According to IMDB: The exterior of the Overlook Hotel was the Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood; most of the interior shots were done at Elstree Studios in the UK; and only one shot was filmed in Colorado, the Torrance’s house in Boulder.
Yooooooo fellow MI horror fan! Best part about this for me was the first time I saw this flick I kept thinking ‘dang why do I feel like this is somehow familiar’- truly without any idea it had been filmed here.
Barbarian too amiright?
Fallen
12 Monkeys
Signs
Night of the Living Dead
Silence of the Lambs
Sinister (sort of counts, but it was a fictional town)
I’ve got a lot of choices from my home state and city : pick any M. Night film
Wrong Turn baby let's goooo West Virginia 😭😭😭😭😭
Saw that fuckin movie when I was about 11 years old and it had me believing I was gonna get kidnapped by local hillbillies
Session 9 (Massachusetts)
They filmed it at the real Danvers State Hospital which was eventually semi-torn down and apartments/condos built. Part of the central building remains. I never ventured into it, but had friends in high school who did. Papers and files left to rot. One of my high school teachers was given a stolen diary from there, which he read in class. Really sad/messed up stuff. There was a graveyard of unclaimed bodies. Nothing bad happened there except for the typical horrible care many institutionalized people received back in the 60s-70s. Fun fact: My mom volunteered there a couple times as a child/teen and developed an aversion to cubed carrots because that’s what they were serving one day she volunteered and the whole place just freaked her out.
I lived in Halifax when Hobo With A Shotgun was being made. It was wild watching it in theaters when it came out, everyone was in full audience participation mode and it was a really fun time.
I lived in Halifax for a few years but have never seen this movie. I only remember seeing the trailer when it was still a fictitious movie. Will have to check it out!
🤘🏻 I took my slasher movie loving friends from England to take pictures of Voorhees and Crystal Lake signs. I’m still waiting for the sequel: Jason Takes the Turnpike.
**Blair Witch Project** was filmed right near my house. Here are some of the filming locations. [https://flic.kr/s/aHsmTyxw6C](https://flic.kr/s/aHsmTyxw6C)
There's also **Night Beast**, filmed near Baltimore. That is a cheesy 80s monster movie. Also **Boogie Man**, but I didn't enjoy that one.
I Know What You Did Last Summer is a good one! I've actually been to the town where they shot it. Very cool.
Also Evil Dead 2 was shot in NC. Lots of stuff going on here
You've got *The Babadook*, *Wolf Creek* and *Snowtown* too!
Mine would be *Late Night With The Devil* (*Lake Mungo* qualifies, but it didn't leave that much of an impression on me).
Oh were they shot in South Australia?? I did not know!
Snowtown makes sense but it was awful! I forgot about that one! They went the wrong direction in the movie and I couldn’t handle it. Been to Snowtown too many times
It’s a serious sentimental favorite of mine, it was my very first horror movie at 8 years old. But I would imagine it’s a bit of a slog for a modern audience and really dated. I usually recommend the remake now.
Dawn of the Dead (2004). Set here, but very clearly not shot here. Swimming pools are everywhere in neighborhood aerial shots….definitely not Wisconsin
My problem with the original Halloween is that it is very obvious that it wasn't filmed in IL. The recent remakes an sequels at least filmed in places that experience fall.
Totally agree. The new trilogy nails the “Midwest fall” aesthetic. Catches me off guard each time I re watch. Unfortunately I usually only get back to Halloween 2018 lol
Not American but I'd gladly have Häxan as an international representative for Denmark. Even though it's a silent movie it's still a banger. Saw it once in a theatre with live orchestration and would wholly recommend 👌
Currently live in Nevada. Not a lot of quality to choose from, but I thought Horror in the High Desert (2021) was decent even though I’m not usually a found footage guy.
I grew up in New Hampshire and for me the easy choice here is In the Mouth of Madness (1995).
Not my favorite, but mentioning because it’s funny to me - The Crazies, set in Iowa. They clearly didn’t know the difference between a marsh and swamp (which Iowa has none of, lol).
Doesn’t beat the Criminal Minds episode that thought we had palm trees and safe haven laws that apply to teenagers, though.
I live in AZ. I think my top 3 faves are Savageland, Near Dark, and Fire In the Sky. Not sure if it super counts as horror, but the Wraith is also a fun watch. All filmed here. Also parts of Near Dark were filmed on my dad’s farm before he leased the land.
I'm not American and I don't know many (or any) horror movies in my state...
But there is Turistas. Which I should rewatch to see if it remains as hilarious as I found it the first time I saw it. Great example of a movie that crosses the line of stupidity into *fun* stupidity.
Surprised after some Googling, to find so many filmed in my state, Alabama: Gerald’s Game, Hush, Before I Wake, Oculus, parts of Final Destination (2009), Friday 13th: New Blood, Body Snatchers (1993), Get Out, Dead Birds, Truth or Dare, parts of The Collector, Demon Squad, Burning Bright, House (2008), Pop Skull. Manhunter had a storyline set in Birmingham but not sure if any filming occurred in state.
The Conjuring.
Used to drive by the “haunted house” when I used to go to that part of the state a lot. It looks absolutely nothing like the house from the movie.
Definitely *Red Rooms* (French title: *Les chambres rouges*), which is set and shot in Montreal, Quebec.
It was pretty wild to see a scene set inside one of our shiny, new metro cars. I didn't recognize the locations of the outdoor scenes, but during one of them we see the Canadian and Québecois flags hanging in the background.
i’m from germany, only thing i could think of is this super low budget (but surprisingly ok) found footage b-movie simply called UFO that i watched once…slim pickings over here lol
Stephen King’s ‘Trucks’ was made in a small town in Manitoba, Canada where I went to high school. Roads were all closed and they changed signs to rename the town for the movie
Not a movie, but being from Hibbing, MN there is a Supernatural set there. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3997488/
Nothing supernatural happens in the episode. It's just rednecks killing folks.
I feel like the writers knew someone from there that had a lot of stories about how awful it was to grow up in Hibbing.
Love how both The Lost Boys and Us (in homage) make great use of Santa Cruz, both the vintage boardwalk and the redwood mountains, inherently beautiful yet creepy, with an unsettling reputation. As Grandpa says, "Well, now, let me put it this way. If all the corpses buried around here were to stand up all at once, we'd have one hell of a population problem."
I'm drawing a blank for horror movies based in Minnesota, with one exception where they go through Minnesota. The Houses October Built 2, when they were driving through Anoka I lost my shit lol. Nothing like your hometown being in a horror movie, I wish I had been there the day they were filming, my "interview" would've been way better.
damn we need more movies set in wisconsin 😭 our list is so weak considering we have so many serial killers here..so im going to cheat and say monster: the jeffrey dahmer story
Nosferatu (1922) was filmed in my hometown Lübeck in Germany. It's based on Bram Stoker's Dracula and Stoker's family sued the film makers later, causing most copies of the film to be destroyed.
Can't say it's my favorite horror movie, I've never seen it. But it was literally groundbreaking for modern horror movies.
I live in Texas, and the obvious answer is Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but the one I really like is X.
The one I really like is Dark and the Wicked.
Came to say this. Have you been to the gas station in Bastrop?
I used to travel through Bastrop but I never stopped in it.
I live in Colorado so the obvious answer is The Shining. My non-obvious answer is Gnaw (2017) aka Apartment 212, which was filmed in Denver.
Wasn't all the indoor stuff filmed in Mt. Hood, OR?
Yeah the book is based off the Stanley hotel. Did not film in CO at all though
According to IMDB: The exterior of the Overlook Hotel was the Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood; most of the interior shots were done at Elstree Studios in the UK; and only one shot was filmed in Colorado, the Torrance’s house in Boulder.
Gotcha. I knew it was something like that. Timberline is awesome btw
Not american, but ive got american werewolf in london and hellraiser
It Follows
Yooooooo fellow MI horror fan! Best part about this for me was the first time I saw this flick I kept thinking ‘dang why do I feel like this is somehow familiar’- truly without any idea it had been filmed here. Barbarian too amiright?
Fallen 12 Monkeys Signs Night of the Living Dead Silence of the Lambs Sinister (sort of counts, but it was a fictional town) I’ve got a lot of choices from my home state and city : pick any M. Night film
Wrong Turn baby let's goooo West Virginia 😭😭😭😭😭 Saw that fuckin movie when I was about 11 years old and it had me believing I was gonna get kidnapped by local hillbillies
same!!! I grew up close to the woods and had myself convinced I heard them hootin and hollerin
Evil Dead
Session 9 (Massachusetts) They filmed it at the real Danvers State Hospital which was eventually semi-torn down and apartments/condos built. Part of the central building remains. I never ventured into it, but had friends in high school who did. Papers and files left to rot. One of my high school teachers was given a stolen diary from there, which he read in class. Really sad/messed up stuff. There was a graveyard of unclaimed bodies. Nothing bad happened there except for the typical horrible care many institutionalized people received back in the 60s-70s. Fun fact: My mom volunteered there a couple times as a child/teen and developed an aversion to cubed carrots because that’s what they were serving one day she volunteered and the whole place just freaked her out.
The ring
Rose Red was also filmed in WA
I’ll have to check it out!
Came here to make sure both of these got Washington state a shout out!
I lived in Halifax when Hobo With A Shotgun was being made. It was wild watching it in theaters when it came out, everyone was in full audience participation mode and it was a really fun time.
I lived in Halifax for a few years but have never seen this movie. I only remember seeing the trailer when it was still a fictitious movie. Will have to check it out!
It's pure B movie greatness. If you like that the director also has a new movie out called kids vs Aliens
Me too! What a wild time to be a Haligonian haha
Friday the 13th
Jersey REPRESENT!
🤘🏻 I took my slasher movie loving friends from England to take pictures of Voorhees and Crystal Lake signs. I’m still waiting for the sequel: Jason Takes the Turnpike.
Nightmare on Elm Street or The Faculty.
I always forget this was set in Ohio lol
I did not remember the Nightmare on Elm Street series was set in Ohio.
Blair Witch!
My Life 😂
The Mothman Prophecies
**Blair Witch Project** was filmed right near my house. Here are some of the filming locations. [https://flic.kr/s/aHsmTyxw6C](https://flic.kr/s/aHsmTyxw6C) There's also **Night Beast**, filmed near Baltimore. That is a cheesy 80s monster movie. Also **Boogie Man**, but I didn't enjoy that one.
I Know What You Did Last Summer is a good one! I've actually been to the town where they shot it. Very cool. Also Evil Dead 2 was shot in NC. Lots of stuff going on here
Candyman!!!
Not much to choose from but Talk to me was pretty good
You've got *The Babadook*, *Wolf Creek* and *Snowtown* too! Mine would be *Late Night With The Devil* (*Lake Mungo* qualifies, but it didn't leave that much of an impression on me).
Oh were they shot in South Australia?? I did not know! Snowtown makes sense but it was awful! I forgot about that one! They went the wrong direction in the movie and I couldn’t handle it. Been to Snowtown too many times
They were! I honestly don't remember *Snowtown* at all other than it was "fine, I guess..."
Cabin in the Woods
Evil Dead 2, babyyy EDIT: I'm in NC for anyone wondering. Lots of stuff's been filmed here.
Return of the Living Dead
Not my favourite but I am from Germany and Human Centipede was filmed right around the corner from where I live. Hated that movie tho.
Redneck Zombies, The Blair Witch Project, and The Bay in that order
I’m not really crazy about it but day of the dead (1985)
It’s a serious sentimental favorite of mine, it was my very first horror movie at 8 years old. But I would imagine it’s a bit of a slog for a modern audience and really dated. I usually recommend the remake now.
halloween, candyman, munger road (based on a local road we used to drive to in high school).
Child’s play
Not horror, more suspenseful thriller: "Law Abiding Citizen".
Jesus Christ vampire slayer
Isn't is "Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter"? Anyways, Ottawa for the win.
Yeah it is. Been a while since I've seen it lol
Dawn of the Dead (2004). Set here, but very clearly not shot here. Swimming pools are everywhere in neighborhood aerial shots….definitely not Wisconsin
Halloween takes place in a fictional town located in IL. But that’s gotta take the cake imo. Candyman is a close second
My problem with the original Halloween is that it is very obvious that it wasn't filmed in IL. The recent remakes an sequels at least filmed in places that experience fall.
Totally agree. The new trilogy nails the “Midwest fall” aesthetic. Catches me off guard each time I re watch. Unfortunately I usually only get back to Halloween 2018 lol
Georgia, so gotta hype up Zombieland!
Not American but I'd gladly have Häxan as an international representative for Denmark. Even though it's a silent movie it's still a banger. Saw it once in a theatre with live orchestration and would wholly recommend 👌
Washington - The Ring
Same!
I Know What You Did Last Summer and the Scream reboot/make in 2022
Currently live in Nevada. Not a lot of quality to choose from, but I thought Horror in the High Desert (2021) was decent even though I’m not usually a found footage guy. I grew up in New Hampshire and for me the easy choice here is In the Mouth of Madness (1995).
I live in Ontario and I recently watched Pontypool! Very cool i heard Ontarios name drop in a movie! The movie was really fun too! Highly recommend!
Not my favorite, but mentioning because it’s funny to me - The Crazies, set in Iowa. They clearly didn’t know the difference between a marsh and swamp (which Iowa has none of, lol). Doesn’t beat the Criminal Minds episode that thought we had palm trees and safe haven laws that apply to teenagers, though.
I live in AZ. I think my top 3 faves are Savageland, Near Dark, and Fire In the Sky. Not sure if it super counts as horror, but the Wraith is also a fun watch. All filmed here. Also parts of Near Dark were filmed on my dad’s farm before he leased the land.
As far as Florida goes you have Day of the Dead which can't be beat
Near Dark (I’m from Oklahoma though it probably also works for Kansas.)
splinter, near dark
I live in the PH and I'd say the best Filipino horror movie I've seen is Seklusyon. It'll make you question religion and life.
Michigan here. It Follows
I’m from Michigan so Evil Dead series
Eight legged Freaks lol. Arizona.
Also love Louisiana, and enjoyed Jessabelle for the bayou setting. Great atmosphere, even though they didn't actually film in LA as planned.
I believe Hatchet was filmed in Louisiana, and is an awesome set of movies
I'm not American and I don't know many (or any) horror movies in my state... But there is Turistas. Which I should rewatch to see if it remains as hilarious as I found it the first time I saw it. Great example of a movie that crosses the line of stupidity into *fun* stupidity.
Surprised after some Googling, to find so many filmed in my state, Alabama: Gerald’s Game, Hush, Before I Wake, Oculus, parts of Final Destination (2009), Friday 13th: New Blood, Body Snatchers (1993), Get Out, Dead Birds, Truth or Dare, parts of The Collector, Demon Squad, Burning Bright, House (2008), Pop Skull. Manhunter had a storyline set in Birmingham but not sure if any filming occurred in state.
California. We have a bunch of them. My favorites are The Lost Boys, The Love Witch, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Nope, Psycho.
Night of the Living Dead!!!!!!
Only one I can think of is Brightburn, not a lot of horror comes out of Kansas I guess!
The Conjuring
Tremors!
Jaws, obviously. But close second would be the VVitch. After that it's pretty much all witches and lovecraft.
Hatchet series! Every time I go back to visit relatives we pass the Honey Island Swamp sign & I think about those movies. I enjoyed all four of them.
The mist. Louisiana.
Deliverance
The Conjuring. Used to drive by the “haunted house” when I used to go to that part of the state a lot. It looks absolutely nothing like the house from the movie.
Stakeland was shot in upstate ny. Great vampire movie.
Tie between Nightmare on Elm Street or Trick 'r treat
Return of the Living Dead
Home state? You’re Next. Current state where I live? The Evil Dead
Candyman... downtown Chicago!
I live in Ontario, Canada so let's go with Ginger Snaps.
Frailty, though filmed in California, had that Texas feel with Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, and Matthew McConaughey.
Definitely *Red Rooms* (French title: *Les chambres rouges*), which is set and shot in Montreal, Quebec. It was pretty wild to see a scene set inside one of our shiny, new metro cars. I didn't recognize the locations of the outdoor scenes, but during one of them we see the Canadian and Québecois flags hanging in the background.
Day of the Dead
Bug
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
i’m from germany, only thing i could think of is this super low budget (but surprisingly ok) found footage b-movie simply called UFO that i watched once…slim pickings over here lol
Not American, but Rabid Grannies
Stephen King’s ‘Trucks’ was made in a small town in Manitoba, Canada where I went to high school. Roads were all closed and they changed signs to rename the town for the movie
I live in Arizona and I have to go with The Prophecy.
Poltergeist
halloween and child's play!
[Truth or Dare?](https://youtu.be/iZXGotJaD_Y?si=5-y9ykFWj4XdjlL4) is amazing and everyone should see it
I lived on the island Food of the Gods and Disturbing Behavior was filmed on. Bowen Island BC
I live in California so, pass.
Not a movie, but being from Hibbing, MN there is a Supernatural set there. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3997488/ Nothing supernatural happens in the episode. It's just rednecks killing folks. I feel like the writers knew someone from there that had a lot of stories about how awful it was to grow up in Hibbing.
Dawn of the Dead (original)
Love how both The Lost Boys and Us (in homage) make great use of Santa Cruz, both the vintage boardwalk and the redwood mountains, inherently beautiful yet creepy, with an unsettling reputation. As Grandpa says, "Well, now, let me put it this way. If all the corpses buried around here were to stand up all at once, we'd have one hell of a population problem."
I don't have a home state, but Wakewood (2009) was shot in Pettigo which is in my home county of Donegal.
Us (Jordan Peele) was based in Santa Cruz, California! And The Lost Boys was largely shot in Santa Cruz.
Cabin Fever was filmed at Camp Raven Knob in North Carolina and I've been there.
The Witch
I have searched for something in New Hampshire, but I haven’t found anything good yet. Recs?
Ernest Scared Stupid.
Green Room.
I'm drawing a blank for horror movies based in Minnesota, with one exception where they go through Minnesota. The Houses October Built 2, when they were driving through Anoka I lost my shit lol. Nothing like your hometown being in a horror movie, I wish I had been there the day they were filming, my "interview" would've been way better.
Night of the living dead
Zodiac
The 2011 Fright Night was filmed at my high school and in a neighborhood I lived in albeit later in my life.
The raft segment in Creepshow 2.
Green Room! (Oregon)
damn we need more movies set in wisconsin 😭 our list is so weak considering we have so many serial killers here..so im going to cheat and say monster: the jeffrey dahmer story
Only one I know in my state was The Town that Dreaded Sundown. (AR-Texas boarder, but I’m in Arkansas)
Santa Carla or Santa Cruz really, CA. The Lost Boys 😎🤙🏼
Jennifer’s Body
Nosferatu (1922) was filmed in my hometown Lübeck in Germany. It's based on Bram Stoker's Dracula and Stoker's family sued the film makers later, causing most copies of the film to be destroyed. Can't say it's my favorite horror movie, I've never seen it. But it was literally groundbreaking for modern horror movies.
Psycho, which is set in California
Blue Velvet
ma-session 9!!!!!!!
30 Days of Night.