About Alex

Credo aka The Devil’s Curse

I’ll start by making a guilty admission: the reason I started this blog (my very first by the way) was as a marketing tool to help the film I wrote and produced (Credo) get into the public consciousness. That, and to give Credo a bit of a leg up the all important Google search results page! Shame on me!

However, what has actually happened in the process of jotting down random thoughts about the film is that I have rekindled my interest in the very subject that inspired me to start writing screenplays in the first place: the unexplained. In particular, the paranormal.

As a child, I witnessed several terrifying manifestations that I’ve never been able to properly explain. Maybe you could put it down to childish imagination, or you could argue that the minds of children are more open than those of adults. For a good many years later, as I grew into adulthood, these sorts of encounters seemed to go away… until relatively recently.

Me, a mere child, at film school!

When I started my life as a filmmaker my rational mind began to open up again and I began to view the world with the same wondrous and inquiring eyes I had as a child. Moreover, as a filmmaker I often found myself in some weird and unusual locations, the sorts of places that had “history”. None were more eerie and chilling than the locations we came upon for Credo. I actually feel that the locations found us, called to us rather than us finding them. We didn’t really have a script before we saw the locations. The empty and derelict buildings that became our second home for many months actually inspired the story, and most of it was written within their decaying walls.

Now that Credo (or The Devil’s Curse as it is known in North America) is finished and has just been released, I look back on my experience making the film and only now do I realize the extent to which the production was afflicted by mysterious events, some of which you could describe as being paranormal in nature.

Since starting this blog I have contacted Credo’s cast and crew members in an attempt to catalogue the many strange experiences during the making of the film and I’ve been very surprised at the level of response.

So now I have a greater reason to write this blog. I’m going to archive not only the events that plagued the production of Credo, but everything that has happened to me personally throughout my life and, hopefully, to all the other filmmakers whose productions have also had unexplained phenomena connected to them.

Ultimately, my hope for this blog is that it becomes a hub for your, the reader’s, stories too. I’m not sure how to do that yet, but it may be as simple as just posting a comment which I can then cut and paste into an archive page. I’ll work it out in due course!

So that’s the plan. I’ll do my part, but I hope you’ll also like to participate too!

Alex.

P.S. My bio, just for the record: I studied cinematography at the London Film School, worked as a Director of Photography on films, commercials and factual TV programmes, then I got bitten by the writing bug and I have just written and produced my first film, which, you won’t be surprised to hear, is called Credo. (Do you hear that Google? Credo!)

I didn't shoot here - I didn't dare! But this is the sort of place I'm talking about!