Film Crew Shoots Scenes for Suspense Thriller in Vegreville

Film Crew Shoots Scenes for Suspense Thriller in Vegreville

Michelle Pinon

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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, the RCMP will put out a notice looking for this fellow. He developed the story to be about an inner-city family whose grandmother is raising her two grandchildren.

“Her granddaughter is living a high-risk lifestyle and she gets abducted by the serial killer and on the way to find her and try to rescue her the grandson, whose never had any strong male influence in his life he goes through a series of initiations and rituals and not of his own choice that help transform him into a man he is ready to fight the killer when he finds the suspect.”

After studying serial killers, he began to develop a multi-dimensional character to make him human. Because sometimes it’s easy to make them a two-dimensional character, a monster. This guy is a monster but where he came from and why is he a monster and why does he do these things. So that was a very important part of the script and the movie.

Foreman admits he’s been working on the script for longer than he’s cared to, nine years, and appeared happy to see the crew getting their Actors in the suspense thriller “Abducted” during the first day of filming of the movie in Vegreville. (Kristin Breitkreutz/Submitted Photo) equipment set up and ready for filming in the police department Sept. 5.

As to how Vegreville came to be one of the locations for shooting the movie, Foreman explained that it was recommended by someone he knew who had shot another movie in Vegreville. “We were very fortunate to find this decommissioned police station in Vegreville and the Vista Hotel, and some roads, which was very convenient for us being only an hour away from Edmonton.”

Sharlene Millang is the lead producer of the Alberta made independent movie. “Vegreville has been amazing with their welcome. It’s really refreshing because we’ve been in some places where they’re very concerned about a film crew coming in, and they tend to put up roadblocks you can’t film there, but everyone has been warm and open and friendly, above and beyond, especially Mike van der Torre. He’s helped us find obscure locations in the town limits that we were looking for.

The company is aiming to have a small theatrical release of the movie in March or April of 2021.