loop, surgeon Cole Mason is kidnapped and brought to an underwater facility, forced to operate on a patient to extract an evolving parasitic horror. Dead Reset is a blood-soaked interactive horror, where each death brings you closer to the truth. —Wales Interactive