Mind Screw/Film

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Parodied with the ending of Mystery Team.[context?]
  • Sucker Punch: It has an Imagine Spot (a brothel) which has one or three different Imagine Spots within. During the imagine spot inside of the brothel, the characters participate in frenetic, over-the-top and awesome action sequences full of hidden symbolism. We're also not sure how much of what happened is the truth, and just who the protagonist is. And it subverts All Just a Dream so many times that you're not sure just whose dream it is. Logically, whoever's dream it was would be the protagonist, but good luck figuring that out.
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey. The book, on the other hand, is considerably more comprehensible.
    • A popular urban legend (later confirmed by Arthur C. Clarke himself) goes that, after the premiere, Rock Hudson stormed out of the theater yelling, "Can someone tell me what the hell I just watched?"
    • The movie was such a mind screw that the film adaptation of 2010: The Year We Made Contact was largely devoted to trying to explain what the hell had happened in the last movie. You may not have heard of this sequel. There's an excellent reason for that.
    • The prologue and ending of the original book of 2001 are significantly longer than their movie equivalents for the same reason. There was a lot of 'splaining to do.
  • Unless you're a Beatles fan and have some basic knowledge of the 60's counterculture movement, Across the Universe can be anywhere from "slightly confusing" to "incomprehensible acid trip on film".
  • I'm Not There, Todd Haynes' attempt to quantify the existence of Bob Dylan by presenting him as SEVEN SEPARATE CHARACTERS, including a woman, a small black child, and Billy the Kid. If you have an extensive knowledge of the man, then the metaphorical touchstones are fairly easy to follow. But if you're only a casual fan, entire chunks of the movies will leave you stonefaced or confused, especially about how they relate to Bob Dylan.
  • After it runs out of material and stops being a comedy, Art School Confidential wants desperately to be a Mind Screw, it tries so hard! But somewhere along the line someone missed the point of what a Mind Screw actually is and the movie doesn't even really bother to actually try to confuse you with anything, because it's so proud of how it's got a grown up plot about a guy who commits murders and makes paintings out of them, only he dies and someone else gets arrested for it, instead of some silly story about art students.
  • Arizona Dream by Emir Kusturica. Insanely weird characters? Check. Odd dreams? Check. Flying fish?! You bet! So, what exactly happened in the movie? Well, it sort of varies.
  • Barton Fink. Granted, nothing the Coen Brothers have done is completely straightforward, but when John Goodman is on a shotgun rampage through a burning hotel screaming "look upon me," and no, it does not make sense in context, you start to wonder what you've gotten yourself into.
    • He's just showing you the life of the mind.
  • Black Swan. What's real, what's a hallucination, and what's a visual metaphor? In this movie, it's hard to tell, and increasingly it's hard to tell if there's even a difference. Did the movie even happen at all, or will Nina wake up screaming five minutes after the credits?
    • Mind screws are a recurring theme in pretty much all of Darren Aronofsky's films.
  • The 2004 film Casshern had no explanation for the ending or for the various Deus Ex Machina moments that appeared throughout the film. For example, giant metal bolts of lightning that: Started the plot, transported the hero right to the point he needed to be with no question from anyone, and conveniently provided the final chamber with a giant hole in the wall.
  • In Cemetery Man, Francesco Dellamorte Can't Get Away with Nuthin', and all of his murders are pinned on someone else. This is because Francesco isn't real, but is an imaginary construct of Franco. Fantasy bleeds into reality, and Franco begins to murder people in his insanity. Or maybe the dead are actually rising, the film isn't very specific on details.
    • Not to mention that The entire movie takes place in a snow globe.
  • Cube intentionally offers no real explanations to what the titular Cube is and why the characters were placed in it.
    • The sequels, however, make things worse with their attempts to actually explain things somewhat, as none of the three films are made by the same people and can't seem to agree on essential points - Hypercube being the worst offender in this area.
      • The first film actually gives a very mind-bogging explanation to why they are in the Cube (which is just a "survival maze") - the exact quote being: "Because it's here. You either use it, or admit it's pointless." (which, in and of itself is pretty mind-screwy)
  • Dead Man with Johnny Depp is a very otherworldly film, during which few things happen and most of the dialogues are just plain weird. It's even pointed out in frustration by the protagonist at one point.
  • Donnie Darko, to the extent that members of the cast can't agree on whether there is a legitimate Time Travel story, or just a handful of psychedelic delusions.
    • In the DVD commentary, the director pretty much owns up to the fact that even he doesn't really know what's going on and that the plot probably can't be explained without resorting to divine intervention. This sentiment was shared by Jake Gyllenhaal, who played the title character; he has no idea what's happening in the movie either.
    • Director Richard Kelly's second film, Southland Tales, somehow manages to be even more violently insane than his first. It was supposed to be part of a massive multimedia experience (that never really panned out), but it would take a damn lot of graphic novels to explain what on God's green Earth was happening at any point during that movie.
      • Read all about it here.
  • The pretty much the entire point of the CRS company in the David Fincher flick The Game.
  • Give My Regards to Broad Street has some Mind Screwing - partly from symbolism, partly because of Dream Sequences started and ended with very little warning.
  • After a certain point in the film version of Hedwig and The Angry Inch, the opening shot is redone, starting off a long medley featuring the three central characters merging into one and walking naked down an alleyway.
  • Watch the Argentinian film Hombre Mirando al Sudeste (Man Looking Southeast) and try to decide which of the explanations is true. You'll be lying in bed thinking about it, seriously, as it's just that freakin' bizarre, and ends unanswered.
  • I Love Your Work isn't as extreme as others on this list, as a simple "I guess it was all in his head" makes sense of it as a whole, as the ending makes that seem like the most likely explanation. But some scenes are still pretty odd.
  • Inception is not as mind screwing as one would expect. But the whole plot is about putting an industrial heir through one massive mind screw to mess with his free will. First he is put into an artifical dream where he gets kidnapped by people wanting the codes to his fathers secret safe, which he handles quite well. But then he gets put into a dream within the dream where he is approached by a stranger who claims to be part of his subconscious and they are both in a dream and under attack by kidnappers who wants to steal his company secrets. Then the laws of physics start to no longer apply correctly and he no longer takes things that well.
    • Also the main character who is putting the man through the mind screw is having some lingering doubt that he himself is dreaming and his mind being screwed with.
    • Inception uses In Medias Res openings. Not just at the start of the movie, but repeatedly, at multiple scenes, to intentionally evoke dreamlike logic. And the main plot is a heist in reverse, so it's necessarily a complicated story. And the ending is ambiguous between the best happy ending possible and one of the worst. Aside from all that, though, it's not mind-screwy at all!
    • When you have a character who asks 'Hang on, whose subconscious are we in again?' it's safe to say you're dealing with a mind screw.
  • Jacob's Ladder is a Mind Screw from start to finish.
  • Last Year at Marienbad, considered one of the most famous mind screws in French cinema. The film has no discernible plot other than apparently two people who may or may not have had a affair a year ago in Marienbad (German name of a Czech city) meet each other again at some sort of elite social gathering. Other than that, it plays out like some sort dream over loosely connected scenes. People still have no idea what exactly it was about, but the cinematography was beautiful.
  • The 1960s version of Lord of the Flies. It's not even in a funny way. It's kind of scary.
  • Mirror Mask. My God, Mirror Mask... If the visual conception isn't enough (and this troper believes it is), then would some other troper explain what the whole point was? Or how it was the Spiritual Successor to Labyrinth?
  • The 1965 science fiction horror Monster a Go-Go! attempts to pull off a mind screw at its climax, although as with everything else in the film - acting, special effects, sound recording - this fails utterly. In brief, director Bill Rebane ran out of money before he could finish the film; the footage was was later purchased by producer Herschell Gordon Lewis, who finished it as cheaply as possible, with extra scenes shot a year later and some spurious narration. The end result was a disjointed, haunting mess, in which characters we don't know talk at great length about a threat we never see. The kicker comes at the end; after sixty minutes of plotless meandering, it finally seems as if the radioactive monster has been cornered, in a sewer. The army are called in, and we watch some soldiers dressing themselves in radiation suits for five long minutes. But just as it seems that some action is about to take place, a cosmic switch is pulled. There was no monster. "There was no trail. There was no giant, no monster, no thing called "Douglas" to be followed."
  • David Lynch's Mulholland Drive Or, to an even greater degree, Eraserhead.
    • Lost Highway where on the one hand characters transform into each other. On the other hand is the first scene repeated later from a different view: Fred, who answered the entryphone in the first version, rings the bell in the second one himself. So instead of an expected Once More, with Clarity it turns out to further support the Mind Screw.
    • Inland Empire makes Mulholland Dr. seem sensical.
      • As Laura Dern's character describes the events of the film: "I'm trying to tell you so you understand how it went. Thing is, I don't know what was before or after. I don't know what's happened first...and it's kinda layin' a mindfuck on me."
      • And oh good Christ in heaven, how many false endings did that movie have? I'm fairly sure that they took up the last forty minutes.
    • Mr. Lynch is so well known for his Mind Screws, that he had to title his one non-maddening movie The Straight Story. And it's still kind of weird.
  • David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch is a lot less disgusting than the book it's named after (it actually borrows from a large part of the works of William S. Burroughs), but only slightly less confusing.
    • Speaking of Cronenberg films, eXistenZ is Philip K Dick-like in the mind screw department. It features a VR game within a VR game within a VR game within a VR game, the characters openly question whether they're still in the game at every level (and for bonus points, compare real-life to VR), switch sides multiple times, and reference things that happened at other levels.
  • The movie π (Pi) has a paranoid mathemathical genius, Hebrew numerology, conspiracies, neurological headaches, the secret name of God, and the protagonist taking A Drill to his head to escape all this crap. To top it off, it's in black and white. And is scored to techno music.
  • Primer, thanks to Time Travel, Second Hand Storytelling, and a case of The Ending Changes Everything. There is an explanation for almost everything that happens, but you have to watch the movie at least twice to put all the clues together.
  • The very end of Reazione a Catena, with the main killers being shot to death with a shotgun by their 8-year-old son, and his sister commenting, "Gee, they're good at playing dead, aren't they?".
  • Repo Man for sure, but played for laughs.
  • Guy Ritchie's Revolver. It involves a formula that supposedly allows the main character to win any game, a blood disease that disappears for no apparent reason, a crime lord apparently being the same person as the voices in everybody's heads... Yeah.
  • The scene in Spaceballs where Dark Helmet watches himself on a VHS tape. He got so confused that he cannot grasp the concept of "when".
  • The Star Wars Holiday Special has quite some moments of mind screw, largely thanks to the fact there's absolutely no subtitles for non-human creatures' languages (such as the wookies). For instance, we'll perhaps never know what the hell where the tiny circus-performers like things the little wookie was watching, let alone the white swimming things that appeared in the machine that grandpa wookie was watching.
  • Stay. It all makes sense at the end the entire film is the product of Ethan's dying mind absorbing his immediate surroundings, but through the course of the narrative, good luck trying to make sense of anything.
  • Suspiria: the plot is nothing else than a "witches doing evil wizardy after being discovered" kind of thing. The camera angles, scary soundtrack, eerie camera angles, buckets of blood, and macabre scenery, though....
  • The Butterfly Effect is a sort-of mind screw. Is he traveling through time? Moving across alternate universes and adapting to the memories of the version of himself in the new universe? Is he just totally nuts and then one day finally gets the help he needs? Is the end really just another delusion? These last two possibilities are subverted in the DVD release alternate ending in which he goes back to when he was in his mother's womb and commits suicide with his own umbilical cord before even being born. Which is impossible, by the way.
    • Not exactly, most people seem to think he's strangling himself with it. He isn't; he's biting through it. Without teeth. Nice.
      • Possible Fridge Brilliance when you remember all his previous siblings also died in the womb
  • The Uninvited has a wonderful Mind Screw at the end of the film.[context?]
  • The opening scene of The Cell has J-Lo riding across the Namibian desert in a wedding dress, dismounting and then looking back on her horse which has turned into a chess piece; and then approaching a boat that is half-buried in the sand and a boy who turns into a werewolf. Later on the film involves a schizophrenic serial killer who drowns his victims, augments their bodies so they look like dolls and then masturbates whilst hanging himself above them by chains attached to metal rings in his back; an albino German shepherd; a horse getting sliced up sushi-style; a collection of doll-like, corpse-like women inside display cases behind glass panels attached to crude machinery that jerks them about in grotesque, sadomasochistic sexual poses; a female bodybuilder; a demon-like man with purple curtains attached to his back; Vince Vaughn getting his intestines pulled out and spiraled around a rotisserie; vultures; peacocks and J-Lo dressed as the Virgin Mary. Justified on account of the fact that the majority of this takes place within people's minds.
  • The beginning of The City of Lost Children. Most, not all of it, make sense by the end.
  • The Fountain.
  • 1968's The Magus (from the book of the same name by John Fowles, more highly recommended, than the movie) with Anthony Quinn as the Master Mind-screw guy, screwing with a young guy on a Greek island; ... very hard to know what is up, it's a good one.
  • The Matrix. The sequels have a mild case of it, anyway; in the first movie, Morpheus took the time to explain what was going on.
    • Not mild with the Architect in Reloaded...
    • The "Animatrix", a collection of short anime films based off the trilogy, easily qualify as Mind Screw material.
  • The ending of The Ninth Gate caused everybody to make that sound Scooby-Doo makes when he's confused.
  • The Oscar-nominated French/Canadian/Belgian animated movie The Triplets of Belleville.
  • The ending of Time Bandits as well as just about every other Terry Gilliam film ever made.
    • Don't touch it! It's Evil!
      • Completely...It's an OK although odd movie until the final battle and everything after. Then we were all WTF just happened?
        • What do you mean? The ending of Time Bandits couldn't be simpler: God finally catches up with the bandits right as the Evil Genius is about to kill them and escape from his prison within the age of legends. God destroys the Evil Genius, rehires the bandits, telling them it's time to get back to work repairing all the holes in time, and sends the boy back to his home. A charred fragment of the Evil Genius' corpse comes through the time-hole with him, however, and his parents are killed when they touch the fragment, which also causes their house to catch on fire. One of the firemen who comes to put out the fire is the physically identical reincarnation of Agamemnon. What part of any of this is the least bit mysterious?
    • Brazil is a prime example of this. It's about a man living in a corrupt bureaucratic government who uses his dreams as an escape. It gets difficult to separate what's real and what's not, especially at the end when he's going insane as his best friend tortures him. In the original ending, at least.
  • Jim Henson (yes, that Jim Henson) made a overly symbolic (and Oscar-nominated) short film called Time Piece. Scenes include a caveman in an office, Jim Henson's head on a serving tray, and the only dialogue in the movie is Jim himself saying "help" about 3 or 4 times.
    • He also made a humorous but bewildering teleplay called The Cube (no relation to the Canadian film and its sequels). It's about a man trapped in a cube shaped room. He has no idea where he is or how he got there. Other people can enter and leave freely, but he cannot. People change into other people, objects appear and disappear, bizarre philosophical interpretations of his situation are suggested and dismissed, and when he gets cut he bleeds strawberry jam. Is he dead? Insane? Part of some twisted psychological experiment? Or is he really just a character in a television program? In a way this film deconstructs this trope, as an overabundance of explanations are provided by other characters, though which (if any) is the truth is never revealed.
  • Un Chien Andalou. Just try to read the Other Wiki's synopsis. Word of God says that was entirely deliberate. Quoting Luis Bunuel on the rules he and Salvador Dalí set for them selves in writing the script: "no idea or image that might lend itself to a rational explanation of any kind would be accepted." and "Nothing, in the film, symbolizes anything. The only method of investigation of the symbols would be, perhaps, psychoanalysis."
  • Videodrome[context?]
  • Waking Life[context?]
  • Jean-Luc Godard's film Weekend.[context?]
  • What the Bleep Do We Know is a major, major offender of this one. If you can make some sense out of the cryptic, convoluted Techno Babble about Quantum Mechanics, Religion, Life, the Universe and Everything, you'll see how this movie easily beats Serial Experiments Lain in terms of head-trippiness, even though even The Other Wiki agrees it's all just quantum mysticism mixed with the ideas of some new age school. According to Intuitor.com, it also completely messed up Quantum Physics, horrible research, biases and scientific inaccuracies destroyed any hope of correct science.
    • Here's the key: there is a middle-aged woman doing her best attempt at a deep male voice partway through the film. The name given on screen is "Ramtha". Her cult funded the entire movie.
    • Additionally, David Albert, the Camberidge Physics/Philosophy professor who appears in the film, has gone on record stating that the filmmakers have selectively edited his interview to make it appear that he endorses the film's thesis that quantum mechanics are linked with consciousness when really he is "profoundly unsympathetic to attempts at linking quantum mechanics with consciousness."
    • What the Bleep's Mind Screw ability depends on your gullibility.
  • Zardoz, quite possibly the only film to begin with a giant stone head coming out of the sky, declaring the penis to be evil, and throwing a bunch of guns out of its mouth. The movie just gets weirder from there.
  • The collected works of Mr. Charlie Kaufman.
    • Synecdoche, New York is an absolute Mind Screw from start to finish. From the ridiculous jumps in time to plays within plays within plays to a woman living in a perpetually burning house before dying after 30 years from "smoke inhalation".
  • Most films directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, including Solaris, Stalker, and The Sacrifice. but most notably The Mirror, to which Tarkovsky commented that even he himself didn't understand the full meaning behind some of the scenes.
  • In Total Recall, Quaid describes the real plot of the Big Bad as "the best mindfuck yet." And then Hauser shows up on video chummy with Cohaagen... The real mindfuck--for the audience that is--is the ending, which forces the audience to ask themselves if the entire movie did or didn't take place in Quaid's mind. On second viewings... it's still not clear. Fairly well done for what is otherwise a fairly standard action movie.
    • Word of God is no help on the matter. In fact the director has said both interpretations are consistent with the facts, and it was set up that way on purpose.
  • Westworld is an odd case in that it almost makes sense, and keeps setting itself up as if for The Reveal. By the end, we've still got a decadent amusement park where a bunch of Ridiculously-Human Robots started killing people for no apparent reason. Add in gallons of What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic, and you've got yourself a headache.
    • -and then it's remade as 'Jurassic Park'.
  • The Blades of Glory ending.[context?]
  • The Men Who Stare at Goats is full of this, but is played for laughs. The final scene in particular stands out.
  • The Believer's ending.
  • Japanese auteur Takashi Miike, when he's not being the master of extreme violence and gore, is a master of the Mind Screw. His most mind-bending film, however, has to be Gozu. Disappearing corpses, a river without a bridge, creepy transvestite waiters, unreliable guides with bizarre skin conditions, young women giving birth to full-grown men, middle-age women selling breast milk, an almost deserted former fishing town, Yakuza who live in a junkyard, an American reading her dialog from a queue card, and a huge minotaur wearing baggy underwear. And that doesn't even begin to describe how twisted this movie is. The strangest thing is that it all makes perfect sense when you realize it's all a symbolic representation of the protagonist's inner journey, told with symbolism from both Japanese and Greco-Roman mythology, and represents his coming to terms with his own homosexuality and love for his Yakuza "older brother", and his "rebirth" as a new person.
  • Marebito by Takashi Shimizu, the director of Ju-on; The Grudge. A man obsessed with fear finds his way into a warped underground labyrinth world, is menaced by "Dero" ("Detrimental Robots"); and rescues a feral girl who turns out to be a vampire, who he keeps chained up in his apartment, and feeds by killing other people and draining their blood. But is that really happening? Do any of them actually exist? Is the girl real, perhaps his own daughter who he abuses and treats like an animal, while he kills people to feed his own delusion? Or has his detachment from reality actually enabled him to stumble into a real alternate, quasi-supernatural world? The ending completely refuses to resolve any of these questions; leaving them up to the viewer to answer.
  • The Valley, Obscured by Clouds - French hippies on a quest (with Pink Floyd soundtrack)
  • Oldboy[context?]
  • "Northfork".[context?]
  • The Swedish film Persona features an actress who goes mute, except maybe she really isn't but wants to get away from her life. Her nurse wants to become the actress because she hates herself, and maybe she did. Or didn't. The actress also has a son that is involved...somehow. The opening scenes feature dead bodies, a sheep being stabbed with a knife, and an erect penis. What does all this have to do with the rest of the film? No idea, as it's even more out of place than the rest of the movie. Anyone who says they get what's going on is lying.
    • The abstract images which open the film are probably an homage to Un Chien Andalou. Bergman realized his work no longer seemed as groundbreaking as it once had, so he was announcing to the world his intention to go deeper into stylistic experimentation.
    • Bergman purposely put in a film break to give viewers a moment away from the surrealism.
  • Performance. When the sudden Music Video follows perfectly...
  • The Trial in Pink Floyd's The Wall in which the main character is put on trial by his inner demons.
    • The Trial is especially mindscrewy. But the entirety of the movie is a Mind Screw.
  • Paranoia 1.0 (often known only as One Point O) is as mind-screwy as it gets. A man (Jeremy Sisto, no less) receives empty packages while constantly dozing off in front of his computer: he's trying to write a program to meet a deadline, but he's constantly falling asleep and receiving empty packages... and developing an increasingly unhealthy craving for "Nature Fresh Milk". The apartment complex is full of people who have cravings for equally irrelevant things and there is a landlord that watches everything. Everything in the movie (e.g. what the empty packages are, why the landlord has an equivalent craving for packed meat, etc.) is explained in a logical and sensical manner - that is, until the movie decides to crank up the mind-screw-gears to twelve hundred and then flat out breaks the gauge and lets the whole thing explode. Thus, you just face an ending that leaves you wondering what the hell you just watched.
  • Several of the Hellraiser sequels have shades of this, especially Hellraiser Deader.
  • If the narrator being Tyler all along in Fight Club is not an example of that, then I'm being a Martian.
  • Hopital Brut.
  • "The Color of Pomegranates", a Soviet-Armenian film loosely based on the life of 18th century Armenian poet Sayat-Nova. But instead of being a straight biography, it's an artistic film comprised mostly just a bunch of bizarre scenes that don't make much sense to anyone not familiar with Sayat-Nova's poems.
  • The Attic Expeditions[context?]
  • Dalton Trumbo's film adaptation of Johnny Got His Gun was done largely by making the film one big mindscrew, caused by the character's explosion-induced loss of his ability to see/hear/speak (as well as his limbs) inducing nightmarish visions inside of his head to pad out the film.
  • Cry Wolf, best summed up with this exchange.

"I'm confused."
"No you’re not, that's what you want me to believe!"

"Bizarre alien horror movie about an abductee who returns three years later in alien form in order to abduct his son. He goes through several transformations, one of them by impregnating a woman through her mouth and gorily emerging a short while later as a full grown male. He transforms his son by sucking on his shoulder, who then joins him in bizarre activities like melting phones, creating a killer midget clown and stuffing the babysitter into a cocoon so that she can lay eggs. No, this movie does not make any sense."

  • Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. Figuring out the meaning of life is easy compared with figuring out the meaning of this movie.
    • And in fact they were so busy mind screwing the viewer that they totally forgot to actually convey the meaning of life, having to hastily throw together a bunch of cliched platitudes at the end. Perhaps the only part of the movie that made an ounce of sense, and it was given the least thought.
  • Looney Tunes: Back in Action: while the movie in general makes sense (or at least as much sense as one can expect from the Looney Tunes), the part where Shaggy complains about his voicing is a very subtle mind screw. Think about it. How can a real person be voice-acted.
  • Two words that have yet to be said despite being the name of one of the most famous incarnate of Mind Screw to come out during the 1960s: Yellow Submarine
  • Clean, Shaven it about providing an objective look at schizophrenia, . The plot is straight forward, but it's a mind screw because uses a lot of unusual/disturbing images and sounds.
  • Moonwalker, a self-indulgent Michael Jackson movie, takes this to great extremes. This is a movie where the entire first twenty minutes is nothing but Deranged Animation coupled with some of Jackson's most well-known dance moves, or moves that he popularized (such as crotch-grabbing outside your house), then devolves into his well-known "I'm Bad" video, except portrayed by children, who after making the video walk outside of the building through a cloud of smoke and emerge as adults. Jackson is then chased down the street by claymation people and then escapes by dressing up as a man-sized rabbit. That was the first half-hour. It gets much weirder from there.
  • My God, Felix the Cat: The Movie. Just...just watch it. Reptilian creatures, a magic bag, a half-robot evil overlord, a sentient tear, a dimensional transporter, mice-lizard hybrids, Yellow Submarine-like sea creatures, a Circus of Fear, a forest made of giant hair follicles with head-hunting creatures that are always losing their own heads, evil cubes and cylinders, and a book of ultimate power that defeats the bad guy by being thrown at him. And to top it all off, there's also a German version.
  • The horror movie She Dies Tomorrow. Go Google this movie, and it's practically guaranteed the first page of hits will have at least three people trying to explain the plot, all of them different. Whether it even qualifies as "horror" is debatable; at very least, this is a psychological thriller that makes you think while watching it.
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