5º – Scanners (David Cronenberg, 1981)
The plot will tell the story of a group of people endowed with special powers, called “scanners”, capable of causing irreparable damage to the environment in which they live, as well as to themselves. The story will take shape when a group of scientists discovers that a “scanner” is out of control and a wave of murders has begun. Thus, in view of this man’s unusual power, scientists find themselves with the only option of recruiting another “scanner”, no less disturbed, to try to prevent the wave of destruction caused by the other individual.
4º – Pulse (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2001)
A masterpiece of terror belonging to Japanese cinema, ‘Pulse’ is a trip to the darkest part of the relationship between man and technology. A film with a vivid and macabre atmosphere rarely found in the genre. Here, Kiyoshi Kurosawa prefers to build a terror that arises from the loneliness and isolation of his characters, avoiding as much as possible “jump scares” or situations with a superficial exposure of the genre. An indispensable work for the lover of terror.
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