An attractive village was picked for the shooting of a psychological horror film because of its "other-worldly look," according to a production company.
One of two Suffolk villages transformed into an English suburb for the Netflix movie The Strays is Lavenham.
Ashley Madekwe plays a woman in the film whose life starts to fall apart when two strangers show up in her community.
Filming took place in the fall of 2021, according to Jim Horsfield of Screen Suffolk, which assisted with location sourcing.
The main setting for the BritBox drama Magpie Murders was Kersey, another Suffolk location used in The Strays.
Several days of the production saw the main square at Lavenham and Kersey High Street closed.
Lavenham was chosen because of its "other-worldly look," according to Mr. Horsfield, out of "a fantastic range of beautiful villages in Suffolk.".
With more than 300 listed buildings, Lavenham is one of England's best-preserved medieval villages and owes its prosperity to the wool industry.
Cloth-making enabled nearby Kersey to prosper at the same time.
The funding for Screen Suffolk comes from the Suffolk County Council, West Suffolk Council, Ipswich Borough Council, Babergh and Mid Suffolk Council, and East Suffolk Council. It is described as "a one-stop shop for all things screening.".
Since it was founded in 2016, the county has hosted more than 1,000 days of filming, including The Dig, The Personal History of David Copperfield, and the Christmas 2022 episode of the BBC drama Detectorists.
