Abagail's house involved a week of redressing the reality version of the home; the design was inspired by The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, where "none of the lines were straight up and down" and "unreal colors" were used. Filming began in Salt Lake City in February 1993 for what was originally the parts of the novel that took place in Boulder, Colorado. These scenes were initially planned to be shot in Boulder, but after the passage of Colorado Amendment 2, which nullified local gay rights laws, protests as well as the production team not morally agreeing with the Amendment led them not to shoot there. Shooting was moved to Utah, a state that had many Stephen King fans and religious people that related to the themes of the original novel, and four months of filming was done in Utah locations during what would be the state's bitterest winter in 100 years. The interior shots were done first with the plan that the snow will melt later on, only for that not to happen. This resulted in shots that featured weather not originally planned to be part of the plot, which worked in favor of some sequences in Garris's opinion. For filming the gas station scene, they had to deal with freezing cold rain. There were supposed to be close-up shots of Stu Redman being still, but it was impossible for Sinise to not shake from the cold weather. Thus, the close-up shots were rejected. It was also tough for Sinise to deliver lines in filming days following the shoot. The harsh weather also caused another unforeseen problem. Faced with prices of $40 per stalk for New York-made fake cornstalks, Coates opted instead to grow 3,250 cornstalks as a cost-cutting measure; when a winter storm hit Utah, the reproduction of a Nebraska house with cornfield became complicated by the fact that the harsh weather did not allow the corn crop to grow taller than 4 feet. The jail sequences were shot for three days at the sex offender wing of the Utah State Prison. However, the effects crew who were working on dead body dummies in the cells were unaware of this on the first day of shooting at the location and assumed it was an unused wing. The prison actually moved the sex offenders out of their cells for the miniseries, but the prisoners' belongings were left in the cells