Myskatonic is a genre film, television, and media production company formed in 2019 by writer/director Ryan Mackfall and writer/producer Kingsley Marshall to produce the award-winning Backwoods, an adaptation of a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. Since then, we’ve produced short films, documentaries and music videos for major record labels, and developed a slate of feature films, episodic drama, and documentary series for television, with several writers under option.

At Myskatonic, we’re passionate about the power of genre filmmaking conventions and how these can serve as a Trojan horse to convey political ideas. Across our slate, we’re interested in exploring the feelings of displacement and change that dominate global political discourse. While Backwoods, Whisperer, and The Birdwatcher use horror conventions to drill into the origins of xenophobia, Howlsavla Gwav, C-H-A-I-N, There Were Nine Children Left, Analogue, and ghost story anthology series Tales of the Waning Light align elements of folk horror – the power of nature and the rural landscape – to the existential dread of a generation faced with the danger of technological shifts and catastrophic climate change. In our work, we ask our audience to consider how one character’s loss of identity is directly related to the accelerating loss of land and plant life, the drivers of global migration, and how our unending demand for natural resources directly aligns with a diminishing sense of ourselves and our communities.

In our documentary work, we look inward at film itself, at Hammer’s use of Cornwall as a setting and location in our special feature, The Land Demands Blood, a commission for John Gore Studios, and, in the series Nevermade, where we consider the working practices of filmmakers and their unrealised projects.

What connects these stories is how our characters look behind what initially appears innocuous – a book, a recording, a retreat, a map, a drawing, a screenplay - to pull the curtain on reality and reveal their own fears and prejudices, and those of our audience.

Ryan Mackfall has over 15 years of experience in documentary and music video and live performance, working with some of the biggest global artists (including Nicole Scherzinger, Bruce Dickinson, Green Day, Train, Trivium, and Caspian) and shooting in the world’s most recognizable venues, including Villa Park, Wembley Stadium and the Royal Albert Hall, in addition to documentary work for organisations including Virgin and the European Space Agency.

Kingsley Marshall has over a decade of experience across a range of production roles in music video, shorts, and documentaries. He was executive producer on Rose of Nevada (Mark Jenkin), which premiered at Venice Film Festival in 2025, and Enys Men (Mark Jenkin), which premiered in Cannes within the Director’s Fortnight programme in 2022. At Myskatonic Kingsley produced the archive documentary The Land Demands Blood (Ryan Mackfall 2026), Howlsavla Gwav (Ryan Mackfall and Joe Gray 2025), The Birdwatcher (Ryan Mackfall 2024), which premiered at Frightfest and won the HP Lovecraft Award in the US in 2025, and Backwoods, which premiered in the US, played BAFTA and BIFA qualifying London Short Film Festival, and won the HP Lovecraft Award in the US in 2019. Kingsley has worked in a range of production roles including the archive documentary Atlas Pool (Jane Darke and Andrew Tebbs 2025), together with a slate of feature films including Ebony and Ivory (Jim Hosking 2024), Long Way Back (Brett Harvey 2022), The Tape (Martha Tilston 2021), and Wilderness (Justin John Doherty 2017). As a screenwriter, Kingsley worked with Lucy Grace to adapt her original story There Were Nine Children Left for the screen. He has also composed music for narrative shorts and documentaries, and is currently working on the score for the feature film The Crossing (Peter Stray 2026).

Myskatonic is committed to developing new and emerging talent and increasing the visibility of the UK’s regional film industry, as well as the history and culture of our home in Cornwall, to a worldwide audience.