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Feb 28, 2023 · What are the must-know horror movie locations for a true film buff? From the Bates Motel and Exorcist Steps to the Overlook Hotel and U.S. Outpost 31, here are 66 places all horror movie lovers should be familiar with.
- The Timberline Lodge, Government Camp, OR. As Stephen King wrote The Shining – the novel the film was based on – he was inspired by Colorado’s Stanley Hotel.
- The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, Santa Cruz, CA. Crank up the Tim Capello sax solo, brush out your mullet, and walk the same boardwalk that was immortalized in The Lost Boys.
- Evans City Cemetery, Evans City, PA. Night of the Living Dead opens with a scene in this cemetery in Evans City, Pennsylvania. After Johnny jokes to Barbara that “they’re coming to get you,” she clings to a tombstone as Johnny is attacked by a zombie.
- Monroeville Mall, Monroeville, PA. George Romero’s 1978 Dawn of the Dead is still one of the most memorable zombie movies of all time, mostly due to the shopping mall setting.
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- Nightmare Scenarios. If Halloween gets you in the mood to rewatch your favorite horror classics, perhaps you'd also like to visit where they were filmed.
- The Overlook Hotel From 'The Shining' Mount Hood, Oregon. The Timberline Lodge was built on the side of Oregon's Mount Hood in the 1930s as part of the Works Progress Administration, which put Americans to work during the Great Depression.
- The House From 'Psycho' Universal City, California. Guests to Universal Studios Hollywood can still visit the house where "Psycho" serial killer Norman Bates and his mother — or Norman pretending to be his mother — lived while operating the adjacent Bates Motel.
- The Woods From 'The Blair Witch Project' Seneca Creek State Park, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Seneca Creek State Park is perfect for a scenic outing. Its 6,300 acres contain numerous trails, a creek for kayaking, and a lake where guests can fish and boat.
- The Potter Schoolhouse from The Birds (1963) // Bodega, California
- The Dakota from Rosemary’s Baby (1968) // New York City, New York
- The “Exorcist Steps” from The Exorcist (1973) // Washington, D.C.
- The Gas Station from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) // Bastrop, Texas
- Oakley Court from The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) // Windsor, UK
- The Myers House from Halloween (1978) // South Pasadena, California
- Blairstown Diner from Friday The 13th (1980) // Blairstown, New Jersey
The school from which students tried (and failed) to outrun the eponymous creatures in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) still stands today. It’s in Bodega, California, a tiny one-time fishing village that served as the filming site for much of the movie. Since its construction in 1873, the schoolhouse—originally called Potter Schoolhouse—has liv...
When Ira Levin was jotting down notes for his 1967 novel Rosemary’s Baby, he mentioned that Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse would “move into a rambling shambling apartment house like the Dakota or that one on 57th Street” (the latter being a reference to Manhattan’s Alwyn Court). Then, when it came time to adapt the story for the screen, filmmakers actu...
Father Damien Karras’s (Jason Miller) fatal fall from possessed tween Regan MacNeil's (Linda Blair) window in The Exorcist birthed a chilling new landmark on Washington, D.C.’s M Street: the “Exorcist steps.” They became part of nearby Georgetown University’s culture before the scene was even finished filming—students purportedly charged people $5 ...
The gas station that spells hope—and then horror—for young Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) in Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) is located in Bastrop, Texas, and called simply “The Gas Station.” Still eerie from the outside, the interior is now chock-full of horror movie merchandise and boasts a pretty enticing barbecue menu (to orde...
Long before Oakley Court—which is just a few miles from Windsor Castle—became a luxury hotel, it was a rundown Victorian mansion deemed perfect to serve as Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s “Frankenstein place” in 1975’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It’s not the only time the building has appeared on the silver screen, in part because it was right by Bray Stu...
Michael Myers’s childhood home in John Carpenter’s Halloween needs no introduction—it’s practically its own character in the film. It’s also a California historical landmark, though not exactly because it helped usher in a new era of slasher flicks: The house was built in the late 1880s, making it South Pasadena’s oldest known residential building....
Friday the 13th’s Crystal Lake Diner is actually Blairstown Diner in Blairstown, New Jersey. Built in 1949, the small-town spot is still going strong today, offering an expansive menu of typical diner fare. You can go for a normal meal—breakfast, lunch, or dinner—on a normal day, or you can time your trip to coincide with any Friday the 13th. On th...
Oct 19, 2018 · Travel. 22 locations from horror movies that you can actually visit in real life. Arielle Tschinkel and Jason Guerrasio. Oct 19, 2018, 9:49 AM PDT. Fans can visit The Bates Motel from...
Oct 25, 2023 · Although many horror movies, old and new, are filmed on green screens and sets, plenty of them take place in actual houses, hotels, campgrounds and forests. For the fearless (and/or the masochists), here are 10 locations from classic horror movies that you can actually visit.
Oct 28, 2016 · Horror movie filming locations: A map of the strange, scary, and cursed - Curbed. From the Exorcist to The Shining, here's where your faves were filmed. By Patrick Sisson Updated Oct 28,...
