Bad Ben
2016 American film
Bad Ben is the name of a web series of independent found footage horror comedy films, the first of which released in 2016. The series has been written and directed by Tom Fanslau under the pen name of Nigel Bach. As of 2024, there are fifteen Bad Ben films. A sixteenth installment is being worked on but with no scheduled release date.
A video game based on the series has also been released.
Films
There are fifteen films in the Bad Ben series as of 2026. A short film entitled "Bad Ben's Night Before Christmas" was released in 2019. A television series made up of three episodes, Tom Riley: Paranormal Investigator, released between 2018 and 2019.
Bad Ben (2016)
Bad Ben was released directly to the Internet on October 5, 2016. Fanslau stars as Tom Riley, an unsuspecting homeowner who has started to experience strange and inexplicable phenomena in his new home.
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