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hearttstopper · 4 years

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Do you have recs for psychological thriller films?

Hi! Sorry this took me a minute, I drafted it to come back to it and forgot about it. But here are some of my fav psych thrillers under the cut :)

(I’d like to quickly preface this rec list by saying that psychological thrillers don’t always equal horror movies. I saw some people saying that they think they’ll skip Don’t Worry Darling as they’re not fans of ‘horror’ movies and as a big fan of psychological thrillers, & I think that’s a really sad reason to skip a movie :( I’m not big on scary movies either, so I don’t think it’s fair to write off all psychological thrillers as horror movies. Usually psychological thrillers focus more on internal struggles that the characters face - death, purpose, reality, etc. Psych. thrillers can have elements of horror, sci-fi, drama, comedy, etc. etc - there’s tons of crossover in this genre - but overall I’d say that the aim of a psych. thriller is to keep you on your toes and thrill you, not horrify you like an outright horror movie does. Just something that bothered me when I was seeing initial fan reactions - hopefully some people will reconsider!!)

Donnie Darko: After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.

Se7en: Two homicide detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.

Gone Girl: With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

Silence of the Lambs: A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.

Us: A family's serene beach vacation turns to chaos when their doppelgängers appear and begin to terrorize them.

The Sixth Sense: A boy who communicates with spirits seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.

Zodiac: In the late 1960s/early 1970s, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.

Inception: A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O.

Shutter Island: In 1954, a U.S. Marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderer who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane.

Mulholland Drive: After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.

Requiem For a Dream: The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep. (More of a psychological drama - horrifying, but not outright horror.)

Nightcrawler: When Louis Bloom, a con man desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story.

10 Cloverfield Lane: After getting in a car accident, a woman is held in a shelter with two men, who claim the outside world is affected by a widespread chemical attack.

Black Swan: A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake".

Invasion of the Body Snatchers: When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, California, where they replicate the residents into emotionless automatons one body at a time.

Signs: A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.

One Hour Photo: A mentally unstable photo developer targets a middle-class family after his obsession with them becomes more sick and disturbing than any of them could imagine.

The Shining: A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.

Disturbia: A teen living under house arrest becomes convinced his neighbor is a serial killer. To Catch a Thief: A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation.

The Burbs: An overstressed suburbanite and his neighbors are convinced that the new family on the block are part of a murderous Satanic cult. (More of a bizarre comedy with horror undertones, but I still love it so... watch it.)

#like i said earlier there's tons of crossover here... so some are 'scarier' than others while some are more drama / comedy / mystery etc.#:)#answered

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