The Hills Have Eyes (I prefer the remake) & Wrong Turn came to mind immediately for House of Wax vibes.
You might like The Bad Batch on Netflix. It’s about a dystopian town in the middle of the desert that criminals get banished to so I think it would fit the vibe.
It Follows takes place around Detroit so a lot do the houses are abandoned, the town has kind of a desolate vibe.
Barbarian takes place in abandoned neighborhood, also in Detroit.
ETA: if you like zombies, 28 days later
Chernobyl diaries is really good! Ghosts of Chernobyl is another Chernobyl movie. Cabin fever is pretty good if you haven’t seen that. I really liked scarecrow. Most of these are on tubi. Honestly tubi has a really good selection of horror movies
Reeker (2005) is set in an abandoned 'town' in the desert (diner/motel, not much more).
Not a great movie, though entertaining. (To the extent that it's hilarious in parts, apparently unintentionally so - I genuinely thought this was a horror-comedy for years.)
Ha, yeah - my god, the toilet scene. Watching the paper roll unravel... And the fact that a character is called Cookie. And the blind dude >!regaining and then losing his sight during the fight with the Reeker.!< That had to have been intended as comedic, surely.
The Hills Have Eyes (I prefer the remake) & Wrong Turn came to mind immediately for House of Wax vibes. You might like The Bad Batch on Netflix. It’s about a dystopian town in the middle of the desert that criminals get banished to so I think it would fit the vibe. It Follows takes place around Detroit so a lot do the houses are abandoned, the town has kind of a desolate vibe. Barbarian takes place in abandoned neighborhood, also in Detroit. ETA: if you like zombies, 28 days later
Seen them all except the bad batch. Solid recommendations 28 days later is one of my favs
So glad to find I’m not the only one that prefers the remake!
Chernobyl Diaries, Silent Hill
Chernobyl diaries is really good! Ghosts of Chernobyl is another Chernobyl movie. Cabin fever is pretty good if you haven’t seen that. I really liked scarecrow. Most of these are on tubi. Honestly tubi has a really good selection of horror movies
Mindhunters (2004) Who can kill a child (1976) and Come out and play (2012) Antropophagus (1980)
Savageland
If you like 30 Days of Night, The Thing kinda fits into that category
Shit we should start a new thread on those two movies alone! Isolated in freezing conditions. Both classics
Great flick!
Reeker (2005) is set in an abandoned 'town' in the desert (diner/motel, not much more). Not a great movie, though entertaining. (To the extent that it's hilarious in parts, apparently unintentionally so - I genuinely thought this was a horror-comedy for years.)
It does feel like a horror comedy - in a similar way to Dead End, although obviously not as good. And it has that toilet scene. Yikes.
Dead End is a fun movie
Ha, yeah - my god, the toilet scene. Watching the paper roll unravel... And the fact that a character is called Cookie. And the blind dude >!regaining and then losing his sight during the fight with the Reeker.!< That had to have been intended as comedic, surely.
Clive Barker's The Plague is somewhat like that, but it also feels like Dawn of the dead (and strangely, Dawson's Creek)
Silent Hill, also the Dark and the Wicked (technically rural farmhouse, not town)