If you were driving on Averyville Road at some point in the past several weeks, you might have noticed the red blood splattered all over the road by Dr. Hart’s field on the upper end of the road. At first thought, you might think there must have been some kind of accident or maybe someone hit a deer. But that is not what happened at all. You probably wouldn’t have guessed that the reason for all of the blood was that a horror movie was being filmed earlier on Oct. 3.

Lucky Cerruti, a Lake Placid native, Lake Placid High School Class of 2013, now lives in Brooklyn, New York. A filmmaker, writer and director, he returned to Lake Placid to film his own horror movie.

“This is my third feature with my production company Dead Vision Productions, which was founded in 2018 in New York City,” he said. “And this new movie we are making is called ‘Boxcutter.'”

“Boxcutter” is set to tentatively come out around early next year.

“Spring 2025 is the goal we are shooting for right now,” he said. “We shot a week at Saranac Lake-Gabriels, at the Shamrock, and they had graciously allowed us to kind of take it over for the week. We have had some stuff here, on Averyville, and then we moved to a private house for the last leg of it.”

After all the scenes are shot, then comes the editing process, which sometimes takes a lot longer than the shooting.

“So once its all done (the shooting), I’ll go into a cave somewhere and edit it and hopefully, it will all come together,” he said.

Making a movie is a long process, which is why “Boxcutter” is going to come out around the spring.

“So I finished this script in January this year, and it took me (off an on) four years to write it. Then after finishing it of course there is casting, prep and all of that. We started shooting on the 23rd of September, and we are shooting for 17 days. Then I will go off to edit land and that will probably take a few months. So all in all, it takes about a year and some change, which you know in the movie world is pretty fast. Normally on bigger budget things, you’re talking about shooting for months.”

Once it is released, the hope is that “Boxcutter” will be playing at film festivals.

“Some theaters, some streaming, and maybe physical media as well,” he said.

Cerruti is pushing for more serious distribution than his last two movies. Locally, the Lake Placid Film Festival has been supportive and he’s “on their radar,” even though horror is not their fare. His first film, “Freak,” in 2021, had a midnight showing the Thursday before the film festival began.

“Maybe that’s in the cards for this one, I’m not sure,” he said.

Stay tuned, and for more information, check out Lucky’s website: deadvisionproductions.com.