![]() – Old industrial buildings in Taunton’s Whittenton Mills Complex replicated the Dachau concentration camp. ![]() Taunton being the location for the World War II flashback scenes. Shutter Island was mainly filmed in Massachusetts: An investigation and mystery in the asylum will haunt you….and then there’s a storm and the island is shut off from the mainland…. The approach to the island, knowing it houses an asylum….and what you might find there. This is one of the scariest and most chilling island settings in fiction and in film. You can imagine the type of impression it must have had given the nature of the book and film! ![]() Lehane’s inspiration for the hospital and island setting was Long Island in Boston Harbor, which he had visited during a major blizzard in 1978 as a child with his uncle and family. Travel Guide Booktrail it to Shutter Island if you dare… ![]()
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