SonnyCID
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Sonny, are you in the Seattle area?
This is weird, but I was just thinking...several of my favorites were made in the Pacific Northwest, at least in part.
The Ring was set in Washington...and they did a pretty amazing job of making the area look spooky. Phantasm was set in Oregon, if memory serves. And the exterior shots of the hotel in The Shining were really the Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood.
And what's really funny is that the PNW is my favorite region...beautiful, not scary. But you'd never know that from those movies.
Yeah, I live in Seattle.
The weather and the desolate wooded areas certainly can make for a creepy feel on film. I really like the scenes in The Ring where she goes to the island. It's so dark and creepy, even though it's probably shot in the afternoon.