It was thirty years ago when we got the film that taught us that being a nosey neighbour has its ups and downs. Directed by Joe Dante, The ‘Burbs pokes fun at suburban environments and their sometimes-eccentric dwellers. Who are the evil ones – the different ones who keep to themselves or the conforming neighbours who let their suspicions get the better of them? Settling in for some time off in his suburban home, Ray Peterson’s (Tom Hanks) vacation becomes a horror when the Klopeks, a suspiciously odd family, movie in down the block. Enlisting the aid of his paranoid buddy, Art (Rick Ducommun), and his militia-man neighbour, Rumsfield (Bruce Dern), Ray sends his son and wife (Carrie Fisher) away on a trip while he investigates the Klopeks. When a neighbour disappears, Ray and his cohorts risk their lives to save their cul-de-sac from the clutches of evil.