{"id":880346,"date":"2026-10-13T02:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T02:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/880346\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T02:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T02:10:17","slug":"horror-film-shot-in-kankakee-comes-to-big-screen-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/880346\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror film shot in Kankakee comes to big screen \u2013 Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"

A horror film directed by a Clifton native filmmaker and shot in the Kankakee<\/a> area will come to the big screen next month.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the Night Falls,\u201d the debut feature film of 2018 Clifton Central High School graduate Andrew Lamping, will be screened at 5 p.m. Nov. 7 and 5 p.m. Nov. 14 at the Mar Theatre in Wilmington<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The film was shot across Kankakee, Clifton, Chebanse, Limestone and Wilmington in March 2024. <\/p>\n

The film has been acquired by the Allen Media Group and is slated for national streaming and DVD release on Jan. 22.<\/p>\n

Specifics are still being determined for the release.<\/p>\n

But anyone who wants to watch it sooner can catch it at the historic theater in Wilmington next month.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just really hope that people see that we did right by the community,\u201d Lamping said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe showed everything in a good light, and the fact that people can see their hometown and places they grew up in, hopefully on a big streaming service soon, is exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Andrew<\/p>\n

Filmmaker Andrew Lamping (submitted)<\/p>\n

A private premiere for those involved in the production was held at the Wilmington theater last year.<\/p>\n

The upcoming screenings will give the greater community a chance to see it.<\/p>\n

When choosing to film in the Kankakee area, Lamping said he knew a lot of business owners in the community would welcome the production with open arms.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe could sit around for another 10 years waiting for someone to eventually give us permission to make a movie for a script we wrote, or we could just write one based in Clifton,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Many in the cast and crew were born and raised in Kankakee County<\/a>. <\/p>\n

It was a rarity for them to not have to travel to Chicago<\/a> to be involved in a film production, Lamping noted.<\/p>\n

Production cost around $20,000, he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we show people the movie, they think we raised hundreds of thousands to make it just based off the quality and ability we had to be resourceful,\u201d Lamping said.<\/p>\n

Starring Anthony Louis (\u201cThe Bear\u201d) and Austin Parsons (\u201c97 Minutes\u201d), the film follows a determined small-town sheriff in a race against time to find two missing boys. Unknown to him, a young woman has secretly taken in one of the boys, desperate to shield him from a horrific curse that transforms him after dark.<\/p>\n

Directed by Lamping, founder of Lamping Media, the film is produced by Blain Smith. The director of photography is Kal Kociss.<\/p>\n

Smith, a Bourbonnais<\/a>-based filmmaker and 2005 graduate of Bradley-Bourbonnais<\/a> Community High School, said the production was a highly collaborative effort with \u201clots of love\u201d put into it.<\/p>\n

The goal, Smith said, is to inspire more filmmakers to create things in Kankakee.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a lot of people from the surrounding area coming together,\u201d Smith said. \u201cI think we did something cool in Kankakee, and we\u2019re trying to do more and more of this, just to bring film production to the area.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A horror film directed by a Clifton native filmmaker and shot in the Kankakee area will come to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,234184,292711,983,206,3,57420,369907],"class_list":["post-880346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-kankakee","tag-kankakee-county-front-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-wilmington","tag-wilmington-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}