Located on the church grounds, we learn the mausoleum is near impossible to open from the outside. But apparently, in order to prevent individuals from being buried alive, it could be simply pushed open from the inside. Heinrichs spent a lot of time examining American cemeteries and found a mausoleum in Detroit that served as a model for this one. “This one has a slight Egyptian quality to it,” he explains, which was customary at the time.
The mausoleum and the nearby Groundskeeper’s cottage, unlike some of the other buildings, were both built on site in the Winterfold Forest in Surrey where they were shooting. “What’s interesting about [the forest] is that it was probably planted as a tree farm,” he says, “which is why you get those avenues of aligned trees. It gives this sort of perspective shift. There was something very cool about playing with that particularly when Blanc and Father Judd are walking in the woods and you see a little light crossing behind them.”
Il Diavolo
Il Diavolo, Italian for ‘the devil,’ is Chimney Rock’s local pub. It’s not exactly a dive bar, but it is certainly a local haunt and becomes a place of great intrigue when Detective Blanc shows up. And with all the examination of religion in this movie, it’s hard not to notice this bar leans the exact opposite direction of heaven. This kitschy establishment has walls plastered with devil iconography, photography, and tchotchkes, and the lived-in look of a place you might accidentally inhale a bit of dust. Unfortunately, Il Diavolo is not a real bar you can visit—it was built on the production team’s Warner Bros. stage in London—but it was created in the image of many retro American pubs. Heinrichs suggests that moviegoers really look at the details when the bar comes on screen. “There’s a devil Elvis lamp in there,” he shares, “and there’s a painting of a devil Van Gogh with one of his ears—no—one of his horns cut off!”
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery is streaming now on Netflix.
