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All right everybody, welcome to The Sincast. This is Chris Atkinson from CinemaSense,

joined by Jonathan Watkins. Hello, hello. And today we have a very special guest,

its director, Christopher Smith, who's movie The Banishing, comes out on VOD and Digital on November

2nd. Christopher, welcome. Hello. Thanks for having me. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks for coming on.

I was wondering, how did you get involved with this project? It was about three years ago. I was

just finishing off, I was trying to raise money on another film, which I'm now shooting.

And we just couldn't get the script where we wanted it. And then someone said that there's

this film, it's I think you might like it. And so it started that way. It was definitely more of a

traditional ghost story based upon the Harry Price hauntings that at the time was a story

that's quite familiar in the UK. I was more intrigued by the period. I was intrigued by the

fact the film was set in the 30s and felt that because of the whole rise of fascism and also

with what was going on politically in the world at the time, in America and both here with Brexit,

I just wanted to, I just didn't like the idea of making a film about the works from the

premise of the good old days, the good old days of the UK. And when in actual fact, it was a

period of, you know, judgment, it was a judgmental period. It was the rise of fascism happening.

It was one of the darkest periods. But for some reason, which shows like Downton Abbey and everything,

you end up with this kind of very vanilla kind of world view of what was actually a terrible period.

And it's why we, you know, I just have no idea why we keep coming back to these stories and

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