THE SHADOW OF OAKLANDS: Exploring an Abandoned Victorian Children’s Home (Lowton)

​THE SHADOW OF OAKLANDS: A Kubrickian Nightmare - Abandoned Victorian Children's Home ​The abandoned Oaklands Children's Home in Lowton is a Victorian monstrosity that harbors dark secrets. Its sordid history of physical and sexual abuse scandals has left the house oozing a pervasive sense of dread, almost as if the building itself is watching. Architecturally stunning yet historically important to the local populace, the deeper you delve, the more the house reveals its secrets—including unsettling, 'people-under-the-stairs' style passages hidden within the walls. The vast scale of the place quickly becomes labyrinthian, a foreboding experience that begs the question: Why did I go in alone? ​This explore was the perfect setting for my filmmaking, an intense, self-made horror Urbex flick. The film is heavily influenced by the suffocating tension of Alfred Hitchcock, the architectural horror of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, and the atmospheric dread of classic Hammer Horror. Those stunning aerial shots by Drone Wolf Photography capture a scale that immediately elicits that crucial sense of uneasy isolation. Filmed and edited by Clarky on the DJI Pocket 2 Ariel Footage by Drone Wolf photography -   / drone-wolf-photography-2250267101893311   Featuring Lewis and Gary The Urban Collectives Links: Help support The Channel - paypal.me/clarky1503 The Urban Collective - Instagram   / clarky_theurbancollective   The Urban Collective - Official Facebook Page   / clarky1503   The Urban Collective - YouTube Channel    / theurbancollectivewefilmit   The Urban Collective - Twitter - @Clarky1503   / clarky1503   The Music: "Giant Wyrm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Mary Celeste by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/ "Shadowlands 2 - Bridge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Zombie Hoodoo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Vi... "Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Welcome to HorrorLand" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Cylinder Six by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ "Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "SCP-x4x (Mind Leech)" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Very Low Note" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Blue Creek Trail by Dan Lebowitz The Urban Collective We Film It... ©Maniac productions ​#KubrickianNightmare ​#HammerHorror ​#Hitchcockian ​#CinematicUrbex ​#HorrorUrbex ​#TheShining ​#AbandonedHorror ​#urbex ​#urbanexploration ​#abandonedplaces ​#decay ​#abandoned ​#urbexuk ​#abandonedchildrenshome ​#abandonedorphanage ​#sordidhistory ​#truecrime ​#lowton ​#oaklands ​#victorianarchitecture ​#solourbex