Van Poynton

Director of unsparing horrors and thrillers

About

Multi-award-winning director, writer, and other things — many, many other things — of dark and distinctive thrillers and horrors…

Including but by no means limited to:

To the Marrow (8 minutes, 2023); world premiered at the 34th Donostia/San Sebastián Horror and Fantasy Film Festival, Spain; UK premiered at the 18th Abertoir Horror Festival, Wales; German premiered 11th Hard:Line, Regensburg; “Ominous… intense… virtuoso” (Hard:Line programme)

Make Room in Hell (82 minutes, 2019); “Stylishdark… hardboiled… gritty… fascinating… unsettling… ominous… bold and unexpected” — Film Threat
Watch on Prime in UK or US or Tubi (US only).

The Nightmare of My Choice (80 minutes, 2016); “Stylishdark… beautiful… compelling… captivating… startling… genuinely remarkable… ultimately brilliant” — UK Film Review
Watch on Prime in UK or US or Tubi (US only).

The Late Men (79 minutes, 2013) won a “Special Award for Innovation in the New Cinema” and Best Actor at the 14th Melbourne Underground Film Festival — “Mesmeric… haunting… we invented a new award just for this… most daring film”  — and was nominated for Excellence in Title Design at SXSW, Texas

Where the Monsters Go (12 minutes, 2009); premiered at Raindance, London, and played genre fests around the UK and US; won the Jury Prize for Best Narrative Short from the 3rd Babelgum Online Film Festival; “Haunting and spooky and filled with authentic childhood memories” — William C. Martell, author of ‘The Secrets of Action Screenwriting’

Occasional, and occasionally competent, cinematographer, colorist, editor, graphic designer, photographer, sound designer, and (SXSW-nominated) title designer…

Developing a number of stylish and dark features.

Slave to multiple four-legged masters.

Berlinale Talents alum.

Bald.