'Candlewood:' Behind the CT legends that inspire the movie
"Candlewood," which was filmed in New Milford and is tentatively set for a 2023 release, focuses on a family who moves from New York to Connecticut...
"Candlewood," which was filmed in New Milford and is tentatively set for a 2023 release, focuses on a family who moves from New York to Connecticut amid the pandemic. When they move, local legends of Lover's Leap in New Milford and the underwater town of Jerusalem at the bottom of Candlewood Lake, begin to compound with daily life as New York transplants begin to get killed off. As with most legends, there is both fact and fiction attributed to most of them. The legend of Lover's Leap centers around Princess Lillinonah, the daughter of Chief Waramaug of the Weantinock tribe.