The feeling that no film could possibly help is usually wrong. These usually help.
A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring in order to save herself and her son.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.
Reliable in a way that matters. Even when nothing sounds good, this one tends to hold.
When the mood is off, the film needs to be better than usual. These can carry it.
This is genuinely a personal call. Some people find it grounding.
Two doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry Darling, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors, Cherry and her ex-boyfriend El Wray lead a team of accidental warriors into the night.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."
Reliable in a way that matters. Even when nothing sounds good, this one tends to hold.
When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak.
Reliable in a way that matters. Even when nothing sounds good, this one tends to hold.
In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth. But Ruth's depraved sense of discipline will soon lead to unspeakable acts of abuse and torture that involve her young sons, the neighborhood children, and one 12-year-old boy whose life will be changed forever.
Reliable in a way that matters. Even when nothing sounds good, this one tends to hold.
After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.
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.