You finish these and the drive home, or the walk to the kitchen, feels different.
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.
This film slows everything down in a way that makes ordinary things look extraordinary.
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.
This film slows everything down in a way that makes ordinary things look extraordinary.
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.
You finish it and look up, and whatever room you're in looks slightly different.
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.
You finish it and look up, and whatever room you're in looks slightly different.
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.
This film slows everything down in a way that makes ordinary things look extraordinary.
The afterglow of these films is the point. You'll know it when you feel it.
Survival cinema. Hard to watch without appreciating what you have.
Works particularly well alone, with nowhere else to be.
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.
You finish it and look up, and whatever room you're in looks slightly different.
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.
You finish it and look up, and whatever room you're in looks slightly different.
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.
You finish it and look up, and whatever room you're in looks slightly different.
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.
This film slows everything down in a way that makes ordinary things look extraordinary.
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
This film slows everything down in a way that makes ordinary things look extraordinary.
Some films earn their effect. These do.