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Horror Movies For A Scattered Attention Span On A Weekend

Horror movies for a scattered attention span on a weekend. Includes Hour of the Wolf, Un Chien Andalou, Black Sunday and more, curated by Moviepiq.

Your brain is jumping around. These are structured enough to hold you anyway.

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.

Works with a wandering mind. The key moments get through regardless.

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.

Works with a wandering mind. The key moments get through regardless.

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.

Works with a wandering mind. The key moments get through regardless.

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.

The emotional signals are loud enough to bring your attention back each time it drifts.

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.

Works with a wandering mind. The key moments get through regardless.

Scattered-attention films have strong enough emotional signals that the mind keeps returning even when it wanders.

Atmosphere carries it through attention gaps.

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.

Works with a wandering mind. The key moments get through regardless.

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...

The emotional signals are loud enough to bring your attention back each time it drifts.

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.

The emotional signals are loud enough to bring your attention back each time it drifts.

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.

The emotional signals are loud enough to bring your attention back each time it drifts.

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.

Works with a wandering mind. The key moments get through regardless.

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

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