'P2'

In late-1980s America, there was a rash of crimes that occurred in parking lots or were instigated from parked cars. Women and children were told to stay away from parked vehicles that looked suspicious and warned against going near parking lots after dark.

Cinematically speaking, parking areas and/or parked cars have been deployed for some pretty scary stuff — one of the masterly executed scenes in "Silence of the Lambs" shows a young woman pausing to help a man (whose arm is artfully encased in a plaster cast) trying to load furniture in the back of a van. Her kindness is her undoing; the man attacks her, stuffs her in the vehicle and drives away.

By now you'd think mankind would have moved on, but "P2" shows how very little the parking lot and the fear it can instill has changed. The spookiness remains intact — it's still not a place you can feel comfortable venturing in, alone and after dark.