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“When I auditioned, I gave it all I had. They said they’d call us back the next day, but we didn’t hear anything, so I figured I’d chalk it up to good practice for auditioning,” said Bellomy. “When Janie called me several days later and told me I got the part, I collapsed on the floor and screamed ‘no way!’ into the phone so loudly it probably hurt her ears. I was so excited, and at that time I didn’t even realize the scope of the project.”
picture and the wide variety of professionals involved in making a movie come together.
Making Horror Less Scary
“It was a real eye-opener in such a good way. From the director and scriptwriters to makeup artists, set designers, camera operators, lighting, sound... it made me realize that if I want to pursue a career in the film industry, I want to be sure I’m well rounded and have knowledge of the different roles that come together to create a movie,” she explained.
“They’d have fog machines going and you’d hear coyotes off in the distance all the time. You really felt like you were in a creepy movie because you were,” she said. “Since I was acting as the threat, it took away some of the scariness. Plus, a lot of the people on set had found their niche in scary movies and they welcomed me into their club of sorts. When cameras weren’t rolling, it was a fun, positive atmosphere.”
“I get killed off in the very first scene, but then I come back in other episodes through flashbacks,” said Bellomy. “I had to lay there and play dead for hours. It was kind of neat to just peacefully lay there and take in all of the things going on around me that were going into creating that scene. It’s the first time I truly fell in love with film-making.”
Set to premiere on March 9th, The Strangers: Prey at Night was filmed mostly at night on a set created to resemble an abandoned trailer park where a family of four on a road trip stops to sleep for the night. The audience stays on the edge of their seats as Bellomy and two others play masked killers preying on the family in an attempt to murder them before the break of dawn. Cast in the role of “Dollface,” Bellomy said that the camaraderie on set among the cast and crew helped her to separate reality from the frightening storyline they were acting out.
Shooting the film during the summer between high school graduation and her freshman year of college, Bellomy got an education about the inner-workings of film production for a major motion
During the filming of The Strangers: Prey at Night is also when Bellomy got another break, being cast in the series premiere of Smoketown, a miniseries scheduled to air later this month on the Trinity Broadcast Network. Parts of the show were shot in Louisville. The miniseries revolves around a family that operates Smoketown Family Shelter. Set in a poor and racially diverse neighborhood, the plot centers on a mysterious murder and a group of otherwise normal citizens who subsequently develop supernatural powers and fight for justice on behalf of the impoverished community.
She added, The fake blood was a mixture of soap and chocolate. I know it will forever be nostalgic for me and take me right back to that place whenever I smell it.”
“When I auditioned, I gave it all I had... I was so excited, and at that time I didn’t even realize the scope of the project.”
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