And then there are those who like to escape the pressures of life during enforced isolation by watching incredible graphic and often upsetting films about global pandemics. In our moment of crisis, we're turning for comfort to the very subject that has set the world head-over-heels. People have also rediscovered the 2013 Brad Pitt vs zombie plague flick World War Z and the thematically once removed Terry Gilliam curio from 1995, 12 Monkeys (also starring Pitt). Were you similarly aware that the Resident Evil films were actually about a lethal virus that grinds civilisation beneath its heel? The truth - counter-intuitive though it may seem - is that these dark and distressing films bring a degree of solace.

Source: Irish Independent April 15, 2020 01:30 UTC