I think that bleaching has more effect on the lighter parts than on the darker parts. Like in Minority Report, where everything gets a kind of blueish tint, bleak, but still wit strong shadows and contrasts. These days it is all done digitally and that should be easily replicated in PS. In this example I first dit an automatic level correction and then only moved the middle triangle of the Adjustment Layer to the left. To blow out the middle part of the spectrum. The whites are easily blown out too much, creating 'holes' in the image. After that I stacked a color/saturation AL, where I decreased the saturation to -75 and moved the color slider towards a little greenish tint. On top of that another levels AL to give the dark parts a bit of an extra kick in their behinds. As you see, I put an extra copy of Layer 0 on Layer 0, blurred it 10 pts Gaussian and tried some layer blend modes and opacities, to get the light colors to glow a little. As I haven't seen Fear Dot Com, nor Dreamcatcher I don't know if this look approximates what you mean aprilgem, but I think with these layers you can try for yourself if something suits you. The adjustment layers are great for this, because you can toggle them on and off and even try different layer blends with them. Try to set the Levels AL on 'lighten', who can predict what happens?