The filming locations for some of these spooky films are actually real world places! You're going to find some great things to do in these parts of the country, as well as some interesting details about the movies themselves.
In the Freak Show, a neurotic liberal woman stricken with multiple phobias goes to a supermarket after Trump wins the election and is horrified by pro-Trump clerks and even more horrifyingly, by pig snouts in the meat department! Her nightmares then take a turn for the worse when she sees some killer clowns in the produce department and then gets an unsettling vision of a green-haired clown having sex with another freakish clown.
Halloween Town, the 1998 Disney movie starring Ben Stiller and Jack Black, was filmed in St. Helens, Oregon (which is about 30 minutes outside Portland). Every year the town hosts a "Spirit of Halloween Town Festival," which includes "a month-long celebration of the fall season" with spooky shows, parades, and performances.
The filming of the Kelsey Grammer-starring 'Miss Willoughby and The Haunted Bookshop' took place in Howden, East Yorkshire, during the autumn of 2020. The filming was partly done at Howden Castle and the old church, as well as a pub.
In the original animated series, 'The Addams Family', a number of scenes were filmed in and around Romania. Specifically, the main location for Wednesday Addams' school, Nevermore Academy, was actually built in a real castle in the Carpathian Mountains called Cantacuzino Castle in Busteni.
