[Phantasm]

A bit of a paranormal twist for the town, use as needed:

Dr. Rick Thompson is the town's general practitioner, a small-town doctor with an affected Southern accent and a pleasing bedside manner. His son, Jack, is the local high school's starting quarterback. Dr. Thompson claims his wife died of complications during a "routine" surgery at the hospital he used to work at, which is why he "retired" to being a small-town doctor. He even makes house calls!

Their secret: Dr. Thompson's wife, Vicki, is a flesh-eating zombie he keeps chained up in the basement as he researches a cure. She was a medical researcher looking into a cure for leukemia when one of her potential "cures" mutated. He moved away from the big city to a small town in order to keep the damage to a minimum should she infect him or Jack - or get loose.

In a more mundane Harper Valley PTA/Twin Peaks twisted town, Mrs. Thompson really is dead; one day she just went murderously insane, resulting in Rick and Jack having to kill her.


(Honestly, I prefer the impending zombie apocalypse secret... we've got too many mundane killers in this town already.)