When we lived in central Tennessee, between Mufreesboro and Chattanooga, it was pretty spooky, but I figured the Confederate dead knew we were on their side. Mist over the Duck River or clouds down on Lookout Mountain gave me the heebiejeebies, though.
Got the whole “Two Thousand Maniacs!” thing going on?
If you’re not familiar with it, it is very loosely based on the musical Brigadoon, and is a great example of a very low budget, poorly acted, “splatter” film, that actually had a good potential storyline.
During the US Civil War, a renegade Union Army unit wreaks vengeance on an innocent southern town, brutally slaughtering all the men, women and children in horrific ways, before burning the town to the ground eliminating all trace of it.
So 100 years later, the ghosts(?) of everyone in the town rise again, to hold a great town festival, luring some unsuspecting Yankees there, then brutally murdering them before vanishing again, to return in another 100 years.
Though the movie is bizarre, half showing the small Florida town where it was filmed having quite a typical small southern town festival party and obviously having a good time, and the other half showing them horribly murdering Yankees, I like to think there was great potential there for a good ghost story.
I bet I could write a script for it that would be nowhere near as grotesque but make for a really scary horror film.