
The 'Burbs
1989 · MovieRay Peterson takes a week off work, stays home, and becomes convinced his new neighbors are doing something terrible in their basement. His equally curious friends are happy to help investigate.
The city has its own mythology. Alleyways, rooftops, subway platforms at midnight, curated urban horror uses dense, populated environments to isolate its characters in plain sight. Being surrounded by people has never been a guarantee of safety in these films.

Ray Peterson takes a week off work, stays home, and becomes convinced his new neighbors are doing something terrible in their basement. His equally curious friends are happy to help investigate.

Finney Shaw is taken by the Grabber and held in a soundproofed basement in 1978 Denver. A disconnected black phone on the wall begins receiving calls from boys who were killed before him.

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Edgar Allan Poe is at West Point in 1830 when cadets start dying in ways that connect to a visitor's past.

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In 1953 Los Angeles, a Black family moves into an all-white neighborhood and finds that the terror in their new home comes from both inside and outside its walls.

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Josh Harmon, a serial killer attending his teenage daughter's favorite pop star's concert, discovers the event has been organized specifically around him.

Adelaide Wilson and her family encounter perfect doppelgangers of themselves at their Santa Cruz vacation home. The confrontation that follows opens into a larger mystery.

Chloe moves to Bucharest for work and notices a man who seems to track her movements with a consistency that feels like threat.

Multiple teenagers in a Connecticut suburb are each connected to a single act of violence in ways that unfold across the film.
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