According to a film agency, a picturesque village was picked for the shooting of a psychological horror film because of its "other-worldly look.".
For the Netflix film The Strays, Lavenham is one of two Suffolk villages that has been transformed into an English suburb.
Ashley Madekwe plays a woman whose life begins to fall apart when two strangers show up in her town in this film.
Filming took place in the fall of 2021, according to Jim Horsfield from Screen Suffolk, which assisted in finding the locations.
Another Suffolk location used in The Strays was Kersey, which was also the primary setting for the BritBox drama Magpie Murders.
Throughout the production, the main square at Lavenham and Kersey High Street was closed for a number of days.
Lavenham was picked because of its "other-worldly look" out of "a fantastic range of beautiful villages in Suffolk," according to Mr. Horsfield.
Lavenham, which has more than 300 listed buildings and is one of England's best-preserved medieval villages, benefited greatly from the wool industry.
By making cloth, nearby Kersey also prospered at the same time.
The Suffolk County Council, West Suffolk Council, Ipswich Borough Council, Babergh and Mid Suffolk Council, and East Suffolk Council jointly fund Screen Suffolk, which bills itself as "a one-stop shop for all things screening.".
Since the county's establishment in 2016, more than 1,000 days of filming have taken place there, including The Dig, The Personal History of David Copperfield, and the Christmas 2022 episode of the BBC drama Detectorists.
