Hello everyone. I just watched this movie on Comcast on Demand. While watching, I noticed during Melvin Thorpe's TV show's set seems to be the same soundstage as the one used for the movie "Shock Treatment". Is there anyone out there who can confirm this for me? I know that "Whorehouse" was an RKO picture and "Shock Treatment" was fox, but that red spiral staircase and other things make me wonder. Thanks for your time!
shareomg I thought so also. The whole concept of everyone being controled by TV personalities is the same as well. I didn't notice the similarities in the background though, but that makes sense. It probably was intentional.
shareInteresting, I'd never noticed the studio similarity. But the reason that SHOCK TREATMENT entirely takes place in a TV studio is because when it came time to film it, there was an actor's strike in the USA. It was originally supposed to be filmed on location in Denton, Texas, but because of the American strike, they moved to a soundstage in the U.K. and rewrote portions of the script to suit the studio setting (which unexpectedly made the film decades ahead of its time).
Most of the filming of BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE took place in California, though I believe a few exterior scenes were shot on location in southern Texas. The Chicken Ranch was constructed on the backlot of Universal studios -- the original site of The Bates Motel from PSYCHO -- and it still resides there near a JAWS attraction (matter of fact, it was the titular house in HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES).
I thought the connection between this movie and "Shock Treatment" was interesting, but the connection to Rob Zombie's film is even more fascinating. I'd watch "House of 1,000 Corpses" again if I had the stomach for it. From whorehouse to slaughterhouse -- there goes the neighborhood!
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I thought I was the only one who saw "Shock Treatment".
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