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Eerie small-town films and TV shows

Each title here has a strong eerie tone and is set in a small town, by our description of it. Well-known titles only, best known and best rated first.

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Eerie small-town films and TV shows

Movie2017

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A nostalgic summer adventure that turns terrifying, balancing childhood friendship with creeping dread and visceral scares.

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measured
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engaged
Runtime
135 min
ItHidden from your suggestions.
Movie1960

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A slow-building, unsettling experience that tightens its grip with eerie atmosphere and a shocking twist.

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measured
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engaged
Runtime
109 min
PsychoHidden from your suggestions.
Movie2019

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A nerve-shredding home-invasion nightmare that keeps you coiled tight, then pulls the floor out with a grin.

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  • small town
Pacing
brisk
Attention
engaged
Runtime
116 min
UsHidden from your suggestions.
Movie2025

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A slow-burning, unsettling mystery that burrows under your skin with its eerie atmosphere and mounting dread.

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  • small town
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
engaged
Runtime
128 min
WeaponsHidden from your suggestions.
Movie1999

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A misty, blood-soaked Gothic mystery that feels like a haunted storybook, gorgeous and grim, with a detective's curiosity threading through the dread.

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engaged
Runtime
105 min
Sleepy HollowHidden from your suggestions.
Movie2009

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A visually stunning stop-motion fairy tale that blends whimsy with creeping dread, pulling you into a world that is both inviting and unsettling.

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engaged
Runtime
100 min
CoralineHidden from your suggestions.
Movie2024

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A slow-creeping dread that burrows under your skin, with an unsettling atmosphere and a haunting sense of inevitability.

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  • small town
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
demanding
Runtime
101 min
LonglegsHidden from your suggestions.
Movie1978

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A slow, creeping dread builds through quiet suburban streets and long shadows, making you scan every frame for the shape standing just out of sight.

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  • small town
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
engaged
Runtime
91 min
HalloweenHidden from your suggestions.
TV series1990

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A slow, creepy two-part chiller that mixes childhood nostalgia with a menacing clown and a grown-up reckoning.

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  • small town
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
engaged
Seasons
1
ItHidden from your suggestions.
Movie2014

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A slow, relentless dread seeps through ordinary suburban life, leaving you scanning every background for a figure that never stops walking.

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  • small town
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
demanding
Runtime
101 min
It FollowsHidden from your suggestions.
Movie2016

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A long, rain-soaked plunge into dread and doubt, where every clue deepens the confusion and the final hour leaves you shaken and unsure what you just witnessed.

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  • small town
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
demanding
Runtime
156 min
The WailingHidden from your suggestions.
TV series2016–2019

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A hypnotic, puzzle-box story that asks you to surrender to its strange logic and rewards patient attention with haunting, emotional payoffs.

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  • small town
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
demanding
Seasons
2
The OAHidden from your suggestions.
Movie2006

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A fog-drenched, nightmarish descent into a mother's desperate search, blending eerie atmosphere with visceral horror and emotional devastation.

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  • small town
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
engaged
Runtime
125 min
Silent HillHidden from your suggestions.
Movie2012

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A slow-burn, deeply unsettling horror that burrows under your skin with its eerie atmosphere and disturbing imagery.

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  • small town
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
engaged
Runtime
110 min
SinisterHidden from your suggestions.
Movie1932

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A dreamlike, fog-shrouded descent into dread, where shadows seem alive and reality keeps slipping, leaving you unsettled and mesmerized.

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  • small town
Pacing
slow-burn
Attention
demanding
Runtime
74 min
VampyrHidden from your suggestions.
Movie1922

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A strange, unsettling essay of staged medieval horrors and grotesque tableaux, by turns creepy, grisly and wryly comic, demanding patience but rewarding it with unforgettable images.

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  • small town
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measured
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demanding
Runtime
105 min
HäxanHidden from your suggestions.
Movie1979

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A dreamlike, unsettling horror that blends grief with surreal imagery and sudden shocks, leaving a lingering sense of unease.

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  • small town
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measured
Attention
engaged
Runtime
89 min
PhantasmHidden from your suggestions.

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