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Horror Movies After A Long Week From The 2010S

Horror movies after a long week from the 2010s. Includes It, Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I - The Egg of the King, Shin Godzilla and more, curated by Moviepiq.

Five days of relentless noise, and now this. Finally.

It movie poster
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2017 · ★★★½☆ 7.2/10

In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.

After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.

Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I - The Egg of the King movie poster
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2012 · ★★★½☆ 7.2/10

Guts, an immensely strong sword-for-hire, has little direction in his life, simply fighting one battle after the next. However, this all changes suddenly when he meets and is bested by Griffith, a beautiful and charismatic young man who leads the Band of the Hawk mercenary army. After Guts joins the Band and the relationship between the two men begins to blossom, Casca, the tough, lone swordswoman in the Band of the Hawk, struggles to accept Guts and the influence he has on the world around her. While the two men begin to fight together, Griffith continues to rise to power, all seemingly in order to reach his mysterious, prophesied goals. What lengths will Guts and Griffith go to in order to reach these goals, and where will fate take the two men?

This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.

Shin Godzilla movie poster
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2016 · ★★★½☆ 7.2/10

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.

Midsommar movie poster
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2019 · ★★★½☆ 7.2/10

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.

Doctor Sleep movie poster
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2019 · ★★★½☆ 7.1/10

Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous teen who desperately needs his help -- and who possesses a powerful extrasensory ability called the "shine".

After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.

End-of-week viewing is about unwinding, not stimulating. These get that balance right.

Not for everyone at end of week. Fine if that's your reset.

The House That Jack Built movie poster
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2018 · ★★★½☆ 7.1/10

Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years.

After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.

As the Gods Will movie poster
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2014 · ★★★½☆ 7.1/10

High school student Shun Takahata is bored. Bored with the day-to-day monotony of school and life, he prays for change, for something exciting. Suddenly, he and his classmates are forced to play deadly children's games and facing terrifying creatures from a talking Daruma doll to a sharp-clawed lucky cat.

This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.

Sleep Tight movie poster
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2011 · ★★★½☆ 7.1/10

César, an unhappy concierge, maintains a peculiar relationship with the very diverse inhabitants of the upper-class apartment building where he works in Barcelona.

This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.

Ready or Not movie poster
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2019 · ★★★½☆ 7.1/10

A young bride's wedding night turns into her worst nightmare when her ridiculously rich in-laws force her to play a gruesome game of hide-and-seek.

This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.

Take Shelter movie poster
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2011 · ★★★½☆ 7.1/10

Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.

After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.

These films work because they match where you actually are, not where you think you should be.

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