Best setting in a horror movie?

So then peeps. What's the best place you've seen a horror movie set in?

I guess the tension levels could be dependant on what you're afraid of on a personal level. Some people are afraid of horrors set in realistic and relatable surroundings...camping in the woods ala Blair Witch...Leafy suburb ala Halloween.

Personally, for me, it was the Danvers state lunatic asylum from "Session 9" that creeped me out more than anything else. The long curved tunnels and the paint flaking off the walls with rusty wheelchairs laying around. It was a truly inspired choice of locale.

I like the abandoned bunkers in Outpost and The Bunker. Shame the execution of those films wasn't the best.

I was going to mention Session 9, definitely Psychiatric Hospitals for me when it comes to Horror film settings.

Look at the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum in Yorkshire, I think the buildings are down now unfortunately, but the photos they have of the place are amazing, they filmed Asylum(not Horror) in the actual Hospital. It had a new name later but I can't remember it right now, but stuff still comes up using the original collective name.

Here in Britain anyway, they tend to knock all these beautiful buildings down, they are gradually knocking down the old one down the road from me that was right opposite my High School, could see it from the class windows, shame. 🙁

The one where they set Session 9 is beautiful too:

http://www.danversstateinsaneasylum.com/

The Thing: Antarctica, totally isolated and nowhere to run.

Wolf Creek and movies set on islands like The Wicker Man and Dagon etc

Originally posted by deathbycorn
movies set on islands like The Wicker Man and Dagon etc

One of the reasons i'm looking forward to Shutter Island...even if it's not technically a horror.

Shutter Island also has the Psychiatric Hospital setting. 🙂

As a matter of interest, has any of you seen the 2007 film "Catacombs" set in the Paris catacombs? If so, was it any good?

I like the idea of a horror being set there and I have an interest in the place.

It's also a great location for a horror.

http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2007/lost-in-catacombs-p1.php

That'll give you an idea of how freaky a place it can be if you go off the tourist guides and into the unmapped deep areas of the catacombs.

It's complete rubbish, they had a wonderful set as well, failed miserably putting it to use. Think they filmed a scene from the French series Engrenages in part of the catacombs, if I remember right.

I'll be giving that one a miss then....Hahaha.

theres so many:
Psychiatric Hospital
Ol' School Haunted House
Woods
Big Creepy Warehouses
Ghost Towns
Ships
Abandoned Bunkers
Abandoned Schools

abandoned anything really....

Originally posted by That ACDC Chick
theres so many:
Psychiatric Hospital
Ol' School Haunted House
Woods
Big Creepy Warehouses
Ghost Towns
Ships
Abandoned Bunkers
Abandoned Schools

abandoned anything really....

Try not to be generic though. Name specific places from specific films that were used in horrors...Like the above mentioned Danvers

Feel free to also add ones you'd like to see used. Something near your home for example.

For me, I think Dunnottar castle would be an amazing location.

Even my old school is quite an imposing place (or it was before it got destroyed by fire and rebuilt)

Originally posted by jaden101
Try not to be generic though. Name specific places from specific films that were used in horrors...Like the above mentioned Danvers

Feel free to also add ones you'd like to see used. Something near your home for example.

For me, I think Dunnottar castle would be an amazing location.

Even my old school is quite an imposing place (or it was before it got destroyed by fire and rebuilt)

That was your school!! or you mean you went when it was the new build after the fire? I am insanely jealous.

at night my school is scary as ****
even when theres the light from windows theres so many shadows and stuff that just plain freaks me out
plus theres a story of an evil leprechaun thats said to raom our halls
why....i do not know awesrug

I left in 97...The fire was in 2001.

The fire pretty much totalled the school completely except the east wing as you can see on this pic.

It's basically the shell of the old building bolted on to a brand new interior now.

Originally posted by jaden101
I left in 97...The fire was in 2001.

The fire pretty much totalled the school completely except the east wing as you can see on this pic.

It's basically the shell of the old building bolted on to a brand new interior now.

Fettes college in Edinburgh is similar and would also make a cool location

The caves in Decent was creepy.

Day of the Dead's army bunker scares me a bit. White walls everywhere, underground, winding hallways, etc.

28 Day's Later's locations are all pretty creepy too. A totally desolate city, scary army mansion, etc

Agreed with the Descent, I'll never want to enter a cave now

That is a gorgeous college in Edinburgh!! I adore architecture like that.