Forgetting Sarah Marshall came out 15 years ago, in 2008, and graced us with an iconic break-up scene, courtesy of Jason Segel.
The glass in their living room adds a nice aesthetic, as well as an essential privacy screen, considering Segel’s surprise!
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Ok, but does it ever really end? The newest Halloween franchise iteration boasts some stylish glass in our main set’s front doors.
The trailer popped up a few weeks ago and the glass was ever-present. Had to watch it! Didn’t love it!
The door stained glass is real, shiny and shimmery throughout the ongoing struggle between Michael Meyers and our heroine Laurie Strode. Nice to see such prominent placement of real glass!
This image is from a “making-of'“ short, as the signs on the right indicate.
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CW: blood and gore
I love a good horror movie, and there was a lot of impressive artistry in the original Suspiria. But this flick was horrific and I can’t recommend it without major gore warnings to you!
The stained glass ceiling in the main lobby of the dance academy, surrounded by red velvet, is just one of the fantastical set pieces that give this movie a strong sense of surreality. In part of the movie, it crashes down after a woman is murdered atop it in a most gruesome fashion and is then hanged from above. A second victim gets impaled by the glass.
The murdering happening on top of the glass.
Ack, this is just horrifying, but you can see the cracked glass as her head breaks through.
Her body begins to break through.
A second victim getting impaled by the broken glass.
Dear lord this movie is morbid.
The ceiling is so iconic that it was featured in the 2018 Chilling Adventures of Sabrina TV series.
Not Suspiria, but Sabrina
Another glass window adorns the hallway to the dormitories. When the movie shifts from surreal to straight up horror, the lighting changes, including from beyond the glass.
All nice and normal.
Run Run Run!
Here are some more stills from the movie to show the overall set design, full of wild, primary color choices and almost nightmarish surroundings.
No copyright infringement intended.
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CW: gore, blood, suicide
It’s my favorite time of year! Fall is the best…cozy clothes, crackling wood fires, warm tea, and it’s also the time when I force my husband to watch horror movies with me. Over the last few years we’ve enjoyed the early classics of the genre (Frankenstein, Dracula, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari), the horror cinema of the 1960s and 70s (The Wicker Man, Dawn of the Dead, Invasion of the Body Snatchers), and current day remixes of the genre (The Cabin in the Woods, Get Out, Us).
Not only are stained glass windows present in many films of this category, but sometimes they are prominent—almost integral—to the plot, visual effects, or atmosphere in which our protagonists flee the big bad. I’ll have more to share this month than others; there are just so many options to choose from!
First up is Hellraiser. The original. I was inspired to watch after listening to an episode of Unspooled, a podcast dedicated to discussing some of the greatest movies of all time. At the end of the Midsommar episode, Amy Nicholson teased the next episode as one she thought would be the ultimate scarepiece: Hellraiser. The other host, Paul Scheer, hadn’t seen it. The date was set.
Ok, so Paul and I agreed that Hellraiser isn’t as glorious as Amy thinks, but rather a pretty bananas, schlocky movie with a few fun themes and interesting horror touchstones. But! The stained glass of the main house (where over 70% of the movie is set) was so noteworthy!
I learned that, in order to save money, the scenes depicting the Cotton family house were filmed in a real house in London. It was appropriately disheveled at the time of production, so little needed to be done to make it fit the rundown look from the plot. According to Amy Nicholson on Unspooled, the reason the house was up for sale for cheap was because someone had committed suicide in the garage by carbon dioxide poisoning.
The stained glass manifests throughout the entire movie, with most panels visible in just the first few scenes set here. The front door, hall windows, and even upper sections of bay windows, are filled with simple lead came panels with singular floral designs centered among square panes of textured clear glass. At times, the red and green bursts of color twinkle behind the characters during scenes of suspense and tension.
Throughout the movie, the windows themselves seem to become background characters, welcoming guests into the home and surrounding our protagonists. Even the upstairs attic window, covered hastily with paper for privacy, mimic the stained glass look.
Enjoy this collection of the best screen grabs from Hellraiser, and don’t get too frightened!
No copyright infringement intended.
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One of the first scenes of the Cotton House.
Glass on both levels of the stairwell.
Always in the background.
From the exterior, lit from inside.
Oh, this guy.
The house exterior. Look close and you can see the glass windows all around!
The paper “stained glass” in the attic, showing off our gooey friend Frank.
How ironic that a movie centering on The Washington Post gives all the glass glory to The New York Times! The Post is a historical political thrilled about the publishing of the Pentagon Papers set in the early 1970s.
This glass glimpse was a sight to behold, nestled among top notch performances by Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep. Spotting authentic, historic, meaningful stained glass is the most joyous part of this pet project. And the deep dive I took to uncover the history of this window was highly rewarding...a real treasure hunt for a glass nerd like me.
The movie scene set the scene with a building's façade, ostensibly the New York Times office in New York City. Easy enough to find, I thought. However, I learned the Times' headquarters has moved several times through its 171 year history of production. And during the time of the movie's context, 1971, it was housed 229 West 43rd Street.
Using Google Maps Street View, I scouted the location of that building, but current day scaffolding covered the transom area above the door. Other clues indicated this was not the right building.
Not the building in The Post.
The next best way to scout it out was to look up the movie's filming locations. I should have done this in the first place. Thanks to IMDB, I saw that the setting for the building entrance was filmed at 20 West 44th Street in Manhattan. And wow, what a discovery!
This is it!
The building hosting the stained glass is actually The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York, a still functioning organization founded in 1785, that “continues to serve and improve the quality of life of the people of the City of New York through its educational, philanthropic and cultural programs including its tuition-free Mechanics Institute, The General Society Library, and its century-old Lecture Series.”
From their website.
Mystery solved, and history learned! I really enjoyed reading more about this organization and their mission. I found an interior photo of the stained glass taken in 2017 from Google Maps and others on the group's website.
photo by Rouslan Valonen
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America Windows by Marc Chagall, seen in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
My first post! As a stained glass artist, it’s impossible to ingest media content without homing in on any stained glass in the background. I have been collecting images and scenes from movies, television shows, and even books/audiobooks for years, wanting to share all the moments when stained glass jumped out at me.
To start this passion project, I’m sharing the first stained glass glimpse in my real life that really meant something to me personally!
This iconic scene in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off shows Ferris and Sloane stealing a kiss in front of the amazing America Windows by Marc Chagall. Their “field trip” to the Art Institute of Chicago is set to a dreamy song called “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want” by Dream Academy. This part of the movie is depicted as a montage of Ferris, Sloane, and Cameron parading around and absorbing the historic and beautiful works in the museum.
From the AIC website: “In response to the city’s enthusiasm for his work and the Art Institute’s great support, French artist Marc Chagall offered to create a set of stained-glass windows for the museum. After three years of planning, Chagall determined that the windows would commemorate America’s bicentennial, celebrating the country as a place of cultural and religious freedom and detailing the arts of music, painting, literature, theater, and dance.”
I grew up in Madison, WI, and the Art Institute in Chicago was a favorite destination for my family. We came to know most of these pieces shown in the movie (probably because they were in the movie) and had the chance to enjoy them every year. When I visited as a child, the America Windows were displayed in a hallway central to the museum, illuminating the path with the moody blue refraction from the glass. While researching them for this post I learned they have been moved and are now illuminated with artificial lighting. (I’m fairly certain I’ll have strong opinions about this, but I’ll wait to visit again before I huff and puff.)
There is so much more to share and learn about these amazing stained glass windows! Do yourself a favor and search them out to see how beautiful they are.
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