Built in 1980, shortly before the filming of E.T., the extra-terrestrial, this beautiful house in the San Fernando Valley has not aged at all.
Built in 1980, shortly before the filming of E.T., the extra-terrestrial, this beautiful house in the San Fernando Valley has not aged at all.
Wedged between the Verdugo and San Gabriel mountains, the town of Sunland-Tujunga is the result of the union of two separate municipalities. In the 1990s considered a tough town, due to the presence of several motorcycle gangs, today it has regained its tranquility. If E.T., the extra-terrestrial remains the most famous movie to have been filmed there, at the level of the house at 7121 Lonzo Street, other feature films such as The River of Death have been filmed there. The city has also seen the outlaws of the Sons of Anarchy series and the romantic betrayals of Mildred Pierce.
Since the dawn of cinema, films have invaded the world and highlighted sometimes unexpected places. Every film location has its secrets. The latter are sometimes as exciting as the feature films themselves.
Did you know that the cemetery where the final duel of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was built from scratch and that no body lies there? Or that the bus ofInto The Wild has been moved to discourage fans from spending the night there? From the story of the construction of The Bridge on the River Kwai to the incredible encounter during the shooting of the last scene ofIndiana Jones and the Last Crusadeembark on an exciting world tour with the greatest stars of the seventh art. Shiver in the real haunted house ofAmityville and discover the terrifying anecdotes of the making ofApocalypse Now in the Philippines. Visit the building of Blade Runner before stopping at Hogwarts and finally landing in Jurassic Parkin the middle of the Hawaiian archipelago. What if we also took you behind the scenes of the making of the Hobbits’ village of Lord of the Rings ?
Produced by a team of pop-culture specialists and enhanced by numerous anecdotes, Cult! movies tells the secrets of the places that made the history of cinema.
