Private screening held for inaugural Columbus Filmmaker Grant top prize: It Wants Nightmares

by Jordan Massey, Contributing Writer, Georgia Entertainment

The red carpet premiere of It Wants Nightmares was held on the evening of Friday, October 17 at the National Infantry Museum’s IMAX Theater by Last Caress Productions. “Almost 90% of our cast and crew are local from the Chattahoochee Valley area,” said Co-Writer, Director and Producer Paul Rowe. “The rest of them come from Atlanta and a little bit up north from Tennessee […], but that’s our focus.”

Rowe described the film as a suspense genre, stating that it centers around a young woman named Adelaide who is “compelled” to find this computer from the early 1980s. “It is clad in metal, it’s a very ominous looking thing to begin with,” he added. “It wants her to record stories for certain reasons…So you gotta come and watch the film to find out why.”

Paul Rowe is one of four local writers involved in this production–among Andy Carpenter, Shavonne R. Johnson, and Andrew Gray. It took the team about eight months to complete the project from development all the way to wrapping, with Rowe adding that post-production took a total of about six months.

All of the locations in the film were shot in east Alabama, Columbus, or the Chattahooche Valley, including prominent locations such as the Chattahoochee RiverWalk and the Columbus “Rainbow Tunnel”. The film also received the top prize for the inaugural Columbus Film Fund Local Filmmakers Grant, and Rowe stated the team was “over the moon with it.”