Something's Not Right In Suburbia ...

By: Fantast​ic Voyages

Something’s just not right in suburbia … curtains twitch, neighbours glance over suspiciously, an apparent well-being masks hidden fears, prejudices and menaces. Something’s bubbling just beneath the surface …

Here are 30 films which explore, critique and subvert conformist suburban and inner city life, presenting creeping dangers in leafy neighbourhoods, quiet towns or high-rise flats. Ranging from personal dramas, romances and satires to horrors and thrillers, each film succeeds in peeling back the layers of middle-class society to reveal dark veins flowing underneath.

Also check out Village Of The Damned (1960) and The Stepford Wives (1975).

• 01
  Blue Velvet
  David Lynch
• 02
  Rear Window
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 03
  Short Cuts
  Robert Altman
• 04
  Rosemary's Baby
  Roman Polanski
• 05
  Invasion of the Body Snatchers
  Don Siegel
• 06
  The Apartment
  Billy Wilder
• 07
  Magnolia
  Paul Thomas Anderson
• 08
  Night of the Living Dead
  George A. Romero
• 09
  Rebel Without a Cause
  Nicholas Ray
• 10
  A History of Violence
  David Cronenberg
• 11
  The Birds
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 12
  Bigger Than Life
  Nicholas Ray
• 13
  All That Heaven Allows
  Douglas Sirk
• 14
  American Beauty
  Sam Mendes
• 15
  Elephant
  Gus Van Sant
• 16
  Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
  David Lynch
• 17
  Happiness
  Todd Solondz
• 18
  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  Mike Nichols
• 19
  Shivers
  David Cronenberg
• 20
  The Truman Show
  Peter Weir
• 21
  The Tenant
  Roman Polanski
• 22
  Ghost World
  Terry Zwigoff
• 23
  Targets
  Peter Bogdanovich
• 24
  Edward Scissorhands
  Tim Burton
• 25
  Far from Heaven
  Todd Haynes
• 26
  Halloween
  John Carpenter
• 27
  Welcome to the Dollhouse
  Todd Solondz
• 28
  Cape Fear
  Martin Scorsese
• 29
  Peyton Place
  Mark Robson
• 30
  Donnie Darko
  Richard Kelly