Lot Fourteen
A foundation contractor drills through a coffin lid and finds forty dead souls underneath, one of whom is past reasoning and wants him dead in the hole. Dale talks for his life, makes the wrong offer, and learns that the…
Tag: Small Town Horror
Small towns make perfect horror settings: everyone knows everyone, which means everyone is implicated. This tag collects reviews of small-town horror, where community itself becomes the trap.
1970sSalem’s Lot (1979)
Tobe Hooper made one of the finest TV horror productions ever, with a silent Nosferatu-style vampire and unforgettable scares. Salem's Lot earns its 7.5 as one of the finest pieces of television horror ever made and proof that the right…
1970sThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Tobe Hooper's 1974 verite slasher. Leatherface, sledgehammer dinner, fifteen-thousand-dollar budget.
1970sHalloween (1978)
John Carpenter's 1978 slasher template. Michael Myers in mask, Jamie Lee Curtis debut.
1980sA Christmas Story (1983)
Peter Billingsley plays Ralphie. The film operates as memory instead of plot.
1960sHow the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)
Chuck Jones directs the animated Dr. Seuss special about a sour creature plotting to steal Christmas from the Whos in Whoville. How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
2010sIt (2017)
Andrés Muschietti adapts the first half of King's novel about children battling a shape-shifting evil in 1980s Derry, Maine. It is Andrés Muschietti's 2017 American supernatural horror film adapting the first half of Stephen King's 1986 novel, depicting a group…
1980sFright Night (1985)
William Ragsdale plays Charley Brewster. Fright Night operates as one of the most successful horror-comedy productions of the mid-1980s and a foundational text for the teen-protagonist-with-aging-mentor horror tradition.
1960sPsycho (1960)
Hitchcock's adaptation of Robert Bloch's novel about a woman who steals from her employer and stops at the wrong motel. Psycho is Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 American horror-thriller adapted from Robert Bloch's 1959 novel, depicting a Phoenix real-estate secretary who steals…
1990sScream (1996)
Wes Craven directs the meta slasher about a high school targeted by a killer in a Ghostface mask who knows horror conventions. Scream is Wes Craven's 1996 American slasher film depicting a high school targeted by a killer in a…
1980sPet Sematary (1989)
A family discovers an ancient burial ground behind their Maine home that returns the dead to life, but wrong. Pet Sematary is Mary Lambert's 1989 American horror film adapted from Stephen King's 1983 novel, depicting a Boston physician who moves…
1970sThe Amityville Horror (1979)
The Amityville Horror is Stuart Rosenberg's 1979 American horror film depicting the Lutz family who move into a Long Island house where a mass murder occurred the previous year, and the supernatural events that allegedly drive them out twenty-eight days…