Horror movies are just too much fun aren’t they?
Especially now, as most people are streaming through their favorite app, or dusting off the old DVD’s to watch some of their favorite. The cool thing about horror flicks is that most of them are filmed on shoestring budgets, so they have to get creative with their locations…leading to MANY of them? Being filmed in places that actually do exist.
Here are 10 places from some of you favorite horror flicks, you can actually visit…and hopefully not get stabbed.
1. The cemetery from “Night of the Living Dead”, in Evans City, Pennsylvania.
2. The steps that Father Damien Karras falls down in “The Exorcist”, in Washington, D.C.
3. The gas station in 1974’s “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”, in Bastrop, Texas.
4. The Myers house in the original “Halloween”, in South Pasadena, California.
5. Oak Alley Plantation where Brad Pitt’s character lived in “Interview with a Vampire”, in Vacherie, Louisiana.
6. Crystal Lake Diner from the 1980 “Friday the 13th”. It’s actually called Blairstown Diner in Blairstown, New Jersey.
7. Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s castle in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”. It’s a hotel now called Oakley Court in Windsor, United Kingdom. (Its façade was also used in 1957’s “The Curse of Frankenstein” and 1958’s “Dracula”.)
8. The Dakota apartment building from “Rosemary’s Baby”, in New York City. It’s also the same place where JOHN LENNON lived and was shot in front of. In the movie, it was called the BRAMFORD.
9. The forest from “The Blair Witch Project” is Seneca Creek State Park in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
10. The schoolhouse from “The Birds” is in Bodega, California.
One that this list does not mention? The Monroeville Mall from George Romero’s ‘Dawn of the Dead’…which is a real working mall. During the filming of it, they could only film during the night as the mall had to be open during normal business hours…meaning the crew had to clean up all the blood and guts from the zombies every night at like 5am in the morning.
