Film Work
Moran scripted the 2005 film Severance, which concerns office workers on a team building trip being stalked by a masked killer. Talking about where the idea for Severance came from, Moran said "I'd been trying to think of a good horror idea, and one day had a really bad commute home – yuppies in pinstripe suits were everywhere, pushing past me, jumping the queue, and generally being the ignorant scumbags that they are. So, in a flash of temper, I decided to kill off some yuppies in a horror – take them to a cabin, and pick them off one by one. Once I'd calmed down, I thought that was a pretty good idea – take some standard, British office types, and throw them into a cabin-in-the-woods horror, see how they react. And it developed from there."
On 28 April 2009, the BBC reported that the murder of a 17-year-old student from Norfolk was a re-enactment of a scene written by Moran from the film Severance.
Moran had two features released in 2012: a horror-comedy called Cockneys Vs Zombies, which was shot in March and April 2011 and promised to be "every bit as ridiculous as its title suggests", and a thriller called Tower Block, which was shot in July and August 2011. Tower Block was the closing film at 2012's FrightFest film festival.
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