Loneliness is one of the things cinema does better than almost any other medium.
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 understands loneliness well enough that watching it doesn't feel lonely at all.
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.
It understands loneliness well enough that watching it doesn't feel lonely at all.
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 understands loneliness well enough that watching it doesn't feel lonely at all.
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.
The film knows what it's doing. You'll feel less alone by the end.
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.
The film knows what it's doing. You'll feel less alone by the end.
The films that make you feel less lonely are usually the ones most honest about what loneliness is.
Paradoxically effective when the characters face isolation together.
Something to watch when sleep won't cooperate.
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 film knows what it's doing. You'll feel less alone by the end.
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 understands loneliness well enough that watching it doesn't feel lonely at all.
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 film knows what it's doing. You'll feel less alone by the end.
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 understands loneliness well enough that watching it doesn't feel lonely at all.
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
The film knows what it's doing. You'll feel less alone by the end.
Some films earn their effect. These do.