Yes, it is set in Vermont

Cool! I read that it was filmed in Eastern Europe, too bad they didn’t actually film it here.

Yeah it’s set in VT but literally no actual filming was done here. And no actual images of Vermont.

Annoying

Luis Guzman still lives in Vermont

I know, but he moved to cabot from his old spot ;)

As an MMU alum, I for one am happy to claim her as one of us.

Cougar nation

I met him at Mr Pizza in Lyndonville.

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.

lol...pizza man??

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

Lol! Your correct, at my age I'm surprised I still remember what pizza is!

haha, no worries, we're regulars there and I'm going to start calling it that

I think it's awesome pizza, a little far from me, but we'll worth the drive.

And Beetlejuice was actually filmed in Vermont, yes? (Select scenes, mostly from the beginning)

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.

totally!

Cougars forever haha. Graduated in 09 and moved to btv after. It’s our time to shine after Me, Myself, and Irene. Or maybe Super Troopers.

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.

Apparently the town of Jericho was built on a sound ayah and looks like the real town, or so I've read.

I only realized it when I saw a Vermont license plate at the very end. It was so obvious looking back with the Burlington reference haha.

He’s visiting film faculty at VCFA right now

He moved from Peacham to Cabot?

Way back in the early 1980s a movie was partially filmed in Jericho and several local students were extras in the fight scene. I don't know the name of the owners now, but the Allens owned the big brick house on the corner of Rt 15 and Lee River, near Joe's Snack Bar, and allowed filming inside the house. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gift_of_Love:_A_Christmas_Story

SO many movies do this!

The film Wizard of Loneliness was filmed in Bristol. A few locals had roles in the film alongside Lukas Haas and Leah Thompson.

My husband and in laws ran into him at the tractor supply a couple of weeks ago! Got to shake his hand, he was very nice.

is a sound ayah anything like a sound stage?

Yep, Corinth

> 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.

it's Howard Dean's campaign yell.

Also there was a movie with Susan Sarandon and Don Johnson filmed in Hyde Park.

I saw him at White’s Market in Lyndonville not too many years ago.

Pizzman, and a couple other VT pizzerias, make the NEK pizza which is bacon, apple, spinach, tomato drizzled with a maple vinaigrette (we also add chicken). It should be something they put on foody travel shows that people come from all over to order it’s so god damn good.

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Did anyone catch the Awful "Vermont " accent of the lady driving the truck at the very beginning of the first episode? I laughed so hard.

They have VT license plates

Is maple vinegarette the same as maple basalmic?

What a fun fact! Now I really need to stop putting it off!

One or the other. I just woke up. Let’s call it a maple drizzle of some kind.

He used to be in Sutton, and then I read he lives in Cabot? But that could be wrong?

Agreed!

😂

Filmed in Romania

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Yes! You’ll see later on eventually that it takes place in Jericho! But it’s like Jericho XL lmao

FYI, Marshfield Village Store has a deli which makes surprisingly good pizza. I recommend their philly cheese stake pizza.

Yup... saw the license plate on the VW earlier in it. Pretty much the only actually "Vermont" I noticed were plates...

Indeed I meant the author himself.

I remember watching Captain Phillips in the movie theater and the whole theater started laughing at the scene where Tom Hank's character was driving in Vermont on a congested 4 lane interstate highway.

My wife always gives me shit for finding my way in for a slice when I’m out running errands.

Seriously 🤣 about 50x larger than the real one

lol I forget about that!

It reminds me of a true crime podcast that described Rutland as a "sleepy little town"

Do you leave the greasy paper plate on the car floor like I do? That's my tell.

I'm certainly not a valid source. My friend met him when he was visiting a hospital. She told me he lived in Peacham at the time but don't know if he told her that or it came from a coworker.

Not that it really matters. Not like we're gonna go out and search for him lol

Edit: a quick Google search tells me I'm wrong and he lives in Cabot. Sorry about that.

Haha no problem, all I know is that he used to live in this crazy large house in Sutton.

That's what I meant. Sleep deprivation will do that to you.

Mr. Pizza is his father.

Funny Farm was filmed in Vermont as well. My aunt proudly displayed prop sheep from the movie in her front yard for years after.

I’m slightly slyer and put them in the small trash can in my car, then in the trash can at the car port. Which she then goes to our house trash in and sees all the plates. I’ll figure it out someday.

There are literally inviduals of us

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

super troopers wasnt filmed in vermont

It does not look like the real town

I am a Hollywood screenwriter, producer, and native Vermonter (Chris Parizo). Also I’m on the selection committee for the Slamdance Film Festival in UT. r/screenwriting has me confirmed as this if anyone wants to check it. Or my IMDb.

I have tried numerous times to get producers to look at VT as a filming hub, and many are interested, but the state government refuses to allow the tax rebates that European countries, New York, and Massachusetts offer.

I literally had someone in the VT senate say to me, “Johnny Depp doesn’t need another tax write off.”

True, but do you know who doesn’t get it? Johnny Depp. Do you know who would? Me. Because I’m bringing 1 million dollar budget films to Vermont that employs and casts locals as crew and cast.

I could, right now, bring three feature film projects to VT. It would create over 100 jobs per film and invigorate local businesses. I’d hire VT ADs, Cinematographers, and artists for set building and costumes… the next day.

If Vermonters want to have the onscreen representation that benefits Vermonters directly, tell your local representative to reinstate the tax incentives we had in the 90’s and to recreate the film commission role.

And even add stipulations that 50% of crew must be VT residents, or must employ local restaurants as caters. The ball is literally in Montpelier’s court on this.

Otherwise, get used to MA, NY, and other countries fleecing us out of the opportunity.

EDIT: I am currently putting together a film that takes place in VT… guess where it’s cheaper to film than here… Sweden.

He comes in the store where I work. He's very quiet but is always polite and kind

I've heard he's a really nice guy.

That sounds horrible.

oh cool! Maybe I'll watch it.

I was in High School at MMU when they did the shoot for Me, Myself and Irene on Lee River Road with the Mustang and him rolling out of it. Got to take some of the day off and go down and check out the setup and see him get in the mustang and drive off for the scene.

Yeah main bulk was NY. But some secondary shots and such where of Vermont. Just not the bulk of the movie.

Feels like they Smooshed Underhill and Jericho together to form a town.

I ran into him 9-10 years ago now at in Williston Home Depot picking out a snow shovel, don’t think he recognized me! He did not have a good game when he was on the Pickle Ball charity tournament last week.

Also they mention Nevermore was founded in 1791, the year Vermont was founded as a State.

And the year our old ass house was built lol

I said the same thing!

What secondary shots were in Vermont? I don’t understand why they would bother since it takes place in a fictional town and a generic looking highway without any shots of any recognizable Vermont towns or landmarks.

The school from the last scene was also film in Vermont.

Our staties have blue lights, not red and blue. What was shot in Vermont?

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”

Well you're a poop stain what would you know

It doesn’t look remotely like the real Jericho

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

Welcome to Riverside

Perhaps /u/bravestatevt could check this out.

Would be pretty amazing.

Josh: I could get an Oscar nom’d resident and some established H’wood actors as guests. PM me

I was at MMU when Me, Myself, and Irene was being filmed down the road.

I shit myself after I tried your "pizza".

Too funny, they turned the film cars around in our neighborhood.

This is incredibly, unequivocally true. I lived in NC and when they ditched the film tax breaks, I watched most of the productions move to Georgia. They moved Sleepy Hollow to Vancouver from Wilmington, NC after having already done a season, having locations established, etc. Tax policy is what decides what gets shot where.

Wilmington was “Hollywood East” for so long. My first on-set experience was Dawson’s Creek down there. Amazing town.

But, yep, it’s all about the money. And the nature of VT is too anti-business and growth to see the big picture.

If I borrow 500k from a financier to make a movie, I have to recoup them regardless if my movie makes $500m or $500.

If I film in GA right now, I get all the money I spend in GA back come tax season, regardless of box office because I created jobs and stimulated the local economy - which pays back my financier and stops me from going bankrupt or getting sued.

In VT, I get nothing back. Regardless of whatever boost the production gives to the economy. So I’m taking 100% financial risk with no safety net below me by filming here.

And it makes sense. There’s no financial benefit for the state government other than bragging rights and civil pride that “that was filmed here.” Skiing stimulates VT economy, not Marvel like it does GA. It’s a money pit to the tax payer.

So, sure, filming a legit Hollywood film (vs the local stuff with no distribution outlet or Hollywood representation) at the Burlington Waterfront or Nectar’s or wherever would be amazing, but I’ll take any waterfront or bar in Quebec or upstate NY first and save my bank account.

Chris - did you happen to work years ago at a call center in BTV? If so, I think I know you... PM me if you did

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Only real Vermont 90's kids did NOAA surveys, my friend. I don't trust anyone who didn't.

hahaha!

Hey man! Long time no chat. This is Craig Rigby. Your in CA doing film now? Awesome!

Yo! Craig! What’s up, buddy!?!

Nope. Living in So Burlington and working in LA. Came back just before Covid to raise my kids here.

There weren’t any explicit mentions of Vermont but there were definitely strong allusions! Burlington half hour from Jericho, Green plates on the cars, at one point they show her dialing a number and she punches in 802! Fun details for sure.

There was a scene with police taking a mug shot, where you can see "Jericho, VT" on the frame.

Well with a name like "PoopStain" that must happen on the regular. Fiber does wonders.

I'd get more fiber if your weren't hogging it like a stool pigeon.

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Your pizza still sucks. There's a reason it wasn't invented in Vermont.