The Official Reverence Motion Picture Web Site
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Cast, Filmed and Produced in Tampa Bay, Florida
REVERENCE
DREAM NINE STUDIOS IN ASSOCIATION WITH PIXEL BOYS AND DEEP 6 STUDIOS PRESENTS A C. A. PASSINAULT FILM "REVERENCE"  ROXANNE KOWALSKA  JOY NASH  JANE PARK  ERIN WHITEHEAD  JASON LUGAUSKAS  JENNIFER CURRY-DELEO  KEVIN HENTKOWSKI AND LAURA LOWIE NARVAEZ  MUSIC BY MICHAEL BOYNTON  DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY MAGNUM  ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY RON CARTER AUDIO/ FOLEY SUPERVISOR ALLISON JOHNSON  EDITOR MAGNUM  CONTINUITY/ SCRIPT SUPERVISOR KRISTI LYKES  EXECUTIVE PRODUCER C. A. PASSINAULT  STORY BY C. A. PASSINAULT  SCREENPLAY BY C. A. PASSINAULT AND RACHEL EAGLIN  DIRECTED BY C. A. PASSINAULT
Introduction
The Reverence Revelation
"Dearly
beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life.
Electric word life; it means forever, and that's a mighty long time.......
But I'm here to tell you, there's something else.
The afterworld."
The first lines of Prince's song "Let's go crazy", 1984.
It all
started back in 1993. Writer and Director C. A. Passinault, who was studying
directing, television production, and editing skills through the University
of Tampa, was in the process of working out the treatment for a television series
called Futura. During the creative process, he came up with an idea for a custom
music video based around Princes' hit 80's song "Let's go crazy."
He toyed with it, but did little to go ahead with production of the video. In
1994, while waiting on his brother to return home, he killed some time by walking
through a graveyard, looking at the names and pondering the lives of people
long forgotten. On that day, he had discovered not only a premise for his own
life, but one for a movie, too.
Reverence started out as a small fifteen to twenty minute idea of a film. Called
Bloody Mary in 1994, it would have been about a group of sorority girls spending
the night in an abandoned house that was in the middle of a graveyard. Of course,
the fraternity guys would pay them a visit, too, and the ghost of Bloody Mary
would wreak havoc with all of them after the girls unleashed her from a closet
with an old mirror. A classic B movie set up, the story would have been simple,
and if filmed in that time would have been shot on 3/4 inch video tape.
The idea, of course, was shelved, to be dusted off in early 1999. In 2000, a
new treatment was underway, and the story grew. The first thing to go was the
abandoned house, which would have been more appropriate as the caretakers residence
in his old story "Grave Digger". Without the house, the idea of a
mirror, and even Bloody Mary, no longer made any sense. With the discovery that
another company was doing something called Bloody Mary, and the confusion that
it almost caused in the local entertainment community as work continued, the
film treatment was renamed Reverence in 2001. Major overhauls were done to the
story line.
One of his few projects that were more hard work than inspiration, Reverence
took on some elements that would make it a very unique film, if not overly ambitious
for a debut project. Realizing that the format of sending a group of girls to
a graveyard to get killed was both shallow and overdone, major elements were
added. The politics of the sorority were added, along with a larger back story
that eclipsed the initiation gone wrong. Another element was taking responsibility
for what happened in the storyline, which is often neglected in most films.
With another philosophy of well developed characters, and virtually no minor
character roles (see the story section of this site for another angle), the
script was shaping up to be a massive effort.
Ultimately, Reverence took over a year to write. It was clear to the first team
of actors to read the 170 page Beta 3 draft that this was a different breed
of horror movie, written in the vein of a psychological thriller. The script
did not include any exploitive elements or contexts, making the endeavor career
friendly, and the ending of the story proved to be both original and controversial.
Reverence was the first horror film for the thinking person, and catered to
intelligence as well as emotion.
Dream Nine Studios, the motion picture production company of the Passinault
Entertainment Group, had a real challenge finding good actors to fill the character
roles in the script. So, in mid 2001, the Passinault Entertainment Group came
up with the tough R2 audition series for all of its many companies and projects.
After three auditions, the best actors in Florida were cast to portray some
very special characters, and you'll get the chance to get to know these remarkable
professionals within this site.
Welcome to the official Reverence motion picture web site. While we won't give
away and story secrets, or trade secrets, we have included tons of information
that no one has seen before. We hope that you enjoy the site as much as you
will enjoy the movie when it is released. Feel free to use the menu at the top
of this site to explore its many secrets.