Dundee was getting in touch with its dark side at the weekend as part of a 48-hour horror film challenge coordinated by the National Theatre of Scotland (NTS).
The event, entitled Two Days of Darkness, is part of a six-month creative project called Other being run by NTS.
The project is also occurring in the run-up to the opening of a stage adaptation of Let The Right One In the cult Swedish vampire film at Dundee Rep Theatre in early June.
NTS sought out budding Dundee film-makers and performers and then set them the task of writing, casting, shooting and editing a short horror film all in just two days.
The event began with a ghoulish theatrical launch at Bonar Hall on Friday night before the eight teams got on with the business of putting together their scary flicks inspired by sinister stories set in the city.
The film-makers then set out on Saturday to begin shooting the film, employing a number of locations around Dundee.
Curious passers-by in the west end were reassured that the “blood-covered” male being tended to at the playpark on Milnbank Road was actor Ian Robertson having horror make-up applied by Jade Anderson and nothing more sinister.
Other is being run in partnership with award-winning local digital games development studio Quartic Llama and Dundee Rep Theatre. It brings professional artists together with groups from the city’s universities, colleges, schools and community organisations to create short films, stories, digital puzzles, music and performance exploring Dundee’s sinister side.
Other and Two Days of Darkness creative director Philippa Tomlin said: “We’re really excited to be working on a project supporting Let The Right One In it’s such a wonderfully dark and beautiful story and I’m hoping it inspired our film-makers for Two Days of Darkness.
“The buzz around the project is brilliant, I’m thoroughly enjoying myself working in Dundee. Part of what we have been doing with the project is asking for people’s horror stories and lines from those were used as stimulus for the teams.”
Now that film-makers have submitted their films, judging will commence to choose a winner with a panel that includes actor and comedian Greg Hemphill of Still Game fame and Kieran Parker, writer and producer of acclaimed horror series Outpost.
The shorts will be screened at a public showcase event at a Dundee cinema in the near future and will also be available to view online at otherdundee.com.
Let the Right One In, directed by John Tiffany, runs at Dundee Rep from June 5-29.