Three Screenplays

Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump's award-winning, groundbreaking films Kill List, A Field in England, and In the Earth are available to read here for the first time. With a preface by Ben Wheatley and an introduction by Tariq Goddard contextualising them as a thematic trilogy, Screenplays comprises the shooting scripts for these foundational works in the field of British folk horror. Kill List follows two ex-military hitmen on an unusual job, that turns from bad to worse as it leads them into the bowels of a cultish conspiracy of shadowy proportions. A Field in England is considered a seminal work of folk horror and one of the most important British films of the past 50 years. A hallucinogenic foray into British history set during the 17th century English civil war, it's band of characters flee one battle only to encounter more violence and mystery in their pursuit. In the Earth is a covid-era horror masterpiece, delving into the depths our relation to nature and solitude. A researcher goes in search of his former colleague and partner, long lost on an expedition in the wild while looking for a cure for a deadly pandemic.