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From Beyond (1986)
6.6/10on IMDb
Released
Watch researchers try a device that lets people perceive things they were never able to see. The discovery matters because the things revealed can react. Choose this for lurid laboratory horror built around how badly the researchers misunderstand what turning the machine on will do.
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The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
4.6/10on IMDb
Released
Watch a shipwreck survivor arrive at an island where a scientist is trying to force animals into human form and behavior. The rules that are supposed to hold the community together start giving way. Choose this for the stretch where the visitor realizes what he’s walked into.
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Possessor (2020)
6.5/10on IMDb
Released
Choose this for a thriller in which a technology that seems proven stops working as its operator expects. An assassin takes over another person’s body, then finds her control slipping. The first-person confusion and graphic violence make the loss of control feel immediate.
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Videodrome (1983)
7.2/10on IMDb
Released
A cable programmer tries to find the source of a broadcast that seems to change the people who watch it. The closer he gets to whoever is behind the signal, the less he trusts what he sees. Choose this for media paranoia that turns into body horror.
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The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
7.0/10on IMDb
Released
Follow a team’s simulated 1930s Los Angeles after a colleague’s death gives someone a reason to look more carefully at the system. If you want a puzzle, try tracking which clues can cross between the simulation and the room that runs it.
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eXistenZ (1999)
6.8/10on IMDb
Released
Watch a game designer and a security worker test an immersive game while they’re on the run. The longer you spend with them, the less dependable the usual signals that say a game has started or ended become. Try this for a deliberately slippery puzzle with tactile body horror.
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Brainstorm (1983)
6.4/10on IMDb
Released
Watch a research team record experiences that another person can play back. The test works well enough that the pressure shifts to who gets access to the recordings and what an experience can do to someone who didn’t live it. Choose this for a speculative technology thriller.
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The Jacket (2005)
7.1/10on IMDb
Released
Follow a veteran subjected to a disturbing treatment in a psychiatric hospital. He begins experiencing a future in which he can ask questions about what happens to him. Pick this for the uneasy shift between institutional dread and a puzzle about what he can change.
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Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
5.9/10on IMDb
Released
Watch a young woman kept under observation at a retreat that advertises a better state of mind. Her efforts to find a way out give the film its forward pull. Choose it when you want slow, uncomfortable atmosphere and the sense of a facility running according to one man’s private rules.
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A Cure for Wellness (2017)
6.4/10on IMDb
Released
Follow a visitor at an isolated wellness clinic who starts asking what the treatment is actually doing. The staff have an explanation for every symptom, which makes the most ordinary procedures feel threatening. Try this for Gothic dread and the gradual discovery of what’s being tested.
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X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
6.6/10on IMDb
Released
Watch a doctor test an experimental treatment that lets him see through things. The breakthrough gets frightening when he can no longer decide what he wants to look past. Choose this for a short psychological thriller built around increasingly strange points of view.
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Subject Two (2006)
5.4/10on IMDb
Released
Choose this for a smaller experiment in returning someone from the dead. A medical student volunteers at a remote cabin, where each revival leaves more room to ask what counts as a success. The isolation keeps the tension close to the researcher and his subject.
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The Lazarus Effect (2015)
5.2/10on IMDb
Released
Watch a group of medical researchers try the revival technique they’ve been testing after one of their own dies. When she comes back changed, the practical escape problem takes over quickly. Pick this if you want a medical premise that becomes a straight horror film.
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The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)
6.1/10on IMDb
Released
Watch two sailors thrown out of their own time by a Navy experiment meant to hide a ship. The project comes to you through its effects on the people caught inside it, giving the movie the pace of a chase with a puzzle about getting home.
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Scanners (1981)
6.7/10on IMDb
Released
Start with a corporate effort to identify and control people with powerful telepathic abilities. A company recruits a scanner to find a rival, and the pursuit gradually turns up reasons to question where the abilities came from. Pick this for conspiracy and graphic body horror.
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The Quiet Earth (1985)
6.7/10on IMDb
Released
Follow a scientist who wakes up alone and suspects the project he worked on has altered the world. With most of the people who ran the test gone, the search for an explanation has an eerie stillness. The tension rises as he finds other people with their own explanations.
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Self/less (2015)
6.5/10on IMDb
Released
Follow a dying man who accepts a procedure promising a younger body and a fresh start. The unfamiliar memories that follow send him looking for what the company left out of the offer. Choose this if you want a medical mystery that breaks into pursuit and action.
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Replicas (2018)
5.5/10on IMDb
Released
Watch a researcher push his work further after his family dies and try to bring them back before anyone notices. His attempts to keep the restored family functioning turn technical gaps into domestic ones. Pick this for a fast thriller about choosing what to reveal.
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Transcendence (2014)
6.2/10on IMDb
Released
Start with a bid to preserve a dying scientist’s mind in a computer. The apparent success gives his wife reasons to keep the project going even as other people see what an increasingly powerful system can do. Choose this for a large-scale argument about who gets to stop a test.
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The Signal (2014)
6.0/10on IMDb
Released
Watch three students follow a hacker’s lead and wind up separated after an encounter in the desert. One wakes in a test facility with a researcher who won’t give him straight answers. Pick this if you want to start the experiment from the point of view of someone trapped inside it.
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The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
5.5/10on IMDb
Released
Follow a space-station crew operating an experimental machine intended to help with a global energy shortage. When they run the test, the station’s surroundings and interiors stop behaving as expected. Look here for quick, physical scares in a setting with few exits.
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