The story follows two troubled sisters who move to a new town that’s adjacent to the hellish titular neighborhood where people are going missing.
The Butcher’s Block name ties back to the aged local Joseph Peach (Rutger Hauer), whose reality-tearing family can give the sisters an unimaginable gift, but at great and terrifying costs.
With a story like that, each of the influences mentioned above makes a good amount of sense.
A group of classic genre entities got highlighted there by Nick Antosca, and they’re not necessarily films and directors that get spoken of in the same breath all that often.