Filming was put on hiatus for eight weeks, in order to build Doc Ock's pier lair. It had been Spisak's idea to use a collapsed pier as Ock's lair, reflecting an exploded version of the previous lab and representing how Octavius' life had collapsed and grown more monstrous,[1] evoking the cinema of Fritz Lang and the film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.[55] Filming then resumed on that set, having taken fifteen weeks to build, occupying Sony's Stage 30.