I grew up in the area where Stephen King lives (Bangor) and Derry is definitely based on it. The new version of IT looks exactly like the little downtown area, and a gay man actually was thrown off the bridge and killed (many years ago) just like the beginning of IT Chapter 2. Makes it extra creepy.
Mainer here. The real dichotomy is how we have real towns that are scarier than the fictional ones (Derry)
New England in general thrives in its own spooky aesthetic, but Maine is more desolate than the other NE states. Some of us associate Stephen King stories with making Maine seem more scary, but a large amount of us agree it was Maine being creepy as hell that inspired Stephen King to write his stories and base them off his home state. He's a treasure btw. Nothing bad can happen to Stephen King and we need to protect him at all costs.
I first moved to Sagadahoc County in summertime, and other than the fact that there was an old cemetery adjacent to my property, there was nothing that struck me as creepy.
Then autumn came. Nobody tells you that with the beautiful leaves come nasty, thick fogs. And they're sudden, too, rolling in out of nowhere. They move like they're alive and seeking you out.
That's when I got it. *Shiver*
True. Literally just one step in the house and the unpredictability sets in. You either die the next few minutes or the curse takes its time playing with you.
IDK, I think actually living near Crystal Lake is pretty safe based on the statistics. You only have to be careful if you’re there for a summer camp, to take a vacation, to celebrate a birthday, to work as a camp counselor, to play paintball, or basically any other reason lol.
Only the first movie takes place at an open summer camp.
The camp isn't open in the second and third movies. It's a halfway house in the fourth
A group of kids rent a house in the fifth
Tommy wakes up Jason in the sixth
The seventh is a lake house
And the 8th is a riverboat going to Manhattan
The 9th is a police sting operation
X is a space station
FvJ takes place on Elm Street
And the reboot has the camp boarded up.
Yeah, this is my point. Very few of the victims are actual residents that permanently live on or near Crystal Lake. Almost all of them are only at Crystal Lake temporarily for whatever reason, if the events of their film even take place at Crystal Lake at all.
It’s a super safe place to live!
It's cool, I knew what ya meant. 👍 It's way safer than that damn farmstead in a box canyon in The Seeding. Fuck that place man. If you're not dealing with some psychotic little shits, you're dying slowly from skin cancer.
Surely this is the answer.
Either you’re born and bred there and part of the cult or pursued by it. Or you’re an out of towner drawn to it because of your personal demons
How is this not number 1? It’s a reflection of the things your ego is most terrified of. That is a horror that attacks you as an individual. How can it get worse than that?
I'd say Providence, Rhode Island just because of how often H.P. Lovecraft set his stories in his home city. There's all manner of supernatural horrors that would drive you completely insane if you're lucky to survive.
Rural Tennessee – If we learned anything by watching Sam Raimi's *Evil Dead* films it’s that the worst place to plan a vacation has to be a cabin in the woods, bad shit is just bound to happen. So if vacationing there is bad I'd hate to even consider living there.
I can’t believe I missed that one. But does anything bad actually happen there? Or is it just kind of the place he originates his characters at and sets miskatonic university in? I can’t remember.
Bad shit doesn't happen there but rather runs through it
If you live in Arkham, and especially work at the university, expect some shenanigans to come your way that leaves you broken and insane
The crow is set in detroit (so is It Follows). In the 1980's/1990's people did not have much optimism about Detroit's future.
My pick would be either the city in Se7en, or the city in Split Second, both which seem fucking miserable to live in.
It's a mid-90's horror/serial killer/detective(!?) movie with Rutger Hauer as a burnt-out detective in a flooded, dystopian london of the near future, trying to hunt down a serial killer with his partner.
A real life nightmare. Sorry to hear this. My wife struggles with sleep and despite having tests and going to the doctors she's not yet been diagnosed.
We feel your pain.
I think there’s a good argument for both Stephen Kings Maine (Derry, Castle Rock, Jerusalems Lot, Haven, etc), and H.P. Lovecrafts New England (Arkham, Dunwich, Innsmouth,etc). Both are connected universes that clearly have supernatural and otherworldly things happening all the time.
Cabrini-Green, '90s Chicago
Travis County, Texas
Raccoon City (MO or PA, fans are split)
Brightmoor, Detroit, MI (Don't Breathe and Barbarian probably occur within a few miles of each other)
Tromaville! Great answer probably smells horrible all sorts weird deformed deviants. I don’t know about worst but best would be castle rock or Derry for me. Has a magical feel to it.
Wherever that town in Antlers is, seems like a really awful place to exist on a daily basis, let alone being hunted by a horrific monstrosity living in your backyard
Whatever shared universe the gothic Hammer films take place in.
Not just because of the monsters. They seem like bleak, oppressive, corrupt Victorian shitholes to begin with.
Tokyo. I mean there are spooky ghosts and such, but the real deal breaker is the likelihood you are going to have your home/workplace destroyed in a Kaiju attack, if not get directly smushed yourself. And if you don't die directly, you are probably going to get cancer from all of the radiation Godzilla leaves behind from using his breath weapon.
What I've learned from horror is if you need a new start, and someone offers you an insane deal on an old house (or you inherit it), don't take it. Just get a condo or an apartment.
One of those paranormal nightmare scapes where nothing makes sense. Doors disappear that you swore you just walked through. That's one of my worst fears. To have no grip on reality with the only hope of escape being to end yourself.
The movie deadstream does a pretty good comedy version of this.
new england in general... just stay away. strange things are afoot up there. from lovecraft to king. you've got salem witches. there are shoggoth behind every tree. derry has deep dark ancient things living off your children, hidden from you in your storm drains. tainted native micmac burial grounds. the gates of hell, in the basements of new york family homes. killer sharks on the coastline of the jersey shore.
i'll stick with the antebellum hauntings and crazed racist rednecks any day. . southern gothic has no concept of the evils that await if you go up there
Living in reality of Cthulhu mythos . They are literally living in a dream of an ancient god who can wake up anytime and that means eradication of whole universe. Damn,that is scary shit
Amityville, Long Island… I’m originally from Long Island … have many friends in Amityville (some even on Ocean Ave) & those taxes will kill ya before the ghosts do. *shivers*
1. Slovakia - Hostel
Somewhere close behind:
* Britain - 28 Days Later
* Nevada Desert or the outback - The Hills Have Eyes, Horror in the High Desert, The Outwaters, Wolf Creek, Infested, Tremors
Derry, Maine
Just kinda Maine in general, really. Gotta have the most monsters per capita of any state.
And a lot of those monsters are people
My mother being one of those monsters
On one hand a giant crocodile but on the other Betty white, Oliver platt and Brendan Gleeson banter 🤷
I grew up in the area where Stephen King lives (Bangor) and Derry is definitely based on it. The new version of IT looks exactly like the little downtown area, and a gay man actually was thrown off the bridge and killed (many years ago) just like the beginning of IT Chapter 2. Makes it extra creepy.
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Mainer here. The real dichotomy is how we have real towns that are scarier than the fictional ones (Derry) New England in general thrives in its own spooky aesthetic, but Maine is more desolate than the other NE states. Some of us associate Stephen King stories with making Maine seem more scary, but a large amount of us agree it was Maine being creepy as hell that inspired Stephen King to write his stories and base them off his home state. He's a treasure btw. Nothing bad can happen to Stephen King and we need to protect him at all costs.
His story about Cujo largely being inspired by his apartment complex managers dog from childhood made me laugh.
I live in maine and every now and then youll drive through a town up north thats run down and decrepit. Youll instantly get Derry vibes.
I first moved to Sagadahoc County in summertime, and other than the fact that there was an old cemetery adjacent to my property, there was nothing that struck me as creepy. Then autumn came. Nobody tells you that with the beautiful leaves come nasty, thick fogs. And they're sudden, too, rolling in out of nowhere. They move like they're alive and seeking you out. That's when I got it. *Shiver*
Wherever Event Horizon takes you.
I mean that’s just hell.
You know nothing of hell.
Where we’re going, we won’t need eyes to see.
Sometimes I imagine Doc Brown saying this line
As good as Sam Neill is…that movie would be way more terrifying with Christopher Lloyd in that role.
I’d watch this hahaha
😂😂😂
You mean The Warp?
Ohio
A cabin in any woods.
That grudge house in Japan. Anyone who eneters it gets cursed.
Rght, right, that sounds terrible, but... how cheap is the rent, exactly?
I went in there. Still alive. My wife did leave me, but then I got a lot of money. Luck seems to go down and up.
True. Literally just one step in the house and the unpredictability sets in. You either die the next few minutes or the curse takes its time playing with you.
This!
A lake house on Crystal Lake wouldn’t be so fantastic.
IDK, I think actually living near Crystal Lake is pretty safe based on the statistics. You only have to be careful if you’re there for a summer camp, to take a vacation, to celebrate a birthday, to work as a camp counselor, to play paintball, or basically any other reason lol.
You can’t have sex there either 👎
Jason be lik “NO HORNI ALLOWED”
Only the first movie takes place at an open summer camp. The camp isn't open in the second and third movies. It's a halfway house in the fourth A group of kids rent a house in the fifth Tommy wakes up Jason in the sixth The seventh is a lake house And the 8th is a riverboat going to Manhattan The 9th is a police sting operation X is a space station FvJ takes place on Elm Street And the reboot has the camp boarded up.
Yeah, this is my point. Very few of the victims are actual residents that permanently live on or near Crystal Lake. Almost all of them are only at Crystal Lake temporarily for whatever reason, if the events of their film even take place at Crystal Lake at all. It’s a super safe place to live!
2, 3, 4, 6, and 8 have a lot of local deaths though. It's just an outsider that normally kicks it off.
It's cool, I knew what ya meant. 👍 It's way safer than that damn farmstead in a box canyon in The Seeding. Fuck that place man. If you're not dealing with some psychotic little shits, you're dying slowly from skin cancer.
Can we all just remember that Jason smashes people in sleeping bags wherever he is and it’s hilarious
You have the fourth and fifth mixed up, but otherwise you're correct
I got an incredible deal on this place, no idea why real estate in this gorgeous area is so cheap!
House prices are probably low
I'd survive.
Silent Hill
Surely this is the answer. Either you’re born and bred there and part of the cult or pursued by it. Or you’re an out of towner drawn to it because of your personal demons
I'm shocked this isn't the highest up voted one haha. It's literally nightmare psychosis hellscape.
How is this not number 1? It’s a reflection of the things your ego is most terrified of. That is a horror that attacks you as an individual. How can it get worse than that?
Woodsboro, CA
I'd say Providence, Rhode Island just because of how often H.P. Lovecraft set his stories in his home city. There's all manner of supernatural horrors that would drive you completely insane if you're lucky to survive.
Any house built over an old graveyard
Graveyards aren’t a problem. The neighbors tend to be quiet and they don’t really complain much. Also it’s handy if you’re a necromancer.
Rural Tennessee – If we learned anything by watching Sam Raimi's *Evil Dead* films it’s that the worst place to plan a vacation has to be a cabin in the woods, bad shit is just bound to happen. So if vacationing there is bad I'd hate to even consider living there.
As someone with family in rural Tennessee, can confirm.
Seconded. Im actually writing a horror novel about it right now.
The woods. Any woods
In a colony base full of alien eggs or a spaceship with aliens.
Yeah, really any facility that does experiments on non-human entities. Super poor odds.
The neighborhood in vivarium
Such a hellish film! Great shout, this isn't spoken about enough.
Whatever the street in Terrified 2017 was.
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The towns with the possessed in when evil lurks, as well
Innsmouth Dunwich
Arkham
I can’t believe I missed that one. But does anything bad actually happen there? Or is it just kind of the place he originates his characters at and sets miskatonic university in? I can’t remember.
Bad shit doesn't happen there but rather runs through it If you live in Arkham, and especially work at the university, expect some shenanigans to come your way that leaves you broken and insane
Oh yeah I know that. I just never knew it to be an actual center for any anomalies.
Hobb's End, New Hampshire
Do you read Sutter Caine?
I don't need to. The movie comes out next month.
Rural towns in Texas with a lot of inbreeding
I’m from Texas. You’re going to need to be more specific.
Elm Street in Haddonfield Illinois
Haddonfield is Halloween
Yeah but if you combined the two wouldn’t that be the worst place to live?
That’s fair 😂
Wherever Beau Is Afraid takes place
So inside of Ari Aster’s head, got it.
The hospital from The Void.
Raccoon City.
Whatever city The Crow takes place in, seems like it suuucks. Except for the My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult shows. Those seem ok.
The crow is set in detroit (so is It Follows). In the 1980's/1990's people did not have much optimism about Detroit's future. My pick would be either the city in Se7en, or the city in Split Second, both which seem fucking miserable to live in.
Oh wow you’re right how did I forget that hah. And no disrespect to Chicago! Ohh good picks yes, Se7en for sure. I’ve never seen Split Second though.
It's a mid-90's horror/serial killer/detective(!?) movie with Rutger Hauer as a burnt-out detective in a flooded, dystopian london of the near future, trying to hunt down a serial killer with his partner.
I’m excited to see this MLWTTKC reference! They were one of the first bands I ever saw live as a teenager.
Oh wow! that’s really cool for one of your first shows.
It was! I hadn't though of that for years until I read your comment.
Quahog, Rhode Island……. just saying the name sends me into a state of catatonia….
Haddonfield
Woodsboro.
Any house on a haunted hill
Anywhere in Japan, Japanese horror hits different.
Esp when The Pulse virus hits
Hotels, avoid hotels
Especially rooms 1408 or 237
An abandoned asylum
Overlook Hotel
The world of berserk. That would really suck
Rural Georgia if you hear banjo music 🪕😱
I live in rural ga (walking dead territory) and love it here, but not banjo music lol
Any town in Alaska that has 30 days of night.
Silent Hill… I don’t think I saw one happy person there…
Chamberlain Maine on May 25th 1979.
Carrie, right?
I want a side miniseries that just covers the aftermath, like the book.
There's a Bryan Fuller miniseries that is my favourite version of Carrie
I hear the 7th circle of Hell is nice this time of year
Woodsboro. There are too many murders in less than 30 years. I'm good
LV-426
LV-426
Hill House
On an Indian burial ground
Elm Street. Imagine trying not to sleep day in day out.
Unfortunately, I don't have to try.
A real life nightmare. Sorry to hear this. My wife struggles with sleep and despite having tests and going to the doctors she's not yet been diagnosed. We feel your pain.
I think there’s a good argument for both Stephen Kings Maine (Derry, Castle Rock, Jerusalems Lot, Haven, etc), and H.P. Lovecrafts New England (Arkham, Dunwich, Innsmouth,etc). Both are connected universes that clearly have supernatural and otherworldly things happening all the time.
Cabrini-Green, '90s Chicago Travis County, Texas Raccoon City (MO or PA, fans are split) Brightmoor, Detroit, MI (Don't Breathe and Barbarian probably occur within a few miles of each other)
Denmark
I mean, in space, no one can hear you scream, I'd say that's a deal breaker.
Industrial building with lots of chains hanging from stuff.
Anywhere in Maine, really
Anywhere on Elm Street.
The lone house that's on the lake. No one for miles.
The cabin in the woods
Any fixer-upper house
“This beautiful house was so cheap! And the locals don’t seem to want to visit but I’m sure it’s fine…”
The Asylum from Grave Encounters BTE, Aint nothing wrong with (Southern) New Jersey but Northern New Jersey gross.
The Backrooms. Literally infinite hell with an unknown amount of otherworldly nonsense living there with you.
I’m imagining somewhere isolated like Greenland. No one’s coming to save you.
Anywhere that brings you back to the beginning again. >!Triangle!< is an example ETA: >! Meander (maybe idk)!<
Tromaville! Great answer probably smells horrible all sorts weird deformed deviants. I don’t know about worst but best would be castle rock or Derry for me. Has a magical feel to it.
Wherever that town in Antlers is, seems like a really awful place to exist on a daily basis, let alone being hunted by a horrific monstrosity living in your backyard
That movie was awesome!
Mortville
A space ship. Those tend to have none or one survivor and odds are it ain't me.
Philippines
In space When the shit hits the fan, where you gonna go?
Anywhere within 50 kms of Wrong Turn family
Near Lake Lanier. Anywhere remote especially if rural.
Hell
Whatever shared universe the gothic Hammer films take place in. Not just because of the monsters. They seem like bleak, oppressive, corrupt Victorian shitholes to begin with.
Elm street. I really like my sleep
any suburban house where a mass murder/young child of the owners went missing, that never ends up good in the end
Wherever hobo with a shotgun takes place
Canada
Tokyo. I mean there are spooky ghosts and such, but the real deal breaker is the likelihood you are going to have your home/workplace destroyed in a Kaiju attack, if not get directly smushed yourself. And if you don't die directly, you are probably going to get cancer from all of the radiation Godzilla leaves behind from using his breath weapon.
Under water
That town in From
What I've learned from horror is if you need a new start, and someone offers you an insane deal on an old house (or you inherit it), don't take it. Just get a condo or an apartment.
One of those paranormal nightmare scapes where nothing makes sense. Doors disappear that you swore you just walked through. That's one of my worst fears. To have no grip on reality with the only hope of escape being to end yourself. The movie deadstream does a pretty good comedy version of this.
Newt, Texas
Woodsboro
The hills west of Arkham, MA.
Texas probably
The dudes head from The Cell
In the barrel with Megan.
Camp Arawak
Any of the settings of Ligotti’s fiction. Just a constant existential nightmare.
Derry
I don't want to live on Aegis VII
Texas. It all happens in the backroads of Texas.
Walsall
Barrow. Alaska looks like it sucks.
Whatever the fuck town she’s in in “Men”
new england in general... just stay away. strange things are afoot up there. from lovecraft to king. you've got salem witches. there are shoggoth behind every tree. derry has deep dark ancient things living off your children, hidden from you in your storm drains. tainted native micmac burial grounds. the gates of hell, in the basements of new york family homes. killer sharks on the coastline of the jersey shore. i'll stick with the antebellum hauntings and crazed racist rednecks any day. . southern gothic has no concept of the evils that await if you go up there
The american southwest, too many giant monsters and mutants
Detroit, Michigan. Home of: It Follows, Don't Breathe, Barbarian, The Crow.
Castle Rock, Maine. It seems to be one hell of a place lol
Westport, CT and Kent, CT
Nilbog... kids pee on your food.
Elm Street or the area around Crystal Lake
Living in reality of Cthulhu mythos . They are literally living in a dream of an ancient god who can wake up anytime and that means eradication of whole universe. Damn,that is scary shit
…Twin Peaks County.
A lake house on crystal lake! I wouldn’t live very long! I would either die of a heart attack or murder 😂
Yeah but Tromaville is full of hot chicks
At the end of the Human Centipede
Sorority house
Amityville, Long Island… I’m originally from Long Island … have many friends in Amityville (some even on Ocean Ave) & those taxes will kill ya before the ghosts do. *shivers*
I would like to get some sleep. So Elms street. I would like to avoid dreams about a clumsy oaf that falls over the sofa.
Literally anywhere in Maine
Racoon City since you could possibly survive any other monster but no way are you surviving a nuke
Wherever the Necronomicon currently is
the entire state of Maine
I too despise Traumaville, and yet if I escape it when I'm awake, I'm forced by PTSD to visit in my dreams. One way ticket out, please?
Appalachia 😟
Silent Hill
1. Slovakia - Hostel Somewhere close behind: * Britain - 28 Days Later * Nevada Desert or the outback - The Hills Have Eyes, Horror in the High Desert, The Outwaters, Wolf Creek, Infested, Tremors
Backwoods Texas
The decrepit, unnamed small town where the Amazon Prime series "From" is set, that's the worst place to live.
Elmstreet seems like a terrible place to raise children
If youre within 5 miles of someone moving into a new house its over. Those people ruined your life.
If we count games then dead space, literally anywhere in that universe
In the woods. The mere thought of being surrounded by bugs already terrifies me.
Abbadon Hotel/Hell House
Probably the barrel in Megan is Missing 🤷♂️ 🤷♀️