List of fictional towns in film
This is a list of fictional towns and villages in film limited to notable examples.
| City Name | Film Name | Distributor(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alphaville | Alphaville | Athos Films | Alphaville is a dystopian city where secret agent (posing as a journalist) Lemmy Caution arrives on a mission to first find out what happened to his precurson and then, how to destroy the computer Alpha 60 as it controls the whole city. |
| Brigadoon | Brigadoon | MGM | A miraculously blessed village that rises out of the mists every hundred years for only a day. |
| Castle Rock, Maine | Cujo The Dark Half The Dead Zone Needful Things Stand By Me |
Various | A fictional city in Maine that is the setting for a number of Stephen King's novels and their respective film adaptations. |
| Crystal Lake, New Jersey | Friday the 13th | Paramount Pictures | A city where Camp Crystal Lake is located. |
| Emerald City | The Wizard of Oz | MGM | The Emerald City is the capital city of the Land of Oz based on L. Frank Baum's Oz books, first described in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The city is sometimes called the City of Emeralds due to its extensively green architecture. |
| Hill Valley, California | Back to the Future Back to the Future Part II Back to the Future Part III |
Universal | Hill Valley, California, is a town that serves as the setting of the Back to the Future trilogy and its animated spin-off series. In the trilogy, Hill Valley is seen in four different time periods (1885, 1955, 1985 and 2015) as well as in a dystopian alternate 1985. The films contain many sight gags, verbal innuendos and detailed set design elements, from which a detailed and consistent history of the area can be derived.
The name "Hill Valley" is itself a joke, being an oxymoron. However, an early script for Back to the Future Part II mentioned that Hill Valley was named after its founder, William "Bill" Hill. |
| Madison, Delaware | Goosebumps | Columbia Pictures | |
| Mega City | The Matrix | Warner Brothers | Mega City is the sprawling, virtual city in which Neo lives to begin the film franchise. |
| Mega-City One | Judge Dredd | Various | Mega City 1 is an enormous megacity in which the inhabitants of the Judge Dredd universe live. The City is a conglomeration of many cities, fused into one large city with a gigantic downtown and an impressive skyline. It stretches most of the length of the US East coast. |
| Mill Valley, Pennsylvania | Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark | Lionsgate | |
| Mos Eisley | Star Wars | 20th Century-Fox | Mos Eisley is a spaceport on the planet Tatooine in the Star Wars universe. Described as a "hive of scum and villainy". |
| Ogden Marsh, Iowa | The Crazies | Overture Films | Ogden Marsh is a small Iowa town with a population of 1,260 people, not so far from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A military plane, that was carrying the samples of a Rhabdovirus called "Trixie", has crashed in the Hopman Bog, contaminating the town's water supply and infecting it's citizens, causing them to turn into homicidal killers. Presumably all the population of Ogden Marsh was destroyed by the military, both infected and non-infected; at the end of the film, Ogden Marsh is destroyed by a nuclear explosion, carried out by the military to contain the virus and the truth about it. |
| Pleasantville | Pleasantville | Warner Bros. | Pleasantville is a black and white 1950s town that is the setting of the in-movie television sitcom Pleasantville. |
| Raccoon City | Resident Evil | Screen Gems | Raccoon City is a small, industrialized city located in the Midwestern United States. It was home to the Umbrella corporation, and main character of the film series, Alice. As in the video game series, it is the birthplace of the infection that eventually consumes the city. Raccoon city is destroyed in the second installment of the films. |
| Radiator Springs | Cars | Pixar | Radiator Springs is a composite of multiple places in various states on U.S. Route 66. In Cars (film) its geographic position (as displayed on a map during a flashback) resembles that of Peach Springs, Arizona. |
| Springwood, Ohio | A Nightmare on Elm Street | New Line Cinema | |
| Twin Peaks, Washington | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | New Line Cinema | Twin Peaks, Washington, is the town in David Lynch's 1992 film, a prequel to the television serial drama of the same title. |
| Wardenclyffe, New York | Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween | Columbia Pictures | A fictional city in New York. It was named after the Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoreham, New York. |
| Warren Valley, Ohio | Trick 'r Treat | Warner Bros. Pictures | |
| Zion | The Matrix | Warner Brothers | Zion is a city in The Matrix films. It is the last human city on Earth after a cataclysmic nuclear war between humankind and sentient machines, which resulted in artificial lifeforms dominating the world. |
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