Six weeks on a campus that had never let a film crew in

The School in the Film Is a Real School

The University of Richmond granted Cry Wolf its first-ever feature-film access; this piece names the buildings used, the terms of the shoot, and how a working collegiate Gothic campus read on screen as a generic prep-school horror setting.

The Chapel, Where the Game Is Played

Cannon Memorial Chapel, the university's Gothic centrepiece, serves as the site of the film's central game scene — this piece identifies the space, its architectural details visible on screen, and what the location did for the scene's tone.

Westhampton Lake and the Long Walk Home

The lake at the heart of the Richmond campus appears in the film's most protracted suspense sequence — the geography of the location mapped against the sequence's edited geography, noting where the two diverge.

What a Dormitory Corridor Does for a Slasher

An analysis of how the film uses Richmond's residential interiors — symmetrical corridors, identical doors, institutional lighting — as a formal argument about the genre's relationship to institutional confinement.