Comments on: Horror Roundtable Week Eighty-Nine

By: Sam J. Miller

Sam J. Miller — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:08:43 +0000

My favorite horror movie locale is the one i’ve never seen before. Chicago housing project (Candyman)? Soho hipster party (Cloverfield)? Alaskan town where it’s nighttime for a really long time (30 Days of Night… great concept, lousy movie)? Shit!

By: lancifer

lancifer — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:46:12 +0000

I love any movie with snow in it. THE SHINING, THE THING, CURTAINS etc. Snow can even save a mediocre movie for me like DEAD OF WINTER or last years WIND CHILL. I just can’t be objective if there is snow falling. It puts me in the perfect mood in zero seconds.

By: Pax Romano

Pax Romano — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:45:11 +0000

For me, it’s the quaint little town that on the outside seems Utopian, but underneath it’s just a village of the damned. It’s the paranoia factor that makes it so great.

Everyone is out to get you!

Especially favored in all of those made for TV horror films like Harvest Home, Bay Coven, Crow Haven Farm…or on the big screen, epics like The Wicker Man and Let’s Scare Jessica to Death.

By: Bluerosekiller

Bluerosekiller — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:00:50 +0000

Pax & I think a lot alike.

I absolutely ADORE all those isolated small towns of terror portrayed in genre films & fiction. Like Jarusalem’s Lot & Innsmouth for instance.

By: Bluerosekiller

Bluerosekiller — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:09:24 +0000

My all time favorite though?

On film, that’s fairly easy to answer for me. And it’s the creepy little village of Whitewood as seen in the 1960 classic HORROR HOTEL ( aka CITY OF THE DEAD ). A more atmospheric, forboding place you’ll likely never find.

By: Eve Tushnet

Eve Tushnet — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:18:31 +0000

Oh, wow, the Frankenstein description is amazing!!! I’m sold. (And if you want something similar, Tim Powers’s ANUBIS GATES has a basement “backwards hospital” that is incredibly creepy and horrific.)

My own choice would be the serial-killer-type maze of rooms where each small, enclosed nook is a different murder–Jame Gumb’s basement, where all the floors are on different levels…. The Overlook Hotel also works. There’s a sense of the floor falling out from under you as the horror becomes so much older and worse than anything you had imagined….

Oh, and ghost ship. I dig ghost ship.

By: M

Thu, 01 May 2008 07:06:02 +0000

Watch this movie!