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werdnak84 t1_ixxnoho wrote

Tim Burton has an attachment to specific American states. Beetlejuice took place in Connecticut. Edward Scissorhands and Miss Penegrine's Home For Peculiar Children are set in Florida.

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eye-brows t1_ixxszz5 wrote

Which is so funny because I'm pretty sure that in Beetlejuice, the scenes in the town were all shot in East Corinth, VT.

And of course now fuckin' Alec Baldwin lives here.

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reverievt t1_iy10toc wrote

Can I downvote Alec Baldwin without downvoting you, my friend?

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SocialistMoms OP t1_ixxnt1r wrote

nice, love this sort of trivia which is why i asked!

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werdnak84 t1_ixxok26 wrote

Yep! With how fixated he is on grimdark themes, it's natural he'd be fixated on a lot of New England or Northeastern locations as well since those have a wealth of popular supernatural and paranormal stories in their histories like Sleepy Hollow (Tarrytown, New York), Cthuhlu (Rhode Island), and the Salem, Massachusetts witch trials. Most Halloween landscapes in corporate retail items are modeled after New England. I am all for this, as Hollywood otherwise never includes the Northeast in their films in favor of what they're already familiar with like California, and other places in the tropical zones.

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pyl_time t1_ixyqktv wrote

> Cthuhlu (Rhode Island)

One minor correction, while Lovecraft himself was from Rhode Island most of his works are set around Massachusetts (although "The Whisperer in Darkness" actually takes place outside Townshend, Vermont!).

edit to add: Relevant quote on the topic though from Lovecraft himself:
> the true epicure of the terrible, to whom a new thrill of unutterable ghastliness is the chief end and justification of existence, esteem most of all the ancient, lonely farmhouses of backwoods New England; for there the dark elements of strength, solitude, grotesqueness, and ignorance combine to form the perfection of the hideous.

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Intelligent-Hunt7557 t1_iy0ul07 wrote

Also quite a breadth of VT mention in “The Whisperer”:

“The tales thus brought to my notice came mostly through newspaper cuttings; though one yarn had an oral source and was repeated to a friend of mine in a letter from his mother in Hardwick, Vermont. The type of thing described was essentially the same in all cases, though there seemed to be three separate instances involved - one connected with the Winooski River near Montpelier, another attached to the West River in Windham County beyond Newfane, and a third centering in the Passumpsic in Caledonia County above Lyndonville”

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BlaiddDrwg82 t1_ixzi3a9 wrote

In high school (late 90s) I was told he had a house in Walpole, NH.

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