Adelaide - AUSTRALIA
Back in 1984, Salman Rushdie had the opportunity to spend some time in Adelaide, and he was quite taken with the place. At the time, he described the town as "... an ideal setting for a Stephen King novel, or horror film." Since then it's become pretty popular to bash Adelaide, and with good cause. But there's no need to film a horror movie in Adelaide, because Adelaide is the horror movie: a dull zombiescape, peopled by elderly conservatives, suburban mouth-breathers and drug-addled recluses, where bizarre homicides take place with alarming regularity (about one really creepy mass murder every decade). HOME OF THE FREE AND THE BLAND: PEOPLE AND CULTURE Free settlers, Adelaideans (or addlebrainers) are proud to disclose, were the foundation stone of Adelaide. Not common convict stock, sentenced to a life of hard labour and unrequited buggery in an uncharted land for petty theft, as were common in the rest of Australia, but free, adventurous spirits who actually chose ...