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The thinking behind Ghosts’ 10pm watershed

Perhaps the most striking thing about Ghosts is that it can only be played once a day, at 10pm local time. This limit can, of course, be circumvented, using external means that will be familiar to Animal Crossing time travellers, or using an in-game setting hidden behind a puzzle. What’s important, though, is what it signifies for players. Shepherd invokes the concept of “event television”, mentioning the buzz Lost garnered in its day. “That sharing of information made the show richer,” he says. “I want that. If you fail, then tomorrow you’ll be able to do it again, but with more information you can research throughout the day.”

Shepherd has a busy slate – he’s got multiple projects in the works with Blumhouse, he says, one with StudioCanal, and one with Sam Raimi

ABOVE The Ghosts cast. Clockwise from top left: Haley Bishop, Caroline Ward, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb, Radina Drandova. RIGHT Our first glimpse of the horrifying Long Lady, apparently taken from “a discarded phone that was found” in this part of south London