ANDREW
HAYWARD

After the sudden death of his dad, a young boy is forced to live with his abusive mother and struggles to deal with school bullies. A chance encounter with a kindhearted couple offers him — and a wrecked sports car — hope of a new life.

Young Manchester street photographer Lip buys a battered vintage Nikon F3 and discovers its lens reveals more than ordinary photographs. As Lip becomes obsessed with the city’s notorious “Pusher” legend — a shadowy figure blamed for drownings and disappearances along Manchester’s canals — each photograph draws him deeper into an urban nightmare that may be anything but a myth.

Young single mother Madison “Mads” McCarthy, obsessed with the music and style of the 1980s, takes a night-cleaning job at an eerie railway depot to build a better future for her baby daughter. After a bizarre induction with a foul-mouthed cleaning crew, Mads discovers the small print: the Night Cleaner works alone. Left among deserted trains with only her Walkman and imagination for company, her first shift begins slipping into an increasingly strange and threatening world where music, fantasy and reality collide.

During a modern air raid on London, eight-year-old Flo is separated from her parents and trapped in the Underground, where she meets Jack — a boy from the Blitz who never made it back to the surface. As the tunnels begin to fracture time, stillness brings safety while movement destabilises reality, and Flo must navigate a collapsing overlap of past and present to find her way back to her mother.

In a brutal post-civilisation wasteland ruled by the wealthy Builders, rival Greaser clans send motorcycle gladiators into the Murderdrome — a lethal wooden arena where victory promises freedom and defeat means death. When Wreckers captain Dex is killed in the race, his twin children Rho and Chi are torn apart, setting them on radically different paths through a society built on spectacle, servitude and blood.

A forbidden children’s game hidden beneath a Midlands canal system awakens an ancient force tied to grief, shame and collective memory. Beginning with six teenagers trapped in haunted canal tunnels, the trilogy expands as Dudley council turns the legend into a tourist attraction and a haunted livestream ultimately spreads Gregory’s rules nationwide — transforming a local ghost story into a national nightmare.

Logline: Kicked out and desperate, a troubled young man takes a job as an apprentice cremator on a forgotten island, only to discover he’s the next link in an ancient, infernal chain of death, fire, and silence.

Synopsis: Jay, an unemployed loner with a macabre fascination for miniature insect cremations, is thrown out by his mother and drawn to a remote island where the austere Clement offers him work in an isolated crematorium. As arcane rituals, visions and voices erode Jay’s grip on reality, the furnace seems to transform him. Then his mother’s corpse arrives for cremation, forcing him toward an unspeakable choice and the revelation that neither Clement nor the island chose him by accident.

Logline: In a world governed by invisible systems, an unclassifiable entity triggers a correction process that cannot complete, forcing the system itself into an unresolved state.

Synopsis: In a rain-soaked city, an entity constructs itself from the skins and identities of others while an unseen control authority known as The Line attempts to classify and correct it. Each borrowed identity fails, and every attempt at resolution returns the impossible result 0/0. As the anomaly spreads into the logic of the city itself, Continuance Auditor Skerr begins to realise that Skinless may not be an error the system can fix, but a condition it cannot resolve.

Logline: During the grand reopening of a restored art-deco cinema, an investigative journalist discovers that its eccentric projectionist is turning a week-long horror festival into a deadly spectacle where film, flesh and audience become impossible to separate.

Synopsis: Journalist Anna arrives at the newly restored Alustria cinema determined to discover who financed its lavish rebirth. The theatre’s Festival of Terror promises a celebration of a century of horror, but behind the projector glass, Eddie watches the crowd with feverish obsession. As the screenings grow stranger and the cinema begins behaving like a living machine, Anna’s investigation becomes part of the programme itself. Trapped inside a nightmare of celluloid, mannequins, masks and ritualised violence, she discovers that at the Alustria the show does not merely imitate death. It preserves it, projects it and prepares to screen it again.

Logline: When a ten-year-old boy imagines life beyond his locked room, he cracks open the lies his Aunty has built and discovers the outside world isn’t deadly, but she is.

Synopsis: Ten-year-old Henry has spent his life locked inside a decaying house, taught by Aunty that the air outside is poisoned. Dreaming of BMX rides through the forest and friends beyond the window, he begins to question the world she created for him. When those imaginary friends reveal themselves as the murdered children who came before him, Henry learns that Aunty stole him, killed his real parents and built his entire childhood from lies. Escape means confronting the woman who raised him and the terrifying truth buried beneath the Forest Garden.

Logline: After losing her home in a violent cull, a defiant young badger follows a mysterious map, gathering misfits, dodging extinction, and learning that survival means more than just staying alive.

Synopsis: After her mother is killed by the Tall and her sett destroyed, spirited young badger Wren crosses a broken landscape in search of safety, truth and belonging. Guided by a mud-smeared map, she gathers an eccentric band of survivors including Mole, Owl, Flanagan the fox and a fearless mouse. Their darkly funny journey through ruined setts, blighted fields and places of old Clawlore becomes a fable about destruction, tradition, sacrifice and the stubborn possibility that something new can grow from the ash.

Logline: An eclectic group falls victim to the evil entity lurking in the depths of a mining museum.

Synopsis: A mismatched group of tourists descends into a mining museum under the guidance of bitter ex-miner Jack. Deep underground, the Blackleg Miner mannequins begin to seem disturbingly human and a demonic presence picks off the visitors one by one. As each victim dies, they are transformed into mannequins and added to the watching ranks while Jack and a Blackleg Miner choir celebrate the deaths in song. The last daylight the tourists see may be the last they ever see through human eyes.

An evil elevator with psionic powers and the deeply disturbed young man who operates it conspire to kill anyone who dares cross them.

After discarding his medication, a mentally disturbed porter, plagued by myriad malevolent voices and visions, murders passengers and crew aboard a sleeper train.

Inspired by a modern art exhibition, a grief-stricken reverend attempts to create the world's first nativity to use real humans — before the ghosts of his wife and daughter can stop him.

A school teacher intervenes when she suspects the evil entity that terrorized her childhood has returned to haunt her star pupil.

A 70-year-old man with Alzheimer's disease discovers a key that unlocks a door to a macabre secret.

After crossing paths at a road traffic accident, an angel and demon must withstand mysterious forces if their forbidden love affair is to survive.

In the wild west of England, an unemployed gamer turns his life around by going up against the best cowboy assassins in town. The problem is, he's a lousy shot — and his childhood crush has been sent to kill him.

In a world where death is processed like paperwork, two operatives must guide the deceased through a system that allows no mistakes — only corrections. Every episode begins with a death: the outcome is fixed, but the process is not.

Five legendary assassins, now retired and forgotten, live quietly in Dudley and reluctantly return to work while navigating ordinary British life. Each case is handled with deadpan professionalism: Dennis logs the crime, the team assembles at the Broken Badger, and the problem is quietly concluded before anyone knows they were there.

Set inside the systems that quietly organise modern life, Conclusion Status follows a different institution in each standalone story as procedures built to remove uncertainty begin replacing human judgement. Across hospitals, helplines, corporate offices, laboratories, logistics networks and government systems, traces of an elusive administrative doctrine called The Long Order begin to surface. The same unsettling pattern appears everywhere: when a system works perfectly, the people inside it may become the problem it decides to correct.