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Horror Movies With Nothing Sad Or Heavy On A Weekend

Horror movies with nothing sad or heavy on a weekend. Includes Hour of the Wolf, Un Chien Andalou, Black Sunday and more, curated by Moviepiq.

Good films don't have to be hard. These prove it.

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.

No difficult endings. No grief to sit with afterward. Safe viewing.

Un Chien Andalou movie poster
2
1929 · ★★★½☆ 7.4/10

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

No difficult endings. No grief to sit with afterward. Safe viewing.

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.

Stays on the right side of the line. Nothing heavy sneaks through.

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil movie poster
4
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.

No difficult endings. No grief to sit with afterward. Safe viewing.

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.

No difficult endings. No grief to sit with afterward. Safe viewing.

No weight, no grief, no difficult third acts. These know where the line is and stay on the right side of it.

Skip tonight. Wrong night for it.

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.

Stays on the right side of the line. Nothing heavy sneaks through.

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...

Stays on the right side of the line. Nothing heavy sneaks through.

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.

Stays on the right side of the line. Nothing heavy sneaks through.

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.

Stays on the right side of the line. Nothing heavy sneaks through.

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.

No difficult endings. No grief to sit with afterward. Safe viewing.

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

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