Films that make you feel understood are doing something very specific and very hard.
While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
It articulates something you've felt but never quite had words for. That's the whole effect.
Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
It articulates something you've felt but never quite had words for. That's the whole effect.
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.
It articulates something you've felt but never quite had words for. That's the whole effect.
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.
There's something in here that will feel very specifically aimed at you. That's not an accident.
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.
It articulates something you've felt but never quite had words for. That's the whole effect.
Some films see you. Not in a mystical way. In a very specific, very human way.
Dread and isolation. Horror understands specific feelings very well.
Works in a group. Generates conversation.
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 articulates something you've felt but never quite had words for. That's the whole effect.
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...
There's something in here that will feel very specifically aimed at you. That's not an accident.
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
There's something in here that will feel very specifically aimed at you. That's not an accident.
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
It articulates something you've felt but never quite had words for. That's the whole effect.
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.
There's something in here that will feel very specifically aimed at you. That's not an accident.
Some films earn their effect. These do.