LANCASTER — The cast and crew of a full-length motion picture filming in Pittsburg (N.H. not Penn.) took a detour to the Lancaster area this week and is expecting to return briefly before the end of the month. The group is shooting a horror/thriller titled “Yellowbrickroad” and set in the fictional town of Friar, New Hampshire.

Filming of the few scenes staged in Lancaster shut down Main Street briefly on Monday morning. Traffic was re-routed onto Summer Street while the movie-makers filmed the action outside the Rialto Theatre. By around 10 a.m., when the filming moved inside, normal traffic flow resumed through town. The Rialto is the setting for key parts of the film near the beginning of the story of seven people hunting for a lost trailhead — they find it and then “all sorts of mysterious events befall them,” explained the film’s producer Eric Hungerford. Inside the theatre a concession worker who has lived in Friar all her life helps point the group in the right direction.

“Yellowbrickroad” is the first independent feature film written and directed by Andy Mitton and Jesse Holland. The men both grew up in New England, are avid hikers, and attended college in Middlebury, Vt. According to Eric, the script for the flick was written specifically with New Hampshire’s Great North Woods in mind for the setting.

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