ITT: horror movies set in the desert
ITT: horror movies set in the desert
Jackson Johnson
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Daniel Bell
Tremors
Vampires (1998)
Brandon Jackson
Texas Chainsaw Massacre is in kind of dry badland like country, more or less approaching desert status.
Jack Perez
From Dusk Til Dawn
John Peterson
The Hitcher.
Carson Martinez
Phase IV is definitely in dry country
The Burrowers
Southbound
The Hitcher (more suspense thriller)
Them
Alexander Morgan
Carnival of Souls. It mostly takes place in towns with trees and parks, but the surrounding country, like you see around the pavilion, is Utah desert.
Aaron Cooper
wolf creek
Aiden Walker
Near Dark is in southwestern farmlands country. Can't remember if it shows any deserty parts, but the larger region and culture is that kind of culture and atmosphere.
Ryder Perry
It's more thriller than horror but Breakdown is pure southwest USA desert kino.
Thomas Stewart
Pee Wee's Big Adventure is actually worth mentioning. A lot of it takes place across desert roads, and it's full of spooky fable / nighmarish elements.
Colton Barnes
I'm about to dip into Russ Meyer more, but don't some of his movies have a lot of trashy violence and take place in dry areas? Maybe it's all just California backlots, although a lot of that is desert and dry hills.
Angel Fisher
Like, a lot of that kind of trashy tweaker industrial metal in the late 80s and early 90s, like White Zombie, Ministry, and Butthole Surfers, drew on horror-exploitation imagery and seemed to be set in some dry southwestern redneck badlands with chainsaw killers, busty vixens, and campy aliens and werewolves.
Levi Brown
Southbound is silly with that ‘southwest tumbleweed town’ aesthetic.
Leo Hill
The Thing
Camden Reed
And obviously Tarantino and Eli Roth are really into that stuff too.
Adam Ward
Mad max fury road
Joshua Bennett
The first two Mad Maxes as well
Jaxon Ortiz
I'm just about to finally get around to Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
The description sounds relevant to this thread and relates to that whole White Zombie / Ministry aesthetic:
>Three strippers seeking thrills encounter a young couple in the desert. After dispatching the boyfriend, they take the girl hostage and begin scheming on a crippled old man living with his two sons in the desert, reputedly hiding a tidy sum of cash. They become house guests of the old man and try and seduce the sons in an attempt to locate the money, not realizing that the old man has a few sinister intentions of his own.
Luis Young
Anyone else just automatically read that in the grindhouse trailer narrator voice?
Isaac Collins
10/10 movie
Leo Torres
I still haven't watched Grindhouse because I want to see all the relevant Russ Meyer, Herschell Gordon Lewis, etc movies first. I have seen a good chunk of that stuff already but the splatter and girls 'n guns/cars stuff I've kind of neglected.
Xavier Sullivan
someone photoshop the coomer over the mutant
Joseph Reyes
Keep your discord forced-meme to yourself, try-hard.
Jason Gray
make me, coomer
Zachary Davis
Speaking of exploitation trash, come to think of it there's a lot of that 50s / 60s B movie and grindhouse stuff that takes place in the desert. A lot of the really bad movies that were featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000:
Eegah!
Beast of Yucca Flats
A bunch of stuff I'm forgetting the names of. Cold War / Nuclear era stuff.
Jacob Powell
Mummy
Leo Anderson
Or the word I was looking for there was 'Atomic Age'. There's a lot of sci-fi horror from the 50s and 60s set in the desert.
Caleb Jackson
Not really desert. Most of the horror takes place in museum or suburbs. Unless you are talking about Hammer one, which takes place in victorian mansion anyway.