Ahead of the UK digital release of his latest film The Lockdown Hauntings on May 3rd, director & writer Howard J Ford talks about being a one-man crew, casting Tony Todd, his do-it-yourself SFX kit and losing his uncle to the pandemic.
You shot The Lockdown Huntings during the UK’s first lockdown. Was the Covid-19 outbreak the inspiration? If so, why a ghost story?
It absolutely was. I am a believer in using what you have as an indie film-maker and I had a global pandemic! There was a sudden influx of fear, isolation and anxiety. I wondered, could I do anything cinematic with that? I then heard that the virus is not even alive, yet this not-living thing was out there taking lives and not only that, it was Invisible! None of us knew how close this deadly thing was to them… I wondered, could I weave that into a plot,...
You shot The Lockdown Huntings during the UK’s first lockdown. Was the Covid-19 outbreak the inspiration? If so, why a ghost story?
It absolutely was. I am a believer in using what you have as an indie film-maker and I had a global pandemic! There was a sudden influx of fear, isolation and anxiety. I wondered, could I do anything cinematic with that? I then heard that the virus is not even alive, yet this not-living thing was out there taking lives and not only that, it was Invisible! None of us knew how close this deadly thing was to them… I wondered, could I weave that into a plot,...
- 4/28/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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