Red Snow
Love at Large
Bad Samaritan
American Taboo (1984)
Zero Effect
The Sasquatch Gang (2006)
Brain Smasher: A Love Story
The Competition (2018)
Mr. Holland’s Opus
Captain Fantastic
Untraceable
Body of Evidence
The Music Within
Cabin Fever
Management
Extraordinary Measures (2010 Harrison Ford)
Mr. Brooks
Bandits
Fifteen and Pregnant
The Dust Factory
Antitrust
Extreme Days
Spiral
The Temp
Foxfire
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
Green Room
Drugstore Cowboy
My Own Private Idaho
What the Bleep Do We Know?
Breaking In
Homer and Eddie
Fatal Revenge
Men of Honor
The Postman
Fire in The Sky
Frozen Assets
Ironheart
Love and Dynamite(?)
Hear No Evil (1993) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyfcLY8pGR4
First Love (1977)
Kansas City Bomber (1972)
Unhinged (1982)
Total Reality (1997)
Down and Out with the Dolls (2001)
The Auteur (2008)
Cold Weather (2010)
Gone (2012)
Forest Warrior
Bongwater
Bad Trip – Phillip Roth
Punk Love
Permanent Record (1988) Keanu Reeves
Feast of Love (2007)
Burning Plain (2008)
The Haunting of Sarah Hardy – 1989 made for TV
The Last Innocent Man 1987
Portland Expose
Rockaday Ritchie and the Queen of the Hop (Same guy that did “Unhinged”)
Courier of Death – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4dBjECsHJ8
The Devil’s Keep
24-Hour Comic (documentary)
Imaginary Crimes (1994)
The Favor (?)
To my daughter with love (1994) made for tv
Zigzag – potential, no filming location given, but good chance of portland
How Sarah Got Her Wings
Property (Penny Allen director) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078120/?ref_=nm_knf_i2
Paydirt (Penny Allen director) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079706/?ref_=nm_knf_i1
I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore
Deafula
Sasquatch: The Legend of Bigfoot
Masks of Desire (2017)
The Vernonia Incident
Pillars of Portland
Guns on the Clackamas: A Documentary (Bill Plympton)
Good Cops, Bad Cops (The Cops are Robbers)
Child of Darkness, Child of Light
Chrome Soldiers with Gary Busey!
Even Cowgirls get the blues
Without Evidence
Good Luck
Switched At Birth
Dead by Sunset
Deadly Game
A Walk in my shoes
Buddymoon
Duplicates – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADgO9Vp4uHk
Body language – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPUGa09wpZ8
Fade to black
Wee sing: The Best Christmas Ever
Dancing with Danger – https://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Danger-VHS-Cheryl-Ladd/dp/630318832X
Payback – Mary Tyler Moore! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOB4vdlw-qQ
In the Line of Duty: Blaze of Glory – Bruce Campbell! https://www.amazon.com/Line-Duty-Blaze-Glory/dp/B0000E6FOO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1528676219&sr=8-1&keywords=in+the+line+of+duty+blaze
Praying Mantis Jane Seymour! – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGd-2wUeDGY
The Pursuit of DB Cooper – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082958/?ref_=ttloc_loc_tt
Homewrecker – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLhJnFccTCU
Change of Heart – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbsnKKpYC-c
Take my advice the anne and abby story – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9Qn7UT6tTg
The Path of Evil
Pigs vs. Freaks
Killing at Hell’s Gate – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZDxU_EpC2w
Harvest of Fear
Final Justice
Coup de cinema
Just Before Dawn (1981)
The Memorial Counselor (2006)
Man Maid (2008) – (Prineville, Bend, Central Oregon)
Night ride home – 1999 hallmark TV movie
Come See the Paradise (Astoria, Portland, Willamette, Seattle, Cal.)
(Astoria)
Short Circuit
Kindergarten Cop
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 (or 2?) 3
Free Willy
The Ring 2
How to Beat the High Cost of Living (Eugene)
Emperor of the North
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Animal House
Five Easy Pieces
Sometimes a Great Notion
Hear No Evil (1993; Marlee Matlin, DB Sweeney, Martin Sheen)
I actually just saw “Hear No Evil” on VHS just today. We actually do have it on the main list, it just didn’t make it to the page, I guess. Thanks for the suggestion!
Bandits.
I’m still trying to figure out how much of that was actually filmed there (without having to watch the movie 😀 )
You don’t have ‘The Sasquatch Gang’ listed… I was an extra in a scene filmed in Oaks Park and they also filmed at my son’s friend’s house in Gladstone. Ya…the movie just isn’t good.
Why aren’t any really good, soon-to-be-classic movies (with the exception of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest & The Shining) filmed in Oregon? We need a little more cowbell…(or Nicholson).
-Brian
We finally added Sasquatch Gang! 😀
Just watched the most gloriously terrible movie that was shot in the Portland area (and hey, a TriMet bus goes up to Crown Point at one point). It’s called Zero Effect, starring Bill Pullman and Ben Stiller. Would love to see ya’ll do an episode on it!
Oh wow! I had heard of that movie (and I actually see it all the time on VHS in thrift stores), but it wasn’t on our list! It looks amazing! Thanks for the tip!
Please do The legend Of Tillamook’s Gold/The Tillamook Treasure. It’s free and full on YouTube, and one of the most un-family-friendly “family-friendly” movies around, Plus, it would be great to do a compare and contrast between this and The Goonies in terms of the buried treasure theme. Thanks!
That sounds amazing! I’ll make sure it’s on our list!
Oh wow – I just finished watching this. It’s 100% going to be our next movie. This movie is straight up bonkers – thanks for the tip! How did you find out about this movie?
-Todd
I actually have my own “Bad movies set in Oregon” film club with a friend who lives in Portland (I live in Massachusetts). Basically, I just took Wikipedia’s list of Films Set In Oregon, and then ruled out any that had a good rating on Rotten Tomatoes. How I discovered your podcast was when I was trying to figure out What The Bleep to make of What The Bleep Do We Know!?, and haven’t looked back since. Keep up the great work!
That’s so funny! And when we started putting this podcast together, we were surprised that there’s no real complete list of what’s been shot/made here. We’ve used the Wikipedia page, the Oregon Film page, and others, and we’re still constantly finding more and more. Although not surprising that maybe they want to keep some of these movies buried because they’re so bad 😀 But I’m so glad you found the podcast, and thanks for the movie tip – we’ll do it at the end of the month!
By the way, I was wondering if, at some point, you guys could do a deep dive into the strange trend/phenomenon that was the California Raisins. That is, both the mini-movie Meet The Raisins! and The California Raisin Show got relatively good reviews on IMDB, but it just begs so many questions: What was William Vinton high on at the time? Who was actually clambering for Claymation? And of dried fruit of all things? Would Priority Records ever have survived if they didn’t choose Straight Outta Compton as their second album? Did we really need ANOTHER Motown revival, coming hot off the heels of the soundtrack to The Big Chill? Were the people who contributed their voices actually good musicians? (Maybe we need to call in Kirk Hamilton of Strong Songs to answer those last two questions.) And perhaps most important of all: have you guys found any California Raisins paraphernalia that was truly bins-worthy?
P.S. Do you have an email address for the site that you’re willing to share? I only ask because I want to know if I can send some of the hard-to-find titles on your list in MP4 format. Thanks!
The California Raisins are for sure a weird blip of time for America 😀 They also got me a copyright strike on YouTube because Will Vinton is very active in stopping any uploads of his old stuff, which is a bummer! You can drop me emails at toddwerkhoven[at]gmail.com if you’d like – it’s a bit easier for me to keep up there anyway since I often will only check this page once or twice a month.