Shutter island is based on the novel of the same name by author dennis lehane, who is best known for his boston area mysterydramas, mystic river and gone baby gone. This is martin scorseses evocation of the delicious shuddering fear we feel when horror movies are about something and dont release all the tension with action scenes. Shutter island location a couple years back i went to the medfield state hospital and accidentally found a building where scorsese filmed shutter island. Dec 02, 2018 amazing easily found facts about shutter island before martin scorsese and leonardo dicaprio decided to make this film, they were originally going to make the wolf of wall street 20. Jun 16, 2010 when the film opens, teddy is on a boat headed for shutter island the boat is real, by the way. Shutter island was one of the plot twisting endings to a movie ever in theaters. Jul 29, 2010 shutter island the book shows such a treatment failing.
The location of the psychiatric hospital in the movie shutter island 2010 is not based on any real location. Visiting a shutter island martin scorsese filming location in medfield, ma. Were excited to present this one of a kind immersive screening event in partnership with the town of medfield. Shutter islands ending explained david cox film the guardian. Leonardo dicaprios previous film, martin scorseses shutter island, confused just as many cinemagoers. Were here to correctly diagnose whats wrong amidst.
Maine, home to the infamous stephen king, is often the backdrop of horror films. Dicaprios performance is very similar to that which he had in inception, which i understand was filmed around the same time as shutter island. Notable new england film locations new england today. Shutter islands ending explained david cox film the. Shutter island is a 2010 american neonoir psychological thriller film directed by martin scorsese and written by laeta kalogridis, based on dennis lehane s 2003 novel of the same name. The structure of the plot, in which cawleys efforts to. Other than this, film makers didnt use many other locations during the production of shutter island. Shutter island represents exactly what one should hope for when seeing a. Shutter island is moreover a film that revolves around notions of performance, illusion, and theatricality, and in many ways functions as a testament to the power of the moving image. A few of the scenes were shot on soundstages, like most of the hallucnationdreams that dicaprio has. In an interview by a hollywood critic the day the film aired in the theatres, he asked that no one speak of it. On a visit to the location where most of the film was shot, the nowabandoned medfield state. On shutter island, his adaptation of dennis lehanes bestselling novel, director martin scorsese was well stocked on both counts, thanks to a team of familiar collaborators that included director of photography robert richardson, asc and rob legato, the shows visualeffects supervisor and secondunit director cinematographer.
Aug 15, 2010 scorsese filmed the scenes in old industrial buildings in tauntons whittenton mills complex to replicate the dachau concentration camp, which was seen in flashbacks. The question and answer section for shutter island film is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel. While scorsese is very good at creating strong images and exploring powerful characters. Where was shutter island filmed discover the shutter. Shutter island the book shows such a treatment failing. Old industrial buildings in tauntons whittenton mills complex replicated the dachau concentration camp. Peddocks island, boston harbor, boston, massachusetts, usa. Shutter island debuts celebrities feted the films premiere around the world. Notable new england film locations maine film locations. The film opens in 1954 as world war ii veteran and. Shutter island at medfield state hospital coolidge corner. Medfield state hospital the filming location of both. May 23, 2018 we have official began our usa road trip today i explored the abandoned medfield mental asylum where the movie shutter island was filmed. Shutter island is a movie that made from the book with the same title written by dennis lane and released on april 15, 2003.
Shutter island is a 2010 american neonoir psychological thriller film directed by martin scorsese and written by laeta kalogridis, based on dennis lehanes. Shutter island and xmen new mutants filming locations duration. The movie is fiction, based on the 2003 novel by dennis lahane. The movie filmed scenes at the whittenton mills complex in taunton, then director martin scorsese moved on to.
Shutter island gave us everything we could have wanted in a leonardo dicaprio movie. Mar 11, 2010 shutter island is based on the 2003 thriller from dennis lehane, the author of mystic river filmed by clint eastwood and gone baby gone filmed by ben affleck. The film was directed by the legendary scorsese and adapted from a novel by dennis lehane mystic river, gone baby gone. Jun 16, 2010 they filmed a majority of the film on ashecliffe, which is a real place. Locallyfilmed shutter island is the newest stop on cinemas tour of asylums and their inhabitants. One of these was scorseses psychiatric adviser, professor james gilligan of new york university. East head, peddocks island, boston harbor, massachusetts photograph. The baitandswitch twist forces the viewer to recontextualize the entire film up until that point, making shutter island a rich experience on the second and third watches. Shutter island was mainly filmed in massachusetts, with taunton being the location for the world war ii flashback scenes. Shutter island is not said to be scary, but it is considered to be a. The jury is still out on shutter islands correct interpretation, and the debate surrounding the films ending still rages today.
The room teddy is in has manacles and shackles hanging in it restraints for the prisoners being brought to the island, and likely where teddyandrew was held before the role play experiment began. The rocky coastline at the beginning of the film, which is the setting of the fictional shutter island, is actually peddocks island in boston harbor. The significance of the lighthouse in shutter island the. Filming location for shutter island at medfield state hospital.
Feb 21, 2020 the movie opened february 19, 2010, making this month its 10th anniversary. Feb 19, 2010 locally filmed shutter island is the newest stop on cinemas tour of asylums and their inhabitants. The 2010 martin scorcese film starring leonardo dicaprio about a missing psychiatric patient takes place on an island off the coast of boston. Leonardo dicaprio, michelle williams, emily mortimer, jackie earle haley, patricia clarkson, john carroll lynch. The old medfield state hospital in medfield, massachusetts, was another key location. Medfield state hospital the filming location of both shutter island and the box august 29, 2017 nikola petrovski its beginnings are to be found in 1892, but it wasnt until may of 1896 that this hospital had its doors open for the first time. Extras portraying the dachau prisoners were called back to reshoot a scene in july, because the film of one scene was damaged due to an improperly sealed film shipping container. It takes only one glimpse of shutter island to be filled with a sense of doom.
Marshal edward teddy daniels, who is investigating a psychiatric facility on shutter island after one of the patients goes. Visiting a shutter island martin scorsese filming location in. Shutter island starts working on us with the first musical notes under the paramount logos mountain, even before the film starts. Shutter island is a greatlooking, highly stylized, very intense thriller in the vein of martin scorseses earlier cape fear 1991. The casting of the film is very good, as is the acting.
Oct 12, 2017 the jury is still out on shutter island s correct interpretation, and the debate surrounding the films ending still rages today. We have official began our usa road trip today i explored the abandoned medfield mental asylum where the movie shutter island was filmed. We hope that we managed to answer all your questions regarding the filming locations of this movie. The baitandswitch twist forces the viewer to recontextualize the entire film up until that point, making shutter island a rich experience on the. It had incredible twists and turns that you couldnt have expected. Martin scorsese and leonardo dicaprio team up for a fourth time for this adaptation of shutter island, a novel by dennis lehane mystic river. Shutter island is based on the 2003 thriller from dennis lehane, the author of mystic river filmed by clint eastwood and gone baby gone filmed by. Lake placid 1999, the mist 2007, the uninvited 2009, and dark shadows 2012 all take place in quintessential small towns of maine, and with few exceptions, maine is used for the stuff of nightmares. Marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderer who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane. Movie was filmed in 2010, countries of filming locations are united states.
The film, according to gilligan, shows it succeeding, at least in dispelling delusion. Acadia national park, bar harbor, maine, usa by alberto dedham, usa 1 film locations. Plot analysis shutter island is a brilliant film based on a book by the same name. Unlike those other two books, however, shutter island is a psychological drama that is far deeper and more complex. With leonardo dicaprio, emily mortimer, mark ruffalo, ben kingsley. Medfield state hospital 45 hospital road, medfield, massachusetts, usa. See martin scorseses haunting shutter island outdoors on the grounds where it was filmed at medfield state hospital. Hes been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasnt been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments.
The movie opened february 19, 2010, making this month its 10th anniversary. Scenes for the film were shot on a massachusetts island, but the rocky island shore and the crashing waves were filmed at otter cliffs in acadia national park. The rest of the film, however, is very faithful to dennis lehanes already great story. Apr 02, 2017 the significance of the lighthouse in shutter island the final shot of martin scorseses 2010 psychological thriller, shutter island, was the lighthouse. Filming locations 18 filming dates 1 filming locations. Apr 20, 2017 visiting the real location where gilligans island was filmed. The asylum is on an island and they get stranded there after a big storm sweeps in after their arrival.
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