My Bloody Valentine 3-D
It’s the classic horror film setting: A quiet small town with its storefronts, alleys and police station providing the backdrop for a crazed killer’s spree of murder, mayhem and wreaking havoc on unsuspecting residents.
Those sites have caught the eye of moviemakers who spent Tuesday scouting locations in Kittanning and Ford City and at area coal mines for the filming of their movie, “My Bloody Valentine 3-D.”
The Lionsgate Production movie is a remake of a 1981 Hollywood slasher flick about a madman who preys on a town on Valentine’s Day.
The Hollywood movie crew will be shooting some of the scenes for the film next month on the streets of Kittanning, on the Kittanning Bridge, at Sprankle’s Market in Kittanning and the Ford City police station, outside the Logansport Mine in Bethel and inside the Tour-Ed Mine in Fawn, Allegheny County.
Production begins May 11 in Kittanning. The schedule has film crews in Ford City on May 15. The movie is to be released next January.
According to producers, Armstrong County has exactly what they are looking for.
“Our story is in a small rural town,” said Jack Murray, executive producer. “Kittanning and Ford City are beautiful small towns. This whole area is very scenic, and yet it’s got a nice peaceful quality about it.”
On Tuesday a busload of about 40 movie producers, directors and technicians arrived and walked through the two communities checking out buildings, measuring things and doing a lot of pointing.
It was their last chance to look over locations before filming starts next month.
“We’re scouting,” Murray said. “This is all of our technical crew and they’re looking at things like where we would put up a light, where would the cables go, where do we park all the trucks. We’re a sprawling bunch.”
The cast and crew will number more than 100 during the week of shooting.
“It’s a good way to promote the borough,” said Ford City Councilman Tom Shaffer. “The crews will be visiting restaurants and other businesses. It will be a good stimulus for people and good for businesses.”
Kittanning will be prepared for the short movie-making stay, according to borough council president Gerald Shuster.
“The community is responding exceedingly well to what they’ve asked us to do,” Shuster said.
Shuster said arrangements are being made to park about 40-50 production equipment vehicles around town.
In addition, PennDOT and Kittanning police are cooperating with the movie company on the closing of one lane of the Kittanning Bridge for filming on Mother’s Day, May 11, he said.
“My Bloody Valentine 3-D” will be the third major movie shot in the county. Previously, “Silence of the Lambs” and “The Mothman Prophecies” filmed scenes here.
“They told us that “Mothman” brought them back,” Shuster said of the movie made partly in Kittanning several years ago. “They said the area was a great place to be in for making a movie.”
“There will be a lot of excitement here again,” Shuster said.
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