A Scottish horror film has finally been released – 17 years after filming first got under way.
The Bench is a grisly slasher where a group of friends take a trip to a remote cabin in Renfrewshire, only to disappear one by one.
However, the production was struck by a host of difficulties, from badly misjudging the Scottish weather’s suitability for filming to money running out half way through.
Writer and director Sean Wilkie told BBC Scotland News that he was a mixture of being “pleased, nervous and relieved” now that The Bench can be seen by the public.
The Coatbridge native had worked on short films before deciding to tackle a full-length horror.
He was inspired by some of his favourites from the genre such as Halloween, The Hills Have Eyes and Tobe Hooper’s dread-inducing tale of unwitting teenagers encountering a cannibal family, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre….