Horror movie being filmed in Cranston

CRANSTON, R.I. (WPRI) - Hollywood returns to Rhode Island this week as a local production shoots its latest film starring a horror film legend and a Cranston landmark.

Verdi Corrente productions is turning the old police station in Cranston into a horror show. Postal worker Carl Duprey won a screen writing contest with a wonderfully horrific script.

Horror screen legend Robert Englund of Freddie Krueger fame plays the lead role, a demon named Inkubus as in the title who wants to destroy the cop who almost caught him.

"I just couldn't believe it. To win the contest and then to have him in the movie. I hit the roof." said Duprey

And of course film making is a boost to the scary economy. Behind the scene techs are put to work. Catering companies and other local businesses get the spin off dollars.

Producer Michael Corrente tells us It would not happen here without the state's film tax credit.

"Without the tax credit we would be making it somewhere across the border like massachusetts or connecticut" said Corrente.