Clear story, clear characters. You know where you are at all times.
While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
You always know where you are. The story doesn't wrong-foot you.
Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
Clear path from start to finish. No assembly required on your end.
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.
Clear path from start to finish. No assembly required on your end.
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.
You always know where you are. The story doesn't wrong-foot you.
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.
You always know where you are. The story doesn't wrong-foot you.
Clarity is undervalued in film. These are clear, and better for it.
Monster films are simple. One threat, one group, one outcome.
Good paired viewing. Worth discussing afterward.
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.
You always know where you are. The story doesn't wrong-foot you.
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...
You always know where you are. The story doesn't wrong-foot you.
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
You always know where you are. The story doesn't wrong-foot you.
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
Clear path from start to finish. No assembly required on your end.
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.
You always know where you are. The story doesn't wrong-foot you.
The right film for the right state is a specific thing. These are specific.