5. The Cabin In The Woods’ Secret Facility & This Means War’s CIA Scenes
BCIT Aerospace Campus, Richmond, Canada
The Cabin in the Woods is a brilliantly subversive horror movies that plays with the many established tropes of the genre. With a basic slasher premise underpinned by the secretive work of a hidden underground facility, much of the film’s more important narrative developments take place in sterile-looking corridors and offices. The scenes were shot on location at the British Columbia Institute of Technology Aerospace Campus in Richmond, Canada.
This Means War is an action rom-com about two CIA agents who fall for the same woman. Naturally, the film contains multiple scenes set inside their agency headquarters as they fight for her affections in increasingly petty ways. These scenes were also shot on the BCIT campus.
The campus was also used in Rise of the Planet of the Apes as a research facility, just to add to its cinematic pedigree. Perhaps it’s down to the varied nature of these movies or just the slightly clinical atmosphere it gives off, but it’s pretty difficult to detect the BCIT campus in a movie. We’re sure it’s lovely in real life, though.