If you wait for money, the perfect location, or the perfect time, you will wait forever. One of the most important lessons I’ve learned as an indie filmmaker is that you have to work with what you have. Well, I had that smell well and firmly entrenched in my nostrils. There’s an old screenwriting term for this type of idea: “The smell of the rain on the road at dawn”. We are talking about way back in July, before “The Host” became a global sensation. So, I figured, why not a horror movie set on Zoom?ĭon’t worry if this all sounds familiar. Not even a cappuccino or latte were to be had anywhere. Restrictions meant no mixing of households, social distancing. Here in the UK we were plunged into total lockdown. Flushed with pride at our soon-to-be-really-successful movie, we launched into production for our next film, a sprawling crime drama based on a bestselling novel. Under the banner of Vamoose Productions, our newly formed production company based in Manchester, England, we had just finished our first feature film, the realistic urban vampire film “Boy #5”. ![]() I had spent the last four months working with the editor and now it was in the hands of our sound and colour experts when… calamity struck, in the shape of our old friend Covid-19.Īllow me to explain. We had just finished shooting our first horror feature film.
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