Attention keeps drifting. These films hold it anyway.
While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
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.
Short scenes and clear stakes. Your attention doesn't have to stay perfect to keep up.
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.
Short scenes and clear stakes. Your attention doesn't have to stay perfect to keep up.
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.
Short scenes and clear stakes. Your attention doesn't have to stay perfect to keep up.
Films that hold scattered attention tend to be the ones with strong momentum. Every scene moves something forward.
Atmosphere over complexity. You don't need to follow everything to feel it.
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.
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
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...
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
Short scenes and clear stakes. Your attention doesn't have to stay perfect to keep up.
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.
Short scenes and clear stakes. Your attention doesn't have to stay perfect to keep up.
These films work because they match where you actually are, not where you think you should be.