Ti West and crew stayed at the Yankee Pedlar Inn in Torrington in 2009 while working on The House of the Devil. Rumors that the hotel was haunted gave him the idea for his next movie The Innkeepers which they filmed there the following year.

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I'm not sure if this was a furniture and mattress store at the time of filming, but it currently looks like it's a 99-cent store. This was the store front for Philip Seymour Hoffman's business (D & D Mattress Man) in Punch-Drunk Love located in Pomona, California not Provo, Utah.

Here's a commercial for D & D Mattress (and here's the Furniture Guy's original).

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Barry Egan's funger (fun + plunger?) business in Punch-Drunk Love is located in a garage behind this auto body shop on Canoga Ave in LA. Although Adam Sandler is just playing a variant of the same man-child he plays in everything he's ever been in, when this came out I thought it meant he might be branching out into better movies. Ten years later it turns out he decided making good movies is too hard or something.

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The exteriors for motivational speaker / pedophile Jim Cunningham's house in Donnie Darko were shot in Long Beach. It didn't really burn down. That was just the magic of cinema.

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Here's the Aero theatre in Santa Monica where Jena Malone sleeps through her entire date with Donnie Darko and where Frank wormholes his way in next to them and finally reveals himself.

Donnie: Why are you wearing that stupid bunny suit?
Frank: Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?

The theatre was built by the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1940 and the possibly apocryphal (is that redundant?) story is that it was open 24 hours for the Douglas Aircraft employees working around the clock during the war. It's still open and had a restoration in 2005.

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