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you might want to scratch these eerie
towns off your travel itinerary so who’s
ready for Ken’s dream tour let’s show
our new friends where they’ll be staying
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
movie towns with a dark secret a little
bit for this list will be discussing the
most mysterious towns in film that have
more to hide than some bad online
reviews since we’re talking secrets here
spoilers are ahead hey at least we’re
giving you fair warning
that’s more than some of these
unfortunate souls got
number ten Midwich England Village of
the Damned all this seems to date from
that day two months ago when Midwich was
cut off from the rest of the world after
waking from a mysterious bout of
unconsciousness that affected the entire
village of Midwich the women of
childbearing age are shocked to discover
they’re all pregnant that means that
every woman in this village who is
capable of childbirth is going to have a
baby later they all give birth to
children with strikingly similar dark
eyes and white hair as they grow these
children are found to be both physically
and intellectually advanced but
incapable of empathy or love people
especially children aren’t measured by
the IQ what’s important about them is
whether they’re good or bad and these
children are bad eventually the town can
only watch in terror as their precocious
progeny develops the power not only to
control events but also to kill with
their minds fearing what might happen if
the unearthly children were ever to
enter the greater world drastic measures
are taken to stop them that’s a dark
secret we’d try to keep to
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my shoes
number nine Covington Pennsylvania the
village on the day before last I cross
the forbidden line into Covington woods
never enter the woods that is where they
wait that’s the second of the three
tenets the inhabitants of Covington a
small nineteenth-century village live by
in order to survive
Lucius the elders warned the town’s
residents that beyond the woods are both
evil creatures as well as wicked
neighboring villages that would do them
harm
one day when Lucius hunt is terribly
injured it’s decided that the chief
elders blind daughter ivy Walker will go
to get the required medicine for him by
leaving the isolated town I am leaving
to fetching medicines we won’t totally
spoil it for you here but what the
elders have really been hiding outside
the deep woods is a classic M night
Shyamalan twist you alone will follow
the road and leave Covington woods
number 8 east Proctor England an
American Werewolf in London
chase Proctor all about yet applause
there is nothing jolly about this
English village the slaughtered lamb
that’s kind of strange when two American
backpackers arrive in the isolated town
of East Proctor they are given a less
than friendly welcome it’s very cold
outside may we come in coming in from
the cold of the Moors the travelers
attempt to warm themselves at the local
pub the slaughtered land where they
notice a strange symbol on the wall a
long war though they’re shunned when
they ask about it and decide to
skedaddle
however the townspeople soon realized
there’s a full moon and fully aware of
the dangers lurking on the moors attempt
to find the two Americans but they
arrived too late even though we know
what’s coming thanks to the film’s title
this town’s werewolf secret reveals
itself in a big way did you hear that
I heard that what was it gonna be a lot
of things number 7 the Ozarks Winter’s
Bone Oh your daddy’s out on bond don’t
you so what centered on 17 year old Reid
Olli this story is set in a rural
community deep in Ozark Mountain Country
one that may look like any normal
mountain town but that’s hiding many
dark secrets the only thing it’s a drink
and one for Dad
guess in their a refreshingly original
take on the town with a secret trove
Winter’s Bone unflinchingly explores
themes of family poverty drug use and
the illegal drug trade in rural America
I forgot about you
what do you mean forgot about you two
everything happening over here as
reworks against the clock to unravel the
mystery of her father’s disappearance
she finds herself increasingly tangled
in her towns secret world of illegal
methamphetamine production and finds out
just how far some people will go to keep
the business to themselves even if it
means crossing kith and kin never ask
for whatever be offered number six
Antonio Bay California the fog are you
going to give the benediction tonight
Antonio Bay has a curse on it while the
city’s gearing up for its centennial
celebration ghostly events begin to
plague the residents of Antonio Bay I’ll
tell you what happened it just got cold
but the town’s secret is uncovered when
it’s discovered that 100 years earlier
the town’s founders were involved in a
murderous plot they forced the Elizabeth
Dane a clipper ship loaded with gold
into shallow waters hundred years ago on
the 21st of April but the waters around
Spivey point a small clipper ship drew
toward land the ships sank the crew
drowned and the gold was looted it was
then used to build the town and by the
thieves some credibility but skeletons
in the closet or in this case ghosts
always come out now a century later an
unnatural fog descends on Antonio Bay
concealing the vengeful ghosts of the
slain sailors as they stock the
murderous founders descendants Hey
there’s a phone bank out there number
five Stepford Connecticut The Stepford
Wives Stepford is really done thanks to
you
the old adage happy wife happy life was
taken to dark twisted places in this
1975 classic you see and hated tests but
he never said a word all he wanted to do
is to play his name said in the idyllic
town of Stepford the story follows
Joanna and Walter Everhart who’ve just
moved there the adventurous Joanna soon
finds herself bored as all the women of
Stepford are unnaturally perfect and
obsessed with housework confused by this
odd and submissive behavior Joanna and
her new friend Bobby investigate other
places to live when Bobby abruptly
starts acting like all the others you
are different your figures different
your face what you talk about all of
this is different yes yes this it’s
wonderful it’s not long before Joanna
makes a startling discovery about her
new home all the Stepford Wives have
been replaced with obedient robot
replicas her only option is to escape
but there’s yet another surprise in
store it’s if I’m wrong I’m insane and
if I’m right it’s worse than ever
number four Springwood Ohio a Nightmare
on Elm Street
I think we should get out of it the
titular street may be more recognizable
but it’s the fictitious Midwestern town
of Springwood Ohio that makes this list
their teens are hunted down and murdered
in their dreams by Wes Craven’s most
iconic creation Freddy Krueger please
cause this is not just a random
supernatural psycho Freddy is seeking
revenge on the teens parents for his own
untimely death
you see Krueger was a child predator who
avoided jail on a technicality so the
parents of Springwood banded together to
kill him of course they didn’t realize
they’d be unleashing an even more
terrifying monster on their kids
much worse yet the parents kept secret
what they done and did not reveal the
truth until some of Nancy Thompson’s
friends were already dead you want to
know who Fred Krueger was he was a
filthy child murderer who killed at
least 20 kids in the neighborhood kids
we all knew number three see Haven
Florida The Truman Show good morning
morning good morning oh and in case I
don’t see you good afternoon good
evening and good night
Truman Burbank has a great job friendly
neighbors and a beautiful loving wife
he’s lived on Seahaven his entire life
but recently things seemed off just a
little too perfect you know I’m thinking
about getting out Marlin yeah out of
what out of my job I’m seeing off this
island now in fact too much of the
town’s daily life seems to be centered
on him specifically as if he’s being
watched but it’s not just his sunny
little town that’s watching him it’s the
whole world
Truman slowly begins to discover the
cracks in his reality leading him to
question everything about the people he
thought he knew and the town he called
home but the closer he gets to the truth
the harder those pulling the strings in
the great production of his life fight
to keep their star was nothing or he’ll
do you were you is what made you so big
to watch number two Sandford
Gloucestershire England Hot Fuzz made
you choose Sandford then sergeant angel
it wasn’t actually my choice when top
London police officer Nicholas angel is
transferred to the sleepy town of
Sandford he thinks he’ll be bored to
death sergeant I kind of like it here
we’ve always wanted to transfer to the
country everyone including his new boss
is quaint and the neighborhood watch
alliance or NWA does a good job of
keeping the town as peaceful as a garden
party but turns out it might not be
boredom that kills him with the village
of the Year award ceremony fast
approaching a string of local murders
suddenly keeps angel busier than ever
I’m arresting you under suspicion of
conspiracy to commit murder Oh sergeant
you should be ashamed calling yourself a
community that cares but what does it
all mean Edgar right Simon Pegg and Nick
Frost would return six years later for
another perfect village with a secret
flick the world’s end showing what
happens when a night of pub crawling
becomes a fight for Humanity I promised
myself I wouldn’t die
before we reveal our number one pick
here are some honorable mentions
welcome to Potter’s Bluff chief there’s
something terribly wrong here in Derry
and you know it hey I’m the cop you’re
the library it happened everywhere and
get one that day
that’s when Sara started drawing these
pictures number one
Summer Isles Scotland The Wicker Man
will you send a dinghy please combining
an isolated location pagans sacrifice
and ancient rituals performed with
unmistakable Glee and reverence summer
Isle has many secrets and the whole
island is in honor with the crumbs for
your salmon aisle next year your people
will kill you on May Day after learning
about the disappearance of a child on
the remote island Neil how he sets off
to investigate a devout Christian he is
shocked upon arrival to learn of their
pagan ways I must remind you sir that
despite everything you said you are
subject of a Christian country the
mystery thickens when after being
questioned the inhabitants of the island
insist that the girl he’s looking for
never existed if she existed we would
know certain that there’s more going on
how he digs deeper eventually
infiltrating one of their sacred rituals
but because of his meddling he
inadvertently gets himself twisted up in
the darkest town secret of all is Christ
do you agree with our list which town
secret is your favorite Aconitum go
should the world or business its murder
then then murdering Keys for more top
10s published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com
[Music]
you might want to scratch these eerie
towns off your travel itinerary so who’s
ready for Ken’s dream tour let’s show
our new friends where they’ll be staying
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
movie towns with a dark secret a little
bit for this list will be discussing the
most mysterious towns in film that have
more to hide than some bad online
reviews since we’re talking secrets here
spoilers are ahead hey at least we’re
giving you fair warning
that’s more than some of these
unfortunate souls got
number ten Midwich England Village of
the Damned all this seems to date from
that day two months ago when Midwich was
cut off from the rest of the world after
waking from a mysterious bout of
unconsciousness that affected the entire
village of Midwich the women of
childbearing age are shocked to discover
they’re all pregnant that means that
every woman in this village who is
capable of childbirth is going to have a
baby later they all give birth to
children with strikingly similar dark
eyes and white hair as they grow these
children are found to be both physically
and intellectually advanced but
incapable of empathy or love people
especially children aren’t measured by
the IQ what’s important about them is
whether they’re good or bad and these
children are bad eventually the town can
only watch in terror as their precocious
progeny develops the power not only to
control events but also to kill with
their minds fearing what might happen if
the unearthly children were ever to
enter the greater world drastic measures
are taken to stop them that’s a dark
secret we’d try to keep to
[Music]
my shoes
number nine Covington Pennsylvania the
village on the day before last I cross
the forbidden line into Covington woods
never enter the woods that is where they
wait that’s the second of the three
tenets the inhabitants of Covington a
small nineteenth-century village live by
in order to survive
Lucius the elders warned the town’s
residents that beyond the woods are both
evil creatures as well as wicked
neighboring villages that would do them
harm
one day when Lucius hunt is terribly
injured it’s decided that the chief
elders blind daughter ivy Walker will go
to get the required medicine for him by
leaving the isolated town I am leaving
to fetching medicines we won’t totally
spoil it for you here but what the
elders have really been hiding outside
the deep woods is a classic M night
Shyamalan twist you alone will follow
the road and leave Covington woods
number 8 east Proctor England an
American Werewolf in London
chase Proctor all about yet applause
there is nothing jolly about this
English village the slaughtered lamb
that’s kind of strange when two American
backpackers arrive in the isolated town
of East Proctor they are given a less
than friendly welcome it’s very cold
outside may we come in coming in from
the cold of the Moors the travelers
attempt to warm themselves at the local
pub the slaughtered land where they
notice a strange symbol on the wall a
long war though they’re shunned when
they ask about it and decide to
skedaddle
however the townspeople soon realized
there’s a full moon and fully aware of
the dangers lurking on the moors attempt
to find the two Americans but they
arrived too late even though we know
what’s coming thanks to the film’s title
this town’s werewolf secret reveals
itself in a big way did you hear that
I heard that what was it gonna be a lot
of things number 7 the Ozarks Winter’s
Bone Oh your daddy’s out on bond don’t
you so what centered on 17 year old Reid
Olli this story is set in a rural
community deep in Ozark Mountain Country
one that may look like any normal
mountain town but that’s hiding many
dark secrets the only thing it’s a drink
and one for Dad
guess in their a refreshingly original
take on the town with a secret trove
Winter’s Bone unflinchingly explores
themes of family poverty drug use and
the illegal drug trade in rural America
I forgot about you
what do you mean forgot about you two
everything happening over here as
reworks against the clock to unravel the
mystery of her father’s disappearance
she finds herself increasingly tangled
in her towns secret world of illegal
methamphetamine production and finds out
just how far some people will go to keep
the business to themselves even if it
means crossing kith and kin never ask
for whatever be offered number six
Antonio Bay California the fog are you
going to give the benediction tonight
Antonio Bay has a curse on it while the
city’s gearing up for its centennial
celebration ghostly events begin to
plague the residents of Antonio Bay I’ll
tell you what happened it just got cold
but the town’s secret is uncovered when
it’s discovered that 100 years earlier
the town’s founders were involved in a
murderous plot they forced the Elizabeth
Dane a clipper ship loaded with gold
into shallow waters hundred years ago on
the 21st of April but the waters around
Spivey point a small clipper ship drew
toward land the ships sank the crew
drowned and the gold was looted it was
then used to build the town and by the
thieves some credibility but skeletons
in the closet or in this case ghosts
always come out now a century later an
unnatural fog descends on Antonio Bay
concealing the vengeful ghosts of the
slain sailors as they stock the
murderous founders descendants Hey
there’s a phone bank out there number
five Stepford Connecticut The Stepford
Wives Stepford is really done thanks to
you
the old adage happy wife happy life was
taken to dark twisted places in this
1975 classic you see and hated tests but
he never said a word all he wanted to do
is to play his name said in the idyllic
town of Stepford the story follows
Joanna and Walter Everhart who’ve just
moved there the adventurous Joanna soon
finds herself bored as all the women of
Stepford are unnaturally perfect and
obsessed with housework confused by this
odd and submissive behavior Joanna and
her new friend Bobby investigate other
places to live when Bobby abruptly
starts acting like all the others you
are different your figures different
your face what you talk about all of
this is different yes yes this it’s
wonderful it’s not long before Joanna
makes a startling discovery about her
new home all the Stepford Wives have
been replaced with obedient robot
replicas her only option is to escape
but there’s yet another surprise in
store it’s if I’m wrong I’m insane and
if I’m right it’s worse than ever
number four Springwood Ohio a Nightmare
on Elm Street
I think we should get out of it the
titular street may be more recognizable
but it’s the fictitious Midwestern town
of Springwood Ohio that makes this list
their teens are hunted down and murdered
in their dreams by Wes Craven’s most
iconic creation Freddy Krueger please
cause this is not just a random
supernatural psycho Freddy is seeking
revenge on the teens parents for his own
untimely death
you see Krueger was a child predator who
avoided jail on a technicality so the
parents of Springwood banded together to
kill him of course they didn’t realize
they’d be unleashing an even more
terrifying monster on their kids
much worse yet the parents kept secret
what they done and did not reveal the
truth until some of Nancy Thompson’s
friends were already dead you want to
know who Fred Krueger was he was a
filthy child murderer who killed at
least 20 kids in the neighborhood kids
we all knew number three see Haven
Florida The Truman Show good morning
morning good morning oh and in case I
don’t see you good afternoon good
evening and good night
Truman Burbank has a great job friendly
neighbors and a beautiful loving wife
he’s lived on Seahaven his entire life
but recently things seemed off just a
little too perfect you know I’m thinking
about getting out Marlin yeah out of
what out of my job I’m seeing off this
island now in fact too much of the
town’s daily life seems to be centered
on him specifically as if he’s being
watched but it’s not just his sunny
little town that’s watching him it’s the
whole world
Truman slowly begins to discover the
cracks in his reality leading him to
question everything about the people he
thought he knew and the town he called
home but the closer he gets to the truth
the harder those pulling the strings in
the great production of his life fight
to keep their star was nothing or he’ll
do you were you is what made you so big
to watch number two Sandford
Gloucestershire England Hot Fuzz made
you choose Sandford then sergeant angel
it wasn’t actually my choice when top
London police officer Nicholas angel is
transferred to the sleepy town of
Sandford he thinks he’ll be bored to
death sergeant I kind of like it here
we’ve always wanted to transfer to the
country everyone including his new boss
is quaint and the neighborhood watch
alliance or NWA does a good job of
keeping the town as peaceful as a garden
party but turns out it might not be
boredom that kills him with the village
of the Year award ceremony fast
approaching a string of local murders
suddenly keeps angel busier than ever
I’m arresting you under suspicion of
conspiracy to commit murder Oh sergeant
you should be ashamed calling yourself a
community that cares but what does it
all mean Edgar right Simon Pegg and Nick
Frost would return six years later for
another perfect village with a secret
flick the world’s end showing what
happens when a night of pub crawling
becomes a fight for Humanity I promised
myself I wouldn’t die
before we reveal our number one pick
here are some honorable mentions
welcome to Potter’s Bluff chief there’s
something terribly wrong here in Derry
and you know it hey I’m the cop you’re
the library it happened everywhere and
get one that day
that’s when Sara started drawing these
pictures number one
Summer Isles Scotland The Wicker Man
will you send a dinghy please combining
an isolated location pagans sacrifice
and ancient rituals performed with
unmistakable Glee and reverence summer
Isle has many secrets and the whole
island is in honor with the crumbs for
your salmon aisle next year your people
will kill you on May Day after learning
about the disappearance of a child on
the remote island Neil how he sets off
to investigate a devout Christian he is
shocked upon arrival to learn of their
pagan ways I must remind you sir that
despite everything you said you are
subject of a Christian country the
mystery thickens when after being
questioned the inhabitants of the island
insist that the girl he’s looking for
never existed if she existed we would
know certain that there’s more going on
how he digs deeper eventually
infiltrating one of their sacred rituals
but because of his meddling he
inadvertently gets himself twisted up in
the darkest town secret of all is Christ
do you agree with our list which town
secret is your favorite Aconitum go
should the world or business its murder
then then murdering Keys for more top
10s published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com
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