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Horror Movies That Demand Your Full Attention When You Can’t Sleep

Horror movies that demand your full attention when you cant sleep. Includes Hour of the Wolf, Un Chien Andalou, Black Sunday and more, curated by Moviepiq.

All in. Eyes on screen. Brain engaged.

Hour of the Wolf movie poster
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1968 · ★★★½☆ 7.4/10

While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.

Every scene is doing something. Full attention is how you access all of it.

Un Chien Andalou movie poster
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1929 · ★★★½☆ 7.4/10

Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

Give it everything. It returns the investment.

Black Sunday movie poster
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1960 · ★★★½☆ 7.4/10

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.

Give it everything. It returns the investment.

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil movie poster
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2010 · ★★★½☆ 7.4/10

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.

Every scene is doing something. Full attention is how you access all of it.

An American Werewolf in London movie poster
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1981 · ★★★½☆ 7.4/10

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.

Give it everything. It returns the investment.

Films that deserve full attention repay it at every level. What you bring, they match.

The craft of great horror is invisible unless you're paying attention.

Braindead movie poster
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1992 · ★★★½☆ 7.4/10

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.

Give it everything. It returns the investment.

Ghostland movie poster
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2018 · ★★★½☆ 7.4/10

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...

Every scene is doing something. Full attention is how you access all of it.

A Quiet Place movie poster
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2018 · ★★★½☆ 7.4/10

A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.

Give it everything. It returns the investment.

Interview with the Vampire movie poster
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1994 · ★★★½☆ 7.4/10

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.

Every scene is doing something. Full attention is how you access all of it.

Repulsion movie poster
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1965 · ★★★½☆ 7.4/10

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.

Every scene is doing something. Full attention is how you access all of it.

These films were chosen for the state you're in, not the state you wish you were in.

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