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Old Medfield State Hospital A Popular Location To Shoot Hollywood Movies In Massachusetts
"Shutter Island," "Knives Out," and "The Holdovers" are just some of the films that have been shot there.
November 1, 2024
MEDFIELD - A now-closed psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts has been a popular location in some big Hollywood movies. The old Medfield State Hospital is also considered to be one of the most haunted places in New England.
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"Shutter Island," "Knives Out," and "The Holdovers" are just some of the films that have been shot there. First established in 1896, the decades of history at the campus are still visible today.
"A movie was filmed here called 'X-Men: The New Mutants' and 20th Century Fox were the producers of that movie and they told me that they could've filmed that movie anywhere in the world and they decided to film the movie here because it's the last almost fully intact asylum in the whole world," historian John Thompson told WBZ-TV.
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