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Thecoronavirushas officially forced much of the world into voluntary or involuntary quarantine.
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The population of nearly 1 million are suddenly in danger of being wiped out en masse.
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and infected with a deadly pathogen.
The train is also speeding toward an unstable bridge, but no one on board is being allowed off.
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Pontypool
The strength ofPontypoolis its limited scope.
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Director Elia Kazan, himself the child of Greek immigrants, films the drama with compassion and complexity.
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The contagion has gone beyond the farmhouse of the first film, and its taking over the entire U.S. (Available on iTunes and Amazon Prime.)
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(Theyre not zombiesexactly; theyre just reallypissed off.)
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Its for your sad dad feelings.
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But can anyone ever really trust happiness in the postapocalypse?
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For your thinkier art-house undead fans.
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Theres … a lot of metaphor, and also Ellen Page.
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Its a zombie movie, but its also a family movie.
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Virus(1980)
Virusis a Japanese movie that goes where more contagion movies should: Antarctica.
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Ewan McGregor plays a philandering chef and Eva Green the beautiful epidemiologist who lives next door to his restaurant.
As they fall for each other, they go through these surges of emotion.
Its a romantic tragedy, and the weirdly understated quality of the pandemic certainly resonates today.
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As fear and illness slowly grip Venice, the protagonists obsession pulls him closer and closer toward death.
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The results are mind-alteringly great.
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Season of the Witch
Shut up, its good.
Transport the witch responsible (Claire Foy) to stand trial.
Things dont go as planned.
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The story may be symbolic, but the tension throughout the film is still immensely powerful.
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The flu becomes a metaphor for the loss of innocence and the indifference of fate.
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The moral rot of the aristocratic milieu inevitably gives way to apocalyptic grotesquerie.
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And oh, boy, is he right!
Welcome your pod overlords.
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Pandemic Comedies!
Its a love story.
Its Nathan Fillion and Elizabeth Banks and Michael Rooker having a great time with friends.
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It is also, however, a heartbreaking story of friendship and love and loss.
So get ready to sing, but also to cry.
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Lots of blood and Roths signature coarse humor.
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Thats what happens in the appropriately titledBlindness.
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I Drink Your Blood
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The people they feed on then become infected.
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Those who are infected become violent and sex-crazed, passing along the parasite like an STD.
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And yes, it involves hideous worm-like parasites that start bursting out of bodies.
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The American remakeQuarantineis, surprisingly, also extremely good.
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Mom and Dad
In this bombastic action-horror movie, the contagion isnt making people zombies.
Its driving every single parent to kill their own children.
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This was the first of Fords films to be nominated for Best Picture.
Faust
This 1926 classic from filmmaker F.W.
Murnau is one of the great early horror films.
To save his home, Faust makes a bargain with Mephisto, whose goal is dominion over the earth.
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