Award-winning director Neill Blomkamp managed to shoot, produce and release a movie all in the South Okanagan over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The indie-budget horror film 鈥楧emonic鈥� started production around the time COVID shut everything down last April.
Blomkamp, who directed the critically acclaimed movies 鈥楧istrict 9鈥� and 鈥楨lysium,鈥� told the Los Angeles Daily News that the pandemic allowed him to work on the film that he originally planned to shoot in New Mexico.
He added that he鈥檚 always wanted to work on a small-budget horror film along the lines of 鈥楶aranormal Activity鈥� or 鈥楾he Blair Witch Project,鈥� two low-budget horror films well known within the horror movie community.
Blomkamp, who recently moved from Vancouver to the Okanagan, said it was a nice return to his roots filming Demonic and that it probably isn鈥檛 a bad thing for filmmakers to oscillate between high- and low-budget productions.
Demonic was released August 20 on Amazon Prime Video and AppleTV.
READ MORE:
clayton.whitelaw@pentictonwesternnews.com
Want to support local journalism? Make a donation
