"For Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), the Bates House and Bates Motel that were built in 1960 inside Universal Studios in California were not full houses but were mostly facades, or outside walls made for the camera. The rooms inside were filmed in different soundstages, mainly Stage 28 for the house and Stage 18 for the motel. Behind the motel, the studio used a painted background called a matte painting"
"In the iconic horror movie The Shining (1980), the Overlook Hotel was realized with a mix of a real hotel and studio sets. Director Stanley Kubrick captured the exterior shots at Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood in Oregon, while the inside of the hotel, including the long hallways and main lobby, was built at Elstree Studios in England. The real Timberline Lodge is a working hotel and ski resort, and the hotel room used in the book, Room 217, is now known among guests."
Iconic horror films frequently combine real locations, studio-built sets, and fabricated facades to create unsettling architectural environments. Psycho used mostly facades on the Universal Studios backlot while interior rooms were filmed on separate soundstages, with a matte painting extending the background and the Bates House later moved three times. The Shining paired Timberline Lodge exteriors with massive interior sets at Elstree Studios, with altered room numbers and deliberately disorienting layouts. Productions sometimes adapt existing residential homes or transform locations to enhance atmosphere and directorial control over spatial perception.
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