Blue Velvet
A student finds an ear in a field and follows it into a nightclub singer's troubles.
The directory
Films: Small town
Horror films, old and new: what each one is, who made it and how scary it gets.
Halloween
An escaped patient returns to a quiet Illinois town on Halloween night, stalking a babysitter and her friends.
It
Seven outcast kids face a menace that stalks their town as Pennywise the Dancing Clown.
It: Chapter Two
The Losers Club returns to Derry twenty seven years on to face what they never quite outran as children.
Scream
A masked killer stalks a small town a year after a young woman's mother was murdered.
Sinners
Twin brothers come home to 1932 Mississippi and find the Jim Crow South is the least of their problems.
The Birds
Ordinary gulls turn on a small coastal town, and nobody can say why.