10 Everyday Things Horror Movies Have Made Terrifying

Some people have often caught themselves with fantasies about moving to a small community on the countryside. It certainly has its share of benefits, plenty of space, an intimate group of people to get familiar with, and isolated from all the noise of the big cities that mark major countries. However that isolation often leads to the justification for why towns like these are always used in horror films.

Their removed nature makes them breeding grounds for the mad and the macabre. The American southwest is a popular setting for horror shows like these, with the vast deserts and southern twang in states like Texas, with its infamous Chainsaw Massacre, or New Mexico, whose nuclear bomb tests made its quiet locales the immaculately creepy setting for The Hills Have Eyes. Adding to the horror, in a community of about 10-15 people, all of whom are murderous psychopaths, nobody can be trusted

After a horror movie marathon, cross country travelers might not be so eager to take a stop at that abandoned-looking gas station to fill up, no matter how cheap a gallon might be. The best advice is to usually wait for a place where there's a cell-phone signal, since that's always the first thing gone in a horror film.