Matthew Cooper
Directing
Biography
Matthew had his first credit on TV as a scriptwriter in 1994 aged 19. He was the youngest ever scriptwriter on the Emmerdale writing team, and has written for nearly all the UK soap operas - including the iconic episode of Eastenders where 'Alfie' told 'Kat' he loved her for the first time. After leaving soap writing behind Matthew started a career as a director of innovative low budget genre films, shot digitally and released online. The first three films 'Markham (2020) -'At The Mountains of Madness (2021) and 'When the Earth Gives up The Dead (Due 2022)' where all based on stories by H.P. Lovecraft.
Known For
The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.
EastEnders
The lives of several families in the Yorkshire Dales revolve around a farm and the nearby village. With murders, affairs, lies, deceit, laughter and tears, it's all there in the village.
Emmerdale
The daily soap that follows the loves, lives and misdemeanours of a group of people living in the Chester village of Hollyoaks where anything could, and frequently does, happen...
Hollyoaks
A young man struggles with grief over the death of his older brother.
Family Style
In the Yorkshire village of Dunwich, a huge, deformed creature has been born. An evil priest and a mad professor attempt to use the creature to contact the old gods, Dagon and Cthulhu. As a result, all hell (literally) breaks loose. The third and final film in the 'Sekurig trilogy'.
When The Earth Gives Up The Dead
On the day his first child is born, Dan decides to have a swift pint with his best friend before he goes to the hospital. Halfway down the pint, all hell breaks loose. Wetting the baby's head will never be the same again.
Sober
A group of scientists studying climate change discover untold horrors on a disastrous expedition to the Antarctic in September 1992. Inspired by the H.P. Lovecraft short story. The second film in the 'Sekurig trilogy'.
At the Mountains of Madness
A cameraman is sent to a remote Yorkshire fishing village to scout a location for a proposed horror film. Instead of being a location scout, he finds himself the subject of a reality-based horror show. The first film in the 'Sekurig trilogy'. Based on the work of H.P. Lovecraft.
Markham
A history professor tracing his family tree visits the seaside town of Innsmouth, on the North Yorkshire coast. While there he becomes caught up in disturbing events that lead to horrifying personal revelations.
H.P. Lovecraft's the Shadow Over Innsmouth
A deadly serial killer flees jail and goes to Whitby, North Yorkshire, during the famous Whitby Goth Weekend.