I have always been interested in the horror of the mundane. For example, Dawn of the Dead utilizes the shopping mall as the last refuge for survivors of the zombie apocalypse. Romero was able to create a familiarity of the shopping experience and insert the fear of being ripped apart by the dead that could not fill hell because it was full. Another example would be Sandor Sterns 1988, PIN https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095871/ PIn is the story of a medical dummy that may or may not have a soul. The psychological thriller unwraps the uncomfortable relationship between Leon and his sister.
When a director is able to take a mundane place or device and weave it into the story, something magical happens; the audience begins to fear the ordinary. Not a monster, ghoul, zombie or spirit, but something they have seen before, possibly touched before. That is the horror of the mundane.
