LIVERPOOL’S historic Victoria Gallery has inspired a horror film based on tales of its ghosts and ghouls.

A budding film producer hoping to be the next Tarantino has produced a short film after he spent some time in the building’s Tate Hall.

Reportedly home to a servant ghost, the hall – complete with its thick Jacobean wooden panelling and original features – inspired Tom Blackham to make Editor Wanted.

Mr Blackham, who heads up Liverpool’s River Media, said: “We work closely with the university and do a bit of filming for them. One project we were working on took us to the Victoria Gallery and Museum before it was restored and opened to the public.

“They had discovered a large scale model of a horse in one of the rooms and wanted us to film it in the room and how it was restored.

“We were shooting in the room when we heard rumours of the ghost of a servant that would dwell in the former offices and haunt the building.

“I didn’t see any ghosts, but it was when I went back to my editor and told him the rumours I joked that I wondered if we’d captured anything on tape.”

The 26-year-old graduate, from John Moores University, said: “I began to develop this idea into a short horror film that focused on an editor working alone after hours.

“She looks at a tape that appears to show her a mirror image of the office she is working in, until finally she becomes completely absorbed by it and trapped by the spirit drawing her in.”

He added: “Filming at the building during its redevelopment was very inspiring, as we were able to see artefacts that the university was restoring and displaying for the very first time.

“The wooden panelling in the Tate Hall was particularly impressive and had survived a great fire, before becoming part of an office at the university.

“Despite the room being almost empty when we were filming, it still had a great sense of history and memory.”