A24 is bringing its most stressful movies to IMAX

IMAX, the motion picture format that causes smartwatches across these United States to alert wearers to that watching Dune: Part Two is damaging their ears, will soon host monthly group panic attacks thanks to A24. The movie studio that’s gone from indie darling to Best Picture winner is kicking off a series of monthly IMAX screenings. The first three pictures getting the big old screen treatment will surely give heart palpitations: Ex Machina, Hereditary, and Uncut Gems.

The first in the series, Ex Machina, will be released on March 27 for one night only on 300 IMAX screens in the U.S. and even a few outside the country. This first release will serve as a bit of promotion for director Alex Garland’s latest for A24, Civil War. Screenings of Ex Machina, which Garland also directed, will include an exclusive first look at Civil War, which opens April 12.

Over the next two months, A24 will ratchet up the tension for those willing to subject themselves to watching Ari Aster’s Hereditary and the Safdie Brothers’ Uncut Gems on such a big screen with such loud speakers. Hereditary opens on April 24 and Uncut Gems on May 2. So, for those looking to watch some decapitations or see Adele Dazeem Idina Manzel tell Adam Sander that he’s “the most annoying person I have ever met. I hate being with you. I hate looking at you” on the largest screen possible can do so.

The program will run over the next year with A24 pulling heaters from their library of 140 features. Will there be some deep cuts in there? Maybe Under The Silver Lake or even the quiet serenity of First Cow will get runs. Or, perhaps the studio can do a misery month and re-release The Whale and First Reformed. The possibilities are endless.