When I was first approached to shoot a photo documentary of the making of ‘The Ancient Rite of Corey McGillis’, a short horror film written and directed by Dalibor Backovic, I fell in love with the idea. As a homage to the homagist, Sam Raimi, Backovic had created a script in the classic ‘Zombie’ genre, a tale of revenge that packs in all the exploding squibs, latex masks and fake blood that you could wish for in thirty minutes. In the absence of a war zone this would suit me just fine! Photography by award winning Australian photographer , Lisa Hogben