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North Carolina

Blue Velvet (1986)

This sadistic David Lynch film was filmed in North Carolina. Lumbertown is really Wilmington, NC—a region known as a "movie city" due to the number of films that shoot in the area. The apartment complex where Dorothy Vallens lives is only six stories high even though it is stated that Vallens lives on the seventh floor.

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