The Green-Eyed Monster
2018 · 10m · UK
Directed by Craig Ford
Genres: comedy, horror, LGBTQ+
Tones: dark, darkly comic
Clive isn't speaking to his husband Roger after a jealous spat — but it turns out marital tension is the least of their problems when something supernatural starts creeping through their bedroom. A cautionary queer bedtime story.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Most people would've made this either a straight domestic drama or straight creature feature — Ford refuses both, which is exactly why it works. A queer couple's petty argument getting invaded by actual cosmic dread is the kind of premise that makes you lean forward.
The film locates itself smartly between the British folk-horror lineage and contemporary queer cinema, using the bedtime-story framing to earn both its comedy and its genuine unease. That structural choice — treating marital jealousy and supernatural encroachment as equal narrative weight — shows real command of tonal architecture.
The key move here is how Ford plants the creature in the *margins* of the frame during the early arguments, so you're catching it peripherally before either character does — one subtle blocking decision that transforms casual bickering into creeping dread on basically no budget.
Reviews
Quite genuinely spooky creature design.