The Good People

The Good People

Filmmaker: Nicholas Horwood

Medium: Film

Genre: Horror

A stressed novelist finds peace in a rural English village. His interest in the local folklore, however, has very sinister repercussions.

MARK BELLOW is an American science-fiction writer who escapes the New York rat race by renting a cottage in a rural English village. He finds the peace and tranquility of the English countryside a tonic for his soul, spending his days exploring the local woods and countryside.

The people of the village are friendly and take him to their hearts, particularly a single-mother named BARBARA. The regulars of the village pub regale Mark with stories of local folklore regarding "The Good People" that are said to inhabit the surrounding countryside. Mark is, however, warned about a local loner named THOMAS, who is said to be a dangerous and unbalanced character. Suggestions are made that he was somehow responsible for the disappearance of Barbara's husband.

Mark becomes intrigued by the village folklore and the story of a local tragedy; how almost forty years to the day the village school was destroyed by a landslide. The local legend is that the school was built on "fairy land" and the tragedy was an act of revenge by The Good People. Mark decides to write a book on the subject of English folklore.

Strange things start to happen at the cottage. Mark glimpses weird, small figures in the surrounding woods and sinister childish drawings and threatening messages appear on the walls of the cottage.

Mark confronts Thomas, accusing him of trying to scare him away. Thomas confesses to doing just that - because Mark's life is in danger.

Mark fears for his life but his feelings for Barbara and his growing obsession with finding out the truth about The Good People cause him to stay.

Eventually the truth is revealed to Mark...and he discovers to what horrifying lengths the local people will go to to protect the secrets of The Good People.

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