Carrollton will be teeming with monsters and murder this August when a new production company arrives to shoot its horror film, “3rd Shift.”

“We start on Friday,” said Wes Eastin, director and founder of Atlanta-based Scratched Lens Productions. “It’s kind of like a suspense thriller. Something in the vein of ‘Hellboy.’ ”

The scenes will be shot at night on Adamson Square, in the old cotton warehouse, the railroad depot and the Skinner Building on Bradley Street. The plot involves monsters, deadly attacks, stolen babies and a small group of heroes trying to save the night.

Eastin was looking for cheap or free places to film and contacted Jonathan Dorsey, executive director of the Carrollton Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, for suggestions.

“Jonathan told me there were several places we could use and that really fit the bill for us,” Eastin said. “Rather than going from place to place to place we could set up shop in Carrollton for the month.”

This is the second project for Scratched Lens Productions, a group of about 10 young filmmakers. The group cut its teeth on a short project based on a series of video games. Members of the company, however, are experienced in filmmaking. Eastin worked on the independent film “Love on the Rocks” earlier this year and has done other independent projects that most people have never heard of, he said. The assistant director for “3rd Shift,” James Farlow, worked in Atlanta on “One Missed Call.”

“3rd Shift” is a work in progress. Just recently the company was able to recruit some help with the action scenes. “We’ve needed people who knew what the heck they were doing rather than us trying to fight and what not and probably putting out an eye,” Eastin said.

The group has been able to borrow some equipment for filming from Entertainment Design Group Inc. in Austell, including cables and “just things that they won’t really miss for a weekend,” Eastin said.

The film is essentially a pitch the fledgling company is producing to showcase its talent and possibly get support for a feature film, he said.

Dorsey took Eastin and some of his colleagues around Carrollton a few weeks ago showing them the three buildings they decided on and a couple of other possibilities for the projects.

“Even that day, they spent about $500 in the local economy on food and props and some other things,” Dorsey said.

However, while he helped get the group interested in Carrollton, it took a lot of cooperation to make the filming possible, he said.

Eastin, who had been through Carrollton with his father, a Civil War buff, on their way to visit a battlefield in Alabama, was impressed with the welcome he got from the city, he said.

“From the moment we got there, it’s like someone put out a welcome mat for us,” Eastin said.

Eastin is now busy looking for extras for the film and has approached the Carrollton Police Department about having some officers take on minor roles, he said.

“With multiple fight choreography set up, if we could have any extras who have any kind of dance experience or martial arts experience, that’s preferred,” Eastin said. “We’ll take anyone, because really all you have to do is fall.”

Eastin and his company are following in the footsteps of Red Five Entertainment, which shot “Conjurer” in and around Carrollton in 2007. The company was so impressed with the area that owners moved to Carrollton in August and are now planning another movie, “Our Child is Missing,” to be filmed in September.

Dorsey has noticed the interest and is glad to foster it, he said.

“I’m just really proud that we’ve got yet another example of this community’s video and film friendliness,” Dorsey said. “It’s a segment of our economy that’s not gigantic and huge at this moment but it’s definitely something that will grow and is growing.”

Anyone interested in working in the film should contact Eastin at scratchedlens@gmail.com.