Psychological Thrillers
Mind-Boggling Thrillers of the 21st Century
Opening Film
Directed by: Rowen Joffe
"It isn't Hitchcock, but it will do." -Tom Long
36% - Rotten Tomatoes
Das Experiment (2001)
"Never has there been such a chilling portrait of the human psyche." - Felix Vasquez Jr.
72% - Rotten Tomatoes
Jacob's Ladder (1990)
"As long as the movie refuses to commit itself, it is a truly creepy, nerve-jangling experience." - Dave Kehr
69% - Rotten Tomatoes
Manhunter (1986)
"Manhunter ushered in the age of empathy for the devil."
94% - Rotten Tomatoes
The Conversation (1974)
"The Conversation is for me the masterpiece of American cinema." - Walter Chaw
98% - Rotten Tomatoes
The Innocents (1961)
"Based on Henry James' story Turn of the Screw this catches an eerie, spine-chilling mood right at the start and never lets up on its grim, evil theme."
98% - Rotten Tomatoes
Vertigo (1958)
"Hitchcock's rich and strange fable of love lost, and lost again, makes the case for him as a grand experimental artist who labored in genre cinema."
98% - Alfred Hitchcock
Gaslight (1944)
"This 1944 film is one of the few psychological thrillers that is genuinely psychological, depending on subtle clues -- a gesture, an intonation -- to thought and character." -Dave Kehr
83% - Rotten Tomatoes
The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
"Superior thriller shot on the King Kong jungle sets. A few truly gruesome scenes." - Ken Hanke
100% - Rotten Tomatoes
Blackmail (1929)
"That Blackmail has merits is admitted by all who have seen it." - New York Times
90% - Rotten Tomatoes