East LA's abandoned hospitals.

[SimonB]

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/12340

This location just screams short zombie/horror flick.:)

[ryan brown]

Hell... this place screams ANY genre of film...

I'd LOVE to have access to it.

[Hunter007]

That would an AWESOME place to film! It'd be hard to get a cast/crew to go in with me, but it'd definitely be a lot of fun.

-Kegan

[Zak Forsman]

that place is used in a lot of stuff. it's called Linda Vista Hospital. the E.R. pilot was shot there. part of it was built out as a Russian gulag and still looks that way. I personally scouted it for the ending of White Knuckles but it was too dilapidated for our needs. there's a caretaker that lives there. the creepiest part was the records room. there are thousands upon thousands of actual medical records collecting dust in the basement.

[Kholi]

What are the fees looking like for that place, Zak?

[Zak Forsman]

at the time, it was $5,000 a day. you can negotiate a lower rate if nobody else wants it when you want it. i think Cold Case was shooting the day we scouted it. but they are very, very hard to work with. you'll have to put up with a lot of eye rolling and "i can't make that decision" red tape. if you aren't offering their full price, they will flat out ignore you. you'd have to be persistent to get the deal we got. we had them contracted to three days for $1500 total, but we were scouting back-up locations and ended up telling them to go f*ck themselves and chose to shoot in an actual hospital wing that had been shut down because of costs for less than what Linda Vista wanted.

[Kholi]

at the time, it was $5,000 a day. you can negotiate a lower rate if nobody else wants it when you want it. i think Cold Case was shooting the day we scouted it. but they are very, very hard to work with. you'll have to put up with a lot of eye rolling and "i can't make that decision" red tape. if you aren't offering their full price, they will flat out ignore you. you'd have to be persistent to get the deal we got. we had them contracted to three days for $1500 total, but we were scouting back-up locations and ended up telling them to go f*ck themselves and chose to shoot in an actual hospital wing that had been shut down because of costs for less than what Linda Vista wanted.

Yarg. I guess because they know they can get much more. Oh well.

[bill totolo]

Yup, worked on a student film there about 10 years ago. Was pretty creepy going into the boiler room by myself at about 3 in the morning to make sure we didn't leave anything behind. It looks amazing on camera as you can tell by the photos. But creeeeepy!

[brianluce]

For some reason this reminds me of the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire. Is it even there still? That place has a strange "stuck in time" vibe. I stuck my head in there once and all I could think of was the RFK assassination in 1968.

[Jared Meyer]

I have a script begging for this location. Too bad it's 5k/day, sheesh.

[thematthewbone]

they shot dexter there. episode 1.5.

lol. i just watched it and recognized the exterior immediately.

[doubler83]

They filmed part of the Devil's Rejects there. It was an unused hospital scene.

[Cliff Wildman]

hmm. so buy crapped out building cheap.

charge 5k a day.

even two days a week is about .5 mil...

time to go check out some condemned buildings!

that is a pretty wicked place to shoot though!

zak - what did the gulags look like? was it like a jail?

[taormina]

I don't think it's a location anymore; I think they are building condos inside it now. Anyo other abandoned buildings in LA?????

[Zak Forsman]

zak - what did the gulags look like? was it like a jail?

everything was painted green, with words stenciled in russian here and there... some barbed wire. not that convincing really.

[Jared Meyer]

There's a ton of photos here:

http://www.abandonedbutnotforgotten.com/linda_vista_hospital.htm



My favorite. :)
http://www.abandonedbutnotforgotten.com/linda_vista_hospital_files/image096.jpg

[Zak Forsman]

found some from my scout pix... here's part of the "gulag" section... the dude with the long hair lives there, as the caretaker. i think his name was rodney.

http://www.isarapix.com/pix44/1203207864.jpg

http://www.isarapix.com/pix74/1203207909.jpg

[brianluce]

found some from my scout pix... here's part of the "gulag" section... the dude with the long hair lives there, as the caretaker. i think his name was rodney.

http://www.isarapix.com/pix44/1203207864.jpg

http://www.isarapix.com/pix74/1203207909.jpg

Talk about one of the all time slacker jobs...

[ConspiracyPenguin]

This place is just creepy enough to be AMAZING! I totally just added it to my list of "Places To See When In LA Looking For Somewhere To Shoot Or Just Check Out" Unfortunatly it is the first and only entry into that list so far (hard to imagine, I know)