Posted Jul 12, 2021, 2:50 PM
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Originally Posted by hauntedheadnc
Not yet, actually. As for Stephen King, he's Maine to the core obviously but ironically enough, Under the Dome was filmed in North Carolina -- so it does a good job of portraying what you find in the Coastal Plain, away from the beach. King collects settings; if he visits someplace he uses it in his books and stories from that point forward. He visited Wilmington when they were making a screen adaptation of his novel Firestarter and since then Wilmington has served as settings for the short story The Night Flyer and the novel Joyland. He rode through Asheville on a motorcycle once several years ago, and Asheville got a cameo in his novel Duma Key.
Meanwhile, in addition to the Stephen King universe, the horror/action novels of John Connolly are set in Maine, the Silent Hill video game series is set in Maine, the novels of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child make references to Maine and at least one is set there, that godawful horror movie Darkness Falls is set in Maine, and so are Murder She Wrote, Haven, and Nancy Drew. You rarely see this level of media representation in other smallish states with a wide gothic streak such as, not to name names, South Carolina for instance. In fact, if I try to think of horror novels and such set in South Carolina, the only one that immediately comes to mind is a supremely stupid novel whose title I can't recall, but which featured Dante Gabriel Rossetti as a vampire unleashed on a small town in South Carolina after his coffin is salvaged from the wreckage of the Titanic. Although, for what it's worth, one of those John Connolly novels features South Carolina as one of the main characters is from there -- the main character has to fly down to the Charlotte airport and has quite a lot of shit-talk to say about Charlotte's airport and where you can fly to from there. Meanwhile, the novels of Kathy Reichs, set in Charlotte, occasionally have her visiting South Carolina as well.
But still. When are we going to get a slew of horror novels and movies and TV series set down here? We're meaner and crazier than Maine ever had time to be! And just think, it's usually hot as hell here also, so when the hapless victim-to-be is bumbling around in the woods trying to escape, in addition to the mandatory jiggly jubblies, you'll also get a fetching slick of boob sweat.
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The Dead Zone (one of the best film adaptations of a Stephen King novel) is set in Maine but filmed in Niagara on the Lake and Saint Catherines, Ontario.
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Shooting started in early January 1983 and took place in the Greater Toronto Area and the Regional Municipality of Niagara of Cronenberg's native Ontario, Canada. The so-called Screaming Tunnel, located in nearby Niagara Falls, Ontario, was also used as the backdrop for one scene. The gazebo was built by the film crew and donated to Niagara-on-the-Lake
According to a David Cronenberg interview on the DVD, The Dead Zone was filmed during a relentless deep freeze in southern Ontario which lasted for weeks, creating an authentic atmosphere of subzero temperatures and icy snow-packed terrain, which made for great natural shooting locations, despite it being almost too cold for cast and crew to tolerate at times. Canada's Wonderland, a theme park which is 30 km north of Toronto's city limits, was also used as a filming location.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Zone_(film)
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