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
Howard J Ford’s latest feature film is The Lockdown Hauntings, a supernatural serial killer movie. The award-winning director behind The Dead, The Dead 2 India, and Never Let Go, revealed that plans are underway to release the film, which was shot entirely in lockdown without a crew, exactly one year after the UK lockdown was called (March 16) which is the very same day the film’s story starts.
With the streets now empty, it isn’t just nature that is taking advantage of this unprecedented global disaster. Spirits are freer than ever before and the spirit of a notorious serial killer, Aka ‘The Locksmith’, is back from the dead and he has even more potential victims. Can self-isolating detective George Parker (Angela Dixon) with the guidance of paranormal expert Jordan Myers (Tony Todd), prevent more young women from becoming victims of The Lockdown Hauntings?
The Lockdown Hauntings stars Tony Todd...
With the streets now empty, it isn’t just nature that is taking advantage of this unprecedented global disaster. Spirits are freer than ever before and the spirit of a notorious serial killer, Aka ‘The Locksmith’, is back from the dead and he has even more potential victims. Can self-isolating detective George Parker (Angela Dixon) with the guidance of paranormal expert Jordan Myers (Tony Todd), prevent more young women from becoming victims of The Lockdown Hauntings?
The Lockdown Hauntings stars Tony Todd...
- 8/14/2020
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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