43 Creepiest Locations Around The World To Be Actually Used In Film

42. Lawang Sewu, Indonesia – The Thousand Doors of Terror

Lawang Sewu (“A Thousand Doors”) is a colonial-era building in Semarang that lives up to its haunting name. Originally built by the Dutch as a railway headquarters, it later became a Japanese prison where countless people were tortured and executed during World War II. With its endless hallways and echoing vaults, it served as the filming location for Lawang Sewu: Dendam Kuntilanak (2007), a horror film based on local ghost legends. Visitors claim to have seen headless spirits, heard cries from the basement, and even captured ghostly figures in photographs. Lawang Sewu is a monument to suffering—and it still echoes with fear.