orbs

while watching the movie killerkiller, i noticed orbs floating everywhere in this scene. it's a little over 31 minutes into the film. they could be natural or supernatural in origin. decide for yourself.
(from fangoria interview)
Warley Hospital, the location chosen to stand in for the prison, possessed both a suitably creepy atmosphere and background; until the 1920s, it was known as Warley Asylum. "If you go back 100 years, there's a lot of fairly unpleasant history attached to it," Higgins says. "It wasn't always the nicest place on earth!" The facility has stood empty and unused for 10 years, and was in just the state of disrepair needed to conjure up the filmmaker's idea of a "sick building." And it wasn't just spooky visually, as he reveals. "We got entire takes where you'd hear footsteps and think it was one of the runners gone to the toilet or someone in the next wing, the place was so empty and echoey and quiet. So I'd call cut on sound, and we'd wait and wait while the footsteps would get closer and closer—then suddenly they'd just stop. We tried not to think about that too much!'"

There were also more tangible and unsettling reminders of the former occupants, such as the phrase "I am not alone" scratched into a wall. "You see those words in the movie, but we didn't do that; they were already there," Higgins says. The production's still photographer became fascinated with the architecture of the place and often wandered off to explore, and Higgins recalls that on the last day of shooting, she drew his attention to a bizarre detail in one of the walls of the hospital's old chapel: "There were between 1 and 200 individual butterfly wings that had been torn off and inserted into the gaps between the bricks." Despite this eerie atmosphere, the intrepid filmmakers refused to be spooked, although Higgins confides, "We spent most of the last day filming in that dark, broken-down chapel, and something just got to me and I thought, 'I am going to be very pleased once we've finished filming here!' "

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• orbs
• paranormal
• supernatural
• asylum
• horror
• movie

[bloodsuckingpharaoh]

a few years back my husband, a friend, and i asked the caretaker of this cool old powder factory if we could go in and take pictures for a class we had. he let us in and just told us to watch out for the holes in the floor and his dog. that place was amazing. there was one room with a tree growing in the middle of it. the walls were all windows and pigeons were flying everywhere. the machinery rooms were cool, too.

[nine91899]

That sounds amazing! Too bad you didn't make a video of it at the time! :)

[bloodsuckingpharaoh]

yeah, i wish we had a camcorder with us. but we did get some pretty cool pictures.

[nine91899]

I never noticed that! ReALLY?

I've looked up the asylum that it was filmed in and read the history of it. Very eerie. Apparently you can get a tour of the grounds, but they won't let you go inside for safety reasons. I wonder how they got permission to do the filming in there.

[bloodsuckingpharaoh]

i'd love to go take a tour. they probably just gave them special permission because they were making a movie and paid them to use the grounds. and i'd bet they had to sign some sort of contract stating that any injuries were their own responsibility.

[nine91899]

This is GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!

I am gong to have to rewatch 'Session Nine' to see if you can see them in that movie too! I think it was filmed in another asylum, but similar things were reported during the filming. I haven't seen this movie yet.

[bloodsuckingpharaoh]

i'd like to see that film again and watch for odd things. i love the asylum in it because it's shaped like a bat.

[SaffronSugar]

I visited someone there and walked around the grounds in 1998. Much of it was empty. The Occupational therapy building was closed, but still full of the artwork of patients. There are three chapels. However, the second chapel built (a rather large church built in 1889, I think) had a feeling unlike any other building in Warley Hospital. I could only look through the front door. It's high windows and dark gothic arches were more unwelcoming than beautiful. I will never forget it.

[zcarstheme]

Hey there.. Yeah, we had to pay fairly large amounts of money and have some fairly huge insurance in place before shooting in Warley. I'm not sure if the parts we shot in are still standing; more of the building is getting knocked down all the time. Amazing place to shoot, but creepy as hell.

[nine91899]

Probably...I have the VHS version, so I don't have the special features for that movie. I should look it up again...

[nine91899]

Really??? I didn't notice that!

I looked up that asylum, and you can actually tour the grounds, but they won't let you in for safety reasons. I wonder how they got permission to film there.