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Don’t Mess With Texas: Top 10 Horror Movies Set in the Lone Star State. Joshua Millican May 4, 2016 Lists 1 Comment. Everything’s bigger in Texas: Steak dinners, belt buckles, cowboy hats… horror. The Lone Star State produced a some of America’s most deranged serial killers, including: Angel Maturino Reséndiz (The Railroad Killer ...
- 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'
- 'The Town That Dreaded Sundown'
- 'The Swarm'
- 'Near Dark'
- 'Bats'
- 'Frailty'
- 'Bubba Ho-Tep'
- 'House of 1000 Corpses'
- 'The Devil's Rejects'
- 'Teeth'
When Sally hears her grandfather's grave may have been vandalized, she, her brother and friends set out to investigate. After a detour to their family's old farmhouse, they discover a group of murderous outcasts living next door. Attacked one by one by the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface, who wears a mask of human skin, the survivors must do everythi...
In this film that is loosely based on a true story, a Texas Ranger hunts for a hooded serial killer terrorizing the residents of Texarkana. Where to stream:Available to rent for $3.99 on Amazon Prime and Apple TV+.
A scientist and a general join forces to fight killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Where to stream:Available to rent for $2.99 on Amazon Prime and Apple TV+.
A Midwestern farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of Southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars. Where to stream:Unfortunately, the film is not available on streaming services or to rent at the moment.
Genetically mutated bats are on the loose, and it's up to a bat expert and a local sheriff to stop them before they kill the entire town of Gallup, Texas. Where to stream:Available to stream on STARZ.
A man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts from his childhood how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were demons. Where to stream:Available to stream on Cinemax and HBO Max.
Elvis Presley didn't die; rather, he switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before and is now an elderly resident in a East Texas rest home. Now, he must team up with a man claiming to be John F. Kennedy and fight an ancient Egyptian mummy to save the souls of their fellow residents. Where to stream:Available to rent for $3.99 on Amaz...
Two teenage couples are traveling across the backwoods of Texas to search for urban legends of serial killers. On their journey, they end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic family. Where to stream:Available to stream on HBO Max.
The Firefly family are ambushed at their home by the town's sheriff and a squad of armed men, but Baby and Otis are able to escape unharmed. Hiding in a motel, the siblings meet up with their father, Captain Spaulding, and kill whoever stands in their way of freedom. Where to stream:Available to stream on HBO Max and Shudder.
Dawn, an active member of her high school's abstinence club, meets Tobey at a group session. On a date, Tobey becomes aggressive and forces himself upon Dawn. They suddenly learn she is a living example of a dentata myth when the encounter takes a gruesome turn. Where to stream:Available to stream on Amazon Prime and Showtime.
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- From Dusk till Dawn. Quentin Tarantino and San Antonio native filmmaker Robert Rodriguez came together for From Dusk till Dawn, a 1996 bloody thriller set on the Mexico-Texas border.
- Planet Terror. Rodriguez and Tarantino were quite the duo, dropping Planet Terror and Death Proof as a double feature named Grindhouse in 2007. Planet Terror is set in a rural Texas town and follows the biological horror chaos creating zombies and the subsequent fight to stop the spread (or at least escape it).
- Death Proof. The second film in the Grindhouse double feature, Death Proof follows a mysterious man in a "death proof" car. His first encounters take place in Austin.
- House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects. More For You. McDonald’s iconic, beloved Halloween pails to return this October. They’re bringing back the most iconic Halloween trio.
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- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Sally (Marilyn Burns) and her friends do nothing wrong when they drive to take a look at her grandfather’s vandalized grave.
- The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) & (2014) These two films loosely base their plots on the Moonlight Murders that went unsolved in Texarkana. In the original, the Phantom Killer picks off victims, starting off with a pair at lover’s lane.
- Grindhouse (2007) In this outrageous double feature, two different kinds of monsters are unleashed. In Death Proof, Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) drives around, searching for women to lure into his specialized car.
- The Devil’s Rejects (2005) “All right, let’s get this freak show on the road!” Welcome to Ruggsville, the fictitious Texas town home to the sadistic Firefly family.
- From Dusk till Dawn. Years before Grindhouse, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino teamed up to make another blood-soaked thriller set (partly) in Texas, 1996's From Dusk till Dawn.
- Grindhouse. Both films in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's 2007 double feature Grindhouse are set in Texas and were filmed there, and both proudly wear their Texas influences on their sleeves.
- The Devil's Rejects. The sequel to House of 1000 Corpses, Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects brings back the psychopathic Firefly family for more mayhem.
- The Town That Dreaded Sundown. The 1976 slasher flick The Town That Dreaded Sundown was inspired by one of the most notorious serial killers in American history.
After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding loon and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
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Jan 20, 2024 · Not only do many of our favorite stars hail from Texas, but dozens of movies have been filmed in, or at least set in, the Lone Star State and its many landscapes. Here is a list of our...
