Are porn film sets generally creepy places?

[max_tranmere]

I have a DVD that mentions the address of where the movies for that production company are made. This is about a 5 minute walk from a person's house that I visited in a certain town on the south coast of England back in December. Having watched this DVD many times, and having seen the address details appear in the closing credits on countless occasions, the road name was kind of stuck in my mind, but I thought nothing more of it. I walked around this town for nothing more than just an ordinary stroll and when I saw the name of that road, which I only stumbled upon by chance, it was annoying me that the road name was ringing a bell in my head but I couldnt place it. I suddenly remembered back at the place where I was staying that it was the road name that always came up in the closing credits of this DVD. I did some research online and found out the road number.

I was now intrigued and I wandered round there especially the next day. Every house in that road are semi's and they are all large and were built in the 19th century by the look of them. All are in good order and all have the street number on, or next to, the door. I got to this place and it looked really creepy! The absense of any street number on or near the door was very noticeable, presumably so if anyone photographed it it wouldn't give away it's location in the street (strange then that they put the full address in the DVD's!). It looked like it was last painted in the 1970's and it had a lifeless kind of feel to it. No activity, and all the blinds and curtains closed - giving the impression that is how it always is there. The place had an eery-ness to it not that dis-similar to the house in the film 'Salems Lot' or 'Phycho'. It seemed scary to think what it might be like inside.

As this is the only porn film set I have ever knowingly looked at from the outside, I can not compare it to other ones. Do a lot of porn film sets have a spooky, cold, feel to them?

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They certainly are...a few scenes have been shot here in my office and it's full of cobwebs and spiders !nervous! !shocked!

[max_tranmere]

This place was genuinely creepy. I would not be keen to walk past it at night. Seriously.

[Mysteryman]

South Coast? All blinds and curtains closed? Otherwise a good area?

Was there a Merc outside? Cos it sounds like someone's who has contributed to this thread !wicked!!laugh!

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Ha ha - no, it wasn't my place, Mysteryman - curious to know whose it is though...

[LaylaJade]

The have been 2 locations that stay in my mind, one was the abandoned hospital that I shot at in downtowm LA where I worked with Stephen st crox and the other one was this crazy house in hollywood, the owner of the house was obviously a hoarder and there was stuff on every inch of the wallls ,it was pretty crazy.

[andy at handiwork]

Hadlow Tower was pretty creepy especially when the lights blew one night. Clink in Newport was rather chilling, especially in the real cells.

[max_tranmere]

Was an eerie place. I wonder if the people who live next door, in the semi- that joins it, were aware of what goes on inside...

[laralatex]

I've never shot there, but id love too. Going past it late at nite and finding there's lights on is really spooky. Especially when they're on some nights and not the next.


It's disused as a hospital but used for a lot of film sets. Funnily enough it near to where Marc Bolan died.

[isabel ice]

I shot in Spain at an old Mental Asylem, where apparently the paitents all commited mass suicide...woooooOOOooo but that was the effect the were going for...

A couple of weird sets in LA spring to mind, that's for sure....
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