Burnout needs the right company. Not loud, not demanding, not cheerful in a way that feels fake.
While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
Gentle. Present. Not asking you to do anything but watch. Perfect for after burnout.
Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
Gentle. Present. Not asking you to do anything but watch. Perfect for after burnout.
A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant: Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.
Gentle. Present. Not asking you to do anything but watch. Perfect for after burnout.
Two hillbillies are suspected of being killers by a group of paranoid college kids camping near the duo's West Virginian cabin. As the body count climbs, so does the fear and confusion as the college kids try to seek revenge against the pair.
Gentle. Present. Not asking you to do anything but watch. Perfect for after burnout.
American tourists David and Jack are savagely attacked by an unidentified animal while hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. After retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon begins experiencing disturbing changes to his body and mind.
Gentle. Present. Not asking you to do anything but watch. Perfect for after burnout.
Post-burnout cinema has a specific texture. Quiet, human, not asking you to be more than you are.
Maybe not immediately after burnout. Worth saving.
Good paired viewing. Worth pausing to discuss.
When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.
It doesn't try to fix you. It just sits with you for two hours. That's enough.
A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...
It doesn't try to fix you. It just sits with you for two hours. That's enough.
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
Gentle. Present. Not asking you to do anything but watch. Perfect for after burnout.
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
Gentle. Present. Not asking you to do anything but watch. Perfect for after burnout.
Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.
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.