Asking for help with horror movie locations.

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LWAVES

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 2:19 PM

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.

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CYBERSNARK

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 2:26 PM

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

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DALILABA

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 3:12 PM

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.

MSA

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 6:14 PM

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.

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THESOMNAMBULIST

Thursday, June 17, 2010 1:12 AM

How about the island from LOST?

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OPTIMUS1998

Thursday, June 17, 2010 3:35 AM

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

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OPTIMUS1998

Thursday, June 17, 2010 3:35 AM

...Spice World

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LWAVES

Thursday, June 17, 2010 10:14 AM

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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GWEK

Thursday, June 17, 2010 1:20 PM

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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LWAVES

Thursday, June 17, 2010 9:53 PM

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?!? :)

www.stillflying.net: "Here's how it might have been..."

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.

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

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