Are you fed up with stupid comedies and romantic melodramas for teenagers? Do you want real trash, and even so that your brains can be broken?
It's time to pump up a series of psychological thrillers about a split personality, where you can go with the main character through all the thorns of knowing yourself and the world as a whole.
Such films are good because you don’t fully understand who the “black figure” is. On screens, a character can subconsciously change several times, become his own alterago or antagonist, giving the dramatic nature of the story.
In some cases, the hero is worked out so deeply that the film leaves behind a very mixed impression and a desire to reflect on his own life.
Today we give 10 of the most interesting and emotionally rich thrillers about the splitting of the personality of the protagonist. Carefully, there will be spoilers!
10. Identification | 2003
The story tells how eleven strangers find themselves in a strange roadside motel on a dark, rainy night. According to the classics of the genre, they begin to die one by one, and the villain, of course, is unknown.
What is good about this movie? Firstly, he really keeps in suspense to the very end. Secondly, it is far from accidental that such different personalities were gathered together in one motel ...
Warning spoiler! All that we see on the screen is the hallucination of a psychopath who is awaiting the death penalty for atrocities. The characters of the film are the personalities of the protagonist, whom he is trying to get rid of.
9. Island of the Damned | 2010
The story unfolds in America in the mid-50s of the last century. On one of the islands there is a clinic for especially dangerous repeat offenders, who also have mental disorders.
To work on a mysterious case, a bailiff arrives at the hospital with a partner - they are called upon to find a crazy serial maniac.
Detectives do not immediately realize that something is going wrong on the ground, despite the hurricane, the riot of insane and the cunning web of lies.
8. The story of two sisters | 2003
Koreans know how to make sad and gloomy films, so the thriller about the split personality was a success. A horror story with psychological notes tells about a teenager who returns to her native land from psychiatry.
The girl is oppressed by a difficult relationship with her stepmother, and even ghosts are visited periodically. Toward the end of the film, the viewer realizes that most of the events are just hallucinations of the girl.
We recommend that you pay attention to the American remake of this film called "Uninvited" - a very good alternative with a similar plot.
7. Pisaka | 2014
In the frame we see the girl Perb, who was discharged from a psychiatric hospital and sent to the medical building to complete the treatment. There, she will forever get rid of side character personalities.
But after the arrival of the heroine, events begin to unfold rigidly - the staff dies like flies in very strange circumstances.
6. The enemy | 2013
The man obeyed a colleague and rented a movie for the evening. And here he is surprised to find in the frame of the actor, who is apparently his double, only a few years younger.
The hero has an obsessive desire to find his copy, however, fruitless searches for a long time lead to nothing. And then mystical events begin to unfold around the character, and the psyche plunges into a real obsession.
5. Secret window | 2004
Want to see Joni Depp with a split personality - then this movie is for you. In the center of the picture is the writer Mort, who has come a series of failures: there is no inspiration, apathy and hopelessness at the monitor, and even his wife abandoned.
And then one day a stranger knocked on the door, who accused Mort of plagiarism. So outside the city near the warm sea, the writer is trying to get to the truth and convince the secret guest that he did not steal the idea.
After another stranger leaves, the books suddenly disappear. The film was shot on the novel by Stephen King, so we definitely recommend it for viewing.
4. The black swan | 2010
One of Nina’s ballet dancers always lacked strength of character, and then suddenly she had the chance to become the prima of Swan Lake, where she would have to express all her passion.
Life gives the girl a choice - is she ready to completely transform her personality in order to reach the cherished height? Yes, there’s also a rival turning up - a new dancer.
And while the main character teaches the cherished party of the White Swan, the sworn girlfriend is trying to draw her into a strange and dangerous game by her own rules.
But isn’t the newcomer dancer alter ego tucked up by Nina?
3. Double | 2013
We meet a modest clerk Sayman, an inconspicuous employee who can not attract the attention of his girlfriend.
It would seem that Simon’s life was stuck at one point, but then suddenly his exact counterpart James came to the company, only his character was completely opposite. The guy is charming, confident in himself - in a word, a real playboy!
And Simon suddenly begins to celebrate how the newcomer, day after day, appropriates his life, dreams and achievements. Or ... Or is he losing his mind?
2. Psycho | 1960
If you want to see an aging, but solid film-maker, then you will definitely have to pay off the psychological thriller. The main character, Norman, was even created from a real maniac, the so-called “Playfield vampire."
So, the hero of the film cannot get rid of maternal instructions even years after he killed her.
His consciousness split, and the second person began to portray Mama: to put on clothes, scolding the habit of his son, jealous and even kill. It is interesting to observe how one person in the role of a mother is jealous of another, filial, and all within the framework of one body!
1. Fight Club | 1999
Someone sees Fight Club as a good action movie with handsome Pitt. Other people delightedly enjoy the plot, where the personality of the protagonist is presented in the form of two (of which Norton and Pitt played).
At the climax, the viewer realizes that the extremist Tyler Durden is an alternative to the ego of the main character, and all the fights and conversations took place in the head.
Here we have such a crazy review - it's time to hit the supermarket for popcorn and start evaluating the pictures from the collection.