Netflix’s new ghost hunting series Lockwood & Co. does not rely on jump scares, says director Joe Cornish

Ghost stories and jump scares often go hand in hand, but Joe Cornish didn’t want his new Netflix series “Lockwood & Co.” to rely too heavily on that particular device. Based on Jonathan Stroud’s book series of the same name, the show is set during a ghost pandemic. Follows a group of three teenagers (played by Ruby Stokes, Cameron Chapman. Ali Hadji Heshmati) who make up London’s only adult-free ghost-hunting agency The film depicts. Cornish, best known for directing John Boyega’s breakout 2011 film Attack the Block, wrote and directed…

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