Summary
IT WAS when Edinburgh animation duo Neil Jack and Cameron Fraser were driving to Glasgow to meet the BBC that Fraser came up with an idea for a short film set in the dark, dank bowels of Edinburgh. "It happened somewhere around Harthill," says Jack, who set up Ko Lik in a former whisky warehouse in Leith three years ago with Fraser who, at 47, is 20 years his senior. They certainly didn't expect the BBC to like their idea so much that they would end up commissioning it as a half-hour special to be shown this New Year's eve.
Haunted Hogmanay, which features the voices of Alex Norton and Peter Capaldi, is a charming stop-frame animation following an amateur ghost-hunter (Capaldi) and his egomaniacal step-brother (Norton) as they venture beneath the streets of Edinburgh's Old Town on Hogmanay to sniff out the spirit of Morag Lachlan Maclachlan, a devilish poltergeist and one-time whisky smuggler.See the full content of this document
Extract
Getting Animated Over Edinburgh's Ghosts
"He's one of those terrible, enthusiastic people," says Taggart star Norton of his character, Thurston McCondry. "As soon as I read the script, I t...
See the full content of this document
Sponsored links
