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Development / 2026

Return Policy

A supernatural horror about grief.

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The People at the Window horror film poster
Production / 2026

The People at the Window

Turning a remote cottage in the Lake District into a claustrophobic horror.

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Released / 2026

Havenfall

Building the end of the world in Wales.

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Return Policy poster featuring an antique wooden box and a list of ritual rules

Development / Return Policy

ONE MORE EVENING.

Return Policy begins with a simple temptation. A widow is offered one more evening with the husband she lost. The service does not advertise. It arrives as an old wooden box, a worn silver coin and a sheet of rules that must be followed without exception.

At eight o’clock exactly, Patrick is home again. He sits at the table with Anne, warm, familiar and entirely unaware that he ever left or that he is dead. For a few hours the impossible appears gentle. The ordinary details of being together again become precious because Anne knows that every moment is borrowed.

Patrick begins to feel cold and hungry. Gaps open in his understanding of the evening. Anne must hold together the reunion she paid for while the man she loves moves closer to a truth he was never meant to discover.

Rather than treating grief as background, the story places it at the centre of every choice. The supernatural rules create the tension, but the emotional cost gives those rules their meaning.

Iron Triangle Films is preparing the production for a three day shoot in November 2026. A Crowdfunder campaign will help meet the practical costs of accommodation, food, travel and the materials needed to create the film safely and convincingly.

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A woman stands outside a remote cottage in The People at the Window

Production / The People at the Window

THE HORROR OF STILLNESS.

Two friends leave university life behind for a quiet weekend in a remote cottage. There are no phones, no plans and nobody for miles. The escape feels ordinary until a man appears outside. Then another. Then more.

The figures do not shout or force their way inside. They stand, smile and wait. That stillness became the foundation of The People at the Window. The threat is frightening because it refuses to explain itself, leaving Andie and Julia to decide whether they are witnessing danger, a warning or something they cannot understand.

The isolated location in Ulverston gave the film its physical character. Open hills and long views create isolation rather than freedom. The cottage offers shelter, but every window also becomes a frame through which something can watch. Natural surroundings, changing light and the quiet of the building were treated as part of the story rather than simple background.

The production was supported through Crowdfunder, where nine supporters helped raise £600. Every contribution went towards the realities of an independent location shoot, including travel, food, lighting and makeup. The campaign also brought supporters inside the process instead of leaving them to see only the finished film.

Now in post production, the film is being shaped around the same principle that guided the screenplay and shoot. Horror does not always need to shout. Sometimes the most unsettling image is a person who should not be there, standing perfectly still and looking back.

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Jack aims his weapon outside the remote cottage in Havenfall

Released / Havenfall

BUILDING THE END OF THE WORLD.

Havenfall is set after civilisation has collapsed under a relentless outbreak, but the film was never intended to be only about survival. At its centre are three people carrying grief, guilt and competing ideas of what family demands when the world has stripped everything else away.

Jack has made isolation into a form of protection. Jessica arrives carrying her own loss, and the uneasy peace they create inside a remote cottage cannot last. When her brother Daniel appears searching for his missing daughter, the fragile household becomes a place where buried truths and old loyalties are forced into the open.

The cottage and surrounding Welsh landscape gave the film a world that felt lived in rather than constructed. A small cast and crew worked across exterior paths, fields and confined interiors, building the production shot by shot. The film runs for 30 minutes and was photographed on the Sony FX3 using anamorphic lenses. Wide landscapes make the cottage feel small against the world outside, while close, dim interiors and practical candlelight tighten the pressure around the characters.

The finished film has received recognition from festivals including The I Am Film Festival in London, the Berlin Indie Awards, the Cine Paris Film Festival, the Monte Carlo Movie Awards, the New York Film and Actress Awards, the Tokyo Film Awards, the Cannes Film Awards, the White Rose Film Festival and many others.

That recognition matters because it helps an independent film travel beyond the circumstances in which it was made. More importantly, Havenfall established the working relationships and shared visual language that continue through The People at the Window and Return Policy.

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