Reverence. A film by C. A. Passinault. (C) Copyright 2002 Dream Nine Studios.

The Official Reverence Motion Picture Web Site

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.