GENRE: Dark fantasy, folk horror adapted from the novel by Justin Robertson by Stuart Wright.
LOGLINE: In a secluded English village, a teenage orphan’s anguish over her mother’s recent death awakens the timeless and formidable divine spirit of the ‘Tangle’, thrusting her into the heart of an ancient and terrifying reckoning.
THIS IS THE STORY:
…of a journey into the woods of CAXTON, a secluded English village, where the awakening of a timeless divine spirit - the ‘TANGLE’ - unleashes a supernatural force of phantom ecology.
IT’S THE STORY of an TEENAGE ORPHAN finding a handful of apple blossom, convinced it is the essence of her recently deceased mother.
IT’S THE STORY of a SPIRITUAL MAN sitting at the junction of many interlocking planes, choosing the Teenage Orphan to bring an end to his eternal existence in our dimension.
IT’S THE STORY of an AMBITIOUS DETECTIVE, who vowed never to return to CAXTON but a gruesome murder requires her local knowledge.
IT’S THE STORY of a PLACE where crime is rife, but murder is rare.
IT’S THE STORY of a SADISTIC TEACHER married to a heroin producing VICAR,.
IT’S THE STORY of a WHITE SUPREMACIST drug dealer whose side hustle in depraved porn keeps a former POMP ROCKER entertained in his big house on the edge of the woods.
IT’S THE STORY of NATURE’S MORAL JUDGEMENT as the TANGLE adds the Sadistic Teacher, Vicar, White Supremacist and Pomp Rock to an unsolvable murder spree.
IT’s THE STORY of UNLEASHING MEMORIES so old they are measured in millennia.
IT’s THE STORY of the Teenage Orphan surviving a year in a psychiatric ward and growing up to become the DOCTOR working with Caxton CID when murders make a return to the village.
IT’s THE STORY of RECONNECTION with what nourishes the human soul.
IT’s THE STORY of REHABILITATION for Caxton’s most ancient and cursed family – the CAVENDISHES - through the endeavours of its YOUNGEST DESCENDENT.
IT’s THE STORY of that Youngest Descendent fuelling a RAPID TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE that threatens to by-pass the ‘TANGLE’ and hand control our lives to a popularist, patriotic movement.
IT’s THE STORY of how the Orphan unwittingly became IMMORTAL.
THE TANGLE is what occurs when unknowable frontiers are breached and humanity finds itself, once again, lost in the woods, face to face with a grotesque world of eco-horror.