What if your cooling tower was in a horror film? Halloween is just around the corner, and now is the perfect time to break out the classic horror films that we grew up with. Just for fun, we developed our own horror film plots based on some of the classics. Discover what would happen if your cooling tower was in a horror film.

1. 7 ways
your cooling tower
could cast in a
horror film:

2. Please, make yourself
comfortable…
Welcome to the show

4. (1956)
Approved | 7.8 out of 10 Stars | Horror, Sci-Fi
A local cooling tower inspection team becomes suspicious that the
cooling tower fill and nozzles are being invaded by large calcium
deposits, snatching away cooling tower performance. This
performance invasion could go undetected unless the inspection team
can get there in time to save the cooling capacity and performance!”
Will they save the day in time?

5. The Thing in Your Cooling Tower (1982)
Rated R | 8.2 out of 10 Stars | Horror, Sci-Fi
When a cooling tower gearbox takes on a life of its own after the oil
runs low. What form of destruction will this gearbox take on, and who
will be brave enough to stop it?

6. (1968)
Rated R | 5.4 out of 10 Stars | Horror
What will happen when a cooling tower is built in a town that
is rumored to have a mysterious curse? Unbalanced fan
blades cause vibration issues, the fan hardware loosens, and
the fan stacks crack and break. Will a vibration switch get
installed quickly enough before the crimson curse takes over?

7. The Sixth Cell (1999)
PG-13 | 8.2 out of 10 Stars | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A local cooling tower maintenance worker has been having eerie
feelings around the local energy plant’s cooling tower. When he starts
having visions of a haunted sixth cell, he urges his maintenance team
to stay away, and to not inspect inside of that cell. Will this worker be
able to save his team from the sixth cell that mysteriously reverses
the lock-out / tag-out system?

8. Tower of 1000 Broken Nozzles (2003)
Rated R | 6.0 out of 10 Stars | Horror
When cooling tower nozzles begin to mysteriously break all at once,
the maintenance team struggles to keep the cooling capacity they
need to help cool the industrial plants other systems. They are
running out of time until all systems go down, taking the livelihood of
their town with.

9. 30 days of Drift Loss (2007)
Rated R | 6.6 out of 10 Stars | Horror, Thriller
Sometimes the scariest things of all are the ones you can’t
see like the energy that is lurking away and the water that is
escaping your cooling tower at night. Once a high rate of
drift loss has begun, it’s a race against time to bring the rate
back down to .0005%.

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11. HAPPY HALLOWEEN