What do you want to watch tonight?
Each title says who it's good for, and who it isn't. Tap what you want tonight, or say no to one and why.
Closest to Get Out first
Fight Club 1999
Film
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
The sides of Fight Club
- The twist
- A satire of the life you're sold
- The rush of breaking free
Good for you if
- you love a story that makes you rethink everything you just watched.
- you can laugh at a man selling soap made of something awful.
- you like a film you want to restart to look for the clues.
Bad for you if
- bare-knuckle fights and bloody faces ruin it for you.
- you want to feel good after. This one leaves you uneasy.
About: masculinity · consumerism · identity
Us 2019
Film
Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.
The sides of Us
- A family on holiday
- Doubles at the end of the driveway
- Red jumpsuits and scissors
Good for you if
- you like a home invasion with a strange idea behind it.
- you like a family fighting their own copies.
- you like an ending that recasts what you saw.
Bad for you if
- you want everything explained. The rules of the Tethered leave many questions open.
- stabbings and fights ruin it for you.
About: identity · privilege · the self
Oldboy 2003
Film
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.
The sides of Oldboy
- A man locked up for fifteen years with no reason
- A corridor fight with a hammer
- A live octopus
Good for you if
- you like an ending that floors you.
- you like a one-take hallway fight.
- you like revenge with no clean way out.
Bad for you if
- brutal violence ruins it for you.
- you won't read subtitles. It's in Korean (a dub exists).
- you can't take despair on screen. A man locked up for fifteen years comes out close to breaking.
About: revenge · guilt · imprisonment
Hereditary 2018
Film
Following the death of the Leigh family matriarch, Annie and her children uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a chilling fate from which they cannot escape, driving them to the brink of madness.
The sides of Hereditary
- A family after a grandmother's funeral
- A clicking sound
- A mother's grief turning into something else
Good for you if
- you want horror that stays with you for days.
- you like a mother's grief played at full force.
- you like dread that builds slowly.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand gore. Some of its images are shown up close and held.
- a family torn apart by grief and mental illness is too much for you.
About: grief · family · fate
Perfect Blue 1998
Anime
Rising pop star Mima Kirigoe quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia.
The sides of Perfect Blue
- A pop singer who becomes an actress
- A fan website that knows her daily life
- Murders around her film set
Good for you if
- you like a stalker thriller where you can't trust what you see.
- you like a story where dream, filming and reality blur.
- you like being scared by your own reflection.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not see a staged rape scene and a nude photo shoot.
- you can't stand stabbings shown up close.
- you don't watch anime.
About: fame · identity · obsession
The Shining 1980
Film
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
The sides of The Shining
- An empty hotel in winter
- A father going mad
- A boy riding his tricycle down the halls
Good for you if
- you like dread that builds slowly in empty corridors.
- you like long gliding shots behind a boy on his tricycle.
- you like a performance that becomes truly frightening.
Bad for you if
- you scare easily. Some images stay for years.
- you can't watch a family threatened by the father. Jack's drinking and rage turn on his wife and son.
About: isolation · madness · family
Split 2017
Film
Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him — as well as everyone around him — as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.
The sides of Split
- Three girls kidnapped
- A man with many personalities
- Something else waiting to come out
Good for you if
- you like one actor playing many people, each one different.
- you like a captivity thriller where escape keeps slipping away.
- you like an ending that changes what kind of film you were watching.
Bad for you if
- child abuse in flashbacks is too hard for you.
- you can't stand blood. The attacks in the last act are brutal.
About: trauma · identity · survival
Shutter Island 2010
Film
In 1954, a U.S. Marshal and his new partner go to a psychiatric hospital on an island to find a patient who escaped from a locked room.
The sides of Shutter Island
- A mystery that turns on you
- Gothic dread on an island
- A man haunted by loss
Good for you if
- you love a story that makes you question everything you just saw.
- you like a film you want to restart as soon as it ends.
- you like a mood that gets under your skin: storms, cells, a lighthouse.
Bad for you if
- grief and mental illness hit too close for you.
- you want to be sure what happened when the credits roll.
About: grief · guilt · madness · the truth
Prisoners 2013
Film
When his young daughter and her friend disappear on Thanksgiving, a father takes the law into his own hands while a detective works the case.
The sides of Prisoners
- A detective who won't let go
- How far a father will go
- A case built like a maze
- Rain, cold, and grey light
Good for you if
- you like being tense for two and a half hours straight.
- you like collecting clues and trying to get ahead of the detective.
- you like watching an actor go somewhere raw. Hugh Jackman does.
Bad for you if
- a child in danger is too much for you.
- two and a half hours is too long for your evening.
About: faith · revenge · guilt · fatherhood
The Sixth Sense 1999
Film
Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
The sides of The Sixth Sense
- A boy who sees dead people
- A psychologist trying to help him
- A mother who doesn't understand
Good for you if
- you like an ending that makes you replay the whole film in your head.
- you like quiet, creeping fear.
- you like a ghost story that's really about grief.
Bad for you if
- you scare easily, especially with children in danger.
- you need momentum. It moves quietly, one session with Cole at a time.
About: grief · communication · fear
Psycho 1960
Film
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
The sides of Psycho
- A secretary on the run with stolen money
- A lonely motel
- A shower
Good for you if
- you like suspense built from a stolen envelope and a lonely motel.
- you like a film that pulls the floor away halfway.
- you like horror that relies on what you imagine.
Bad for you if
- black and white films from 1960 feel too old to you.
- you need momentum. The first act follows Marion's nervous drive, slowly, mile by mile.
About: guilt · identity · madness
Gone Girl 2014
Film
On their fifth wedding anniversary, a man's wife disappears, and as the police and the press dig in, he becomes the main suspect.
The sides of Gone Girl
- A marriage seen from both sides
- A trial on television
- A story that changes shape halfway
- Cold, precise, and darkly funny
Good for you if
- you love it when the floor drops out from under you halfway.
- you like a lead performance you can't look away from. Rosamund Pike holds every scene Amy is in.
- you like people who are hard to like.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather skip sex scenes, or you're watching with family.
- one sudden, very violent scene would ruin the evening for you.
About: marriage · lies · the media · image
Scream 1996
Film
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.
The sides of Scream
- A masked killer who calls first
- Teenagers who know horror films
- What's your favourite scary movie
Good for you if
- you like a slasher with real scares.
- you like guessing who's behind the mask.
- you like a horror film that jokes about horror films.
Bad for you if
- stabbings ruin it for you.
- you can't laugh at murder. The killer quizzes his victims on horror films over the phone.
About: genre · trauma · trust
Parasite 2019
Film
A poor family in Seoul gets hired by a rich family, one member at a time, by pretending to be people they are not.
The sides of Parasite
- Class tension that turns violent
- From comedy to horror in one scene
- A con that keeps flipping
- A family scraping by together
Good for you if
- you like laughing right up until you stop.
- you like a film that changes genre without warning.
- you like stories about the rich, the poor, and the wall between them.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles. It's in Korean.
- sudden, bloody violence ruins a film for you.
About: class · money · family · ambition
You 2018
Series
A dangerously charming, obsessive man goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of women who fascinate him.
The sides of You
- A bookstore manager who stalks women
- A voice-over from inside his head
- A glass cage in the basement
Good for you if
- you like hearing Joe justify himself in voice-over and almost agreeing.
- you like watching each of his lies come close to falling apart.
- you like laughing at Joe's inner voice judging everyone around him.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch murders up close.
- you'd rather skip sex scenes. Joe's relationships play out in bed too.
About: obsession · love · control
The Silence of the Lambs 1991
Film
A young FBI trainee asks Hannibal Lecter, an imprisoned psychiatrist and cannibal, to help her catch another serial killer who is still out there.
The sides of The Silence of the Lambs
- Conversations through the glass
- A young woman proving herself among men
- A race to save the next victim
Good for you if
- you like a performance you can't look away from, even when you want to.
- you like tension made of two people talking through a sheet of glass.
- you like a final stretch that has you holding your breath.
Bad for you if
- graphic gore ruins it for you. A few images are hard to forget.
- you can't take a story of women kidnapped and starved by a killer. One is held at the bottom of a pit in his basement.
About: fear · power · identity · ambition
Annihilation 2018
Film
A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
The sides of Annihilation
- Five scientists entering the Shimmer
- Nature mutating into something else
- A bear that screams
Good for you if
- you like science fiction that feels like a nightmare.
- you like rainbow-coloured, mutated landscapes.
- you like an ending that refuses to explain itself.
Bad for you if
- body horror and one terrifying creature are too much for you.
- you need momentum. The expedition moves slowly and quietly through the Shimmer.
About: self-destruction · change · grief
The Cabin in the Woods 2012
Film
Five friends set out for a weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, expecting nothing more than fun and relaxation. As night falls, they discover that something far more unsettling is at work and that nothing about their getaway is what it seems.
The sides of The Cabin in the Woods
- Five friends at a cabin
- Technicians watching from a control room
- Every horror monster at once
Good for you if
- you like a horror film where nothing goes the way the genre taught you.
- you like horror that's also very funny.
- you like monsters in every form.
Bad for you if
- lots of gore ruins it for you.
- you can't laugh while people are dying. Marty the stoner keeps the jokes coming as the night turns deadly.
About: genre · sacrifice · control
Hannibal 2013
Series
Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a highly respected psychiatrist – a man with a taste for the criminal minded – Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
The sides of Hannibal
- An FBI profiler who thinks like killers
- A psychiatrist who cooks his victims
- Murder scenes staged like works of art
Good for you if
- you like crime scenes composed like paintings and dinners shot like still lifes.
- you can't take your eyes off Mads Mikkelsen as Hannibal Lecter.
- you like watching Will Graham get closer to the man sitting across from him.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand corpses turned into displays.
- you want a crime show that plays like real police work.
About: manipulation · obsession · friendship · madness
Saw 2004
Film
Two men wake up to find themselves shackled in a grimy, abandoned bathroom. As they struggle to comprehend their predicament, they discover a disturbing tape left behind by the sadistic mastermind known as Jigsaw. With a chilling voice and cryptic instructions, Jigsaw informs them that they must partake in a gruesome game in order to secure their freedom.
The sides of Saw
- Two men chained in a bathroom
- A killer who plays games
- A tape recorder
Good for you if
- you like an ending that rewrites everything.
- you like a ticking clock and impossible choices.
- you like piecing together who Jigsaw is from tapes and flashbacks.
Bad for you if
- torture and gore ruin a film for you.
- you need some hope. Jigsaw's games leave almost nobody whole.
About: survival · guilt · choice