“Black Kiss” by Howard Chaykin:
- Los Angeles, California
- Hollywood Hills
- Downtown LA
- A seedy motel
- A bar
- A cemetery
- A mansion
“Blue Velvet” by David Lynch:
- Lumberton, North Carolina (fictional town)
- A suburban neighborhood
- A nightclub
- A police station
- An industrial park
- A hospital
- A hardware store
- A local diner
- A park
“Rosemary’s Baby” by Ira Levin:
- New York City, New York
- The Bramford apartment building (fictional)
- A doctor’s office
- A bookstore
- A laundry room
- A library
- Central Park
“The Omen” directed by Richard Donner:
- Rome, Italy
- London, England
- The Thorn residence in England
- A hospital
- A church
- An archaeological dig site
- A zoo
- Apartment buildings/complexes (e.g., the Bramford in “Rosemary’s Baby”, the Jeffrey Beaumont’s apartment in “Blue Velvet”)
- Churches/religious buildings (e.g., St. Patrick’s Cathedral in “Rosemary’s Baby”, the church where Father Brennan dies in “The Omen”)
- Hospitals/medical facilities (e.g., the hospital where Rosemary gives birth in “Rosemary’s Baby”, the hospital where Damien is born in “The Omen”)
- Houses/mansions (e.g., the Castevets’ apartment in “Rosemary’s Baby”, the Palmer house in “Twin Peaks”)
- Nightclubs/bars (e.g., the Slow Club in “Blue Velvet”, the Black Rose bar in “Black Kiss”)
- Stores/businesses (e.g., the bookstore where Rosemary buys a book in “Rosemary’s Baby”, the hardware store where Jeffrey works in “Blue Velvet”)
I’ve already caught out ChatGPT in one mistake (“Black Kiss” ends in a house) which highlights the limits of using ChatGPT as a tool. I was able to discover that because of how well I know “Black Kiss”; but the others I either haven’t seen (“The Omen”, “Rosemary’s baby”) or haven’t seen in literal decades (“Blue Velvet”) so I have no idea what its being overlooked.
Still! The point of this excercise is to come up with a list of locations to build on my homestead so it’s not a complete wash. It was going to be incomplete anyway; I didn’t even try to ask it for locations from “Opus Eponymous” (because the lyrics were vague on that part except for cloister, hospital and tomb)
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