01 A young man inherits the notorious, decaying motel from cinema's most infamous murderer.
6 Best Roadside Motel and Gas Station Movies
By Vlad Zakh · April 14, 2026
The isolated roadside motel and gas station, far from help and full of strangers, has long been one of thriller cinema’s most reliably unsettling settings. In Psycho (1960): A secretary on the run checks into a secluded motel run by a disturbed young man and his mother. Worth seeking out is No Country for Old Men (2007): A hunter who stumbles upon drug money becomes the target of a relentless, remorseless killer.
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02 Ten strangers stranded at a remote motel during a storm are murdered one by one.
03 A hunter who stumbles upon drug money becomes the target of a relentless, remorseless killer.
04 A man's obsessive three-year search for his girlfriend, who vanished at a rest stop, leads to a horrifying answer.
05 A traveling salesman is relentlessly pursued on a desert highway by a menacing, unseen truck driver.
06 A secretary on the run checks into a secluded motel run by a disturbed young man and his mother.
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