Highest-Rated Movies about 'Mass Hysteria', Sort by Popularity

The Day After (1983), South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), Just Ask My Children (2001), Panic in Year Zero (1962), War of the Worlds (2005), The Witches of Salem (1957) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Mass Hysteria movies.

#2. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)

Storyline: When four boys in South Park Stan Marsh, Kyle and his stepbrother Ike Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick sees an R-rated movie featuring Canadians "Terrance & Phillip: Asses of Fire", they are pronounced "corrupted", and Kyle's mom Sheila with the rest of the parents pressure the United States to wage war against Canada for World War 3! It's all up to Stan, Kyle and Cartman to save Terrence and Phillip before Satan and his lover Saddam Hussein from Hell rules the world and it'll be the end of the whole world.

Plot Keywords: boy, satan, saddam hussein, parent, tv personality, activist, hilarious ...

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#3. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

Storyline: Jean-Baptiste Grenouille (Ben Whishaw) came into the world unwanted, expected to die, yet born with an unnerving sense of smell that created alienation, as well as talent. Of all of the smells around him, Grenouille is beckoned to the scent of a woman's soul, and spends the rest of his life attempting to smell her essence again by becoming a perfumer, and creating the essence of an innocence lost.

Plot Keywords: business owner, boy, suspenseful, passionate, france, obsession, mass hysteria ...

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#4. In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

Storyline: With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to investigate Cane's mysterious vanishing act and ends up in the sleepy little East Coast town of Hobb's End. The fact that this town exists as a figment of Cane's twisted imagination is only the beginning of Trent's problems.

Plot Keywords: insurance investigator, publisher, writer, editor, mutant, doctor, brutal ...

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#5. Just Ask My Children (2001)

Storyline: Brenda Kniffen (Virginia Madsen) and her husband, Scott (Jeffrey Nordling), are accused of abusing their two young boys. It's a false accusation made by someone with a grudge against the family, and there is no proof to the claim. But that doesn't stop overeager prosecutor Andrew Gindes (John Billingsley) from getting the couple convicted and sentenced to life in prison. From behind bars, the couple fights for over a decade to prove their innocence and reunite their family.

Plot Keywords: father, mother, son, prosecutor, victim, brother, disturbing ...

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#6. Panic in Year Zero (1962)

Storyline: While on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin (Ray Milland) and his family hear an immense explosion and realise the awful truth; Los Angeles has been leveled by a nuclear attack. Mayhem and madness are everywhere. Escaping to the hills with his family, he sets about the business of surviving in a world where, he knows, the old ideals of humanity will be its first casualties. Not one to give up, Harry doors things to make sure his family has a chance at surviving.—alfiehitchie

Plot Keywords: father, mother, teen boy, teen girl, storekeeper, chilling, dark ...

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#7. War of the Worlds (2005)

Storyline: An ordinary man has to protect his children against alien invaders in this science fiction action film freely adapted from the classic story by H.G. Wells. Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) is a dockworker living in New Jersey, divorced from his first wife Mary Ann (Miranda Otto) and estranged from his two children Rachel and Robbie (Dakota Fanning and Justin Chatwin), of whom he has custody on weekends. On one such visitation, looking after the kids becomes a little more difficult when, after a series of strange lighting storms hit his neighborhood, Ray discovers that a fleet of death-ray robotic spaceships have emerged nearby, part of the first wave of an all-out alien invasion of the Earth. Transporting his children from New York to Boston in an attempt to find safety at Mary Ann's parents' house, Ray must learn to become the protector and provider he never was in marriage.

Plot Keywords: dockworker, son, daughter, ex-wife, alien, soldier, intense ...

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#10. Konga (1961)

Storyline: Dr.Decker comes back from Africa after a year, presumed dead. During that year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test out his theory. As he has many enemies at home, he decides to use his chimp, 'Konga' to 'get rid of them'. Then Konga grows to gigantic proportions and reaks havoc all over the city of London!!—Graeme Huggan <hia95gh@sheffield.ac.uk>

Plot Keywords: gorilla, monster, botanist, mad scientist, chimpanzee, professor, incredible ...

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