They’re Outside hits digital for Halloween

Directed by Airell Anthony Hayles and Sam Casserly, They’re Outside follows Max Spencer, a YouTube celebrity psychologist, host of the show ‘Psychology-Inside/Out’, sets himself the challenge of getting an intensely agoraphobic woman to leave her home in just ten days. However, as the minutes, hours and seconds count down, a creepy local legend about the black magic practicing Green Eyes that holds the town in its grip, starts to become a horrifying reality. It stars Emily Booth, Nicholas Vince, Tom Clayton-Wheatley, and Chrissy Randall.

As a child, one of the film’s directors, Airell Anthony Hayles, discovered that his uncle had agoraphobia, a condition that fascinated him. The directors wanted to make a supernatural film akin to The Sixth Sense, and Picnic at Hanging Rock, but had difficulty finding an idea that they liked.

They’re Outside came about when the question was asked ‘What if a person’s agoraphobia was linked to supernatural events rather than being a purely psychological condition? And what if nobody believed them?’

Director Dovile Kirvelaityte added:

“After being intrigued by the first draft of the They’re Outside screenplay, I felt it needed a new angle to really bring the story to life. The mood and energy of the piece really fired up once it was re-written in the context of found footage. The directors and I agreed the story suddenly found its heart beat. It was a really fun shoot, and the pagan influences were spellbinding at every level.”

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Brett Summers

Brett founded CultFaction.com in 2014 a website and podcast that deals with cult film and tv. He also has a strong interest in grappling martial arts both as a practitioner and as a historian.