Deserted Twin Peaks.

Poster designs for THE SHINING (1980) by Saul Bass.

Krypton concept art by Chris Foss for SUPERMAN (1978).

The movie had great locations. What is a film without distinctive, memorable locations and visual concepts? Krypton, the icy Fortress of Solitude, the yellow cornfields of Smallville, the spacy nothingness of The Phantom Zone. Or look at STAR WARS: a golden robot in a desert, a lone silvery starfighter in a dark, hostile trench, the small dirty farmboy in white versus the black, armored giant.

Ghost mall: Metcalf South Shopping Center in the Kansas City area.

Suggested soundtrack: one of those 1980s synth horror movies. C.H.U.D., or MANIAC.

Or CHOPPING MALL...

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Random terrifying thing from my childhood. I was six, when Tim Finn’s “Fraction Too Much Friction” (1983) was released. Great track. The video, directed by Richard Lowenstein, featured a neon dachshund and all sorts of chaotic city-life scenes—but also this weird frantic demon, surrounded by hellish steam, that gave me the chills each time he popped up. 37 years later and I haven’t forgotten.

Wonderland Expedition Kit, by Absinthetic.

Containing, among other things: a Card Guard specimen, mounted; a caterpillar, preserved; a rose painted red; a looking glass; Cheshire Cat teeth; “Eat Me” and “Drink Me” bottles; a vial of water from the Pool of Tears; a map of Wonderland.

ALIEN (1979)

Mary Blair concept art for Disney’s ALICE IN WONDERLAND (1951).

Concept art for Hanna-Barbera’s WACKY RACES (1968) (and a sheet with color models).

Facehugger concept art by H.R. Giger. ALIEN (1979).

Concept art by former NASA artist Harry Lange for Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).