I hope everyone had a nice Valentine's Day. Me? I ended up watching the movie, Devil's Pond. This was not exactly a romantic Valentine Day type of movie."What starts out as a romantic honeymoon on a lonely island turns into a horrible nightmare as Julianne discovers that her new husband is psychotic."
This was a straight-to-video movie so I didn't expect much from it. But to my surprise it was better than I expected. Even though there were a few choices by the movie characters that weren't entirely realistic, and Tara Reid can't act that well, it was a solid movie nonetheless.
The movie was filmed in and around my hometown of Kalispell, MT by a small movie company. I had tried out for a part as an extra for the wedding scene that opens the movie but didn't get hired. The movie company was mainly looking for people in their 20s as they would be closer in age to the couple getting married. I was no way close to being in my 20s. Oh well, the wedding scene is very brief and the audience (extras) in the church were only seen for about 10 seconds.
The church used was the United Methodist Church, which is located in downtown Kalispell near the county library. The filming at the church was done on a Saturday. I had seen the movie stuff outside the church as filming was going on inside it.
The Montana lake used for the lake and island is between Kalispell and Libby.
Other than the wedding scene in the beginning, and a short montage of driving scenes to the lake, the rest of the movie takes place at the lake and island, and only involves the couple. It was fun to see the landscape in the driving scenes as this is how the area looks west of Kalispell.
The Devil's Pond movie's working title was Heaven's Pond. For those of us who remember the movie Heaven's Gate, which was filmed in and around Kalispell back in 1979, and which was a disaster that brought down the United Artists movie studio, Heaven's Pond was a bad name for a movie filmed in Kalispell.
Update based on a comment: images of Horseshoe Lake near Happy's Inn, Montana.
4 comments:
Thanks for sharing this information. I'm a big fan of the movie and always wondered where it was filmed. LMN aired Devil's Pond about once every three months in 2012 and now, in 2013 I've not seen it on the schedule once and they removed their information page about this movie. So I'm disappointed with them and hope enough people will write and complain, to bring it back. It's a fun movie to watch!
I believe the lake was Horseshoe lake or Leon Lake around Happy's Inn MT. Fun fact, the set was purposefully set on fire when the local man who chartered the actors and their gear to the small island decided the film makers weren't paying him enough. Not a lot of damage but it must've given them a scare because they doubled his pay.
Great movie. i live in libby mt. and it was filmed at horseshoe lake.. most beautiful lake i have ever seen in person. water so clear its as clear as the water that come out of ur kitchen facet
Ispent many many manyand many nights on horse shoe lake beautiful water and the shape of the lake i:ve been on that water with my moter raft i know the lake like the back of my hand as thy say the cabin was on horse she lake i camped one night there with family camped on shore we used to stop and sit in the shade on the island i used to work at happys inn yrs ago i have family in libby and all of my family and friend all used to have campimg at my beautifulhores lake i wish it was like it was back then sad to see now days but still beautiful
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