Abandoned Man-Made Creations

That, in detroit (an abandoned school book repository) is my fave so far. I mean, this is so well art-directed I don't know how it couldn't be a great place to shoot.

Only issues I can think of are electricity for lighting - generators may need to be used and that causes sound issues blah blah but man, this is breathtaking. Couldn't have done as good a a job with a week, ten ten year olds, some lighter fluid and spray paint, myself.

Damn, you've got half the plot right there.

Yeah, you'd have to literally bury the generator, or wall it up cheaply. Batteries are getting more and more sophisticated, too, so depending on how much light you need, a very tight storyboard could get the job done without one. I'm assuming no permits would be needed, and it's not like continuity is much of an issue in a place like that, so I imagine you'd have as much time as you needed. And hell, the place is scary in the daylight anyway.

Would still love to do an Eskimo ghost revenge story in the four story igloo hotel. I think that's so cool, I'd even title the picture Four Story Igloo Hotel to get as much mileage out of it as I could.

Potential titles:

EsKILLmo

Igloo of terror

Horror Igloo Hotel

Plot? the spirit of an angry Eskimo haunts the abandoned Igloo Hotel. When four college students come to party for a crazy night of sex, beer, and moose BBQ, they find themselves getting picked off one by one by the crazed spirit of the Eskimo warrior, who will stop at nothing to avenge the death of his whaling village by Russian traders 200 years ago... at the very spot where the Igloo Hotel now rests!

Eskimo Kisses...of Death!

Hey! You stole that from EsKILLator!

I like the plot, except I would make it a group of students on a field trip who are forced to spend the night at the hotel after their bus breaks down. The driver gets killed first, followed by one of the two teachers before anyone realizes what's happening. Then they get killed off one by one until there's only one person left, who gets blamed for the murders and arrested by the police.

The sequel would take place at the police station where the survivor gets book and charged with killing everyone at the hotel. But everyone gets killed off one by one in the small town by the same Eskimo ghost, eventually leaving the original sole survivor the only survivor again.

On a completely different note, I think Detroit's closed East Catholic H.S. would be a great place to shoot a zombie apocalypse movie - the building already looks like a movie set:

Jessica

Personally, I've always been proud of where I come from as a wonderful place for shooting. We've got thick, wonderful forests of all kinds, abandoned grain silos and farm houses, and endless prairie fields that we're using for a small Zombie horde flick we're working on for next year. I've always felt that the great wide north is a terrifying place when you start to feel the pure isolation of the setting. I like to think of stories like Sinclair Ross' The Painted Door as an example of that when I'm working. You really are all alone out here. And it's terrifying.

i absolutely love old, abandoned places. I found this photography site once with lots of pics of russian buildings that had been abandoned-- including one where homeless people went to die (sort of an elephant gravewayr--for hobos) or where non-homeless people went to kill themselves. Comnplete with dead bodies! It was really interesting.

I just want an abandoned prison so I can finally make my WIP film (and I don't wanna go to the Philippines to do it, either).

i'm in love with all these places! i'd spaz out if i was taken on a HOD walk through to any number of these, shame theres only a few in the UK listed, but then i did live near Highgate tube station, but that was working last time i was there???

Believe it or not, I've done extensive research on the Inuit for a screenplay I wrote a few years ago. Sadly, it takes place just after WWII so none of it would be usable for a "modern" EsKILLmo Hotel, but the people there have some very creepy folklore, including those that the script is named after: The Outside Men.

The Aleutian Islands are basically hell made out of mud, but they're also the seat of some old, spiritual civilizations. Back when the Japanese were raiding them, some of the military age youths were trying to escape into the surrounding wilderness to avoid fighting (they're very peaceful, like the first hippies) and a tale of ghosts of perished Aleuts past coming to accost and recruit them came about to keep the boys from going AWOL. There are also a lot of very cool church huts that dot the barren tundra as the Aleuts were and are very religious people. I set a standoff inside one. I think it was Russian Orthodox. Not sure, but there's lots to mine there, surprisingly, and the harpoon as murder weapon is totally at your disposal.

Great pics of East Catholic High, there. It's like everyone went out for a fire drill and never came back.

I found this site ages ago when looking for surreal horror on the internet by women (I know, don't we all search for that like, every day?):

http://abandonedmuse.com/images.htm

This chick, Tanya Diaz, does surreal filmmaking and photography of abandoned places and things in Miami, and made this short doc about an abandoned Ramada hotel:

http://www.abandonedmuse.com/ramada.htm

Lost America Night Photography has some incredible night images of abandoned places:

http://www.lostamerica.com/

Andrew - aren't there any abandoned prisons near Atlanta?

Jessica