Vogue's Summerween: 10 Classic Summer Horror Films

Vogue has curated a list of ten classic horror films set during summer, celebrating the emerging tradition of Summerween. The list includes The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), a Universal monster movie shot in daylight that popularized eco-horror; And Soon the Darkness (1970), a British/French thriller about two nurses bicycling through France; Don't Deliver Us From Evil (1971), a banned French film based on a real folie à deux; The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971), an early folk horror set in rural England; Torso (1973), an Italian giallo proto-slasher; The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), a visceral summer horror shot in brutal Texas heat; Jaws (1975), the archetypal summer shark thriller; Friday the 13th (1980), the quintessential summer camp slasher; Whispering Corridors (1998), a South Korean summer horror set in a high school; and Hostel (2005), a torture-porn cautionary tale about backpacking in Eastern Europe. The article highlights how summer settings amplify horror through heat, sunlight, and vacation tropes, and notes the Korean tradition of yeoreum gongpo.