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Tired of goofy comedies and romantic melodramas for teenagers? Do you want real trash, and even so that you can break your brains?
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 the screens, a character can subconsciously change several times, become his own alter ego or antagonist, adding drama to the story.
In some cases, the hero is worked out so deeply that the film leaves behind a very ambiguous impression and a desire to reflect on one’s own life.
Today we present the 10 most interesting and emotionally rich thrillers about the split personality of the protagonist. Be careful, there will be spoilers!
10 Identification | 2003
The story tells how, on a dark rainy night, eleven strangers find themselves far from civilization in a strange roadside motel. 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? First, he really keeps in suspense until the very end. Secondly, it is far from accidental that such different personalities were gathered together in one motel …
Attention, spoiler! All we see on screen is a hallucination of a psychopath who is on death row for atrocities. The characters of the film are the personalities of the protagonist, from which he is trying to get rid of.
9. Isle of the damned | 2010
The story takes place in America in the mid-50s. On one of the islands there is a clinic for especially dangerous recidivists, who also have mental disabilities.
To work on a mysterious case, a bailiff and a partner arrive at the hospital – they are called upon to find a crazy serial maniac.
The detectives do not immediately realize that something is wrong in the area, despite the hurricane, the riot of lunatics that has risen and the intricate web of lies.
8. The story of two sisters | 2003
Koreans know how to make sad and gloomy films, so the thriller about a split personality was a success for them. A horror story with psychological overtones tells of a teenager who returns to her native land from psychiatry.
The girl is oppressed by a difficult relationship with her stepmother, and even ghosts visit 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 The Uninvited – a very good alternative with a similar plot.
7. Pisaka | in 2014
In the frame we see the girl Perb, who was discharged from a psychiatric hospital and sent to the medical corps to complete her treatment. There she will forever get rid of the side personalities of the character.
But after the arrival of the heroine, events begin to unfold harshly – the staff is dying like flies, under very strange circumstances.
6. Enemy | 2013
The man obeyed his colleague and rented a movie for the evening. And then he is surprised to find in the frame of an actor who outwardly is his double, only a few years younger.
The hero has an obsessive desire to find his copy, however, fruitless searches lead nowhere for a long time. And then mystical events begin to unfold around the character, and the psyche is immersed in a real obsession.
5. Secret window | 2004
If you want to see Johnny Depp with a split personality, then this movie is for you. In the center of the picture is the writer Mort, who has had a series of failures: no inspiration, apathy and hopelessness at the monitor, and even his wife left him.
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 tries to get to the bottom of the truth and convince the secret guest that he did not steal the idea.
After the next departure of the stranger, the manuscript of the book suddenly disappears. The film is based on a novel by Stephen King, so we definitely recommend it.
4. Black swan | 2010
One of the ballet dancers, Nina, always lacked strength of character, and then suddenly she got the chance to become the prima ballerina of Swan Lake, where she would have to express all her passion.
Life puts a choice in front of a girl – is she ready to completely transform her personality in order to reach the cherished height? Yes, there is also a rival – a new dancer.
And while the main character is learning the cherished part of the White Swan, the sworn friend is trying to involve her in a strange and dangerous game according to her own rules.
Isn’t the newly arrived dancer the alter ego of the fucked-up Nina?
3. Double | 2013
We meet the modest clerk Saiman, an inconspicuous worker who cannot attract the attention of his girlfriend.
It would seem that Simon’s life is stuck at one point, but then suddenly his exact double James comes to the firm, only the character is completely opposite. The guy is charming, self-confident – in a word, a real playboy!
And Simon suddenly begins to notice how the newcomer, day after day, appropriates his life, dreams and achievements. Or… Or is he going crazy?
2. Psycho | 1960
If you want to watch an old but solid film, then you will definitely like a psychological thriller. The main character Norman is even created from a real-life maniac, the so-called “Plainfield vampire”.
So, the hero of the film cannot get rid of his mother’s instructions even years after he killed her.
His consciousness split, and the second personality began to portray his mother: put on clothes, scold her son out of habit, be jealous and even kill. It is interesting to observe how one personality in the role of a mother is jealous of another, filial, and all within the same body!
1. Fight Club | 1999
Someone sees “Fight Club” as a good action movie with handsome Pitt. Other people enthusiastically enjoy the plot, where the personality of the protagonist is presented in the form of two (which were played by Norton and Pitt).
At the climax, the viewer realizes that the extremist Tyler Durden is the alternate 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 selection.