by Psychic's eerie message from Scots' director's dead sister inspires new horror film 'Dreaded Light'
A NEW Scots horror movie launched on Amazon has been inspired by a chilling spirit world contact from the director's dead sister.
Dreaded Light, which was shot in Scotland has at its heart an encounter director Mark MacNicol's mother had with a psychic medium who had had contact with a lost loved one.
The Scots director made the film after his mother Janis agreed he could use her real-life medium encounter as inspiration for his fictional feature film.
Mr MacNicol, the writer and director of the movie, revealed his mum was approached by a stranger who told her she was a medium and had a message from her eldest child.
Janis explained her eldest was Mr MacNicol and was very much alive.
But the medium responded that the message was from Angela, the name of a baby Janis had the year before Mr MacNicol was born and who sadly did not survive.
According to the medium, Angela wanted Mr MacNicol to know he had a big sister and guardian angel in the spirit world.
Mr MacNicol said he was 15 when his mother was approached by the medium.
“The medium claimed they had a message from a baby my mum lost the year before I was born. Mum spent four days in a coma and when she woke up discovered her baby was dead," he said.
“The medium said Angela wanted to let me know I have a big sister in the spirit world, that she’s my guardian angel and is always watching over me. "The idea of the baby growing up in the spirit world, and me having a big sister, the idea of continuation of spirit after physical death has never made me uncomforable. “My hope is that this film will cater for both fans of horror and spiritualists who care about the subject matter being handled with authenticity and sensitivity."
The film's director, Mark MacNicol says he did not think people talk about spiritualism enough.
The movie team have had more than 50 readings done by spiritualist and psychic medium to get an understanding of the subject matter for the movie.
The director said that as a result of this and other extensive research in the field, it hoped the film was "authentic" in the way it handles the themes of spirit and spiritualism.
"Ultimately this is a feature film, not a documentary, it will explore themes, spiritualism is one of them," he said.
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