With its unique light and landscape, Eilean Shona has also been an inspirational film location. Paul Kindersley’s third film, The Burning Baby, is a psychological horror fairy tale, filmed on location in 2020, where the cast and crew lived and worked together for the duration of the shoot. This was to create a commune like experience which lends a unique atmosphere to the film. The film is a surreal queer fantasy that investigates our relationship to landscape, identity, family, sexuality and death.

The Isle is a supernatural horror film directed by Matthew Butler Hart and also filmed on Eilean Shona in 2017. Set in 1846, three sailors are shipwrecked on an uncharted island off the west coast of Scotland to find four lone inhabitants living in what was once a thriving community. As days pass for the promised supply ship to take them home, the sailors discover that not all is well on the seemingly friendly isle.