Bonus points if it is also from 2018
The Signalworks for the theme of sound being the danger but the poster doesn't visually.
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I love this movie. It's rough and a little odd, but that adds to its charm. Plus I'm a fan of the final showdown at the end, how the guy twists reality for the other one. It's pretty cool.
I don't think this quite fits. We need "the act of hearing brings on evil"
Came here to say this one.
This episode of love death and robots
Also the Cthulhu one, In His Halls something.
This was a very dynamic and hypnotic episode.... Fantastic reference!
Cognitohazards my beloved
I didn't even know this genre had a name
Do you treat the words cognitohazard and infohazard as synonymous or not? And if not, how does one differentiate them?
At least, the way I personally define them,
An infohazard is anything that is dangerous to know. This covers a lot of fantastical cases, but it also covers much more mundane things such as knowing privileged information that someone doesn't want you to share.
A cognitohazard is something that will actively interfere in your functions because you know it. All cognitohazards are infohazards but not all infohazards are cognitohazards. Simply knowing a touchy secret isn't going to eat your mind away from the inside out, but some sort of information-based entity might.
there's Cell (2016) starring Nic Cage and Samuel L Jackson, based on a Stephen King book, where people turn into zombies after hearing a signal secretly embedded into cell phone networks
John Cusack, not Nic Cage unfortunately. (I like John Cusack too though)
The Whistle. Sadly, from 2025 not 2018. But anyone who hears the whistle blow, dies.
Not a great movie per se but it's efficient and goddamn, some of the kills were an absolute blast.
Hot skulls is based around a contagion that makes people delirious. If you hear an infected person speaking, you become infected as well so everyone walks around with headphones on outside.
I would guess pontypool
The Game
Every movie in which someone fires a gun indoors without ear protection
Truth or Dare involves speaking.
I think they're looking for one where listening is the evil.
Yep. In Bird Box, the Monsters get you when you look at them. In A Quiet Place, when you speak (or make any other sound). So I'm looking for a Monster that gets you when you hear it.
Not a horror movie, and I have not seen it to verify, but the Odyssey should have sirens in it.
It does, but that's only like five minutes tops.
That movie certainly felt horror at times. Was really well done
So the monster can somehow sense people hearing it? Seems like a weird premise.
Not much weirder than Bird Box. In it, you receive an immediate urge to kill yourself from seeing the monster. Something like this would work just as well for hearing it. Some have already mentioned sirens in this thread, which also fit well.
Could be something Lovecraftian. Whispers in the dark that are always there, but only detectable by a select few until yadda yadda. Event Horizon comes to mind.
That's where my mind went, I just couldn't think of any titles myself.
A quiet place?