Confronted with trauma, women contain, compartmentalize, distract, and ultimately carry on— lessons learned from a society of partially blind eyes. Shannon is a mother enraptured with invisible pain. She endures in chaotic calm, cracking from the inside out. Exploring the definition of motherhood and female madness, we ask: is reckoning with female pain more dangerous than playing pretend?
The Babadook
2014
6.5/10
Antichrist
2009
6.6/10
Baby Blues
2008
6.0/10
The Surrender
2025
5.9/10
Birth/Rebirth
2023
6.5/10
The Eyes of My Mother
2016
6.2/10
Tuesday
2024
6.8/10
Bird Box
2018
6.8/10
Dorothy Mills
2008
6.0/10
Castle Freak
1996
6.1/10
Nocebo
2022
6.0/10
His House
2020
6.4/10
Midsommar
2019
7.1/10
Intruders
2015
5.9/10
Byzantium
2013
6.3/10
Southbound
2015
5.9/10
It Comes at Night
2017
5.9/10
Swallow
2020
6.6/10
Good Boy
2026
7.2/10
Repulsion
1965
7.4/10
Tomorrow is a Long Time
2021
8/10
