15 Film Locations That Are Used Over And Over

    Batman Begins, Eyes Wide Shut, and A Spice Girls music video were all filmed at the same place?!

    1.

    In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the scene where Dumbledore and Harry retrieve the locket was filmed at the Cliffs of Moher.

    In The Princess Bride, the Cliffs of Moher became the Cliffs of Insanity.

    And in the romantic comedy Leap Year, the sunset proposal scene happens on the iconic Irish cliffside.

    2.

    In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Torrence High became Sunnydale High.

    You can spot Torrence High School in Beverly Hills, 90210.

    In She's All That, you can see the Senior Patio in several scenes.

    Since Torrence High was such a popular filming location for '90s teen movies, it's no surprise that Not Another Teen Movie, a movie parodying '90s teen movies, also filmed at the Senior Patio.

    3.

    Paddington 2 heavily features Kilmainham Gaol as the prison Paddington is sent to for most of the movie.

    In the iconic caper film, The Italian Job, you can see the prison at the beginning of the movie.

    In The Name of The Father used Kilmainham Gaol to portray the prison where Gerry Conlon was incarcerated for 15 years.

    4.

    Potterheads will recognise the castle from the scene where Harry learns to fly a broom in Harry Potter and the Philosophers' Stone.

    You can spot the castle in Downton Abbey as the residence of the Marquess of Hexham.

    Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is set at Nottingham Castle, but was filmed at Alnwick Castle.

    5.

    The iconic geological feature appears in West World.

    Hail, Caesar! filmed a good portion of the cowboy scenes at Vasquez Rocks.

    In the original Star Trek series, Vasquez Rocks becomes an alien planet.

    6.

    Bradbury House is used in the final scene of 500 Days of Summer when Tom meets Autumn.

    You can also spot the Bradbury building as Sebastians' apartment in Blade Runner. The building is especially visible during Deckard and Roy's final fight.

    In The Artist, the staircase sequence is filmed at Bradbury House.

    7.

    The castle serves as the main interior and exterior location in The Favourite.

    The Jonas Brothers' music video for "Sucker" was also filmed at Hatfield House.

    Lara Croft: Tomb Raider 2 filmed in the Hatfield House library (the same library where Rachel Wiesz chucks books at Emma Stone's head).

    8.

    The campus can be seen as the research facility in Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

    This Means War uses the campus as CIA headquarters.

    And in The Cabin in The Woods, the BCIT Aerospace campus becomes the headquarters of a secret government organisation dedicated to preventing the apocalypse through ritual human sacrifice.

    9.

    The desert island from the pilot episode of I Dream of Jeannie was actually just Point Dume State Beach.

    The dramatic twist ending of Planet of the Apes was shot at Point Dume.

    Tony Stark's mansion in Iron Man was edited onto the onto the Point Dum cliffside.

    10.

    The LA mansion was used to portray Thomas Griffin's Hong Kong penthouse in Rush Hour.

    In the second season Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Ennis House becomes Angel's lair.

    Ennis House was used as the exterior for Deckard's apartment in Blade Runner, and the studio made a matching interior set on a sound stage.

    11.

    The ksar became the city of Yunkai in Game of Thrones.

    In Gladiator, Aït Benhaddou became the city of Zucchabar, AKA where Maximus is sold as a gladiator.

    In Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, the Moroccan village is used to portray ancient Persia.

    12.

    Django Unchained uses the Alabama Hills to portray the Texas wilderness.

    When Tony Stark goes to Afghanistan in Iron Man, he actually just went to the Alabama Hills.

    You can briefly spot the Alabama Hills in Firefly as Serenity takes off from a border planet.

    13.

    In Mean Girls, you can see the University of Toronto in the background after the Mathletes win the state championship.

    In Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, the University of Toronto became Princeton.

    All of the Culver University scenes in The Incredible Hulk were filmed at the University of Toronto.

    14.

    In Citizen Kane, Oheka Castle was used as the exterior for Xanadu, Charles Foster Kane's mansion.

    In the second season of Succession, Oheka Castle appears as a Bulgarian mansion the Roys use for vacations.

    Taylor Swift shot the music video for "Blank Space" at the Long Island mansion.

    15.

    In Eyes Wide Shut, the exterior of Mentmore Towers was used to portray the country mansion where Nick stumbles upon a disturbing ritual.

    You can spot the mansion as Wayne Manor in Batman Begins, the first instalment of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy.

    True Spice Girl fans will recognise Mentmore Towers from the iconic "Goodbye" music video.

    Did we miss any popular filming locations? Let us know in the comments below.