Thinking is off the table tonight. These films are fine with that.
A priest discovers an ancient canister containing a strange liquid in an abandoned church. When a group of graduate students and scientists are tasked with studying it, they unknowingly unleash an evil force waiting to destroy all of humanity.
Low cognitive demand, high reward. The rare film that works when you have nothing left.
A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all who dare to cross them -- be they teachers, rivals or meddlesome parents.
Asks almost nothing of your processing power. You can be fully present or half asleep and still get it.
A single mom is raped by an invisible force. Her psychiatrist believes the experience stems from childhood trauma, while she knows something supernatural is at play.
Asks almost nothing of your processing power. You can be fully present or half asleep and still get it.
When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But it's hardly how Ray, who much prefers drinking beer, reading his newspaper and watching a ball game on the tube expected to spend his vacation.
Asks almost nothing of your processing power. You can be fully present or half asleep and still get it.
A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
Low cognitive demand, high reward. The rare film that works when you have nothing left.
A film for mental exhaustion has one job: be worth your remaining energy. These are.
Atmospheric rather than complex. Works on tired brains.
After being shot in a toy store, a serial killer transfers his soul into a Good Guy doll. A mother then gifts it to her 6-year old son Andy, which unleashes terror upon the city.
Asks almost nothing of your processing power. You can be fully present or half asleep and still get it.
Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.
Asks almost nothing of your processing power. You can be fully present or half asleep and still get it.
Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.
Asks almost nothing of your processing power. You can be fully present or half asleep and still get it.
In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that transform their hosts into killer zombies.
Asks almost nothing of your processing power. You can be fully present or half asleep and still get it.
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.
Asks almost nothing of your processing power. You can be fully present or half asleep and still get it.
These films work because they match where you actually are, not where you think you should be.