Real life film locations you've been to

[Dex Sawash]

Been over the bridge from the beginning of Maximum Overdrive a few times but the roadway didn't open up and dump me in the Cape Fear River, sadly.

Spoiler alert

have dumped directly in the CF back in 90s when marine heads were still allowed to pump out overboard

[close]

Have never spotted the truck stop, think it was a temporary set.

[Neomod]

Caught Marty and Elaine at the Dresden, L.A. and got a T Shirt. (Swingers)

Vegas is full of locations but we had dinner and drinks at the Peppermill Lounge as seen in Casino and Showgirls.

[paddy72]

Riber Castle in Matlock, used for the denouement of Dead Man's Shoes.

I was (am) quite obsessed with the film, so wandered around when it was still ruins. Quite creepy. You could stand in the little room where Anthony died.

It's flats now, of course.

[Fr.Bigley]

Been to the popeye village in Malta.

Also been to space but, you know, who hasn't these days.

[kalowski]

Just reminded me. In New York circa 2003 we went for a drink in a cool little bar called Tavern. A few years later the TV is on and there's Ben Affleck having a drink in Puffy's Tavern.
Fuck knows what the film was.

[Psybro]

The steps out of The Exorcist in Washington DC.  The Timberline Lodge in Oregon, which was the exterior of the Overlook in The Shining.

On my lunch break I used to wander through some of the places in Sheffield that stood in for London towards the end of Four Lions.

Lots of bits of Prague are in Euro Trip filling in for London, Paris, Amsterdam and Rome.

Alnwick Castle is popular now for the first two Harry Potters but has been in loads.

[Neomod]

The Timberline Lodge in Oregon, which was the exterior of the Overlook in The Shining.

I had a weird deja vu feeling back in 1982 when we stayed at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite park. It was years later we found out Kubrick had used the interiors as a literal source for the Overlook's interiors.

[Psybro]

Something I didn't know until I went to the Kubrick exhibit at the Design Museum in London a couple of years ago is that Kubrick did all this location scouting remotely since he was scared of flying, so they needed meticulous details of places like the Ahwahnee lounge recorded for him.

I had a lunch reservation at the Ahwahnee in May 2020 but then stuff happened. That would've just left the Stanley Hotel in Colorado (inspiration for the book, featured in the TV movie) to complete the set.

[Icehaven]

Something I didn't know until I went to the Kubrick exhibit at the Design Museum in London a couple of years ago is that Kubrick did all this location scouting remotely since he was scared of flying, so they needed meticulous details of places like the Ahwahnee lounge recorded for him.

Jon Ronson has spoken a few times in books and podcasts about being allowed access to the archives at Kubrick's house and finding boxes full of tens of thousands of photos of locations. Seemingly he once got an assistant or nephew or someone to spend weeks taking photos of every angle of a particular street in London which was then set up in what we'd now think of as Google streetview style so he could ''see'' it, and apparently he said ''This is so much better than having to go there." 

[Sebastian Cobb]

I've been to George Square a fair bit and I hear they're using that for some superhero noncery.

I've also driven on parts of the A38 featured in top gear.

[Icehaven]

I've not seen Peaky Blinders and I know it's set in Birmingham but was filmed all over the place, but I think they did film a few parts of it in the city's Digbeth area, which I've been to many times, although I dunno which bits they used. Probably not Subside or the Custard Factory.

[Sebastian Cobb]

I've not seen Peaky Blinders and I know it's set in Birmingham but was filmed all over the place, but I think they did film a few parts of it in the city's Digbeth area, which I've been to many times, although I dunno which bits they used. Probably not Subside or the Custard Factory.

I'm sure they did use parts of brum for recognisable places but the main terraced housing they lived/operated from was in Toxteth but it looks like they've pulled it down:
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/peaky-blinders-being-forced-out-14016647

[Glebe]

Cong in Galway, where The Quiet Man (which I've never actually seen, tbh) was filmed. The tourist-attraction cottage there is not the actual one in the film, which is apparently in ruins (according to this), but it does contain these Louis Tussauds, Great Yarmouth-worthy waxworks of John Wayne, Maureen O' Hara and another one:

[An tSaoi]

A new instant CaB classic, Glebe.

[mothman]

Oh! Been here.

In the 1970s, the square was featured in a scene in the movie Moonraker.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Saint Maud became less frightening to me once I realised it was filmed in Scarborough, where I spent many holidays as a child.

[greenman]

Something I didn't know until I went to the Kubrick exhibit at the Design Museum in London a couple of years ago is that Kubrick did all this location scouting remotely since he was scared of flying, so they needed meticulous details of places like the Ahwahnee lounge recorded for him.

I had a lunch reservation at the Ahwahnee in May 2020 but then stuff happened. That would've just left the Stanley Hotel in Colorado (inspiration for the book, featured in the TV movie) to complete the set.

I'm not sure the location scouting being done by others would have been due to fear of flying as almost all of what Kubrick shot was in the UK or Ireland from Strangelove onwards, the exteriors at the start of The Shining and bits of NYC in Eye Wide Shut seem the few exceptions.

[Joe Oakes]

Most of the Peep Show locations are in Croydon, a company was even running the world's most underwhelming bus tour at one point. Apollo House (Zodiac Court) still looks the same. The famous 50p building is the office block in Bandersnatch.

Visit Croydon, please, we're fucking bankrupt.

[Mr Banlon]

Oh! Been here.

I remember that from Clive James in Rio https://youtu.be/LzCo1038QK4?t=1312

[Brundle-Fly]

Most of the Peep Show locations are in Croydon, a company was even running the world's most underwhelming bus tour at one point. Apollo House (Zodiac Court) still looks the same. The famous 50p building is the office block in Bandersnatch.

The opening credits are in the main drag of Crouch End.

[famethrowa]

I remember that from Clive James in Rio https://youtu.be/LzCo1038QK4?t=1312

Oh I could watch that all day. Thank you

[Glebe]

A new instant CaB classic, Glebe.

They're no Waxwork Mandelas, but that's a pretty high bar, to be fair!

[St_Eddie]

Karl Pilkington went to the place where Indiana Jones nabbed the Holy Grail from, so you know, bully for him and all that.

[Brundle-Fly]

Any music fan worth their salt who has frequented a sweaty gig at the Bull & Gate or The Forum/ Town & Country Club in Kentish Town, NW5 may have enjoyed a snifter before or after the show in this nearby pub, The Assembly House.

Well, my old son, you're in Vic Dakin's boozer from Villain(1971) so careful not to spill his pint otherwise they'll be claret everywhere.

[Psybro]

The World's End is largely shot around Letchworth and Welwyn Garden Cities, which if you grew up local is the thing most likely to hold your attention in it.

[Voltan (Man of Steel)]

Martha's Vineyard.

 

[mothman]

Martha's Vineyard.

You can tell they're miming.

[Lord Mandrake]

The exterior of Rentons Talgarth road flat in Trainspotting.  My mate from Dundee lived there, at the same time, wasn't a scag head but everything else, West Kensington had a big Scots community at the time. Art deco flats round there were exteriors in Tom Hardys Krays film.

The hotel Nacional, Havana and it's pool feature in an amazing shot in the film Soy Cuba. Done the star wars thing in Tunisia. Just round the corner from me is the spy headquarters from Tinker Tailor, also doubled as Greenwich observatory in Thor the Dark world and loads of other stuff,  it's currently part of the V&A I think. The graveyard from Omen II is up the road.

[studpuppet]

Many years ago I visited the Notting Hill pub known as The Mother Black Cap in Withnail & I. It was then a trendy vodka bar and I'd never seen so many "fancy" vodka cocktails on the menu - Vodka and Mars Bar, anyone? The pub interior was unrecognisable from the film, except for the "I fuck arses" graffiti in the gent's toilet.

It was the Frog & Firkin in the late eighties, at which I spent two New Year's Eves in a row. Can't remember any graffiti being there when I went to the loo, so it may have been re-added?

My wife & I sometimes go walking on a route that takes us past the (original) St. Trinians school.



I discovered that one of the houses I drove past in lockdown to take my kids to school, is the house with the pond where the daughter drowns in Don't Look Now.



Spent my childhood living next-door to Salisbury Hall, which has been used for various things over the years. Here it is as the main location for Hammer House Of Mystery & Suspense episode, The Tennis Court.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oThOZrpGYJ4

It was also the real-life home Of Jennie Churchill (Winston's mother), so when ITV filmed her life story as 'Jennie' in the seventies, they used the house as a location:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbmaeVGs9P8

The garage that Christopher Cazenove drives out of at about 3:15 became my parents' house soon after (lived in a caravan in the back garden for three years while they renovated it).

The house I'm currently in was used for a Sky/Channel 4 comedy about five years ago, called Damned - they used the local council offices for the main outdoor shots, but then used the house for about thirty seconds at the end of the last episode of series 1.

[Glebe]

Spent my childhood living next-door to Salisbury Hall, which has been used for various things over the years. Here it is as the main location for Hammer House Of Mystery & Suspense episode, The Tennis Court.

I'd attempted to watch through the whole series online a few years back, stopped at 'A Distant Scream' because the only version I could find streaming free had a Russian translation talking over it. I see 'The Tennis Court' is actually up on Dailymotion though.

Can't view the video, but I'm gonna assume that the Christopher Cazenove clip is from either Hammer House of Horror episode 'Children of the Full Moon'... oh wait, or Mystery and Suspense episode 'In Possession'. Amirite?