The pandemic caused a lot of productions to shut down, but we've also seen that this terrible time has inspired some projects – like director Howard J. Ford's THE LOCKDOWN HAUNTINGS, set and shot during the pandemic lockdown. The story begins on March 16th, which was the day the lockdown was ordered in the UK, and plans have been set in motion to get THE LOCKDOWN HAUNTINGS released on the one year anniversary of the lockdown. A trailer has arrived online (and can be seen above) to give a preview of what's in store for us when the movie comes out next March.
Angela Dixon and genre icon Tony Todd star in THE LOCKDOWN HAUNTINGS, which has the following synopsis:
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 (Dixon) with the guidance of paranormal expert Jordan Myers (Todd), prevent more young women from becoming victims of The Lockdown Hauntings?
Heather Peace, Jon Campling, Justin Hayward, Jessica Millson, Tiffany Hannam-Daniels, and "a host of other established and upcoming talent" are also in the cast.
Howard had this to say about the project:
Having been sat in Lockdown for a couple of months and a project I should have been filming put on hold, I figured I could either sit around moaning about the lack of things going on or I could make something happen. I thought, what is out there right now; Fear, Isolation, Anxiety. Could I do something cinematic with that? Also, what is this 'Covid 19', I heard the virus is not even alive, yet it can kill us and be hidden anywhere. Then BOOM! It hit me, my killer needed to be the same. Not even alive, yet out there causing havoc and taking innocent lives. That's where the plot came from… I then posted on Facebook 'Actors, if I was doing a lockdown movie and I could film you as part of it in your own homes, would you do it?’ I was inundated! I was shooting less than a week later, writing as I went. Like a one-man tour round the UK to actor's houses and trying to do everything, sanitised and from 2 meters apart. Crazy I know, but fun! The cast were all brilliant and I’ve been super lucky to get the level of talent involved."
I'm interested to see how the shot-in-lockdown movies will turn out, and I'm especially glad to see that this one was shot like a traditional movie.
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