An overstimulated brain needs something that slows the feed, not speeds it up.
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.
Calm enough not to spike the signal. Absorbing enough to hold your attention.
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.
Calm enough not to spike the signal. Absorbing enough to hold your attention.
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.
The rhythm of this one quiets rather than amplifies. Right choice for tonight.
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.
Calm enough not to spike the signal. Absorbing enough to hold your attention.
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.
Calm enough not to spike the signal. Absorbing enough to hold your attention.
Films for overstimulation work by slowing the rhythm down. These don't compete with the noise.
Bad choice for overstimulation. Skip tonight.
Good paired viewing. Worth discussing afterward.
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.
Calm enough not to spike the signal. Absorbing enough to hold your attention.
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.
Calm enough not to spike the signal. Absorbing enough to hold your attention.
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.
Calm enough not to spike the signal. Absorbing enough to hold your attention.
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.
The rhythm of this one quiets rather than amplifies. Right choice for tonight.
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
The rhythm of this one quiets rather than amplifies. Right choice for tonight.
The right film for the right state is a specific thing. These are specific.