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eerieindianaEerie, Indiana (1991-1992)
Director Joe Dante had already made Gremlins and The Howling when he took on Eerie, Indiana, a live action kid’s show about Marshall Teller, a teen who moves from New Jersey to the appropriately named Eerie, Indiana. Eerie is a small town with the ominous population of 16,661 and a problem with ghosts, mysterious deaths, and other supernatural weirdness. The show’s genius was to have the very ordinariness of a small town serve as the backdrop for all the bizarro stuff like kids who sleep in plastic containers and ghosts in the library. From glasses that turned people into zombies to battling the menacing ghost of an old bank robber, the series was inventive and well written — and most of all, scary AF. It lasted only one season, but has haunted our dreams ever since.
Director Joe Dante had already made Gremlins and The Howling when he took on Eerie, Indiana, a live action kid’s show about Marshall Teller, a teen who moves from New Jersey to the appropriately named Eerie, Indiana. Eerie is a small town with the ominous population of 16,661 and a problem with ghosts, mysterious deaths, and other supernatural weirdness. The show’s genius was to have the very ordinariness of a small town serve as the backdrop for all the bizarro stuff like kids who sleep in plastic containers and ghosts in the library. From glasses that turned people into zombies to battling the menacing ghost of an old bank robber, the series was inventive and well written — and most of all, scary AF. It lasted only one season, but has haunted our dreams ever since.
