Easy watching. No subtext to untangle, no plot to decode.
While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
No subtext to work through. Exactly what it looks like, which is enough.
Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
Nothing to decode. Just watch it and you've done the whole thing.
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.
Nothing to decode. Just watch it and you've done the whole thing.
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.
No subtext to work through. Exactly what it looks like, which is enough.
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.
Nothing to decode. Just watch it and you've done the whole thing.
Easy watching doesn't mean empty. These have everything they need, packaged simply.
Straightforward horror asks nothing. Monster movies work.
Best watched alone. Full absorption, no compromise on what to pick.
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.
Nothing to decode. Just watch it and you've done the whole thing.
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...
No subtext to work through. Exactly what it looks like, which is enough.
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
Nothing to decode. Just watch it and you've done the whole thing.
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
No subtext to work through. Exactly what it looks like, which is enough.
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.
No subtext to work through. Exactly what it looks like, which is enough.
The right film for the right state is a specific thing. These are specific.