The bright lights, beautiful beach and fun amusement park of Santa Cruz, California, might seem like an unusual choice for a horror location. However, as anyone who’s watched Jordan Peele’s 2019 film will attest, horror and violence can lay just beneath even the most picturesque of surfaces. Once you’ve seen Us, a movie about doppelgangers going on a murderous rampage, you’ll never look at scenic American seaside towns in the same way.

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