FILMING LOCATIONS
Roscoe, NY
A great location to shoot the film would be in Upstate, NY in and around the town of Roscoe, otherwise known as “The Greatest Fishing Town”. Roscoe is located just over 2 hrs northwest of New York City.
Besides the fact that this small country town has the perfect look and feel, one of the biggest things we have going for us in having this production there is that co-producer Lou Farragher grew up in this town. It also doesn’t hurt that Lou was a local sports hero in basketball and football for the town of Roscoe. Lou knows EVERYONE in town, so they will welcome this indie film with open arms.
Lou is the cousin of Rob Reilly as well as the other half of cineMOOK films. Rob and Lou have shot several productions in and around the area.
HOUSING
There are several Bed & Breakfasts in and around the area for the actors. There are also the J&S Creekside Cabins which some might enjoy staying at. And these cabins are located directly across from the end of Main Street in Roscoe. It doesn’t get more convenient than that!
Take a look HERE
For the crew, we are thinking we’ll have them all together at the 26-room motel which is adjacent and part of the Rockland House. All rooms have tv and internet. Owners Tom and Marea Roseo have recently upgraded the motel. We can also plan our production meetings, breakfast and any fun downtime activities in the Rockland House Banquet room.
Crystal Lake, NY - We also have full access to 14,000 acres of private property in Crystal Lake, NY, which is is located one hr south of Roscoe. This would be the perfect location to shoot the opening car crash, when the character Mike is wandering lost in the woods for days, as well as the sinking of the Sheriff’s vehicle with him inside after his death.
ABOVE: Rob Reilly rock repelling in Chrystal Lake, NY.
ABOVE: Rob Reilly, Lou Farragher, Phillip Ennis shooting in Chrystal Lake, NY. with Pablo Barrera and Edward Kostakis from Xizmo Media
Shohola, PA
Rohman’s Inn
THE SEVEN-BAY PORCH OF ROHMAN’S Inn and Pub faces away from the rest of the unincorporated village of Shohola—its handful of homes; its post office, bank, and church; and its 25 or so other buildings. It’s as if the grand old hotel realizes how poorly it fits into this remote area in northeast Pennsylvania. Originally built in 1849, the two-and-a-half-story wood-frame building stopped functioning as an inn at least 40 years ago. But Rohman’s Pub, on the first, basement-level floor, is still a fixture for contractors and retirees who come to play pool, use the jukebox, and order freshly-squeezed screwdrivers at the 54-foot wooden Brunswick bar. “We have a good local base, anywhere from regular beer drinkers to shot drinkers,” a bartender tells me on a winter day. “Nothing too fancy schmancy.”
For more than 100 years, through different owners, iterations, and major fires, Rohman’s has somehow survived in Shohola. It was once one of dozens of hotels and boarding houses that served visitors of a long-disappeared tourist attraction called Shohola Glen, where New Yorkers came to ride the incredible Gravity Railroad and explore Hell Gate, Terror Grotto, and other natural attractions. Some of America’s most important cultural icons stayed as guests; so did survivors of a great Civil War train wreck. But today almost everything that once drew hundreds of thousands of people to Shohola is buried by forest and flood, abandoned to the elements. Only Rohman’s remains.
Shohola, PA is located 56 miles south of Roscoe and 24 miles from Crystal Lake, NY.
We can make Rohman’s Inn the Train Station where Mike tries to get out of dodge before he is eventually grabbed up by the police. The tracks are only for freight but no one will ever know.
If possible, we need to add a scene in this bar with those awesome bar stools and the four-lane, bowling alley where you rack your own pins.
Ghost Town - Parksville, NY
Located in the town of Liberty, New York, Parksville garnered substantial attention at the turn of the 20th century with the establishment of The Ontario & Western Railway (O&W). The O&W provided easy and direct transportation to the picturesque Catskill region, where the industry was booming and tycoons were building stately summer homes and hotels. Today, visitors to Parksville will find a quiet, withered town of mostly abandoned buildings.
This location certainly goes a long way to show a struggling area. When Mike is wandering for days in the woods he could happen upon this abandoned town, before eventually landing at Natie and Danny’s front door. Their home, which also shows their financial difficulties, is on the outskirts of the main town.