Top Ten Tuesdays

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

This category could probably be filled by Hitchcock films but i decided to go with just the two.

[Deadite]

Misery. That was in my head when i saw the catagory but got lost between then and writing up the list. Think of it as an honourary addition.

[keirarts]

Difficult.

firstly a top 100 would be possible.
secondly i've tried to avoid anything that's more horror as Hollywood had a habit of re-branding horror as psychological thrillers.

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[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

NORTH AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS

1. Vertigo
2. The Silence of the Lambs
3. Rosemary's Baby
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
5. Shadow of a Doubt
6. The Conversation
7. Dead Ringers
8. Cape Fear (1962)
9. Memento
10. Se7en

Like Demdike, I could have done a top 10 of Hitchcock's psychological thrillers, but limited it to my two favourites.

[Deadite]

Apropos of nothing, am i the only person that doesn't rate Se7en particularly highly? I saw it at the cinema on release and thought the big 'reveal' at the end was foreshadowed far too clumsily.

[Rik]

Originally Posted by Deadite

Apropos of nothing, am i the only person that doesn't rate Se7en particularly highly? I saw it at the cinema on release and thought the big 'reveal' at the end was foreshadowed far too clumsily.

I’m 50 minutes into it right now, one of my favourite films

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

I too love Se7en and Silence of the Lambs but wouldn't class them as psychological thrillers.

[Demoncrat]

NAPT then

Night Of The Hunter
Wait Until Dark
Vertigo
Angel Heart
The Swimmer
Taxi Driver
Lost Highway
The Machinist
Seconds
Strangers On A Train

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I too love Se7en and Silence of the Lambs but wouldn't class them as psychological thrillers.

I consider both of them to be psychological horrors because, using the definition from Peter Hutchings, "the thrills are provided […] via a investigations of the psychologies of principal characters" and "there is a category of psychological thriller that fits, sometimes uncomfortably between genres of crime and horror"

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Thanks to everyone who contributed a list of their favourite North American psychological thrillers.

This week is a simple category, one I don't think has been done before and is devoted to an Oscar-winning actor and director who has been in feature films since 1970.

TOMMY LEE JONES