The book focuses on 50 films (from 1944 to 2020), all characterized by the presence of a 8216scary home8217 8211 With over 380 color images and additional content accessible via QR codes This book aims to take readers on a journey that is literary, visual as well as properly geographical We will focus on 50 films across almost 80 years (from 1944 to 2020) all of them are characterized by the presence, strong and central, of a 8216home8217 Obviously, it is not a 8216home sweet home8217 but 8216a home scary home 8217 We will look into whether the story of that film is based on fiction, chronicle, or both and finally we will look into whether that place really exists And if it does, whether it is different from the one that appears in the film This is not a work of film criticism, nor literary criticism but a true literary and visual journey, between words and images, between tradition and innovation influenced and stimulated by the thrill COLOR IMAGES AND QR CODES The volume contains over 380 color images and additional content (Google Maps Street View locations and audiovisual documents) accessible through QR codes which can be scanned with a camera Gianluca Sposito (1973) is an Italian lawyer and scholar He is one of Italys leading experts on rhetoric and communication Collana MysteriaIntraGlobal readability, Italian charm