A number of high profile movies have been filmed on Bald Head Island over the years. The following are three of the most famous. Next time you watch one keep an eye out for scenes from your favorite island vacation spot!
Weekend At Bernie’s was filmed on Bald Head in 1989. The film stars Andrew McCarthy and Jonathan Silverman as two friends who are invited for a weekend to a luxury island with their boss.
The boss gets shot and nobody seems to notice, except for the two friends.
In order not to become suspects of murder they treat the body as a puppet and make people believe he’s still alive.
The killer wants to do his job so when he is informed that the stiff is still alive he’s got to shoot him again, and again, and again.
The Butcher’s Wife, starring Demi Moore, Jeff Daniels and Mary Steenburgen, was filmed in 1991 on Bald Head Island. In the film a clairvoyant thinks she’s met her husband to be because she’s seen him in her dreams.
They marry quickly, and return to the husband’s (“the butcher”), home in the city.
She has a big impact on everyone she meets by anticipating their questions and actions and advising them on their love life.Her interference then brings her into contact with the real man of her dreams.
Another famous movie with scenes filmed on the island is Sleeping With The Enemy
In the movie Julia Roberts plays Laura Burney, an abused wife who fakes her own drowning, flees to the Midwest and begins a new life in a small college town.
Laura and Martin have been married for four years. They seem to be the perfect, happiest and most successful couple. The reality of their house- hold, however, is very different. Martin is an abusive and brutally obsessed husband. Laura is living her life in constant fear and waits for a chance to escape. She finally stages her own death, and flees to a new town and new identity. But when Martin finds out that his wife is not dead he will stop at nothing to find and kill her.
