STOP DEAD

When a workaholic city detective and her laid-back partner try to stop a dishevelled girl staggering down the middle of a country road, they discover she’s being stalked by some unseen entity with a horrifying ultimatum: you stop moving, you die.

AWARDS

WINNER ‘Best Jump Scare’ Festival Spasm 2023

WINNER ‘Best International Short Jury Award’ The Dark Hedges Film Festival 2023

WINNER ‘Best International Short Audience Choice’ The Dark Hedges Film Festival 2023

WINNER ‘Audience Award’ Terror Molins 2023

FILM FESTIVALS

Cinequest, USA 2023 (OSCAR Qualifying)

Edmonton International Film Festival, Canada 2023 (OSCAR Qualifying)

Sitges Fantastic Film Festival, Barcelona Spain 2023 (OSCAR Qualifying)

Norwich Film Festival, UK 2023 (BAFTA Qualifying)

Hamburg Film Festival, Germany 2023 (BAFTA Qualifying)

Fantasporto, Portugal 2023

Women in Horror, USA 2023

Hard:Line, Germany 2023

Panic Fest, Kansas USA 2023

Stokercon, California USA 2023

Grossmann Fantastic Film & Wine Festival, Slovenia 2023

Chattanooga Film Festival, USA 2023

Fantasia International Film Festival, Canada 2023

Popcorn Frights Film Festival, Florida USA 2023

Ravenheart International Film Festival, Norway 2023

Genre Blast Film Festival, USA 2023

L’Etrange Festival, France 2023

Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival, France 2023

Indie Shorts Film Series, Charlottesville USA 2023

Charlotte Film Festival, USA 2023

A Night Of Horror International Film Festival, Wisconsin USA 2023

El Paso Film Festival, Texas USA 2023

Buried Alive Film Fest, Atlanta USA 2023

Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, USA 2023

Vancouver Horror Show (VHS), Canada 2023

Mayhem Film Festival, Nottingham UK 2023

Festival Spasm, Canada 2023

ToHorror Fantastic Film Fest, Italy 2023

Celluloid Screams, Sheffield UK 2023

Ramaskrik, Norway 2023

Weird Weekender, Glasgow UK 2023

Knoxville Horror Film Fest, USA 2023

Splat!Film Fest, Warsaw Poland 2023

Razor Reel Flanders Film Fest, Belgium 2023

Lund Fantastic Film Festival, Sweden 2023

The Dark Hedges Film Festival, Belfast UK 2023

Alptraum, Cyprus 2023

Morbido Film Fest, Mexico 2023

Terror Molins, Spain 2023

Monster Fest, Melbourne Australia 2023

Abertoir, Wales 2023

Maniatic International Fantastic Film Festival, Spain 2023

Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre, Argentina 2023

Bogo Shorts - Bogota Short Film Festival, Colombia 2023

Horror On Sea Film Festival, Southend-On-Sea 2024

British Shorts Berlin, Germany 2024

Final Girls Berlin, Germany 2024

Nevermore Film Festival, California USA 2024

Wench Film Festival, Mumbai India 2024

Landshut Short Film Festival, Germany 2024

Madeira Fantastic Film Fest, Germany 2024

HorrorHound Film Festival, Ohio USA 2024

Fant Bilbao, Spain 2024

Film Audit 2.0, USA 2024

Days of the Dead Film Festival, USA 2024

Alpinale Kurz Film Festival, Austria, 2024

Macabro Mexico City Horror Film Festival, Mexico, 2024

Santiago Horror Festival, Chile, 2025

Forbidden Worlds Film Festival, Bristol UK, 2025

Nightmares Film Fest, USA 2025

Boca de Inferno, Brazil 2025

Film Quest, USA 2025

Frostbiter Festival, Iceland 2025

The Pumpkin Fantasy Film Festival, China 2025

UpTilt, USA 2025

Etreum Film Fest, Columbia 2025

FEMALE FILM SCREENS, UK 2025

CREW

Writer: David Scullion

Director: Emily Greenwood

Producers: Douglas Cox, Jude Goldrei

Executive Producers: Milan Krsljanin for ARRI, Toyin Ayinde for Directors UK, Edward Hughes for Linda Seifert Management, Matthew Lawes-Wickwar for Other Brother Studios, Jo Wingate for Sheffield Film Fund

Production companies: Lunar Lander Films, Shadowhouse Films, Other Brother Studios

Production Manager: Daria Nitsche

1st AD: Jez Marshall

2nd AD: Emese Matuz

DOP: Mary Farbrother

1st AC: Julian Lalinde

2nd AC: Sarah Hibbert

Camera Trainee: Chantal Richardson

Trinity: Dominic Jackson

Gaffer: John Crooks

Spark: Arco Parkin, Matt Glaz

Sound: Benjamin Foss, Calum Sample

SFX: Dan Martin, Saffron Powell, Vienna McMahon

Costume: Nadine Powell, Lucy Hallard

Hair & Make-up: Zoe Tilston

Stills: Willie Runte

Editor: Ross Leppard

Composer: Adam Janota Bzowski

CAST

Sarah Soetaert

David Ricardo-Pearce

James Swanton

Priya Blackburn