an asylum. It was that kind of counterbalance
against the horrors of the story that I love to work
with. The more extreme the subject matter, the
more important it is to balance it with contrasting
imagery.
Ryan also referenced Hitchcock movies such as
Vertigo and the Northern California communities
of Big Sur and Monterey as they appeared in the
films tat time ildings it lts d
detail, atmospheric and mysterious foggy views
of the ocean, majestic redwoods and so forth. I
was lucky enough to have my number one West
Coast location manager on the job, Robert Foulkes.
Robert had to search high and low throughout the
entire state t find te rigt latins. ten e
ld ear at a rmising latin nl t find
out it had been torn down years ago, or renovated.
I showed Ryan a few locations that I felt we could
work with, but they didn't have the heightened
reality he was looking for.
Robert kept telling me about an old spa hotel in
Arrowhead Springs near San Bernardino. It took
A. PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL.
EXTERIOR LOCATION. SET
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B. & C. DR. HANOVER'S
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