Where is haddonfield

While some may make the assumption that Haddonfield is a real town, crew members creatively blended several locations together to create the vision Carpenter had for his ideal setting. Haddonfield, Illinois may not be real, but it is based on a real town named Haddonfield. The actual Haddonfield is in southern New Jersey, not too far from Philadelphia.

Debra Hill, who co-wrote and produced Halloween with John Carpenter , was from Haddonfield so that was why the name was chosen. This has led to the incorrect belief that Halloween was shot in Haddonfield, New Jersey. Interestingly, the towns do look similar with plenty of trees and large single-family homes, including some in the Victorian style.

Haddonfield Memorial Hospital is a location of interest in Halloween Kills, and the campus of Cape Fear Community College was used to bring the setting to life. First look at the mayhem David has created for all of you. However, the fictional town was inspired by the New Jersey town of the same name, located just outside of Philadelphia. Co-writer and producer, Debra Hill, was from Haddonfield, which is where the inspiration for the fictional town came from. In other news, How much did it cost to make Dune?

Death came too early for filmmaker Hill, considered a pioneer for women in Hollywood. The South Jersey producer and filmmaker died of cancer at age 54 in During her time in Hollywood, she worked as writer, director, producer and script supervisor on films including "Escape from New York" , "The Dead Zone" , "Adventures in Babysitting" and "The Fog" A documentary about the Hollywood trail blazer was said to be in development 10 years after her death, by DPYX. Hill was born on Nov.

Upon graduating from Haddonfield Memorial High School in , she became a script supervisor and production assistant on documentaries in the early s before getting her first big break by co-writing "Halloween" with Carpenter. When she passed after a long struggle with colon cancer, Carpenter told the Associated Press working with her was "one of the greatest experiences of my life — she had a passion for not just movies about women or women's ideas but films for everybody".

Carpenter has said in numerous interviews over the years that the setting for the Halloween classic was influenced by his own growing up years in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where his family lived in a log cabin near the university of the same name. The latest film was shot in Wilmington, North Carolina. More Halloween fun: Fall is for festivals, fairs, scary stuff and Halloween fun.

However, it is not difficult to imagine the leafy side streets and Victorian homes in the jump scare classic taking place not far off Kings Highway right here in New Jersey's leafy suburbs. In fact, a sense of suburban isolation figures big in what makes the fairly spare film so powerful after so many years.