
Halloween Haunts: “You don’t have to be mad to work here, but it helps”
by Frazer Lee
In another life, and another time (1998 to be specific) I was hired to work crew for several weeks on a film shoot. The movie production in question was Siamese Cop, which had the awesome logline: ‘Two cops. One jacket’. A low-budget affair (no kidding) the bulk of the shoot was confined to one main location, which would also serve as the production base, equipment store, and – as it turned out – a place to haunt your every waking step.
Friern Barnet Mental Hospital, as it was then known, opened its doors as Colney Hatch …