Post-burnout is its own state. These films were made for it without knowing it.
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
It doesn't try to fix you. It just sits with you for two hours. That's enough.
A night at the movies turns terrifying when Michael and his date are attacked by zombies. Released at the height of Thriller's success, the short film redefined the music video, broke racial barriers, and became the first inducted into the U.S. National Film Registry.
It doesn't try to fix you. It just sits with you for two hours. That's enough.
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
It doesn't try to fix you. It just sits with you for two hours. That's enough.
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
Gentle. Present. Not asking you to do anything but watch. Perfect for after burnout.
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Gentle. Present. Not asking you to do anything but watch. Perfect for after burnout.
These films don't demand anything from you. That's the whole point.
Maybe not immediately after burnout. Worth saving.
The mixed-room test. These pass it.
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.
It doesn't try to fix you. It just sits with you for two hours. That's enough.
A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
Gentle. Present. Not asking you to do anything but watch. Perfect for after burnout.
A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.
It doesn't try to fix you. It just sits with you for two hours. That's enough.
Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself.
Gentle. Present. Not asking you to do anything but watch. Perfect for after burnout.
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
It doesn't try to fix you. It just sits with you for two hours. That's enough.
Some films earn their effect. These do.