Small Towns Featured in Movies

Two small town articles

Movie lists are some of my favorite posts to write for HubPages. It’s fun to think up a theme and then try to come up with my top picks. My latest theme is small towns. Filmmakers can do a lot with a story set in a small town. They make for good romances, horror tales, fish out of water stories, and even backyard adventures. They also have the added advantage of making a movie more personal, intricately exploring a small space and getting to know its characters.

My first thought when coming up with this theme was to showcase movies with made up small towns. These are films that might have been shot at an actual small town but were redressed and renamed to fit the story that the movie is trying to tell. This took some research because movies can convince you into thinking that a location is real when it was really shot in a totally different state or multiple locations.

Criteria

In my research, I was finding that many of my guesses were actual places. That led me to create an entirely separate list of movies whose locations are actual real places.

To make the cut in both lists, the town had to be located in the United States. The fictional towns didn’t necessarily need to be shot there, but it did have to represent a U.S. town. It also had to be a place where I would actually want to live. That meant that it wasn’t a town wrecked by poverty, backwards thinking, or extreme cold. At the same time, several horror movies made the cut because of their location, landscapes, and people.

Creating these list posts allows you to make your own rules. It also helps to cleanse my pallet and give me something easy to write about while still entertaining and with a way to exercise my thought process. So, if you like small town living and movies check out my two articles: 10 Great Fictional Small U.S. Towns in Movies and 10 Great Actual Small U.S. Towns Featured in Movies.

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