Doctor Who and the Horror at Towell Farm

Doctor Who and the Horror at Towell Farm is a Doctor Who non-profit fan-film, written, directed and edited by Astile Doherty. It is scheduled to be released on 31 October 2020, Halloween night. The video is dedicated to Anthony Ainley, who played the Master from 1981 to 89, and died on 3 May 2004.

Synopsis
Devon. 2018. The Doctor has restored his TARDIS to its wonderful police box form, but he has bigger issues to resolve when harmless countryside exploring and the discovery of an isolated Towell Farm turns the Doctor's mini adventure into a living nightmare.

Production
Most of Towell Farm was filmed over the course of three days at Towell Farm, a farm in Devon owned by Doherty's grandparents Bim and Steve Welch. The opening and closing scenes where the Doctor leaves and enters the TARDIS were filmed in London. The Doctor not having his umbrella in laters scenes and wearing a different waistcoat is explained in-universe due to both being done by mistake. The scene with Scooter 2000 (owned by Daniel Welch) talking to himself was done in Doherty's bedroom thanks to owning a silver version of his own and the scene where Scooter confronts the Doctor was finished rushingly due to the holiday time in Devon beginning to end as Doherty started filming it.

The voices in the background are Doherty's family enjoying their time on holiday. In-universe, they are lost voices of souls who used to live in the house. Humanity 2 from 1982's The Thing is used when the Doctor investigates the house and goes into the basement.

All editing was completed in DaVinci Resolve 16 as always. The Nightmare Television scene is Doherty's personal favourite scene due to it coming the closest to being scary. The purple parasite is technically reused from Parasite Mind due to Horror being filmed after that story's scenes featuring the parasites.

Doherty's sister Molly Morrish, her boyfriend Louis Heartley and the Welch's each receive a special thanks credit due to them organising the holiday and taking Doherty in the first place. The main inspiration for this particular story comes from haunted house horror movies, The Thing and psychological horrors where characters are manipulated into seeing and believing things opposite to how they actually are.

References to Doctor Who
The TARDIS is shrunk to a miniature size, similar to 2014's Flatline.

The scene at the beach is a homage to the opening scene of 1967/68's The Enemy of the World.

The Basement Entity is similar to the Zygons and Meglos, shapeshifting aliens from the Tom Baker era, although only Meglos takes the Fourth Doctor's form.

The Doctor's mental torture from the Television Entity is similar to the Third Doctor's in 1974's The Monster of Peladon.

The Doctor quotes his first incarnation from 1966's The Tenth Planet.

Circus music plays as the TARDIS dematerialises, similar to how the Second Doctor's recorder can be faintly heard at the end of 1966's The Power of the Daleks.

Music from The Power of the Daleks and 1968's Fury from the Deep are used throughout.