Sorority House Massacre I & II: Filming Locations

The sorority house as seen in the film: Sorority House Massacre

How the house looks now.

Living in Los Angeles I get to see a lot of filming locations for my favorite movies. Realistically, after seeing these locations it actually takes away a lot of the impact the movie had. With movie magic, a lot of these places were shot to seem a lot more secluded than they actually were. 

Night of the Demons (1988): Filming Locations

The old man's house in the beginning of the film.

This is how that house looks now. It was long abandon, but is now being

refurbished and is for sale/lease. It's on Menlo Avenue at 29th.

Kevin S. Tenney's Night of the Demons (1988) was shot pretty much entirely in one area of the Historic Menlo/29th District in Central Los Angeles. The Old Man's home seen in the beginning and the end of the movie is on the corner of Menlo Avenue and 29th Street.

People Under the Stairs: Filming Location

The house in the film People Under the Stairs

How the house looks today

The house used as the main location in the 1991, Wes Craven film The People Under the Stairs is located in central Los Angeles near the Historical Adams District on Harvard Avenue. Most of the interiors were actually shot on a set, making the home look a lot larger than it really is. 

Directly across from this home is the home used in the film Sorority House Massacre II (which is abandon). In that film the Red Herring Orville Ketchum lived across the street, in this home. At the end of this film – when the residents gather in the street – the Sorority House Massacre II house can be seen.

The Devil's Rejects Filming Locations(s)

Even though Rob Zombie has called the Friday the 13th franchise "stupid", I saw a lot of (maybe) unintentional homages throughout his 2005 movie The Devil's Rejects. The most obvious is Tiny's outfit in the beginning of the movie was spot on to Jason's in Friday the 13th: Part II.

Though, The Devil's Rejects was set in Texas, is was shot in the lower Mojave desert and places more south like Santa Clarita. Most of the movie was shot at the Sable Movie Ranch on Sand Canyon Road, right in the middle of Santa Clarita, California. Scenes like the "chicken fucker", Charlie Altamont's place, the Firefly house, and many more scenes. Here are some locations off of that movie ranch that reached as far up as Lancaster, California. 

"Buck's Grab n' Go" where Spaulding pulled into when his truck ran out of gas.

Rio Groceries is an actual store right outside of Acton, California.

Rio Groceries was used in the movie (mostly exterior shots), and is an actual store right on Soledad Canyon Road. It'a about 2 miles before the Acton KOA Campground. Even though the store has changed a little bit and was dressed up for the movie, it still remains pretty similar and still functioning.

Bad movies anyone?

I threw some clips together from a couple movies that I consider to be awfully bad to the point where they are simply amazing. The first are clips from a movie called The American Scream which is a film about a family on a Christmas vacation in a Sierra Mountain town called Wilson Creek. Wilson Creek is a town of adults who really dislike kids and teenagers and ironically a place where families take their children to be killed by the town folk. Of course, the Benzigers did not get that memo!

The movie is cock-full of horrible acting, bad one-liners and scenes that just make no sense what so ever! Sadly, it's not on DVD at all and can easily be found floating around on VHS-- www.fleshwoundvideo.com also sells a bootleg/DVDr of it!