MPB
Well-known member
you did.
and i agree with you. either the owners of the property are amenable, or they aren't. i don't see any reason to assume that they won't be. we're talking about shooting a scene, not sacrificing virgins.
Filming in a church?
- Thread starter Azmyth
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you did.
and i agree with you. either the owners of the property are amenable, or they aren't. i don't see any reason to assume that they won't be. we're talking about shooting a scene, not sacrificing virgins.
David W. Richardson
Chapelgrove Films
Judging solely by the OP's original post, he's talking about staging all sorts of things that, if they were done for REAL, certainly wouldn't be condoned by any church. For all we know he may very well have a 'virgin sacrifice' scene. Or an orgy scene. And almost certainly some sort of massacre is planned, since he said there would be violence. The fact that it's all 'just for show' won't really matter to a lot of churches, and with good reason. Most won't allow even an imitation of anything sacrilegious or blasphemous. It's not like staging a shootout in a hospital.
My own experiences in various churches leads me to believe that most won't allow even the pretending. A church is a consecrated place, which the members take very seriously.
Azmyth
Veteran
We live in the bible belt.. there is NO way any church near here is going to allow us to do what I want to do in its sanctuary. A woman is raped/tortured there. The fact that its a church is what lends to its sinisterness because its the ultimate "bad deed" in a sense. I'm probably going to wind up having to construct a small set or transform a room into a primitive church and be creative with camera angles. I need to shoot another scene on the outside of a church but its more or less 2 kids walking around it a few times.