10 Best Horror Movies Set In A Cinema
2. Anguish
"During the film you are about to see, you will be subject to subliminal messages and mild hypnosis."
To put your nerves on edge, that's the message you're greeted with when watching 1987's Anguish. Immediately after that, you're told to watch your surroundings and do not speak to any strangers - all adding further to the intrigue and dread of what's about to be served up on the screen.
Whereas some of the movies featured here revolve around films within a film, Anguish manages to go one better and deliver a story that's a film within a film within a film.
Anguish opens with some moviegoers at The Rex watching a feature called The Mommy. Starring Poltergeist's Zelda Rubinstein, The Mommy focusses on a mother who hypnotizes her partially blind son into going out and removing people's eyes with a scalpel.
As our protagonists watch The Mommy, the events of the picture begin to be mirrored in the movie theater - all culminating in a police shootout!
One of the survivors of this trauma, Patty, is taken to hospital, where she is soon visited by John, a man shot dead by the police after killing several people during the screening of The Mommy.
From there, though, the camera pans out to reveal that the antics of Patty, John and the rest of The Mommy's audience were all part of another movie, before Anguish then rolls its credits.