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“Your mother's in here, Karras. Would you like to leave a message? I'll see that she gets it.”
       ― Pazuzu, 'The Exorcist' (1973)

After combing through movie lists from IMDB to Reddit, I think I've created the most complete collection of horror movies that climb inside your skull and mess with your brains.

Some people claim that the benchmark of a true psychological horror is that the truly petrifying element is what isn't shown, not necessarily what is. But I've also included horror films that rely on the disintegration of the human psyche, and films where characters begin to lose faith in what is strictly real.

Beginner's Guide: Psychological Horror, via Film Inquiry: tinyurl.com/j2ygg5w

What Exactly Is a "Psychological" Horror Film?, via PopMatters: tinyurl.com/jlp59ue

Why 'The Shining' is the Best Psychological Horror Film Ever, via The Tangential: tinyurl.com/yb4d3yf4

Why We Crave Horror Movies (PDF), via Stephen King: tinyurl.com/pm5amx5

Common Themes in Psychological Thrillers, via The Artifice: tinyurl.com/hqgtwu5

Death, Grief & Why Horror Films Matter, via Talkhouse: tinyurl.com/yc3gsu2c

Psychological Thriller ‘Oculus’ Challenges Perceptions Of Horror Genre, via The Heights: tinyurl.com/y87eg24w

Psychological Horror in the Films of David Lynch, via film-o-holic: tinyurl.com/glgmpym

“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”
       ― Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum (2007)

What makes our lives worth living? Does free will exist? Is morality just a convenient charade? What is the nature of the human condition? Is God dead, as Friedrich Nietzsche said, or is He just really good at playing Hide & Seek?

The following films ask the "big questions", or are generally concerned with how to live one's life, believing that philosophical and psychological inquiry can help.

What is an Existential Movie?, via Existential Therapy (archived): tinyurl.com/y9afde4z

A Rookie’s Guide to the Existential Movie Magic of Ingmar Bergman, via PHOENIX Magazine: tinyurl.com/yavqaff8

What Makes Existentialism Work on Film?, via No Film School: tinyurl.com/ycm6g53j

10 Existential Films for Philosophy Students, via Philosophy in Film: tinyurl.com/y95v3dsq

5 Movies to Watch When You Have an Existential Crisis, via illuminapresto: tinyurl.com/y9bc28oh

10 Best Existential Movies of All Time, via The Cinemaholic: tinyurl.com/ybsth77g

10 Movies That Will Provoke Existential Angst, via Scene360: tinyurl.com/y96y4npf

“You maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!”
       ― George Taylor, 'Planet of the Apes', (1968)

A grim collection of films depicting global threats, dystopian societies, post-apocalyptic worlds, and the planet Earth blowing up real good.

Apocalypse Wow! Why Do We Love the End of the World So Damn Much?, via WestWord: tinyurl.com/y7gu9ykx

People Have Always Been Obsessed with the End of the World, via The Smithsonian: tinyurl.com/yc2p85bk

Our Never-Ending Obsession with the Apocalypse, via BBC Future: tinyurl.com/y9lpvae5

“I'm your number one fan. You're going to be just fine.
I will take good care of you. I'm your number one fan.”
       ― Annie Wilkes, 'Misery' (1990)

Movies, Miniseries and TV Series Based on Stories by Horror Writer Stephen King.

Stephen King Knows He’s Having a Moment, via Vanity Fair: tinyurl.com/yc9p9fhs

15 Stephen King Movies and Miniseries that Deserve Remakes, via ScreenRant: tinyurl.com/yb93a369

Every Stephen King Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best, via Vulture: tinyurl.com/y88l4usc

The 5 Creepiest Stephen King Plot Twists, via Inverse: tinyurl.com/ydckwoom

Top 30 Stephen King Movies, Ranked, via Rolling Stone: tinyurl.com/y8l9p3ls

F This Movie! has an episode entitled "All Things King" (skip to 32:00): tinyurl.com/allthingsking

Stephen King On What Hollywood Owes Authors When Their Books Become Films, via Deadline: tinyurl.com/y8o9bfoo

The 10 Best and 10 Worst Stephen King Movies, via Looper: tinyurl.com/yamt4ynq

“We know that it was us that scorched the sky.”
       ― Morpheus, 'The Matrix' (1999)

Extreme weather events, changes in global temperature levels, mass extinctions — climate change promises so many fun things. But why wait? You can see what that world will be like tomorrow, by climbing aboard the climate fiction train today.

Cli-Fi explores how the world may look in the process (or aftermath) of dealing with climate change.

Well-done Cli-Fi also has an important message to deliver – that of hope. That it's not too late; we still have time to avoid these things happening if we adapt and change.

'Interstellar', Climate Change and the Evolution of Cli-Fi Movies, via ucsusa.org: tinyurl.com/y6vho87m

The New ‘Godzilla’ Is Science Fiction — and Climate Fiction, via The Daily Signal: tinyurl.com/ycvslzbq

Cli-Fi Is the Hottest New Literary Genre, via good.is: tinyurl.com/y8krdhp5

Can Cli-Fi Actually Make a Difference? A Climate Scientist’s Perspective, via The Conversation: tinyurl.com/yarsfv4x

'mother!' and the Cli-Fi Conundrum, via Jump Cut: tinyurl.com/y8y4ceue

A Review of Cli-Fi Cinema ... Past and Present, via YCC: tinyurl.com/y9sggn2l

What Happens to Fiction When Our Worst Climate Nightmares Start Coming True?, via The Smithsonian: tinyurl.com/ycu9ukth

Darren Aronofsky Says 'mother!' Is About Climate Change, But He’s Wrong, via The New Yorker: tinyurl.com/y8gv9ppy

BBC Culture polled 253 film critics from 52 countries to determine the funniest films ever made.

What the Critics had to Say About the Top 25, via BBC Culture: tinyurl.com/y8nnn8qx

Why 'Some Like It Hot' is the Greatest Comedy Ever Made, via BBC CUlture: tinyurl.com/ybdtzkdb

Do Men and Women Find Different Films Funny?, via BBC Culture: tinyurl.com/ybqgs26q

Are These Really the 100 Greatest Comedies of All Time?, via Vanity Fair: tinyurl.com/y7lj9hu8

Film Critics Who Voted for BBC Poll Blew it, via StealingShare: tinyurl.com/yd659cgm

5 Moire Films that Should Be on the BBC’s List of Greatest Comedies, via Hypable: tinyurl.com/ybwkwuj3

“Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?”
       ― Black Phillip, 'The VVitch' (2015)

The cinematic spectre of the witch — the most prominent archetype of unruly feminine power — has been both a genuine accusation that meant a death sentence for women throughout history, as well as a dark, fanciful identity that many modern women find empowering.

This list includes both varieties, and even includes a few movies (’Firestarter’, ’Lucy’, and Disney's 'Frozen') where the word “witch” might not be spoken aloud, but supernatural feminine powers are on full display nonetheless.

Seasons of the Witch: Tracing the Resurgent Witchcraft Trend, via the AV Club: tinyurl.com/avwitch

Hag, Temptress or Feminist Icon? The Witch in Pop Culture, via The Conversation: tinyurl.com/lz67re2

Toil and Trouble: Witches in Film, via Faculty of Horror: tinyurl.com/y9ylfy5v

The 15 Greatest Witch Movies of All Time, via Vulture: tinyurl.com/y895uhlp

“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them, into the impossible.”
       ― Arthur C. Clarke

A collection of science fiction movies and television shows that attempt some degree of scientific accuracy, with technologies or scenarios that may be nonexistent in today's world but are at least realistic (if only theoretical). That is to say, they don't rely on magic or fantasy (or anything that departs significantly from mainstream theory) to propel their plot.

This is not to say that some of the line-up here don't take a few speculative leaps, but they at least begin from a place grounded in credible research and theory, from where they then develop their more extravagant premises.

Yes, listing time travel films here is a cheat, but I've only included a few, and only those that make some attempt to explain their paradoxes and/or take their temporal consequences seriously.

The Best Hard Sci-Fi Movies, via /Film: tinyurl.com/ya3mjmzl

The 11 Most Accurate Science Fiction Movies Of All Time, via ScreenRant: tinyurl.com/ybxqdvbn

Five Science Fiction Movies that Get the Science Right, via New Scientist: tinyurl.com/y7xmpgdw

“At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes — an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counter-intuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.”
       ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World (1975)

This list represents a growing collection of documentaries in need of a good debunking.

This is a controversial list, and there will likely be entries here that you disagree with. But, before you hit 'ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴇɴᴛ' to post a lengthy manifesto that I probably won't read, try looking up the film in question on rationalwiki.org, or Google it, followed by the words 'debunked' or 'fact checked'.

And if you still disagree, that's cool. If it makes you feel better, I actually have a film on here that I mostly agree with ('The Magic Pill'), but [1] it's been heavily criticized by the Australian Medical Association, [2] it makes some bold claims and [3] it doesn't do a good enough job of defending its position with current nutritional science, so I've listed it here.

Netflix Is The Last Place You'll Find A Pro-Science Documentary, via the ACSH: tinyurl.com/yby3losn

Watching a Documentary Does Not (Necessarily) Make You Smart, via jordandetmers: tinyurl.com/yck2lbpo

Notes on Bad Documentaries (Or, Can a Documentary Be So Bad It’s Good?), via Filmmaker: tinyurl.com/ya8vovrg

Streaming Services Have a Conspiracy Theory Problem, via Slate: tinyurl.com/y8oth75p

Doc or Crock: 6 Recent “Documentaries” Accused of Being Fake, via the AV Club: tinyurl.com/y9kvvvg9

There Is Almost No Good Science in the Movie 'What the Health', via Vice: tinyurl.com/y8p4tse3

That *#^% Sugar Film, via Slate: tinyurl.com/oyld5rm

6 Famous Documentaries That Were Shockingly Full of Crap, via Cracked: tinyurl.com/ly8o495

Debunking 'What the Bleep Do We Know', etc., via LudicFallacies: tinyurl.com/yc9zrlza

'Forks Over Knives', is the Science Legit?, via Denise Minger: tinyurl.com/zwjvvwc

Unfairenheit 9/11, The Lies of Michael Moore, via Slate: tinyurl.com/88tbrq5

Correcting the 'Fed Up' Record, via foodinsight.org: tinyurl.com/yczcaemr