OK, so stay with me, because this is an odd one.

I’m talking about David Cronenberg’s The Dead Zone (1983), starring Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, and Tom Skerritt, the new Netflix miniseries, Wayward, starring Mae Martin, Sarah Gadon, and Toni Collette, and a made-for-cable film called Run The Wild Fields (2000), that stars Sean Patrick Flannery and Joanne Whalley.

If you guessed they were all shot in the Toronto area, you’d be right. But that’s not all.

They all used a specific farmhouse as a key location. This place is located north of Whitby, east of Toronto. I know this because I served as the assistant to the director on Run The Wild Fields. We spent a few summery weeks working at this place in 1999. That picture used the location for both exteriors and interiors, as did The Dead Zone. I think Wayward only used it for exteriors — I suspect the interiors are sets because it’s a lot larger inside on the show than I remember.

That means this location has been used in films and series for more than 40 years. And I’m wondering if you’ve seen it in other movies you’ve watched. Feel free to reach out if it’s familiar.

Here’s the Smith family home from The Dead Zone, supposedly in Castle Rock, Maine.

Here’s the new house that Evelyn Wade provides to Alex and Laura in Wayward, supposedly somewhere in Vermont.

And here’s the home of Ruby and Pug, somewhere in North Carolina, in Run The Wild Fields.

Those five white pillars on the front porch are unmistakable.

Thanks to a Google browse and Netflix, I found yet another use of this place:

Other commenters on FB suggest it was used in The Handmaid’s Tale and Queen of Bones. Any others?