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september 16, 2020
Film Crew Shoots Scenes for Suspense Thriller in Vegreville
Michelle Pinon News Advertiser Filming of the feature movie Abducted took place during the September long weekend in Vegreville. The decommissioned RCMP detachment and the Vista Motel were two of the locations Edmonton based Horned Serpent Productions selected for filming of the suspense thriller. Writer and Producer Daniel Foreman said the movie is about a serial killer hunting at-risk women in Edmonton for 25 years. Occasionally, Actors in the suspense thriller “Abducted” during the first day of filming of the movie in Vegreville. (Kristin Breitkreutz/Submitted Photo) the RCMP will put out a notice looking equipment set up and ready for filming in the for this fellow. He developed the story to be about an inner-city family whose grandmother police department Sept. 5. As to how Vegreville came to be one of the locais raising her two grandchildren. “Her granddaughter is living a high-risk lifestyle tions for shooting the movie, Foreman explained and she gets abducted by the serial killer and on that it was recommended by someone he knew the way to find her and try to rescue her the who had shot another movie in Vegreville. “We grandson, whose never had any strong male influ- were very fortunate to find this decommissioned ence in his life he goes through a series of initia- police station in Vegreville and the Vista Hotel, tions and rituals and not of his own choice that and some roads, which was very convenient for us help transform him into a man he is ready to fight being only an hour away from Edmonton.” Sharlene Millang is the lead producer of the the killer when he finds the suspect.” After studying serial killers, he began to develop Alberta made independent movie. “Vegreville has a multi-dimensional character to make him been amazing with their welcome. It’s really refreshhuman. Because sometimes it’s easy to make them ing because we’ve been in some places where they’re a two-dimensional character, a monster. This guy very concerned about a film crew coming in, and is a monster but where he came from and why is they tend to put up roadblocks you can’t film there, he a monster and why does he do these things. So but everyone has been warm and open and friendly, that was a very important part of the script and above and beyond, especially Mike van der Torre. He’s helped us find obscure locations in the town the movie. Foreman admits he’s been working on the script limits that we were looking for. The company is aiming to have a small theatrifor longer than he’s cared to, nine years, and appeared happy to see the crew getting their cal release of the movie in March or April of 2021.
