“Some are more light-hearted than others, while some are more straight horror and others are more about suspense. So you don’t want to put two of a kind back to back.”
Nick said that every director edited their own segment of the story but he made various tweaks as he wove the various pieces into the finished film.
The unsettling corridors in The Haunted Hotel
- Credit: Film Suffolk/Haunted Hotel
With plots set across eight different eras spanning more than 150 years, he said that the production design and costuming challenges of bringing The Haunted Hotel to life was immense. The rooms were bare and so everything had to be dressed with donations from charity shops including Age UK.
“Some are more light-hearted than others, while some are more straight horror and others are more about suspense. So you don’t want to put two of a kind back to back.”
Nick said that every director edited their own segment of the story but he made various tweaks as he wove the various pieces into the finished film.
The unsettling corridors in The Haunted Hotel
- Credit: Film Suffolk/Haunted Hotel
With plots set across eight different eras spanning more than 150 years, he said that the production design and costuming challenges of bringing The Haunted Hotel to life was immense. The rooms were bare and so everything had to be dressed with donations from charity shops including Age UK.
Filmed remotely,
The Man at the Bottom of The Garden sees Jess video calling to check in on her parents.
Clare Calbraith in The Man at the Bottom of The Garden.
- Credit: Hidden Door Productions
She is greeted by her mum, Marji, who informs her that dad, Joe, is in isolation at the bottom of the garden.
He’s displaying symptoms of COVID-19.
However, without giving too much away, not everything is as it seems.
Clare Calbraith and Paul Bradley in a still from The Man at the Bottom of The Garden.
- Credit: Hidden Door Productions
Bolton-based writer and director Paul Blinkhorn said: The past year has been a difficult one for many and our ambition has been to make a short that offers audiences some comic relief and a brief respite from the stresses and strains of lockdown living.