Horror movies for anxious nights with family. Includes The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Skin I Live In, Dawn of the Dead and more, curated by Moviepiq.
The right film for an anxious night doesn't dismiss the feeling. It holds it.
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.
Steady company for an unsteady night. The tone holds.
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.
Absorbing without spiking. Gets you out of your head without putting you in a worse one.
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.
Steady company for an unsteady night. The tone holds.
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.
Steady company for an unsteady night. The tone holds.
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.
Absorbing without spiking. Gets you out of your head without putting you in a worse one.
Anxiety-safe films are a specific thing. Absorbing enough to interrupt the loop, calm enough not to amplify it.
Wrong night for horror. Anxiety and horror amplify each other.
Works across the room. Nobody left out or checked out.
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.
Absorbing without spiking. Gets you out of your head without putting you in a worse one.
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.
Absorbing without spiking. Gets you out of your head without putting you in a worse one.
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.
Steady company for an unsteady night. The tone holds.
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.
Absorbing without spiking. Gets you out of your head without putting you in a worse one.
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
Steady company for an unsteady night. The tone holds.
The right film for the right state is a specific thing. These are specific.
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