Serialicious

Suburban Nightmare

Some of the scariest, and funniest, movies featuring serial killers have been those located in the "normal" surroundings of suburbia. Here's my tentative list:

1.) Scream - Butchering buxom high-schoolers for their lack of knowledge of horror movie trivia. Fun times.

2.) Serial Mom - Kathleen Turner as a June Cleaver-esque suburban housewife that just so happens to be obsessed with serial killers and begins her own fun-filled foray into the field she's so fascinated with.

3.) The 'Burbs - Suburban gossip mongers believe their new neighbors are serial killers. Cameo by Corey Feldman makes this a winner.

4.) Mr. Brooks - Respected community man moonlights as a psychopath. Yay.

5.) Freeway - Keifer Sutherland escapes the monotony of his suburban life and perfect wife (played amazingly by Brooke Shields) by crusing the freeway for nubile young girls to terrorize. Finding out what's in the man's shed is more than reason enough to watch the film.

6.) Arsenic and Old Lace - Two of the sweetest little old ladies you'll ever meet. Just don't drink the chamomile.

7.) Heathers - Classic '80's. Great cast. Infinitely quotable.

8.) Keeping Mum - Maggie Smith is the coolest Brit ever and making slightly psychotic is even better.

9.) Misery - Not really suburbia but close enough.

10.) The Last Supper - My favorite on this list. Group of over-educated graduate students stop complaining and start doing. Love it!

Not a movie, but Twin Peaks definitely took the suburban nightmare to the extreme.

What did I miss?

Re:Suburban Nightmare

I didn't see the Shia LaBeouf-in-a-suburb remake of Rear Window, it's called disturbia, but I thought that was an interesting twist.  No one's going to believe a sixteen-year-old delinquent on house arrest.  

Re:Suburban Nightmare

Along the same lines but not exactly, see Tim Roth & Micheal Rooker in Deciever.