nickcarr
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Searching for the Backrooms
Backrooms is opening this weekend, and it’s awesome to see people so excited about a movie for its location! It also gives me an excuse to talk about the strange time when a bunch of BR fans became convinced I’d actually visited the original backrooms myself… In 2011, I posted an article about touring NYC’s…
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Fantasyland
Sometimes, I wonder what percentage of LA is actually just a leftover movie set. For example, if you go up to Mentryville State Park, you’ll see a number of historic buildings from its days as a 19th-century oil town, like a one-room schoolhouse, barns, a derrick… And this small cottage, built for the 1985 Disney…
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Impossible to Find: Cell Block
Impossible-to-find-near-LA location #512: the Multi-Level Cell Block. You see this one all the time in 90s action movies like The Rock, Face-Off, and Con Air. But if you’re filming in LA, please do not put this in your script, because it simply does not exist! I forget what job I was scouting for, but the…
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EUPHORIA: FISHING IN THE DESERT
On Euphoria, I ended up doing a LOT of desert scouting, and I’ll never forget an eerie encounter I had while taking pictures of an abandoned golf course in the middle of nowhere, which I had thought might make a good parcel of land for the border crossing scene. I’m alone. No one around. No…