Top Seven Supermarket Slaughters
Steve Barton
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The supermarket is one of the centers of the community. It’s a place where neighbors go to buy their groceries while catching up with each other. They exchange stories, laughs and gossip in a friendly, comfortable atmosphere. That’s a nice picture, but unfortunately it’s not always the case in reality.
In fact, as we get further and further from the “Leave it to Beaver” era, the supermarkets we visit are usually “superstores” and almost never owned by a member of the community anymore. But maybe there is something to be said for a place where you can go to buy a pound of baloney, a prom dress and get an oil change all in one stop…and we wonder why “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” is the hottest show on television. Save us from the superstore.
To celebrate the release of Bait 3D, we’re taking a look back at some past supermarket nightmares (and we’re not talking about the price of coffee, although that is frightening enough – yowza!). We mean horrific scenes like you’ll find in Splinter or the memorable peaceful moment amid a world of insanity in 28 Days Later. Or how about the hilarious (and bloody) intro to From Dusk Till Dawn…well, that was a liquor store, but one man’s vice is another man’s staple. Anyway, those are just the honorable mentions! Plenty of bad things happen in the supermarket. Take a look at our Top Seven Supermarket Slaughters.
The Mist (2007)
The Mist is certainly one of the crown jewels of horror films set in a market. It’s a classic, claustrophobic Stephen King tale of desperation and hopelessness…and it has an OMG ending that no parent can watch without experiencing the sensation of a dagger stabbing through their heart. The Mist is the story of a diverse group of individuals trapped in a local grocery store after a mysterious fog drifts over their town. Unfortunately for them, this particular fog contains horrendous, unspeakable horrors which terrorize the survivors inside the store. And fans of “The Walking Dead” know that The Mist was an early collaboration among some of the key players from the show with writer/director Frank Darabont and performers Laurie Holden, Jeffrey DeMunn and Melissa McBride all working together years before they would get lost in a zombie apocalypse in Atlanta.
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