Wednesday, January 30, 2019

MOVIE/TV FILMING LOCATIONS IN GARY, INDIANA


YEAR
MOVIE
DESCRIPTION OF FILMING
1989
I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
The movie takes place in ‘Gary’. Opening scene filmed at U.S. Steel.
1994
Richie Rich
Gary Municipal Airport
2001
Pearl Harbor
The industrial section of ‘Tokyo’ is the 4,000-acre US Steel Gary Works at Gary, Indiana, on the shore of Lake Michigan (standing in for the Pacific).
2009
Life After People (T.V. Documentary)
City Methodist Church.*
2010
A Nightmare on Elm Street
(1) City Methodist Church.*  (2) Tyler Street – used as a backdrop for a dream sequence that in the film takes place on Elm Street.
2011
Transformers Dark of the Moon**
(1) The Chernobyl reactor site is an old cement plant on the shoe of Lake Michigan, now a part of the grounds of the Majestic Star Casino on Buffington Harbor Drive. (2) Epps and his men take shelter inside a bombed-out church (City Methodist).*
2018
Demon House
As mass hysteria breaks-out over an alleged demonic possession of an Indiana home, referred to as a portal to hell, “Ghost Adventurers" host and paranormal investigator Zak Bagans buys the house at 3860 Carolina Street. He and his crew then become the next victims of the most documented case of demonic possession in U.S. history.

*The City Methodist Church is a disused church in Gary, Indiana. Once the largest Methodist church in the Midwest, it ceased as a place of worship in 1975 after a relatively brief life of just over 50 years.

Filming of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" at the City Methodist Church

**The D.C. Parkway highway pursuit was filmed on Cline Ave. which is the border between Hammond and Gary.

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