Midnight Madness - The Ultimate Filming Locations 

As a kid who grew up in the 80’s, this was one of the movies that came on ‘all the time’ on HBO when we first got cable. There were a handful of movies that I watched countless times over and over. This was one of them, and just seeing the clips were so nostalgic. Grease 2, Return of the Jedi, and another one called Super Fuzz were the ones I couldn’t get enough of, and had to watch over and over…much to the chagrin of my mom!

Automatic bonus points for any episode in which Curt busts out the roller skates.

This movie was one of my favorites as a really young kid. i loved it so much that i begged/forced my dad to record it on VHS

This was my favorite movie growing up. I wish it was streaming.

I loved this movie so much, I set up a clue based scavenger hunt for my kids inside the Bonaventure.

No F***Ing WAY!!!! Kurt you are the MAN!

OMG I would watch Midnight Madness all the time when I was a kid. Love the opening song.

Never even heard of this one before, but they certainly made you work for it.

Luuuuuuvd this Film - Michael J Fox winning the Arcade game!!!

Dude that’s not only the Dr. Pepper guy , but more importantly the American werewolf in London guy 🐺 Keep ‘em rolling kurt👍🏻

That was absolutely the best one you've ever done! What a classic! How can you not love this silly movie? The Yellow team is the least interesting and Michael J Fox is kind of a drag in it, but it's just a great classic! Kurt Cobain's favorite movie!

Loved this movie! I still have it on dvd.

Sorry to spam the comments but THIS is the video I’ve been waiting to pop up on YT since it’s inception. It’s here!!!!!!

I never heard of this movie, but I love watching your videos.

i LOVE this movie soooo much!!! I have always wanted to do an all-night scavenger hunt ever since that movie came out. Thank you!!!!

Thanks Kurt!

One of my all time favs growing up and watching almost non-stop on HBO during Summer breaks! LEEEONNN!!!! Thanks for the work and all the effort going to these locations and for posting this!

Yesss!! You made a video based off a movie I requested! I've always loved this movie!

During COVID your videos inspired me to find filming locations of some of my favorite movies. Midnight Madness was the first video I did like 6 months ago. I'm so so SO happy you found the actual 'piano museum' exteriors!! That one was alluding me! And the reason why the inside of Johnies doesn't line up is because (supposedly) the interiors were filmed at the other Johnies Broiler location. I'm sure you know the history of that location and how it was mostly demolished like 10 years ago. So who knows. Anyways my dream would be to do a colab with you someday! FAGABEFE!!

I used to only watch filming location videos on movies I’ve seen but since finding your channel I watch them all. Excellent job!

you have a great channel

I absolutely loved this film!! I watched several times at the movies when it premiered and I also have in DVD, which I have watched with my kids and they too love this film!!

I just rewatched this classic. Such a fun flick. An easy “Like”

HIGHLY underrated movie... I finally got it on DVD a few years back on clearance at Best Buy... 1 thing I never knew until I got the DVD is this was technically a Disney movie. Who knew? Very cool that YOU remembered, Kurt! Always enjoy your videos.

I am 44. I saw this on HBO one weekend afternoon. It had to be around 1987. They never played it since. I found it on Netflix about 10 years ago. I never heard anyone talk about this movie. Thanks for posting it up. You like all the movies I like from my childhood. This is one of my top 3 RU-vid channels. Thanks for the content.

You always nail it, but this is fantastic!

I thought I was the only one who remembered that movie...I own it on dvd..a classic

I can’t believe I’ve never seen this movie. I’ll have to find it 🤔

Dude, the fact that you rocked the skates and rolled on down... you are a legend. The level of commitment is off the charts. A huge thank you and major props to all the time and money you spent to make these videos. I'm a fellow 80's, mullet-wearing, neon clothes, surfer, movie NERD 🤓 I love all the nostalgia from a much better time in my life.

I haven’t seen like 40% of these movies but I still enjoy these videos and seeing how cities change.

Yassss Kurt, been waiting for a new upload from you!

This is without a doubt- THE BEST LOCATION VIDEO FOR THIS MOVIE EVER!!! Thank you for your dedication to help preserve all info on this FANTASTIC movie!!! And I love the funky jam playing at the Bonaventure hotel!!!!

Another great filming locations video! Thank you Kurt!

Very happy and surprised that anyone remembers this movie.

At first I didn't recognize the movie title but after seeing the cast assemble I started to remember watching this in theaters. Reminds me of the movie "Scavenger Hunt".

Thank you so much for doing this movie. I have watched it countless times and my wife and I dressed up like Game Master and Game Control for Halloween

One of my favorites! Thank you for this!

This is one of my favorite 80s films! So underrated

Bro I remember this movie since elementary school , four years I've been looking for this movie and I never knew it was a Disney movie that's probably why I never could find it and I thank you for showing this clip you shot me way back gracias

This is great! I do believe you are the only person on youtube to document the locations for this movie. I've been wanting to do it for years, and about two years ago I ended up going to Big Bear, and was going to try to take a day to go to LA and try to find all these locations, but man I would've never done even half the awesome job you did! I had alot of it figured out using google earth, but wow there was alot more to it! And I've always thought it was hilarious how they do that site swap thing with filming scenes in two or three different locations and stitching them together to make one scene, as if it is one single location lol. When I did the Goonies locations, I was like, ok let's do this right and for the final scene we drove all the way to Jenner CA to Goat Rock Beach, and it was AWESOME! I haven't looked to see if youve done the goonies yet, but if you ever get the chance to go to goat rock beach, man it is amazing.

For years I thought I imagined this movie. No one I spoke to knew anything about it and I couldn’t find copies of it anywhere. Such a fun movie

One of my favorites movies from the 80´s. Thanks a lot to let us know a great deal of information about the filming location. Great work dude!!!!

Dude you just got a sub based on the title of this alone.

Seen Midnight Madness many times, thank you Kurt for the video! Awesome!!

10 year old me is very disappointed that adult me doesn't own a conversion van with a heart shaped window on the side.

So well done. This movie takes me back to watching HBO at my cousin's house (since we never had it) and me thinking I was cool just watching it. You did a great job matching these up, and it was a great start to my workday here. Thank you.

Thank you for posting this video! This was one of my favorite movies growing up. HBO or Showtime would sometimes show this on a Saturday afternoon figuring that young kids were the audience. This movie became very hard to find at the video store by late 80s. Years ago, when IMDb first started, I would ask questions about the filming locations when IMDb actually had a comments section on each and every movie's page. The only clarification I ever got was that the Malibu mini golf location had burned down and general information on the Bonaventure Hotel. Thank you for the wealth of information you provided in the video.

Actor Dirk Blocker (Blaylak from the Green Team) is also Detective Hitchcock on Brooklyn Nine Nine.

I like to consider myself a movie guy who grew up in the 80s but i have to say one never heard of this movie. Now i have to look for it and watch it. 👍

One of my all time favorite movies since I was a kid.

I've been looking for this movie for 38 years... LOL I love it..

I requested this a few months back, thanks for this one. Took me back.

Loved this movie as a kid.

🤘🤘

Great vid of a favorite movie!

Thank you for doing this. I love this movie so much that when I first moved to LA I went out looking for a few of these places. I was told the inside of Johnny’s was film at a restaurant in Santa Fe Springs that has since been torn down. I thought Miniature Gold World was also filmed at Golf N Stuff in Ventura. The castle there looks the same except for some modifications for the movie. When the draw bridge goes up in the movie you can see the actual hole.

I LOVED this movie! I paid through the nose to get it on DVD years and years ago. 😁👍

Always informative and interesting!!

I LOVED this movie and watched it all the time as a kid! Thank you! ❤️

Oh I love this movie! Such a fun film! Faga beefe? Still cracks me up!

Kurt I love your channel and your filming locations. One of my all time favorite TV shows was The Rockford Files. I know, I know, it was from the 70's, not the 80's. But it was the late 70's. I'm from the Midwest, but every time I watch an episode, I fall into a rabbit hole of google maps trying to figure out if any of those filming locations still exist. Rockford Files is a gold mine of film locations. Jim Rockford driving around LA in his gold Firebird working on cases. The trailer he lived in was on a parking lot in Malibu on the Pacific Ocean. I've googled it, it's still there. The parking lot, not the trailer... lol... I love your CHIPS videos. Maybe you can do the same for Rockford.

We are doing a screening of Midnight Madness on November 4th at The Frida Cinema in Santa Ana, CA. A number of the cast members and at least one of the directors will be attending for a 43-year cast reunion. Event information will be posted on The Frida's website in a few weeks.

As always totally awesome video!!

Pinball City was filmed at Malibu Castle in North Hollywood on the corner of Whitsett and Vanowen

One of my favorite movie!!! I love this funny movie and songs. 😊😊😊

Kurt, you should’ve worn the yellow tube top and daisy dukes when skating.

You ended this fantastic video with my all time favorite scene! When Wesley throws that dog in the elevator!! As a kid I would laugh my head off at that!!! We watched it last night and I told my wife-wait for it!! “That poor dog!!” Lol

HILARIOUS! Laughed through the whole thing! Great work Kurt 👻

Shout to Eddie Deezen!!! "They gave him a gun Angelo"

I remember my Maui and sons shirts think I had that same one that and T&C Gotcha Catch-it JimmyZs all my skate shrts ...... gem of a movie and as usual great job Kurt keep em comin!!!

I'm addicted to your filming location videos! They're much better done than alot of the other ones I see on RU-vid. Any plans on doing one for Michael Mann's Heat?

Loved this movie when I was a kid. I remember watching it on Spotlight, pay movie channel like HBO, when cable tv first came out.

Hey, I just realized that not only are Michael J. Fox and David Naughton playing brothers, but they also have played werewolves.

Absolutely LOVE this movie!!

The guy that left a dead fish on the porch of the house in The Goonies ( FROM 1985) has been arrested , he also stole a boat and jumped overboard and had to be rescued by the coast guard. He is wanted in many crimes. Could find no Goonies on here , but house is in Oregon is probably why.

I have a copy of it on dvd!!! Me and my best friend love this movie! Thank you for this video!!!

Pinball City was at Sherman Way and Whitsett, In the Valley, It is now a Tile and Stone store. It is part of a set of renovation stores now.

Dr. Pepper guy was also main actor of American Werewolf in london.

Great video! This movie is one of my early faves as a kid! 😍😍

Yaaasss!!! I loved this film & watched it a few weeks ago. I was hoping someone had or would do the locations. For whatever reason this film will pop into my mind & I’m like “I’ve gotta find a copy if this film again!!”

This was my movie when I was a kid. ‘FAGABEEFE’ 😂😂😂 Met Sal Lopez when I lived in Venice. Cool dude.

15:44 the old Del Taco sign. Nice.

I've still got the VHS. This was the fill in movie on HBO and SuperTV back in the day. Never saw it at blockbuster.

I remember watching this movie when it was on HBO back in the 1980s. I still have the film on DVD as well. If you watch early episodes of Robot Chicken, you'll see brief reproductions of scenes from the movie.

This was an awesome video! Thank you!

Appreciate your videos, I grew up in the 80's, and you put a lot of hard work and dedication in to bringing back some awesome memories!!⁶】

I saw this in Westwood. I loved it, but I soon forgot about it till it showed up on cable a few years later. A very typical early 80s teen comedy, but not as good as The Hollywood Knights, which I consider not only superior to Midnight Madness but Porky's as well. If you haven't done a video on Hollywood Knights, I think it would be a good subject. I met the actor who played Wheatley. He was a cool dude. He was wearing his Wheatley letterman jacket from the movie.

Oh wow I loved this film

So I just went through the photos of Ventura golf n stuff on google and I’m more convinced it’s miniature golf world and possibly pinball city. I see 3 hole that look very similar to what you see in the movie although painted differently. Now the golf n stuff arcade looks nothing like pinball city in the movie but pinball city has slanted wood paneling and I found a photo of one wall inside the golf n stuff arcade that has slanted wood paneling but it has been painted black. Worth checking out.

If I'm not mistaken Cathedral High School was a cemetery way back in the day and they said bodies are still buried there and I believe they have headstones around the track I believe Scott was there not too long ago

Great video, as always, and obviously a lot of time and work went into it. How did you get Norm McDonald to narrate?😂

As always awesome content thanks David naughington America werewolf in London right?

David Naughton and Michael J Fox would both go onto star in Werewolf movies. whatta coinkydink.

This movie has always been a mystery to me. I grew up in Brazil in the 80s and this movie was on TV a few times and I always thought it was a sequel, because all the teams knew Leon. Now I know the truth.

Great Video again! you're getting really good at this. Any chance of doing a video on Black Sheep (1996). They filmed a lot of scenes in Monrovia.Thanks!

Thanks!

Fantastic work Kurt, I love the fact that you really do your homework well before shooting your scenes. especially the piano museum scene. I don't think I've seen this film but I will Def check it out now I've seen this. For me I love your filming locations wether I've seen the movie or not it's all amazing work and the time and effort you put in is flawless..looking forward to the next one...ps. any chance of doing menace 2 society 😊

When the red team’s pick-up truck falls over the wall after the green team drives away, was behind The Smokehouse. Across from Warner Brothers in Burbank.

It's interesting that in the opening credits, Michael J. Fox is credited as Michael Fox, but in the closing credits, he's credited as Michael J. Fox. By the way. his real name is Michael Andrew Fox. When he joined the Screen Actors Guild, he went by Michael Fox, but there was already another actor named Michael Fox and he didn't like how Michael A. Fox sounded.so he took the middle initial J. from the late character actor Michael J. Pollard, who appeared in movies like "Scrooged" and "House of 1,000 Corpses".

One of my favourites from the 80s as well.I have it on DVD and of course Michael J.Fox from that classic trilogy and the surfing wolf movie.LOL.Also David Naughton from American Werewolf in London and the Dr.Pepper commercials and who can forget Stephen Furst who played Flounder in the classic Animal House.Also Kirsten Baker who played Sunshine was in Friday the 13th part 2.My uncle worked at the same Pabst Blue Ribbon Brewery back in the early 70s.Thanx for the video bro.Have you done the filming locations for Better Off Dead?The same car wash on San Fernando and Scott was also in it.