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Asking for help with horror movie locations.

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Wednesday, June 16, 2010 4:19 AM

A friend of mine is part of a group who do a D+D style role playing game (I don't know which one except that it's adaptable to any scenario) and he wants to have a break from the usual types they do and suggested a horror based game. He asked me for help to design a map containing locations from classic horror, ghost stories and supernatural movies/TV shows. He also plans on using characters appropriate to each location.
He will then take the map and notes on what occurs at each location and weave them into the game. The plan is to have it all set around one town and it's outlying areas. It will be based in the present day so the locales will have to fit that setting. We'll probably change the names of locations slightly to disguise them a bit but events will try to stay true to the movies as much as possible.

If you have any suggestions of locales over the ones below it would be appreciated.

So far:

The Shining - Overlook Hotel
Evil Dead - Cabin in the woods
Friday 13th - Camp Crystal Lake
Halloween - Haddonfield Mental Institute
The Fog - Lighthouse radio station
Christine - Darnell's Garage
Psycho - Bates Motel and house
Buffy - Sunnydale High and Hellmouth
Amityville Horror - House on Ocean Drive

May be included:

Poltergeist - Freeling's new house and grave site
The Birds - School where the birds gather
Twin Peaks - Black Lodge entrance

Thanks in advance.

"The greatest invention ever is not the wheel. It's the second wheel." - Rich Hall

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Wednesday, June 16, 2010 4:26 AM

CYBERSNARK

Supernatural: everywhere else
(or at least a black '67 Impala driving around town, blasting AC/DC's "Back in Black")

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Wednesday, June 16, 2010 5:12 AM

DALILABA

I don't know if this will work for you, but the scary, homicidal tanker truck from Stephen Speilberg's "Duel" is high on my list of great horror scenarios.

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Wednesday, June 16, 2010 8:14 AM

MSA

Trust me... the desert is scary. It's all barren and empty and there's no help anywhere to be found. Plus even the plants can kill you.

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Wednesday, June 16, 2010 3:12 PM

THESOMNAMBULIST

How about the island from LOST?

Cartoons - http://cirqusartsandmusic.blogspot.com

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Wednesday, June 16, 2010 5:35 PM

OPTIMUS1998

you could always go with the set where they filmed the scariest movie of all time.....

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Wednesday, June 16, 2010 5:35 PM

OPTIMUS1998

...Spice World

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Thursday, June 17, 2010 12:14 AM

LWAVES

Quote:
Originally posted by optimus1998:
...Spice World

Bwahahahahaha!!
We want to scare them not leave them traumatised.

As for the others, thanks for the suggestions.
I spoke to Kyle (the role playing guy) and the tanker from Duel will be there.
He's going to set up the Winchester's Impala so that they can find it and use it but wait and see if they find the weapons compartment in the boot.
I was going to add a desert area to the south of the map but it would make it too big. We are going more for a NW America/Vancouver feel. Pretty much where Supernatural, X-Files and lots of other shows are set.

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Thursday, June 17, 2010 3:20 AM

GWEK

Are you missing the boiler room (and elsewhere) from NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET?

When your friend says "classic" horror, does he mean 1970s and on? Because you're missing a lot of stuff from earlier, which I would define as "classic." Where are all the Vincent Price movies?!? :)

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Thursday, June 17, 2010 11:53 AM

LWAVES

Quote:
Originally posted by GWEK:
Are you missing the boiler room (and elsewhere) from NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET?

When your friend says "classic" horror, does he mean 1970s and on? Because you're missing a lot of stuff from earlier, which I would define as "classic." Where are all the Vincent Price movies?!? :)

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Thanks I had forgotten that one. I think I'll do the boiler room, the house and suggest the school bus. This is going to be a fully working town, not some abandoned area, so there will be folks going about their business on a daily basis.
Cheers for that.

As for 'classic' then as long as it can fit into a modern day setting then it's up for consideration, which is why the Bates Motel works but something like The Others wouldn't. Although we could just have an old haunted house.
So ideally 70's and 80's but earlier may work depending on the setting of the film.

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Saturday, June 26, 2010 11:41 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Does Jaws not count? Boat at the docks/marina?
Didn't a marina also have a role in I Know What You Did Last Summer?

Last House on the Left....err, maybe Right?

Kristen Stewart made that remake of When a Stranger Calls, but I don't recall the uniqueness of the house.

Wax House? From that Paris Hilton remake of a vintage horror flick.

Bates Motel anyone? Or, from the same source material, Texas Chainsaw farm? and the house with the insects and pit in it from Silence of the Lambs? Jason, Mike Meyers and Elm St were already mentioned from the same source material. I don't think using the actual source of all those storylines would register with most, so a remote farm in the center of Wisconsin (and, in the geographical center of the northern west hemisphere) wouldn't really suit.

Not exactly film, but the mansion in Clue would be ID'd by most anybody from before video games.

Dracula's castle?

A Hostel with hot babes and torture dungeon?

There was that wierd place in (I think) Jeepers? Or was it Joyride?

Several stories had mines, right? I think Valentine's Day, April Fool's would be possible there.

What was the High School where everybody was getting killed, like at Prom? with Jill Schoelen?
Which School did Carrie go to?

I can't think of any scary airports, train stations, or nearby military bases. Is Aracniphobia in your genre?

Wicker Man was on an island, was it not?

The grocery store from The Mist.

I could point out, from an above comment, that almaost every "fully functioning town" has an abandoned area.

Naming someplace after the ships in either Alien or Aliens would be cool, even if they don't have Aliens - perhaps a robotized function called Bishop?

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Saturday, June 26, 2010 12:45 PM

LWAVES

Thanks JSF.

Some there that we hadn't thought of.
I already had the Bates Motel in my first post.
Schools will all come under one location but with different events happening at them like BTVS, Carrie etc.
Same with hospitals that just have to have a closed off/abandoned wing.

Jaws is definitely in as it is a coastal town.
Wax House will probably make it as part of a theme park type area.
I'll probably add a haunted train station in as well.

Arachnophobia is a great idea that I hadn't thought of so many thanks for that.
The Mist's grocery store is another and they have a military base as well, although you don't actually see it.

And as Joyride was mainly on the road I think you mean Jeepers Creepers as that had a lonely house with a cave where the baddie kept the bodies.

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Saturday, June 26, 2010 12:58 PM

MUTT999

There's this really creepy mausoleum in a little movie called Phantasm you might wanna use. But you might have to duck a lot.
I think it's in Morningside Cemetery.

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Sunday, June 27, 2010 10:55 AM

STINKINGROSE

The Haunting of Hill House (I think is the title.) The ORIGINAL (B&W) not the remake.

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