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Gas Station of Doom
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It's a foggy, winter day in the middle of nowhere. And on the long, curving highway is a gas station. A generic, everyday, normal gas station. The perfect place to be haunted by a ghost, stalked by a serial killer, or have your wallet emptied from the ridiculously high fuel prices. For a number of reasons, lonely gas stations are a popular setting for horror writers to use. Much of this is perhaps that gas stations are a place that pretty much everyone who owns a car needs to visit at least once in a while. As such, they are bound to attract some weird and dangerous people, both in real life and in fiction. Combine this with their often dingy run-down appearance as well as the fact that they can be found in even in the most rural and isolated of areas and you have the recipe for a decent horror setting. Compare Creepy Gas-Station Attendant, who often manages these. My Car Hates Me is almost guaranteed to happen. May even involve Sinister Cars. For more road trip points you absolutely do not want to get caught up in, see Inn of No Return, Hell Hotel and Old, Dark House. |
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Sapphire and Steel has a story set at an isolated gas station, but it's set in England, not the northern US. | |
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The first vampire attack in Fright Night 2: New Blood takes place at a deserted gas station. The victim manages to set the monster on fire by blowing up her car with a Reusable Lighter Toss, but this only slows it down briefly. | |
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The gas station in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) unfortunately turns out not to be the sanctuary for Sally Hardesty as the proprietor ties her up, gags her, and forces her into his truck. It also turns out to be the place where human meats are barbecued. | |
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In the video game version of I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, Gorister's scenario starts inside a steampunk air ship. The ship lands in front of an abandoned gas station/truck stop, inside which Gorister has to face his inner demons. | |
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The flashback in The Dresden Files where a teenage Harry encounters an Outsider at a random gas station (and blows them both to smithereens). | |
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Supernatural: In the Season 4 premiere, Dean returns from Hell via rising from his own grave and comes upon a rundown, rural gas station which is conveniently closed. He proceeds to rob the place only to be be overwhelmed by a painfully high-pitched noise that shatters the windows and what he later describes as a demonic presence. It's revealed that the presence was the angel Castiel, who was only trying to talk to him. | |
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Night Shift, the playable prologue to Puppet Combo's Stay Out of the House, is set at an isolated gas station where you control a gas station attendant who is stalked throughout the night by a serial killer, culminating in the attendant being captured. | |
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In Life Blood, Rhea and Brooke decide to hole up in a remote gas station till the sun goes down, taking the clerk hostage. It is here that Brooke goes completely off the deep end and most of the killings occur. | |
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Resident Evil 2 (Remake) sets the tone by beginning at a gas station on a rainy night, where Leon or Claire make their first encounter with the zombie outbreak in the back room of the station. The station doubles as a tutorial level before the plot moves on to Raccoon City itself. | |
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In Twin Peaks, the extradimensional being MIKE says that, prior to his Heel–Face Turn, he and BOB had lived above a convenience store, using it as a base of operations while praying on humanity. In The Return, the long-awaited third series, we finally visit this convenience store, which seems to also be a gas station, and is ruled over by the nightmarish Woodsmen, murderous beings of pure evil. The convenience store at first appears to have only one floor, though we eventually learn that the second floor - where MIKE and BOB had lived - is actually in Another Dimension. Averted, however, by Big Ed's Gas Farm, the local garage and gas station within Twin Peaks itself. Big Ed Hurley is one of the nicest people in town. |
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In Big Driver, Tess's rape and assault takes place in the shell of a abandoned gas station on a remote stretch of country road. | |
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In the action movie Legion, a group of strangers hold up in a lonely diner/gas station out in the desert to stage a gun battle for the survival of mankind. | |
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The horror comedy story Tales from the Gas Station 1 is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. | |
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The Nightmares segment "Terror in Topanga". A woman hears over the radio that a serial killer is on the loose. She naturally goes out to get a pack of cigarettes and stops at a gas station. The attendant perfectly matches the serial killer's description and she gets worried. The attendant drags her out of the car, pulls out a gun, and shoots...the real serial killer, who was hiding in her back seat. | |
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In 68 Kill, Chip has to stop at a remote gas station to fill up, and the cashier Monica notices the large bundle of cash he is carrying and tries to blackmail him. This marks the point at which the Plethora of Mistakes kicks into high gear. | |
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The most elaborate location in the horror point-and-click game Barrow Hill is an all-night petrol station with adjoining restaurant and garage. It's creepy when you first arrive, and gets worse after the monster breaks into the room where the attendant is hiding and reduces him to ash. | |
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Subverted with the opening kill of Urban Legend, which depicts the scenario described below in the Folklore section. | |
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The Punisher: Frank Castle runs into one in Louisiana that's actually a front for an Inbred and Evil Cannibal Clan. | |
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The horror anthology film Body Bags has one segment appropriately named "The Gas Station" that played out like a Slasher Movie. A new attendant working the night shift is stalked by a lone killer, at first in her thoughts and later for real. | |
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In Deus Ex, an abandoned gas station near "the ruins of Los Angeles" is a place where you have to rescue a hostage. She'll die if your enemy so much as hears a footstep, so tread carefully. And then kill her yourself. There actually isn't any penalty for that. | |
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The pilot episode of Criminal Minds (and a small chunk of the second, both in flashback) featured a Serial Killer that was the sole employee of a middle-of-nowhere gas station. Other Serial Killers Of The Week also used gas stations (in use or abandoned) as bases of operations throughout the show. | |
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The horror movie Splinter revolves around a gas station being under the attack of a parasitic organism. | |
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