In front of large computer screens and a focused film crew, a woman in a white dress walked up to a Wooster Square brownstone pretending to be New York City.
She reached the top of the entrance. Before she could open the door and walk inside, she stopped, turned, and walked back down the stairs — ready to repeat those moves again and again, as part of a new horror movie being filmed in part in New Haven.
That was the scene, so to speak, on a closed-off block of Chapel Street between DePalma Court and Wooster Place Tuesday morning.
A set of brownstones reminiscent of a New York City neighborhood were surrounded by a film crew, part of a Connecticut-based company called Chair 10 Productions.
The actors and directors and cameramen and security guards and dozens of other film-crew participants had come to New Haven for the day to work on the horror-thriller movie “The Monster.”
According to the film’s iMDB page, the movie is about “two millennials who flip NY apartments they don’t own to new buyers who don’t know they are being scammed. The con works brilliantly until they run into an apartment owner with a dark secret who flips the game on them.”