Fancy watching Frodo in a castle? Now’s your chance.

For many lovers of cinema, the attraction has always been in the experience. However, no matter what thrills may be leveled at you, you’ll always end up in confines of your local cinema or your sofa. Now though a great film can be seen with a suitably themed atmosphere with Stella Screen’s On Set Location Tour showing classic films in places a world away from your local multiplex.

Last year, the On Set Location tour featured The Shawshank Redemption being shown at Oxford Prison (miracle escapes and gang rape thankfully not included), and The Full Monty screened at the Sheffield Working Men’s Club where the famous strip sequence were shot. In what must have been a ragingly patriotic evening, Braveheart was shown at Stirling castle, replete with bagpipes and re-enacted battle scenes on the castle ramparts.

This year’s tour includes An American Werewolf In London, screened in a disused Tube station, while the old-school ghost story The Others will be screened in the forbidding graveyard of Todmorden Church. Apocalypse Now Redux is being shown in a US Air Force Hangar and Lord of the Rings gets the Stirling Castle treatment.

Of course, in some cases, watching your favourite films in the appropriate setting takes no small amount of guts. Recently, in America, Jaws was shown on a 40 foot screen floating in the middle of the lake in the middle of the night, while the audience floated on tyres. Their enjoyment of the film remarkably displaced by the scuba divers lurking below. What’s next: Star Wars screened in Space? DG 27 September 02

useful link: www.stellascreen.co.uk