Agent: Edward Hughes
Website: www.stephenvolk.net
Stephen Volk is a writer working across multiple disciplines. Stephen’s produced feature films include Gothic, director Ken Russell’s film about the genesis of Frankenstein; and the BBC/Origin Pictures Film The Awakening, which starred Rebecca Hall and Dominic West. Stephen has also worked extensively in television. He was the writer and creator of the cult Halloween mockumentary Ghostwatch for the BBC. His other original shows include two series of Clerkenwell’s RTS-Award winning paranormal show Afterlife, which aired on ITV1. Stephen has also written published short stories and theatre pieces. Currently he has a number of projects in active development with a range of UK broadcasters, as well as feature films.
Television Projects In Development:
JEKYLL & HYDE Long Story Television/Federation Entertainment
New series based on the classic story
HOURS OF DARKNESS Three Tables Limited
Original supernatural anthology series
LIES OF TENDERNESS – BBC
Drama series
DON’T COME BACK – Various Artists
Original serial.
EMPTY CHAIRS – Clerkenwell Films/Sky
Original supernatural drama series
Film:
THE NATURE OF ENCHANTMENT – Parkway Producitons/50 Cannon
A drama about a disturbed young boy and a psychiatrist who enters his fantasy world
Directed by Kim Morduant
EXTRASENSORY – Fifteen And A Half Ltd/Genesius Pictures
One man on Earth, one in deepest space – linked only by their minds
Directed by Lesley Manning.
(In development)
THE AWAKENING – BBC Films/Origin Pictures
Period set ghost story starring Rebecca Hall, Dominic West and Imedla Staunton
Director: Nick Murphy
OCTANE – Four Horsemen Films
Horror thriller starring Madeleine Stowe and Jonathan Rhys-Myers
Director: Marcus Adams
THE DEADNESS OF DAD – Celtic Productions
Short film, director: Philippa Cousins. Starring Rhys Ifans
Winner: Best Short Film, Galway Film Festival 1997
Best Short Film, Celtic Film Festival 1997
Best Short BAFTA 1997
THE GUARDIAN – Universal Pictures
From the book by Dan Greenburg
Director: William Friedkin. Producer: Joe Wizan
THE KISS – Tri-Star
Ancient witchcraft creeps into the American suburbs searching for a host
Producers: John Watson, Pen Densham; Director: Pen Densham
GOTHIC
Frankenstein was born out of a nightmare. What happened on the famous night in 1816? Shelley, his mistress Mary Godwin and the Satanic Lord Byron, in a tale of terror
Producers: Al Clarke and Robert Fox; Director: Ken Russell
SUPERSTITION – Glinwood Films/Woodline Productions/Delux Productions
Wrote first script of this true story based on the trial in 1986 in Italy of a young Scottish nanny, Carol Compton, who was accused of being a witch
Director: Kenneth Hope. Starring: Sienna Guillory and Charlotte Rampling
Television:
THE MIDWINTER OF THE SPIRIT – ITV Studios
Three part supernatural drama based on the novel by Phil Rickman.
Starring David Threlfall and Anna Maxwell Martin.
AFTERLIFE – Clerkenwell Films/ITV1
Two series of the six-part drama about the paranormal starring Andrew Lincoln and Lesley Sharp
Winner, 2005 RTS Award for Best Actress: Lesley Sharp
(Writer and Creator)
CYCLOPS – Tiger Aspect/Channel 4
50 minute film for the ‘Shockers’ horror series
I’LL BE WATCHING YOU / MASSAGE – BBC
Stand-alone psychological thrillers for the BBC series ‘Ghosts’.
Producer: Ruth Baumgarten
GHOSTWATCH – BBC
Writer and creator of the infamous cult Halloween mokumentary one-off starring Michael Parkinson and Sarah Green
Producer: Ruth Baumgarten
Other Features Commissioned/Developed:
BURN – Constance Media
Teen witchcraft thriller
HEREAFTER – Gruber Films
Futuristic thriller set during a war between mankind and the spirits of the dead
BOX OF DELIGHTS – Fifty Cannon Entertainment / Jigsaw Films
Adaptation of John Masefield’s novel to be directed by Mike Newell
THE CHRYSALIDS – Samuelson Productions
Adaptation of the novel by John Wyndham
SEEING THINGS – Sony
Psychological thriller about a blind woman who sees people invisible to the rest of the word
SHADES OF GREY – MGM/Pathe
From the novel by Timothy R. O’Neill
LOST SOUL – Stonebridge/Columbia
Psychological horror inspired by the Faust myth, set in Vienna
LORELEI – Tri-Star
NAZARETH NEW YORK
A sign from God – or the greatest lie ever told? The tragic true story of the three Fox sisters who founded Spiritualism
WHERE THE DARK EYE GLANCES
The tragic love story of Edgar Allan Poe and his young bride Virginia Clemm
(Spec script)
HORROR MOVIE – Goldcrest
Evil lurks in the ramshackle picture house in Hatfield, Texas. A monster long dead who lives again every time the lights go down on the projector flickers….
Unproduced TV Commissions:
SEVENTH SON – BBC
Original supernatural drama series
THE MIDNIGHT MEN – BBC
Original WW2 supernatural series
THE SECURE – Clerkenwell Films/BBC
Original crime series
YOURS TRULY, JACK THE RIPPER – Talkback Thames
A new take on the famous mystery
PROOF – Clerkenwell Films/BBC
Pilot for supernatural series
DOLLS’ HOSPITAL – Clerkenwell Films
Pilot for a dark, satirical sci-fi series
THE KRAKEN WAKES – Samuelson Productions
Treatment of the novel by John Wyndham
THE GLAMOUR – Ruby Films/C4
Treatment of the novel by Christopher Priest
NATURAL FATHER – BBC
Psychological thriller about a man who discovers a teenage daughter he never knew he had
THE NON-PAYING GUEST – BBC
Single film, producer: Ruth Baumgarten
THE GHOSTS OF SLEATH – Bentley Productions
Single drama based on the novel by James Herbert
THE GUY – Ardent Productions/ Nickelodeon
(Pilot for TV series “Scream School”)
Theatre:
THE HALLOWE’EN SESSIONS
Horror anthology play performed at the Leicester Square Theatre
(with Kim Newman, MauraMcHugh, Ann Billson, Paul McAuley and Sean Hogan)
ANSWERING SPIRITS
Play performed at the Edinburgh Festival and Bristol New Vic