This genre seeks evidence and answers to long-standing mysteries. We’ve put together a list of the top ten shock docs available on Discovery+ that will satiate even the most avid preternatural audience.
Things didn t exactly end well the first time around. Audiences emerged from cinemas ashen-faced, some people even fainted or vomited. Others insisted they had wanted to leave but had been too scared to move. Watching The Exorcist, the quintessential horror film, was blamed for heart attacks and miscarriages.
In Britain, local councils banned screenings, prompting travel companies to offer Exorcist bus trips to cinemas where it was showing. In the U.S., some movie theatres reportedly proffered sick bags and offered paramedic assistance.
This was all part of the hype that made the 1973 chiller into a global box-office sensation: The biggest thing to hit the industry since Mary Pickford, popcorn, pornography and The Godfather, as a New York Times critic put it at the time.
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The docuseries
“The People v. the Klan” tells the story of a Black mother’s quest for justice following the lynching of her teenage son in Mobile, Ala., in 1981. 6 and 7 p.m. CNN
Oscar winner Mark Rylance (“Bridge of Spies”) discusses his grandfather’s time as a POW in the Pacific theater during WWII on a new episode of
“My Grandparents’ War.” 8 p.m. KOCE
A new mother wants her baby back, baby back, baby back in the thriller
“Beware of the Midwife.” With Mouna Traoré and Raven Dauda. 8 p.m. Lifetime
Advertisement “The British Academy Film Awards 2021,” a.k.a. the BAFTAs. 9 p.m. BBC America