The 'Burbs: Difference between revisions

''The 'Burbs'' was filmed entirely at [[Universal Studios]] over ten weeks in the summer of 1988, mainly on the [[Colonial Street]] set on the back lot, which served as the Mayfield Place cul-de-sac.<ref name=StudioTour>{{Cite web |title=Colonial Street – Munster House |url=http://www.thestudiotour.com/wp/studios/universal-studios-hollywood/backlot/current-backlot-sets/colonial-street-wisteria-lane/colonial-street-munster-house/ |access-date=August 3, 2007 |website=TheStudioTour.com}}</ref> "I can't think of many pictures since ''[[Lifeboat (1944 film)|Lifeboat]]'' that all take place in the same area," Dante said as production got under way. "There was a lot of temptation to broaden it and go outside the neighborhood, but it seemed to violate the spirit of the piece. It's almost the kind of thing that could be a stage play except that you could never do on-stage what we've done in this movie."<ref name="FoTH"/> The Colonial Street set had been used in 1987's ''[[Dragnet (1987 film)|Dragnet]]'', also starring Hanks.<ref name=LAMag>{{Cite magazine |last=Cowan |first=Jared |date=March 4, 2019 |title=Take a Stroll Down Colonial Street, Film and TV’s Most Iconic Suburban Set |url=https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/colonial-street-universal-studios/ |access-date=July 9, 2023 |magazine=[[Los Angeles (magazine)|Los Angeles]]}}</ref> At the time ''The 'Burbs'' began production, it was being used as the location for ''[[The New Leave It to Beaver]]'' television series.<ref name=LAMag/> To ensure the set would fit the tone of his film, Dante said, "I asked [production designer] James Spencer, a veteran of ''[[Poltergeist (1982 film)|Poltergeist]]'' and ''[[Gremlins]],'' if he thought he could turn that street into the neighborhood we needed in that period of time."<ref name="FoTH"/> Spencer rose to the challenge, and within a few days they began work on sketching out the proposed designs for the sets. Spencer observed, "We had to be on the spot. Due to the lack of time, it would have been ludicrous to do our drawing elsewhere."<ref name="FoTH"/> The orchestral soundtrack for the film was composed by [[Jerry Goldsmith]].