best setting for a horror movie

whats your favorite setting in a horror movie? here are a few of my favorite Atmosphere films
1- Session 9 - the old asylum was perfect!! so creepy
2- The Thing - The isolation felt in antartica was awsome!
3- Dawn of the Dead - The Mall is a landmark in horror movies!!

The Exoricst- a real town, on a real street, in a real house about a normal little girl.

i would also put the shining on the list, I live about a half an hour frm the real hotel, The Stanley Hotel. It has a very scary atmosphere even when crowded!!

The Myers House from Halloween was pretty good for the Halloween films.

The Amityville House from the Amityville Horror, since its a real house
and the Myers House, since Halloween is my favorite Horror series and Myers is my favorte killer... 😎

Dude the asylum from session 9 is the next town over from me kids break in there all the time

Old asylum in Session 9 was great.

The outer space colonies in Alien was spectacular.

The haunted house in Amityville horror is the one of the best because it is the antagonist.

Deserted area in Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It's a great setting because it's so out there and it creates a feeling of mystery.

The Nostromo spaceship setting in Alien. Completely closed in, outer space, only way to escape is to get past the monster, who is nearly impossible to kill with what they have.

The lost-in-the-woods setting of The Blair Witch Project, capped off with that old building in the climax.

The family homes in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Hallowe'en. Dark stairways have haunted me ever since.

The alien planit was terrifying dark and dusty

Originally posted by Cowboyography
i would also put the shining on the list, I live about a half an hour frm the real hotel, The Stanley Hotel. It has a very scary atmosphere even when crowded!!

was it just the interior used in the film...cause i'm pretty sure the exterior shits were the timberline lodge

The middle of nowhere houses in movies like TCM, Psycho, Night of the Living Dead, etc., just send chills because there's noone around to hear your yells for help.

I love the Movie Theater setting in "Popcorn."

The mall in "Dawn of the Dead" was great as well.

Wow, I started this thread three years ago, and here it is on page one!!

I think the main thing for horror is to find somewhere that people still feel as totally safe........then exploit the hell out of it

The Subway setting in Creep was pretty effective although the film itself wasnt great. It also features in American Werewolf in London.

The old cabin in the woods in Evil Dead also.

Originally posted by Cowboyography
Wow, I started this thread three years ago, and here it is on page one!!

Yeah, it's because I upped it.

Originally posted by SithSpy
I think the main thing for horror is to find somewhere that people still feel as totally safe........then exploit the hell out of it

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Like a person's house. shock

or the supermarket. i think its time we see "The Tesco Chainsaw Massacre"

Suburbia. There's nothing scary about an old asylum, or an old haunted isolated house, or antarctica, for me because I am never going to be in any of those places. What's frightening is the thought of evil lurking in places I actually frequent, like a residential neighborhood.

The desert setting in the Hills have Eyes was really great. So desolate, with such antique buildings and homes. The inside of the mutant's homes was even creepier.

But no setting beats Silent Hill IMO. From the Ashen streets at first, to the creepy-as-hell atmosphere it changes to once the darkness comes. I especially liked the dark looking alleys Rose has to run through, the pourous bathroom with that janitor, the blood soaked hospital with the nurses, all of it worked beautifully.