List of films set in West Virginia

This list includes movies/shows that either take place or were made, in West Virginia or the surrounding area:

Films

  indicates major film award recognition

1940-1969

Title	Director	Release	Location	Note
Stage Struck	Allan Dwan	1925	New Martinsville, West Virginia
The Millerson Case	George Archainbaud	1947	Jefferson County, West Virginia
Roseanna McCoy	Irving Reis & Nicholas Ray	1949
The Night of the Hunter	Charles Laughton	1955	Moundsville, West Virginia	[1][2]
Shenandoah	Andrew V. McLaglen	1965	Hardy County, West Virginia
Holy Ghost People	Peter Adair	1967	Scrabble Creek, West Virginia
Teen-Age Strangler	Ben Parker	1968	Huntington, West Virginia
The Rain People	Francis Ford Coppola	1969	Fairmont, West Virginia

1970-1989

Title	Director	Release	Location	Note
Fools' Parade	Andrew V. McLaglen	1971	Moundsville, West Virginia
No Drums, No Bugles	Clyde Ware	1972
The Gravy Train	Jack Starrett	1974
The Deer Hunter	Michael Cimino	1978	Weirton, West Virginia	1979 Academy Awards Best Picture Winner[1][2][3]
Reckless	James Foley	1983	Weirton, West Virginia
Superman III	Richard Lester	1983		[4]
Pudd'nhead Wilson	Alan Bridges	1984	Hampshire County, West Virginia
Sweet Dreams	Karel Reisz	1985	Monroe County, West Virginia
A Killing Affair	David Saperstein	1986	Logan County, West Virginia
Act of Vengeance	John Mackenzie	1986	Charleston, West Virginia
Matewan	John Sayles	1986	Mingo County, West Virginia	[1][5][4][3]
Chillers	Daniel Boyd	1986	Kanawha County, West Virginia
Big Business	Jim Abrahams	1988	Fayette County, West Virginia
Rain Man	Barry Levinson	December 16, 1988	Huntington, West Virginia	1989 Academy Awards Best Picture. One of the individuals Dustin Hoffman based his character, Raymond Babbitt, on, Joseph Sullivan, lived in Huntington, West Virginia.[6] One of the film's premieres was later held in Huntington.[7]
Strangest Dreams: Invasion of the Space Preachers	Daniel Boyd	1989	Kanawha County, West Virginia

1990-2009

Title	Director	Release	Location	Note
The Turning	L.A. Puopolo	1992	Nemours, West Virginia
The Silence of the Lambs	Jonathan Demme	1991	Clay County, West Virginia	1992 Academy Awards Best Picture[1][8][9]
Sommersby	Jon Amiel	1993	Snowshoe, West Virginia	[3]
Off and Running	Ed Bianchi	1991
The Bodyguard	Mick Jackson	1992	Morgantown, West Virginia	[5]
Lassie	Daniel Petrie	1994	Summers County, West Virginia	[3]
Primal Fear	Gregory Hoblit	1996	McDowell County, West Virginia	[1]
My Fellow Americans	Peter Segal	1996	Charleston, West Virginia
Whatever	Susan Skoog	1998	Wheeling, West Virginia
Patch Adams	Tom Shadyac	1998	Pocahontas County, West Virginia	[2][5]
October Sky	Joe Johnston	1999	Coalwood, West Virginia	[2][5][4]
Road Trip	Todd Phillips	2000	Morgantown, West Virginia
Ashes to Glory	Deborah Novak	November 18, 2000	Huntington, West Virginia
A Beautiful Mind	Ron Howard	2001	Bluefield, West Virginia	2002 Academy Awards Best Picture[2][10][5]
The Mothman Prophecies	Mark Pellington	2002	Point Pleasant, West Virginia	[5][8][4][9]
Gods and Generals	Ronald F. Maxwell	2003	Harper's Ferry, West Virginia	[10][5]
Wrong Turn	Rob Schmidt	2003	Huntington, West Virginia	[8][4]
Burning Annie	Van Flesher	October 9, 2003	Huntington, West Virginia	[11]
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!	Robert Luketic	2004	Putnam County, West Virginia	[2][5][3]
Super Size Me	Morgan Spurlock	2004	Beckley, West Virginia	[1]
Dark Harvest	Paul Moore	2004	Huntington, West Virginia	[11]
Bubble	Steven Soderbergh	2005	Parkersburg, West Virginia
The Devil and Daniel Johnston	Jeff Feuerzeig	2005		[1]
Dear Wendy	Thomas Vinterberg	2005	Charleston, West Virginia
The Descent	Neil Marshall	2005
We Are Marshall	McG	2006	Huntington, West Virginia	[10][5][4][3]
Header	Archibald Flancranstin	2006
Salvage	Joshua Crook & Jeffrey Crook	2006	Parkersburg, West Virginia	[8]
Silent Hill	Christophe Gans	2006	Silent Hill, West Virginia	[9][4]
Two Tickets to Paradise	D.B. Sweeney	2006	Charleston, West Virginia
Live Free or Die Hard	Len Wiseman	2007
The Rock-afire Explosion	Brett Whitcomb	2008	Barboursville, West Virginia	[12][13]
Timber Falls	Tony Giglio	2007	Kanawha County, West Virginia
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End	Joe Lynch	2007	Fayette County, West Virginia
The X-Files: I Want to Believe	Chris Carter	2008		[9]
XIII: The Conspiracy	Duane Clark	2008
Blood Creek	Joel Schumacher	2009	Morgantown, West Virginia
Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead	Declan O'Brien	2009	Clay County, West Virginia
Still Bill	Damani Baker & Alex Vlack	2009	Raleigh County, West Virginia	[1][5]

2010-Present

Title	Director	Release	Location	Note
Unstoppable	Tony Scott	2010	Benwood, West Virginia	[5]
Tucker & Dale vs. Evil	Eli Craig	2010	Huntington, West Virginia	[9]
Mothman	Sheldon Wilson	2010	Point Pleasant, West Virginia
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia	Julien Nitzberg	2010	Boone County, West Virginia
The Last Mountain	Bill Haney	2011		[1]
Super 8	J. J. Abrams	2011	Wheeling, West Virginia & Weirton, West Virginia	[2][5][9][3]
Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings	Declan O'Brien	2011	Fayette County, West Virginia
Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines	Declan O'Brien	2012	Morgantown, West Virginia
Memory Lane	Shawn Holmes	2012	Wheeling, West Virginia
A Single Shot	David M. Rosenthal	2013
Oxyana	Sean Dunne	2013	Wyoming County, West Virginia
Pro Wrestlers vs Zombies	Cody Knotts	2013	Parkersburg, West Virginia	[9]
The Hunted	Josh Stewart	2013		[4][9]
Out of the Furnace	Scott Cooper	2013	Moundsville, West Virginia
A Christmas Tree Miracle	JW Myers	2013	Wheeling, West Virginia
Child of God	James Franco	2013	Greenbrier County, West Virginia	[3]
Little Accidents	Sara Colangelo	2014	Huntington, West Virginia	[5]
Surviving Cliffside	Jon Matthews	2014	Alum Creek, West Virginia
Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort	Valeri Milev	2014	Kanawha County, West Virginia
American Ultra	Nima Nourizadeh	2015
Z for Zachariah	Craig Zobel	2015	Welch, West Virginia
Hidden Figures	Theodore Melfi	2016	White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia	[10][5]
Don't Let the Devil In	Courtney Fathom Sell	2016
The Mothman of Point Pleasant	Seth Breedlove	2017	Point Pleasant, West Virginia
The Glass Castle	Destin Daniel Cretton	2017	Welch, West Virginia	[5]
Logan Lucky	Steven Soderbergh	2017	Boone County, West Virginia	[5]
Heroin(e)	Elaine McMillion Sheldon	September 3, 2017	Huntington, West Virginia	[14]
Heroin Town	Dan Child	October 8, 2017	Huntington, West Virginia	[11][10]
Feast of the Seven Fishes	Robert Tinnell	2018	Fairmont, West Virginia
Dark Waters	Todd Haynes	2019	Parkersburg, West Virginia
The Devil All the Time	Antonio Campos	2020	Coal Creek, West Virginia	[9]
Wrong Turn	Mike P. Nelson	2021	Pocahontas County, West Virginia
King Coal	Elaine McMillion Sheldon	2023
T-130	Samuel Felinton	January 25, 2024	Huntington, West Virginia	[15]

See also

• List of television shows set in West Virginia
• List of films set in Huntington, West Virginia

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