Movies
The movie section aims to catalog, editorialize and analyze every scary movie, fantasy and sci-fi film ever made. Any movie that frightens, thrills the senses from action/violence, contains mysterious creatures, folklore, and anything generally creepy from thrillers to psychological torment. Readers will find this category helpful for research and for figuring out what to stream on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon or to buy on Blu-ray.
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Did You Catch The Little Way ‘It Comes At Night’ Is Just Like ‘The Shining’?
“To me, it’s even more exciting what that situation does to the people, what the fear and paranoia instills.”
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Here’s What Is Actually Happening at the End of ‘Saint Maud’
As Amanda’s health fades, Maud’s obsession with saving her soul grows.
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25 of the Most Painfully Honest Movies About Depression
Nearly one in five adults are living with a mental illness, so it’s no surprise that depression and other mental disorders are not only a prevalent theme in movies but sometimes even the inspiration behind them. It’s something many of us can relate to, even if we don’t always feel comfortable admitting it. If you…
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36+ Film Noir Movies
The French word noir means “black,” and it was French film critics who first used the term “film noir” around 1946 to describe a budding genre of mostly American films, all of them shot in high-contrast black-and-white, that dealt with crime, despair, femmes fatale, and the ultimately doomed struggle to escape one’s tragic past and…
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40+ Horror Movies That Take Place in California
Since Hollywood is the center of the global film industry, it’s no coincidence that many films—of all genres—are set in California. But amid its natural beauty—mountains and deserts and oceans and forests—there was always something about California that seemed a little too sunny for its own good. A lot of scary things have happened in…
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30+ Movies About the Biblical Rapture
Belief in an end-times “rapture” is not a universal doctrine among all Christians, but a subset of believers, piecing together numerous Bible verses, preach that all truly born-again Christians will suddenly be snatched from Earth while alive and taken up to heaven in one fell swoop one day, leaving all nonbelievers stuck here to suffer…
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35+ Neo-Noir Movies: A Classic Film Genre
“Film noir” describes a genre of black-and-white American films that dealt with dark themes and deftly used shadows and nocturnal scenes to convey a sense of bleakness and desperation in a world that rarely has happy endings. Main characters in noir films were typically a hardboiled detective who usually narrates the proceedings, a manipulative femme…
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35+ Must-See Robot Movies
A list of all the best robot movies and artificial intelligence films ever made.
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30+ Nuclear War Movies
Whereas most horror involves fantasy and a strictly personal element—a fictional werewolf attacks a young maiden—nuclear-war movies are perhaps the most horrifying genre of all because they involve an actual threat that to this day is capable of wiping out life on Earth several times over. After the so-called communist “Iron Curtain” fell apart in…
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A Creepy Detail In ‘Get Out’ That Most People Missed
This is a subtle and genius move by the film’s writer and director, Jordan Peele.
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The Real Reason There’s So Much Sex In Slasher Movies
Randy claims the reason Jamie Lee Curtis can outsmart Michael Myers is because she has super powers associated with her virginity and purity.
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30+ Essential Hacker Movies
Here is a list of notable hacker movies throughout the years, all of which hinge on the terror that your life can be destroyed with one simple line of code.
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30+ CIA Movies: Double Agents and Double-Crossing
Whether you’re into all-out action or political intrigue, CIA movies hit the spot.




