Alec Secareanu and Carla Juri in Amulet
(Picture: film handout)It was the spring when I sat down to write my first horror film. Every time I looked up from my blood splattered script I was presented with the stark tonal shift of a blue sky fringed with cherry blossom. I was also pregnant – a time when perhaps I could have been enjoying some peaceful, inactive unemployed days before the arrival of my second child. But instead, and in fact this always happens, I was chained to my desk in a hive of frantic creative activity, knowing it would be God knows how long before I’d be allowed this mental space again.
I didn’t know what I was going to write when I sat down to write Amulet, my first feature film, to be released next week. This script is the first and only time I’ve ever done anything that was a version of free-writing – basically just sitting down and seeing what comes out. As it turned out what came out was a lot of deeply held emotions, thoughts and fears; the bin juice of my mind.
