Mental exhaustion has its own logic. These films match it.
A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall. His home becomes a wilderness where he must survive everything from spiders living in the cellar to his beloved cat.
Low cognitive demand, high reward. The rare film that works when you have nothing left.
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Low cognitive demand, high reward. The rare film that works when you have nothing left.
During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
Low cognitive demand, high reward. The rare film that works when you have nothing left.
In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.
Asks almost nothing of your processing power. You can be fully present or half asleep and still get it.
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
Asks almost nothing of your processing power. You can be fully present or half asleep and still get it.
Not every film needs to be a challenge. Some nights, being pulled along is exactly right.
Atmospheric rather than complex. Works on tired brains.
Henry Frankenstein pieces together body parts in the hope of bringing a human-like creature to life. The mad scientist's dreams are shattered by his monstrous creation awakening with rage to a world that hates and fears him.
Low cognitive demand, high reward. The rare film that works when you have nothing left.
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
Asks almost nothing of your processing power. You can be fully present or half asleep and still get it.
Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far more evil planned.
Low cognitive demand, high reward. The rare film that works when you have nothing left.
While working on a thesis about audiovisual violence, film student Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that she was a former student in her university, and that the authors of the video are not very far either.
Asks almost nothing of your processing power. You can be fully present or half asleep and still get it.
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
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.