Where Was 'Fear Street Part 2: 1978' Filmed?

Netflix is taking you back to Shadyside in Fear Street Part 2: 1978, the second movie in the horror franchise, which is coming to the streaming service exactly one week after the first one debuted.

This time, we’re flashing back to the summer of 1978, when the Shadyside witch known as Sarah Fier terrorized a summer camp. Sisters Ziggy (played by Stranger Things star Sadie Sink) and Cindy Berman (Emily Rudd) are both from Shadyside, but while Ziggy has accepted her fate as stuck in a town she considers doomed, Cindy dreams of going to college and getting out. When Cindy’s perfect boyfriend starts murdering campers and counselors from Shadyside, the sisters suddenly have bigger things to worry about than their differences.

Fear Street Part 2: 1978 is a surprisingly gory slasher that harkens back to ’80s camp slasher films like Friday the 13th. Of course, you can’t have a good camp slasher film without finding the right camp to film at. Read on to learn about the Fear Street Part 2: 1978 filming location.

Production for all three of the Fear Street movies took place over 106 days in Atlanta, Georgia, and the surrounding areas. Though it’s the second movie in the trilogy, Part 2 was actually the last film shot. 1994 came first, followed by 1666—because so many of the actors overlapped—and 1978 was filmed third.

In an interview for the film’s press notes, production designer Scott Kuzio said his team spend a long time searching for the perfect campground to serve as Camp Nightwing in Fear Street Part 2, the setting of which was inspired by ’70s and ’80s summer camp slasher films. “In the eleventh hour, our location team found a remote retreat center that hadn’t been updated or remodeled since the 1960s,” Kuzio said.

A Netflix representative told Decider that the retreat center was Camp Rutledge and Camp Daniel Morgan in Hard Labor Creek State Park in Georgia.

Kuzio said that several of the Fear Street crew felt the campgrounds were haunted. “It was also reported to be haunted. Several crew members claimed to have seen things during filming,” he said.

So the next time you and yours have the urge to go camping in Georgia, maybe you’d be better off staying in a hotel, instead.

Watch Fear Street Part 2: 1978 on Netflix