

"John Carpenter fans are unexpected human beings. When asked to explain if there are any signature shots or nods to Carpenter's previous work that fans might appreciate in this film, the veteran genre director said he can't please everyone, so he focuses on stories that he likes first. "What's scary about this location was that it was real. "It's an old building, a dusty old building that they had left and was perfect for us," he said. We were fenced in."Ĭarpenter said they didn't have to do anything to make the set look scary. "We had this prime little location right between the two. "We were cozily sandwiched between the prison for the criminally insane and the hospital for the mentally insane," Heard added. "It was in an abandoned building on a campus with crazy people in a mental institution, the criminally insane," Carpenter explained of their set.
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She remains active in the state, district and national athletic training organizations and enjoys going to her family’s sporting events in her free time.When MTV News caught up with Carpenter and Heard to talk about their thriller, we asked how much of a creepy factor was added into the film simply by the practical effect of their filming location - an actual abandoned mental hospital. She joined Valletta Orthopedics as the Clinical Supervisor in 2013 after taking a leave of absence to have children. As a newly certified athletic trainer, she accepted a position as the Head Athletic Trainer/Health Teacher at Escondido High School followed by an Assistant Athletic Training position at San Diego State University where she worked with Women’s Basketball as well as the Track & Field/Cross Country teams for several years. American Osteopathic Academy of Orthopaedic SurgeonsĪ native of New Jersey, Sara moved to sunny San Diego after completing her Bachelors and Masters of Science degrees with honors in kinesiology and health education, respectively.American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.University of Pennsylvania Health System Philadelphia, PA.Ohio University- St Vincent Mercy Medical Center Toledo, OH.Valletta is the Orthopaedic Sports Medicine consultant to the Sporting Club and lectures regularly to the Personal Training staff on topics in the field of sports medicine and injury prevention. He then completed an orthopaedic sports medicine fellowship at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania while concurrently performing research in sport-related shoulder and knee disorders.ĭr.Valletta travels internationally as a team physician for the United States Soccer Federation and serves as a team physician for local high schools and universities in the San Diego area. He received his doctoral degree in osteopathic medicine from Des Moines University in Des Moines, Iowa and subsequently completed an internship and orthopaedic surgical residency at St Vincent Mercy Medical Center in Toledo, Ohio. While at Pepperdine, he completed research in the Department of Sports Medicine prior to graduating with honors with a Bachelors of Science degree in Sports Medicine. Valletta completed his undergraduate work at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.
