https://vo.rs/tags/landscape/Latest from the Landscape desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Tue, 07 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/regional-horror-the-local-legend-as-engine/<p>The most durable horror films are the ones you could redraw as a map. <em>The Wicker Man</em> is a Scottish island. <em>The Texas Chain Saw Massacre</em> is a stretch of scorched Texas back-road. <em>The Blair Witch Project</em> is a specific patch of Maryland woodland named after a specific town. These films are frightening in a way the interchangeable haunted-suburb picture never manages, and the reason is not budget or talent alone. It is that they are powered by <em>place</em> — a real landscape carrying a local legend — and place is the single most underrated engine in the horror machine. Generic fear evaporates. Fear with a postcode stays with you.</p>Tue, 07 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000