Hide Under the Covers: A Goth-Coded Psychological Thriller Watchlist
Fourteen films designed to unsettle the mind
By: The Lace Ledger Staff
National Cuddle Up Day (January 6) does not necessarily require sweetness. It asks for closeness, lowered lights and something unsettling enough to make you pull the blankets higher.
Psychological thrillers thrive in this space.
They trade jump scares for tension, spectacle for intimacy, comfort for proximity; these are films that crawl under the skin slowly.
End of Days, With Flair: Apocalypse-Inspired Viewing
This isn’t just “end times TV” — it’s a mirror for our anxieties, a guide to surviving with wit, art, and maybe a splash of eyeliner in the ash.
The end of the world is never just about ash and ruin — it’s about what endures when everything else is stripped away. Apocalypse stories are reflections of humanity as a collective with feet held to the fire. What’s revealed? The tenderness that blooms in collapse, the betrayals that rot beneath bunkers, the fragile hope stitched into hunger.
Whether told with mushrooms, meteors or men drunk on power, these tales remind us that survival is never only physical — it is emotional, intimate and terrifyingly human.