![]() ![]() The movie that turned a micro-generation into hypochondriacs, Outbreak is about a fictional California town that is entirely quarantined when it becomes ground zero for an Ebola–like outbreak in the U.S. It might seem crazy, but as Vulture’s Kathryn VanArendonk writes, “this current pandemic crisis makes me terrified, and a story about exactly that same thing is one way to grapple with that fear.” In that spirit, Vulture has assembled a list of contagion movies you can watch to either ease your worries or willfully exacerbate them, broken down by category for ease of use: ![]() While some viewers are coping by watching escapist fantasies and absurdist reality TV, others are turning to a more dystopian alternative: movies about pandemics. Confined to the relative comforts of our own homes, isolated individuals are turning to their streaming services for some iota of connection in a socially distanced world. The coronavirus has officially forced much of the world into voluntary or involuntary quarantine. ![]() This list has been periodically updated to include new titles. Photo: Overture Films/Kobal/Shutterstoc/Overture Films/Kobal/Shutterstoc Welcome To Leith charts the increasingly fraught confrontations between Cobb and his cronies – who rarely left their houses without packing multiple firearms – and the locals, who turned out to be tougher to intimidate than Cobb anticipated. Needless to say, things got tense and by the end of the experiment certain buildings in Leith were reduced to charred ruins. That’s exactly what happened in Leith, North Dakota, in 2012, when a white supremacist named Craig Cobb tried to build an artificial majority in the tiny town, whose population is somewhere between 15 and 20 people. But the second is to simply find enough people who think the same way as you and buy up as much property as you can in a town small enough that you can outvote the other residents, moving there en masse to take over the legislature in the process. ![]() How do you set up a neo-Nazi state? According to Welcome To Leith, there are two options: the first is through the traditional method of election through populist gaslighting, attacks on truth and the media and stoking racial divisions. ![]()
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