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May 30, 2021 · Dragon in the Desert: Directed by Wang Yanpeng. With Yiyan Liu, Xin Zer Tan, Wang Zhigang. The elder of Kunwu felt that the demons were destroying the dragon veins and led his disciples to fight with a thousand-year-old tree demon.
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Though mostly overshadowed by its 2000s remake, The Hills Have Eyes is still an effective chiller all these years later. While driving across the country to reach California, a family finds themselves stranded in a desolate desert area inhabited by strange savages. RELATED: Wes Craven's Scariest Movies, Ranked In the immediate post-Vietnam War year...
Despite its on-the-nose title, Revenge ranks highly among the best revenge movies of all time. The mistress of a married man is brought along on his annual guy's trip. When things get out of hand, she is left for dead in the desert but goes on the hunt to get her bloody revenge. The movie does an excellent job of subverting the usual cliches of the...
Director Rob Zombie isn't everyone's cup of tea, but in The Devil's Rejects, he really came into his own as a filmmaker. After the events of House of 1000 Corpses, the infamous Firefly family goes on the run from a vicious lawman who wants nothing but to see them dead. Stalking the backroads of the American Southwest, the exploits of the evil famil...
The 1980s was a decade that saw the vampire film get a much-needed shot in the arm, and one of the best examples was Kathryn Bigelow's desert-based classic, Near Dark. After a naive ranch-hand is turned, he joins a band of outlaw vampires as they stalk their way across the deserts of the American Southwest in search of blood. RELATED: The 10 Best V...
The Western genre is not usually the first that comes to mind when thinking of horrifying tales, but Bone Tomahawk blazed a new trail as an amazing horror Western. After their town doctor is kidnaped, a posse forms to rescue him from the cannibalistic tribe that stole him. Starting in the relative green of the Midwest of the U.S., the environment d...
Besides its inhospitable nature, the scariest part of the desert is the endless mysteries that it contains. Tremors played off of that fear and is the story of the hapless denizens of a small desert town that are suddenly besieged by subterranean monsters that are capable of swallowing them whole. The repetitive and mundane nature of the desert is ...
Crime, horror, and action collide in the Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino co-production, FromDusk Till Dawn. After going on the lam, a pair of criminals take a family hostage as they cross over into Mexico to avoid being caught. While there, they stumble across a notorious biker bar that is a hangout for bloodthirsty vampires. RELATED: The 10...
The atomic age saw a spate of testing in the deserts of the American Southwest, and filmmakers' imaginations were fertile with great horror ideas. Them! is the story of an early atomic test in the desert that leads to a freak mutation of common ants that turns them into gigantic creatures bent on destroying all of humanity. Though cheesy by today's...
Kindness can sometimes come back to haunt, and The Hitcher was the last nail in the coffin of the hitchhiking trend in the U.S. After escaping from a murderous hitchhiker, a young man traveling across the Southwest is stalked, and subsequently framed by his strange adversary. Rutger Hauer is brilliant as the hitcher, and he has a commanding presenc...
A few years before Steven Spielberg would become a household name, he made a splash with an amazing TV movie known as Duel. Set on the highways and backroads of the American Southwest, the film follows an unassuming businessman who is stalked and terrorized by the driver of a massive tractor-trailer. Showing his directorial prowess with a very simp...
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Jul 3, 2024 · After all, horror movies set in the desert prove that the dark, open skies and sprawling stretches of sand are an open invitation for all sorts of monsters and ghouls. From bloodthirsty, sci-fi creatures of the night to stalkers with malicious intent, the hot sand and highways of the desert hold enough secrets to keep anyone far away.
May 30, 2023 · The desert’s isolation is similar to that of outer space—if you suddenly wind up hungry, thirsty, or terrorized by beasts you’ve never seen before, don’t count on any human beings to hear you scream and rush to your help. Here are some classics in an unjustly ignored horror genre. Best Desert Horror Movies Them! (1954) Them!
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A twisted tale of two estranged sisters whose reunion is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.
Oct 8, 2019 · Our 31 Days of Horror Lists continues with a look at the best horror films set in the desert. Read on to see the ten film’s that made the cut, as decided by the Boo Crew — Anna Swanson ...
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Apr 28, 2023 · The Black Demon: Directed by Adrian Grunberg. With Omar Chaparro, Bolivar Sanchez, Carlos Solórzano, Josh Lucas. Stranded on a crumbling rig in Baja, a family faces off against a vengeful megalodon shark.
