Movies

A Look at a Very Dark Location for ‘Elm Street’ Shoot

Published

15 years ago

May 22, 2009

B-D reader ‘Burnite’ just tipped us off to an article over at the The Times that reports Freddy Krueger is coming to Gary, Indiana’s City Methodist Church on Friday, and New Line Cinema will use the historic landmark as a backdrop for a handful of scenes for its scheduled 2010 jumpstart of the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. You can read more about the shoot and take a look at the creepy Church beyond the break. Any B-D readers in Gary, IN, feel free to send us an E-mail with photos from behind-the-scenes if you’re able to make it out!
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Don’t forget to E-mail us with photos from the set if you’re able to swing by and snap some spy pics!

The Times continues, “The city and the movie studio were in talks about the location over the past few months, but a decision wasn’t made until recently, said Ben Clement, who serves as executive director of the Gary Office of Film and Television.

Clement, who also serves as economic development and marketing administrator for the city’s empowerment zone, said the city’s board of public works and safety made the film shoot official on Wednesday.

In picking the City Methodist Church — at the intersection of 6th Avenue and Washington Street — the movie studio wanted an architectural style that would fit the story line of the film, and present a grand vision, said Clement. Landing New Line Cinema, he said, involved working with the studio’s production managers, who scout potential locations for a film shoot and lay out the general requirements for any location.

Clement expects between 150 and 200 production trucks, about 200 crew members, bright lights and lots of smoke for special effects used during the night-time shooting, which begins Friday night. And of course the star of the horror franchise — Freddy Krueger — will be on set as well.

“I expect it will bring some people over,” he said. “This is Hollywood.”

New Line is scheduled to returning to Gary in June to shoot on location on Tyler Street, which will be used as the backdrop for a dream sequence that in the film takes place on Elm Street.

This won’t be the first time City Methodist Church has served a backdrop for directors.

Gospel recording artist Dwayne Coleman shot a music video (watch it below) there, and Nobel laureate, Joseph E. Stiglitz used the church as a backdrop in the documentary Around the World with Joseph Stiglitz.

New Line Cinema’s remake of the original Nightmare on Elm Street, directed by Wes Craven in 1984, stars Jackie Earle Haley as Krueger.”

Don’t forget to E-mail us with photos from the set if you’re able to swing by and snap some spy pics!

Movies

‘Monster’ – Indonesian Remake of ‘The Boy Behind the Door’ Heading to Netflix

Published

6 mins ago

April 24, 2024

Meagan Navarro

An Indonesian remake of Justin Powell and David Charbonier’s intense 2021 thriller The Boy Behind the Door, titled Monster, is on its way. Netflix has unveiled images from the twisted thriller ahead of its debut on the streaming service.

In Monster, “After being abducted and taken to a desolate house, a girl sets out to rescue her friend and escape from their malicious kidnapper.”

As of now, Netflix hasn’t set an official date for Monster, only that it’s coming soon.

Monster is directed by Rako Prijanto and written by Alim Sudio. It stars Sultan Hamonangan, Anantya Kirana, Alex Abbad, and Marsha Timothy.

The Boy Behind the Door follows twelve-year-old Bobby and his best friend, Kevin, as they’re abducted from a park. Bobby wakes alone in a trunk and escapes, only to return when he realizes his best friend is still held captive inside a desolate house.

The Indonesian remake gender swaps the ill-fated kids embarking on a harrowing cat-and-mouse chase to escape, but, according to an interview with Kapanlagi, Monster also updates the original story by making one of the main characters mute. Meaning, expect very little dialogue in this update. The change will likely make the horror-thriller even more suspenseful, which is saying a lot considering how intense The Boy Behind the Door is.

I wrote in my review of The Boy Behind the Door that “it gives a unique and intense spin on the home invasion. The constant ratcheting of tension leaves you alternating between edge-of-your-seat panic and cringe-worthy repulsion; this thriller isn’t afraid to put its children through absolute hell.”

Check out new images from Monster below, as well as a tense trailer from the film’s premiere at the Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival last November.

Stay tuned for an official release date as it’s announced, but expect this to arrive on Netflix soon.

Scary woman in Monster