Films that Need to be Watched Twice
We all know those weird twisty films that we can't grasp the first time through. Go back and watch these again with some handy tips. Spoiler alerts area running through here. Sorry guys.
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- DirectorDavid LynchStarsNaomi WattsLaura HarringJustin TherouxAfter a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.Directed by David Lynch (the world's reigning king of weird) this psychological and possibly supernatural thriller features bizarre dream states, sexual experimentation, amnesia and a host of strange characters. Strange monsters living behind diners, adulterous wives and ancient studio owners who watch it all through a window. This film is like Vertigo in that 3/4s of the way through, one character becomes another with disastrous results leading to suicide.
- DirectorRichard KellyStarsJake GyllenhaalJena MaloneMary McDonnellAfter 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.This psychological horror/sci-fi piece illustrates the mind of a troubled youth as he is guided to the apocalypse by strange signs and horrifying visions of "Frank" a man in a terrifying bunny suit.
- DirectorJames WanStarsCary ElwesLeigh WhannellDanny GloverTwo strangers awaken in a room with no recollection of how they got there, and soon discover they're pawns in a deadly game perpetrated by a notorious serial killer.A film told mostly through flashbacks as two men (in a Sartre-esque) fashion are locked in a room, blatantly lie to one another and perform horrifying acts of self mutilation to gain freedom. In the end of course, everything we thought we knew has been irrelevant as the KEY to freedom was gone from the beginning.
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsJack NicholsonShelley DuvallDanny LloydA 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.True, it is a horror film, but it's deeper than you think, featuring a strange paradox about unresolved events which will occur over and over until resolved.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsLeonardo DiCaprioEmily MortimerMark RuffaloTeddy Daniels and Chuck Aule, two US marshals, are sent to an asylum on a remote island in order to investigate the disappearance of a patient, where Teddy uncovers a shocking truth about the place.Based on the novel by Dennis Lehane, this Poe-esque, neo-gothic, psychological thriller features strange delusional visions and strange codes left by a madman as two federal agents investigate a strange mental hospital where signs everywhere point to Nazi experimentation. Of course, one of them may just be losing his mind.
- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsChristian BaleHugh JackmanScarlett JohanssonAfter a tragic accident, two stage magicians in 1890s London engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other.This strange historical fantasy thriller, set in Victorian England centers of two magicians and their inner circle of friends and family, as one embarks on an obsessive quest for revenge after the other leads to the death of his wife.
- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsJeremy TheobaldAlex HawLucy RussellA young writer who follows strangers for material meets a thief who takes him under his wing.This debut neo-noir psychological thriller by Christopher Nolan features a young would-be writer caught up in a manipulative web of voyeurism and mafia induced murder. In the end though, he may just be a pawn to be set up for murder.
- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsGuy PearceCarrie-Anne MossJoe PantolianoA man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer.A strange psychological thriller, told through flashbacks focuses on a man who cannot create new memories searching for the killer of his wife, and vengeance. Of course, he's not who he thinks he is, either.
- DirectorM. Night ShyamalanStarsBruce WillisHaley Joel OsmentToni ColletteMalcolm Crowe, a child psychologist, starts treating a young boy, Cole, who encounters dead people and convinces him to help them. In turn, Cole helps Malcolm reconcile with his estranged wife.If you don't already know the twist behind this one, I'll have to spoil it for you. In this horror/mystery movie directed by M. Night Shyamalan features a young and mentally ill and reluctant medium, his therapist and his over stressed working class single mother. In the end of course, one of the ghosts this boy sees, is the ghost of his own therapist, gunned down by an ex-patient almost a year before.
- DirectorBryan SingerStarsKevin SpaceyGabriel ByrneChazz PalminteriThe sole survivor of a pier shoot-out tells the story of how a notorious criminal influenced the events that began with five criminals meeting in a seemingly random police lineup."The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist," and so begins to story of a crippled man, the lone survivor of a ship explosion caused by a master criminal. In the end, we find out that this crippled man may not be the fool we think he is, and he pulls one over on the feds.