I assumed this was Figure Eight Island, which is on the opposite side of the channel from the northern tip of Wrightsville Beach where Shell Island Resort is. Source on IMDb and elsewhere claim it is at Shell Island Resort, but it’s not—or maybe it is. I don’t know, there is a lot of conflicting information. It’s near, but you can’t access Figure Eight Island anyway as it’s private property, so it’s the closest you can get in public areas.

I did some digging on this and found a wonderful article written up which explains so very much more than I could have hoped, and provides real amazing information such as that the production built the house from scratch for this movie, but only half of the house. The two following photos are from someone named Mike who provided it to the

This is similar to how Under the Dome build a house which catches fire, but it’s only a façade with walls missing and no insides. At least with this structure in Sleeping with the Enemy, the interiors were within the half of a house.

According to the article linked above, the production demolished the structure and removed all traces of it once the production was completed. What I do know from living in this area a while is that at one time the ocean was hitting Shell Island Resort when the tide came in, and it was closed until a dredging operation could be done to rebuild the northern end of Wrightsville Beach. I remember going to the roundabout and the channel waters were feet from the road. Now, it’s extended outward quite far and the Shell Island Resort is open again. With that said, the area that they build the structure could have turned in to the channel at some point.

Who knows.

There once was a war-torn looking abandoned meat packing plant in Navassa, just across the river from Wilmington, but it has since been demolished in 2014. So this is not a location that you can seek out anymore – though you may be able to drive over it.

This was where Cyborg was filmed, though I swear there was something else filmed there many years later.

There are plenty of images and videos of the plant online, as it was a popular hidden attraction for locals:

News Article on the Destruction:
Former Meat Packing Plant Said to be Haunted Gives Way to Wilmington Bypass

Dinger (Corey Haim) and Derek (John Ward) hurry to stop that asshole Joel (William McNamara) who previously showed Dinger his gun and told him what he planned to do with it.

John Ward is actually from Wilmington, his sister was a stand-in for Drew Barrymore when Stephen King’s Firestarter was filmed here. He popped up later in a few other Wilmington productions, such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), Sleeping with the Enemy (1991), and Matlock (1993-1994).

Also, a car scene shows Bobby (Corey Feldman) driving past this same cemetery, just a bit back the other direction. In all likelihood, Corey wasn’t probably even driving the car, speaking from experience. One of my first Ichabod Crane photo double gigs for FOX’s Sleepy Hollow was riding along with the Lt. Abbie photo double, we were just a couple blocks away at a different cemetery. I didn’t even have the real coat on, and they gave me a horrible wig. Seeing in to cars is hard, so just about anyone can do it without needing to pay an expensive actor to do some mind-numbing driving in circles.

And going in the direction that Dinger and Derek were heading leads to a previous shot of Bobby driving past a gas station, which is also just a bit down Princess Place Drive.