Anybody scared by living in the same place any of the films take place at?

[fishfast41]

woo hoo! post no. 2 for me. I'm curious, has anyone gotten an extra scare from living in a place where one of the films is set? I grew up in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area, and when I saw the Dawn remake in the theater, and heard the radio announcer in Ana's car talking about places I'd been to and was familiar with, as being dangerous or being rescue stations, it really creeped me out bad. I don't think this movie is anywhere near the best of the bunch, but this little surprise really made the movie for me. Anyone else?

[BillyRay]

Hey-ho dere, fishfast, welcome to da boards dere.

(Good to have another Sconnie 'round here, Boy Howdy!)

Trouble with the Dawn remake - although it takes place in "My Home Town", it was filmed in Toronto.

So it doesn't really match up.

Hell, based on Ana's subdivision, the country roads she races down, and the shiny, modern mall they hide in, I figured the story actually takes place in Brookfield.

(For the rest of ya, Brookfield is a Suburban Hell just over the border in the next county. I actully saw the Dawn remake down the way from there - like anyone cares...)

I'm still trying to track down the tropical island in the middle of Lake Michigan...

[bassman]

I live just outside of Atlanta. So that's been pretty cool in the last few years with Zombieland and The Walking Dead. Not creepy so much, but just cool to see these familiar locations and the state in general getting some love.

[Trancelikestate]

I live next to monroeville mall. :p

[sandrock74]

I'm still trying to track down the tropical island in the middle of Lake Michigan...

As a Michigan native, I am also curious as to this mysterious tropical island in Lake Michigan. The best I can figure, it's either an artificial island, like Hydrobase (that the Avengers used as their HQ for a few years), or it was really the island from LOST.

I have been to Toronto to visit the Hockey Hall of Fame a few times and was shocked to see Cholo coming up the escalator from "the underground tunnels" into Kaufman's tower in Land of the Dead. I have been on that very escalator and it comes from the HoF gift store, not any underground tunnels. I have also stood in the atrium/lobby where all the rich people get eaten at the end of the film. It was so weird seeing all that on screen, as I have actually been there!

That had never happened to me before (or since) while watching a movie.

[Rancid Carcass]

I live next to monroeville mall.

That'll be the parking lot then? :D

[BillyRay]

As a Michigan native, I am also curious as to this mysterious tropical island in Lake Michigan. The best I can figure, it's either an artificial island, like Hydrobase (that the Avengers used as their HQ for a few years), or it was really the island from LOST.

Maybe it's like Brigadoon...Briga doom?

[Mr.G]

I live next to monroeville mall. :p

Lucky!

[fishfast41]

Hey,if anyplace around here deserves a Zompocalypse, its Brookfield :) or maybe The People's Republic of Madison. lol The island thing made me actually laugh out loud in the theater. The makers of the film obviously did their homework on the place names, but not the geography. And I am envious, would like to at least visit Monroeville Mall.

[BillyRay]

Madison?

I don't think zombies will eat either hippys or state senators.

Even the undead have standards...

[bassman]

Took me forever to find this thread. Why is it in the remakes section?

Anyway, I was just thinking about TWD and some of its shooting locations when I realized I've been to the quarry several times. My line of work involves going to several quarries and I know the area fairly well, so it took me only a matter of minutes to single it out. It's an abandoned Vulcan Materials Quarry just northwest of the main city. Actually within the perimeter.

LINK (http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=33.780637,-84.433697&spn=0.006403,0.013894&t=h&z=17) for satelite image. Just going off memory, I believe the camp would have been on the west side of the quarry? Possibly the east. I don't have the show in front of me at the moment.

I can't believe it never occured to me while watching the show. Anyway....thought maybe some would be interested.

Would there be any interest in a TWD locations map like the one we have for Romero's films? I know quite a few of the locations and I'm sure Skold could also help it out. Just a thought...

[Mike70]

The island thing made me actually laugh out loud in the theater. The makers of the film obviously did their homework on the place names, but not the geography..


me too. who knew that the-land-that-time-forgot is in the middle of lake michigan.

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I don't think zombies will eat either hippys or state senators.

Even the undead have standards...

indeed. a phish concert might be the safest place during a zombie rising.

[BillyRay]

indeed. a phish concert might be the safest place during a zombie rising.

You won't need to cover yourself with zombie guts, just body odor and patchouli! :D

[bassman]

I like phish. :shifty:

[Trancelikestate]

HAHA. I have dreads to my ass and i don't like phish hahaha. But then, i'm not a hippy. :p I love how people assume that though. Then they realize I just jumped out of a gas guzzler and decked them in the face with a t-bone hanging out of my mouth haha!

Hey Bass, I havn't been to Atlanta in years but i was thinking. It has to be north of the city right? There aren't any mountains to the south if i remember correct. Except stone mountain maybe? That was a lonnnnng time ago. :p Speaking of hippies being safe, why didn't they just go to little five points instead of the CDC?

[bassman]

Hey Bass, I havn't been to Atlanta in years but i was thinking. It has to be north of the city right? There aren't any mountains to the south if i remember correct. Except stone mountain maybe? That was a lonnnnng time ago. :p Speaking of hippies being safe, why didn't they just go to little five points instead of the CDC?

:lol: at Little Five Points. They'll hide out in 42 Degrees(head shop) .

Yeah, most of the mountain stuff is toward the top of the state, but the show was actually filmed around the perimeter of atlanta. The car chase in episode one was actually filmed about 45 minutes south east of Atlanta. That was the furthest south they went, if i'm not mistaken. The rest of the locations are actually very close. Rick's house is basically across the street from the Atlanta Zoo. And the rooftop is actually the old Norfolk Southern Railroad building that you see rick go under when first entering the city.

[BillyRay]

:lol: at Little Five Points. They'll hide out in 42 Degrees(head shop) .



Nah,..hide out in Little 5 Points Pizza or the Vortex, where there's food and beer...

http://little5points.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/4474925655_f650db771c.jpg

[Trancelikestate]

Ahhhh memories. :p I admit i did like little 5.

[JonOfTheShred]

The second zombie film in the trilogy of zombie rock operas I wrote takes place at a hippie music festival. The cause for the undead in my films is the spreading of contaminated LSD.

And yes, I've been in the "hippie" scene for a few years. I played 60+ shows this year including a few of these hippie jam fests. I LOVE the Grateful Dead (and its new incarnation, Furthur) and a lot of the bands in the scene, but I also LOVE heavy metal at the same time, as well as all kinds of electronic music. The jam scene is amazing. Not a fan of Phish though, not at all

[Trancelikestate]

That almost sounds like Rave to the Grave o_O

[JonOfTheShred]

That almost sounds like Rave to the Grave o_O

I haven't seen that one yet. But upon inspecting the IMDB page, it sounds suspiciously similar to "Streets," an even older, shittier zombie movie about a new drug that hits the streets called Ozone. Which is a movie I watched way after I had the idea for "Night of the Living Shred."

Also, the plot of my first movie, the one that isn't just a general idea and is actually fleshed out, is an entirely unique and original animal, and is the one I put all my effort into. Without giving away too many of my ideas...

I'm playing a friends house party. After the room I'm playing in is cleared I'm partaking in a smoke session with some groupies and some friends, when zombies bust in. Thats when I bust into a song about how to kill zombies, being the only person there remotely aware of what we are dealing with.

The rest of the movie I'm traveling to other locations I know to rescue my friends. All these spots happen to be other gigs for other bands; a hippie band playing in the woods. A hip hop open mic night. A metal band at an actual venue. Some electronic based music. Some friends jamming at their house. You get the picture.

I start rallying these musicians into an unstoppable army of guitars, bass guitars, portable keyboards, and portable drums. Finally, we figure out whats the cause of the zombies, and go to the biggest supplier of the LSDs house to warn them and destroy the supply. I show up with my rallied musicians, and there's an epic showdown at the end.

Not to mention the entire thing is a rock opera / musical.

But that sounds unlike ANY idea I've ever heard. Maybe if you threw Shaun of the Dead, Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny, Flight of the Conchords, Half Baked, South Park: BLU, and Electric Apricot into a blender you'd get something KINDA similar.

[acealive1]

i grew up in los angeles.....i knew the mall was in pa from dawn....but the mall i grew up going to was a bit scarier........

[Mike70]

Also, the plot of my first movie, the one that isn't just a general idea and is actually fleshed out, is an entirely unique and original animal, and is the one I put all my effort into. Without giving away too many of my ideas...

I'm playing a friends house party. After the room I'm playing in is cleared I'm partaking in a smoke session with some groupies and some friends, when zombies bust in. Thats when I bust into a song about how to kill zombies, being the only person there remotely aware of what we are dealing with.

The rest of the movie I'm traveling to other locations I know to rescue my friends. All these spots happen to be other gigs for other bands; a hippie band playing in the woods. A hip hop open mic night. A metal band at an actual venue. Some electronic based music. Some friends jamming at their house. You get the picture.

I start rallying these musicians into an unstoppable army of guitars, bass guitars, portable keyboards, and portable drums. Finally, we figure out whats the cause of the zombies, and go to the biggest supplier of the LSDs house to warn them and destroy the supply. I show up with my rallied musicians, and there's an epic showdown at the end.

Not to mention the entire thing is a rock opera / musical.

that is the craziest god damn thing i have ever read on here (that is saying a lot). i love it. bravo.

[JonOfTheShred]

that is the craziest god damn thing i have ever read on here (that is saying a lot). i love it. bravo.

Thank you, sir. Little has changed in the plot in the past 3 years, but originally a home-grown strain of weed was the cause of the outbreak. What made it original from Pot Zombies, was everyone I knew smoked pot, so I had to go warn my entire friend base and the majority of my family. Then "Night of the Living Heads" with the same premise and almost the exact same name (Night of the Living Shred = my film) so I decided to ditch the name and contaminated pot and instead go with "Dawn of the Shred" and LSD zombies.

The LSD is gonna be key, because that is gonna be the most fucked up, twisted psychedelic shit we can put into the movie. Its gonna be the only SCARY parts of the film. Like Nightmare on Elm Street with the dreams, but less campy and more terrifying.

Every other part of the movie, however, will be more on the stoner comedy / rock opera / musical level. Although I would like it to be very creepy throughout.

One of the sideplots to the army of musicians is a group of stoner kids, who always choose the most cliche locations to blaze and never realize the danger that is going on around them, and quite obvious to the viewer.

"Woah, look, its that old prison from the 40's that got shut down because the guards were torturing the inmates...lets go roast this bowl in there."

"That graveyard looks secluded...time for a bong."

"Hey, lets go smoke this blunt in that abandoned carnival."

[DjfunkmasterG]

I haven't seen that one yet. But upon inspecting the IMDB page, it sounds suspiciously similar to "Streets," an even older, shittier zombie movie about a new drug that hits the streets called Ozone. Which is a movie I watched way after I had the idea for "Night of the Living Shred."

Also, the plot of my first movie, the one that isn't just a general idea and is actually fleshed out, is an entirely unique and original animal, and is the one I put all my effort into. Without giving away too many of my ideas...

I'm playing a friends house party. After the room I'm playing in is cleared I'm partaking in a smoke session with some groupies and some friends, when zombies bust in. Thats when I bust into a song about how to kill zombies, being the only person there remotely aware of what we are dealing with.

The rest of the movie I'm traveling to other locations I know to rescue my friends. All these spots happen to be other gigs for other bands; a hippie band playing in the woods. A hip hop open mic night. A metal band at an actual venue. Some electronic based music. Some friends jamming at their house. You get the picture.

I start rallying these musicians into an unstoppable army of guitars, bass guitars, portable keyboards, and portable drums. Finally, we figure out whats the cause of the zombies, and go to the biggest supplier of the LSDs house to warn them and destroy the supply. I show up with my rallied musicians, and there's an epic showdown at the end.

Not to mention the entire thing is a rock opera / musical.

But that sounds unlike ANY idea I've ever heard. Maybe if you threw Shaun of the Dead, Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny, Flight of the Conchords, Half Baked, South Park: BLU, and Electric Apricot into a blender you'd get something KINDA similar.

You lost me a destroying all the LSD

[JonOfTheShred]

You lost me a destroying all the LSD

I know, its terrible, destroying such a wonderful thing. ;)

But really, that sets into motion the epic ending. The house crumbling, a despairing orchestral piece softly playing as the camera pans out on the rubble, 'THE END' fading into view....

...until a loud guitar chord sounds and the guitar bursts through the rubble, a question mark getting added abruptly to "THE END."

So cheesily hilarious; if I saw that in theaters I might do that thing REALLY BIG douchebags do; cheer and clap at the end of the movie to showcase my support.

I always HATED that, even when I was a kid. The filmmakers aren't at the fucking movie, unless its the premier with someone involved in the film there, there's absolutely NO reason you should clap at the end of the movie. I've only done that ONCE, and that was at the start of Zombieland when Metallica's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" started playing. In my defense, I was really drunk and really stoned.

[Tied2thetracks]

I live in the Manitowoc, WI area, so I liked the idea of the local location. It never creeped me out. The Dawn Community looked way too nice and why they hell would Miller park be a safe rescue station? I can't think of a worse place than a sports arena, look at the luck the Brewers have had surviving there.

[BillyRay]

I live in the Manitowoc, WI area, so I liked the idea of the local location. It never creeped me out. The Dawn Community looked way too nice and why they hell would Miller park be a safe rescue station? I can't think of a worse place than a sports arena, look at the luck the Brewers have had surviving there.

Zing!

I dunno, though. Freway access (near an Interchange), but a pain in the arse to get to via city streets. Defendable.
Centrally located between North-South & City-Suburbs.

I agree with your sports arena notion, just not entirely in this specific case.

Anyhow, they're running zombies, so we're pretty much screwed.

[LivingDeadGuy]

Day of the Dead was set in Florida which is where I live now except I'm in Pensacola on the very west tip and I get the feeling that the movie was set further down possibly in the everglades. It does creep me out to imagine the zombies being in Florida plus my favorite show The Golden Girls was set in Florida during the 80's and I hate to think of my favorite gals being attacked by zombies while they're enjoying a nice cheesecake. :(