A few months ago Joe Cornish posted a video on Instagram of the first film he ever shot, aged 13. It’s a jumpy piece of Super 8 footage, which begins with a wobbly homemade clapperboard and features four of his school friends around a Ouija board “summoning vengeful ghosts”. Next week Cornish, now 54, launches his latest project on Netflix: Lockwood & Co is a new eight-part fantasy adventure series about a group of teenagers summoning — and hunting down — vengeful ghosts.
It’s a curious facet of Cornish’s twisty-turny career — across film, television, comedy and radio — that these synchronicities seem to crop up often, and he delights in them. When he was making Lockwood & Co, he simply channelled his teenage
