Hobbs End - Other Locations Named Hobbs End

Other Locations Named Hobbs End

In Henley-on-Thames there is a real street named Hobbs End, and Hobbs Lanes exist numerous locations in the UK including Bristol, Beckley, and Woodmancote near Cirencester.

In the 1995 movie In the Mouth of Madness, a pastiche of H. P. Lovecraft directed by John Carpenter, Hobbs End is the name of a New England town in the books of fictional horror author Sutter Cane, "this century's most widely-read author". As parts of Sutter Cane's stories start to influence reality, Hobbs End also becomes real, and is the setting for much of the action in the movie. Carpenter had previously worked with Nigel Kneale, creator of the Quatermass character, on Halloween III: Season of the Witch; and has also used the pseudonym 'Martin Quatermass'.

Hobbs End is also used as the name of a village in the 1999 Peter Robinson book In a Dry Season.

Hobbs End is both the title of, and Pacific northwest setting for, a 2002 slasher film directed by Philip Segal. It received uniformly below-average reviews.

Hobb's End was used as a location in Gordon Rennie's story Caballistics, Inc. in British comic 2000AD.

The town at the centre of the British 2007 horror film Flick is also called Hobbs End.

When Ben meets the character of The Curator in Mark Gatiss's horror pastiche Crooked House, broadcast on BBC Four in December 2008, there is a partially obscured Hobb's End sign on a shelf above their heads.

A similar name crops up in the 1971 Doctor Who serial The Dæmons, which is set in the fictional Wiltshire village of Devil's End. The plot of The Dæmons bears several similarities to that of Quatermass and the Pit.

It becomes the name of a fictional Massachusetts town featured in the episode, "Here There Be Monsters", of the 2002 series Stephen King's Dead Zone. The plot focuses heavily on witchcraft and superstition.