Cinematic Haunts #2: Centralia PA
Article By: Annie Riordan
 
“Fire doesn’t cleanse. It blackens.”
~Silent Hill
 

 
“It is a barren wasteland, riddled with fire, ash, and dust. The very air you breathe is a poisonous fume.” When actor Sean Bean spoke those lines in the 2001 film The Fellowship Of The Ring, he was referring to the dread land of Mordor, where the Dark Lord Sauron held sway. But he may as well have been referring to his upcoming role in the 2006 horror blockbuster Silent Hill, based on the video game series of …

Cinematic Haunts – Danvers State Insane Asylum
Article by Annie Riordan

“We call her the “Kirkbride Building”, named after Dr. Thomas Kirkbride. It’s a pretty simple layout, if you consider a giant flying bat. The main staff building in the middle, the bat body, and slanting off to each side are these crooked bat wings. One for female patients, the other for male. A bat.”
 
~Session 9

When a haunted house movie is done correctly and well, the main character is always the haunted house or building itself. There’s something incredibly ominous about an …