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post #1 of 9
6/4/03 at 11:41pm
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Reading the HALLOWEEN RETURNS TO HADDONFIELD thread got me thinking about the time I went to the location where FRIDAY THE 13TH was filmed ...

Here in NJ, just outside of Blairstown, is Camp NoBeBoSco, and years back some friends and I found it and decided to have a visit ... When we got there, and approched the cabins, the totem poles, and then saw the lake with that same mountain range, it was surreal ... It was awesome ...

To this day, FRIDAY THE 13TH ( and Betsy Palmer in particular ) still has an effect on me, and I honestly don't think I could walk around that campsite after dark ... It was really something to see ...... and a short distance away, in Hope, is the cemetery and crossroads where Annie gets dropped off in the begining of the film ...

Amyways, has anyone ever found, or made the pilgrimage to a favorite site ??? ... The Monroeville Mall perhaps ??? ... The house in the woods in BLAIR WITCH ??? ... The houses in HALLOWEEN ???

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post #2 of 9
6/5/03 at 12:32am
well in Bruiser (yeah yeah its not a great flick but oh well)

spoiler...well a small one

a when the wife gets tossed out the window, well that building is a place I used to walk past every once and a while so when I saw it in the movie it was interesting.
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post #3 of 9
6/5/03 at 12:55am
I've never been to any really famous locations like the Monroeville Mall. But I plan on attending the Halloween convention, so I'll see some of the locations for that. And I also need to make time for a visit to the old Amityville property next time I'm on the East Coast...

I do live very close to San Bruno in Northern California, which is the visual source location for some of the Silent Hill videogames. The buildings, road markings, etc are all very "familiar", and walking the streets in the wee hours of the night armed only with a flashlight is quite an experience. Not a well known location, but very cool. Especially since I'm such a huge fan of the games.

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post #4 of 9
6/5/03 at 2:44am
I lived in Sonoma County (California) for six years, so I got to hang out at the lighthouse from The Fog, the church from The Birds, the high school (actually a community center) from Scream, and the beach from I Know What You Did Last Summer. The house from Cujo was around somewhere.

My advice to you if you are near a place like that: Plan to make a visit and take some pictures or a souvenir or something.

dmeister
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post #5 of 9
6/5/03 at 2:55am
Last Summer I was in Pittsburgh for the Monster Bash Convention and while there I made a trip to the Monroeville Mall (Dawn of the Dead) and a visit to Evans City Cemetery (Night of the Living Dead). The Mall is pretty easy to find, but finding the cemetery was a pain in the ass.
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post #6 of 9
6/5/03 at 3:53am
I've been to the Monroeville Mall. Certain DOTD locations are easy to find in there, including the main corridor/hallway where the characters go up to their loft. What was the skating rink in the movie is now a food court. I couldn't be in Pittsburgh and not visit a Dead site.
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post #7 of 9
6/5/03 at 3:54am
Not really a place, but the statue at the end of hellraiser 3 is in front of a building right down the road from my house, I gotta look at it almost everyday, kinna creepy, I need to take a pic and post it up here sometime. Also my dad got to see the filming of the gas station explosion in Maximum Overdrive.
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post #8 of 9
6/5/03 at 5:21am
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billz3bub, Enthusiasm Enthusiast:
I've been to the Monroeville Mall. Certain DOTD locations are easy to find in there, including the main corridor/hallway where the characters go up to their loft. What was the skating rink in the movie is now a food court. I couldn't be in Pittsburgh and not visit a Dead site.
I was in Pittsburgh back in '89. That was before I knew some of the famous horror filming locations. How far is that mall from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh? We were visiting a friend over a mid-November weekend and one of our excursions was to a mall but I don't know the name of it.

Thanks,
mahduk
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post #9 of 9
6/5/03 at 7:54am
Probably doesn't count, but I've been to Swan Point Cemetary in Providence, which is where a Mr. Howard Phillips Lovecraft is buried. Not a location for a film, of course, but damn cool I thought.

I've always wanted to travel to D.C. to see the 'Exorcist' stairs, but it's just too damn far for a set of stairs...unless I were to throw myself down them...Hm...
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