Nothing sounds good. Pick one anyway. It might surprise you.
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.
Reliable in a way that matters. Even when nothing sounds good, this one tends to hold.
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 doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
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 ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
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 ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
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.
Reliable in a way that matters. Even when nothing sounds good, this one tends to hold.
The best films for when nothing feels right have a quality of steadiness. They don't demand anything of your mood.
This is genuinely a personal call. Some people find it grounding.
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.
Reliable in a way that matters. Even when nothing sounds good, this one tends to hold.
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.
Reliable in a way that matters. Even when nothing sounds good, this one tends to hold.
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.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
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 ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
Reliable in a way that matters. Even when nothing sounds good, this one tends to hold.
These films work because they match where you actually are, not where you think you should be.