Sunday Short Theatre - The Corpse Road

Those who have followed The Peoples Movies for a long time know we love our horror. This week’s Sunday Short Theatre choice is The Corpse Road, a horror that takes us back to 16th Century.

Joseph delaney‘s short film is a 12 minute folk horror, inspired by Cumbrain folklore (Northern England). The Corpse Road is inspired by the story of Thomas Fowler a peasant who walks the roads around the Lake District with a dead body. The body being his mother in law and delivering her to holy ground.

The director shared his vision for his film, describing it “I like to call the film a ‘psychosexual, agrarian horror’, and hope it unashamedly conveys the bleaker side of life in the Tudor period, seldom seen on screens so saturated by the pristine upper-class representation found in traditional costume dramas.

Utilising a handheld docu-drama approach borne of budgetary necessity, I hope for audiences to find themselves right there in the dirt beside Thomas Fowler as he traverses the brutal landscape and battles with his inner demons; alcoholism, narcissism and sexual frustration. An experimental and frightening climax then thrusts the film firmly into the horror genre.”.