The underwater scenes were planned to be shot underwater in an Oxfordshire lake, in the UK. On the day of shooting, attempts were made to enter the lake but it was discovered the amount of silt at the bottom was so deep, the shoot would become dangerous. Th underwater scenes were eventually shot in the sea at a Southern England seaside town, and even then... the fates were against the cast as it was a cold sea, pouring with rain and very cold. The only people in the sea that day were the crew and cast and onlookers thought them mad.
A quiet location was allocated for the meeting between the doctor and the Detective, Martin. A pub in a quiet village in England at 11.00 am on a Sunday morning. It turned out to be a very noisy location with people cycling through the village asking if the pub was open, local birds deciding to pitch up and sing to their friends - curious at what was going on... and then flights of jet planes flying over from a local airshow display, and a lost dog turning up looking for help. The conversation was filmed and recorded with many tens of stops, re-starts and piecing part sentences in mid-flow.
The sexual dungeon scene is a real location used by wealthy people for their 'recreation'. The cast and crew had 4 hours absolute to set up, film, and leave, with no planning. The main actor Kemal Yildirin, a film maker and director too, filmed the 'Dead' guy, who was actually the director of the film playing an extra.
The film was stylised to be 'cross-genre'. Instead of a straight 'who-done-it' detective murder mystery, the film combines the narrow genre with that of 'a ghost story' and slight erotica. The film-makers [Onview Films] is a disruptive entity which produces movies deliberately creating new ideas into the film genre and believes the genre classification of films destroys the novelty of surprise.
The Lorelei, although inspired by the German myth and fable, came about due to a UK TV production (a play) a few decades which remained in the writer's imagination. The play featured a small rural hotel/guest house by the name of The Lorelei, where an extraordinary moment happens to a school teacher. The writer up until the time of writing the film had no idea of what the 'Lorelei' meant.