Martin (1977)
Martin earns its 8 by asking a question that quietly dismantles the entire vampire genre. What if there is no such thing as a vampire, only a disturbed young man who believes he is one?
Filming Location: Pittsburgh
Films in this library shot in Pittsburgh, a city whose industrial texture George Romero used to build an entire genre. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.
PennsylvaniaInnocent Blood (1992)
John Landis fuses the vampire film with the mob movie in a fun, tonally chaotic horror comedy. The film's premise is its strongest asset.
PennsylvaniaNight of the Living Dead (1968)
George Romero's 1968 zombie template. The genre's foundational document.
BahamasThe Silence of the Lambs (1991)
An FBI trainee consults imprisoned cannibal Hannibal Lecter to catch a serial killer skinning his victims. The Silence of the Lambs is Jonathan Demme's 1991 American psychological-thriller film adapted from Thomas Harris's 1988 novel, depicting an FBI trainee who consults…
PennsylvaniaDawn of the Dead (1978)
Survivors of the zombie apocalypse take refuge in a suburban shopping mall, in George Romero's social satire sequel. Dario Argento financed the Italian co-production and supervised the European cut that runs approximately fifteen minutes shorter than Romero's preferred American version.
PennsylvaniaSlap Shot (1977)
George Roy Hill's 1977 minor league hockey comedy. Paul Newman as player-coach of dying franchise.
PennsylvaniaJack Reacher (2012)
Rosamund Pike plays defense attorney Helen Rodin. The casting decision produced ongoing critical engagement that the work itself does not fully resolve.
CaliforniaThe Dark Knight Rises (2012)
2012 Christopher Nolan finale to his Batman trilogy. Christian Bale, Tom Hardy as Bane, Anne Hathaway as Catwoman.
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CaliforniaIndependence Day (1996)
Dean Devlin co-wrote with Emmerich. The film established Will Smith as the dominant summer blockbuster star of the late 1990s, set up Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin's career-long partnership producing disaster spectacles, and refined the destruction-of-iconic-landmarks visual template that subsequent…
PennsylvaniaShe’s Out of My League (2010)
Jim Field Smith directed in his feature debut. The film made approximately fifty million dollars worldwide on a twenty million dollar budget.
CaliforniaThe Avengers (2012) Review
Joss Whedon's ensemble breakthrough, Tom Hiddleston's Loki, and the film that proved interconnected superhero cinema could function at scale. The 8.5 reflects honest evaluation of the film that proved interconnected superhero cinema could function at scale and the entry that…