Where was The Thing from Another World filmed?
1951 film directed by Christian Nyby
The Thing from Another World (1951) was filmed in Los Angeles and Glacier National Park, 2 places named in its Wikipedia article's Production section, in the United States. Wikidata itself records the shoot only as Montana. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a statement, and every claim on this page says which it is.
Part of the Thing franchise
See them on the map → Wikipedia Source data
Places per Wikipedia's Production section
Wikipedia’s Production section names 2 places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.
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🏙 Towns & cities
Los Angeles
🇺🇸 United States
seat of Los Angeles County, and largest city in California, United States
“The film was partly shot in Glacier National Park with interior sets built at a Los Angeles ice storage plant.” Wikipedia
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🏞 Landscapes & nature
Glacier National Park
🇺🇸 United States
national park in Flathead and Glacier counties in Montana, United States
Recorded only at country level
Wikidata also records this film as shot in Montana, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.
Filming locations that are mapped there: United States
Also shot in these places
- Pulp Fiction 1994
- The Dark Knight 2008
- Back to the Future 1985
- Fight Club 1999
- The Terminator 1984
- Interstellar 2014
- The Avengers 2012
- The X-Files 1993–2018
- How I Met Your Mother 2005–2014
- Blade Runner 1982
- Spider-Man 2002
- Iron Man 2008
Set in the same places
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
- L.A. Noire
- Duke Nukem 3D
- Battlefield Hardline
- 24: The Game
- Duke Nukem
- Mario Kart Tour
- Hotel Dusk: Room 215
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Extraction per its source work 2022
- Track & Field
- Wasteland 2
- Great Pretender
Frequently asked questions
How many filming locations does The Thing from Another World have?
No place recorded on Wikidata, but 2 places named in its Wikipedia article, labelled per Wikipedia.
Which other productions were filmed at the same places?
Pulp Fiction (1994), The Dark Knight (2008), Back to the Future (1985), Fight Club (1999) and 8 more, each listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, plus places named in the production's own Wikipedia article, which are labelled per Wikipedia. Nothing is scraped from listicles and nothing is generated.