It does not pretend things are easy. It just makes you believe they can get better.
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.
It doesn't wrap things up perfectly. It just leaves you believing in the possibility of better.
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.
The hope at the end of this has been paid for by everything that came before. It's earned.
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.
It doesn't wrap things up perfectly. It just leaves you believing in the possibility of better.
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.
It doesn't wrap things up perfectly. It just leaves you believing in the possibility of better.
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.
It doesn't wrap things up perfectly. It just leaves you believing in the possibility of better.
Real hope in film comes from honesty about difficulty. These films know that.
Survival is a form of hope. When it lands, it hits hard.
Sunday-afternoon pacing. Unhurried and rewarding.
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.
The hope at the end of this has been paid for by everything that came before. It's earned.
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.
It doesn't wrap things up perfectly. It just leaves you believing in the possibility of better.
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.
The hope at the end of this has been paid for by everything that came before. It's earned.
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.
It doesn't wrap things up perfectly. It just leaves you believing in the possibility of better.
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
It doesn't wrap things up perfectly. It just leaves you believing in the possibility of better.
Some films earn their effect. These do.