Director’s Statement
“While I was writing the script, I read a good description of what a ghost story classically is; a disturbed spirit has an issue that a protagonist, usually female, needs to understand and solve. Then the spirit can rest in peace. This description resonated with me. I was already telling the story from a female point of view, and wanted the female experience to inform the horror elements. But I was writing during the explosion of resistance to silence and passivity that came with the Me Too movement. And it felt like the landscape was changing to some extent. The idea that an angry spirit could neatly be put to rest, made quiet at the end of a story, felt plain wrong. This gave me an interesting trajectory.
I realized while we were filming that we were telling a story about the silence of girls. Voices made quiet. Then I realized, that without planning, I was telling the story of my journey to that moment too. It had taken many years, and changes in my own confidence and the confidence of the industry to get there. To allow my own voice to speak. Like the restless spirit, I’ve no intention of laying it to rest now.”
Director: Corinna Faith
Starring: Rose Williams, Shakira Rahman, Charlie Carrick, Diveen Henry,
Gbemisola Ikumelo, Nuala McGowan, Emma Rigby, Theo Barklem-Biggs
Producers: Rob Watson, Matthew James Wilkinson
Cinematography: Laura Bellingham
Editing: Tommy Boulding, Rebecca Lloyd
Running Time: 92 min
SHUDDER
