10 Amazing Psychological Horrors You've Never Heard Of
7. The Tenant (1976)
Hold up, because things are about to get weird!
The Tenant is the first international film on this list, hailing from France in 1976. At first the film received anything but praise, with acclaimed film critic Roger Ebert calling it “not merely bad” but “an embarrassment.”
Well as we know, no matter what the critics say the audiences will decide for themselves - and this film went on to become a bit of a cult classic.
The crux of it is that a man moves into an apartment recently made available after the previous tennant attempted suicide, leaving her hospitalised with no view of recovering soon. He begins to suspect that other tenants are ganging up against him, causing his life in the apartment to be anything but comfortable.
As time goes on things take a turn for the bizarre and audiences must ask how much of what they see is real or imagined. This Kafka-inspired flick may have at first been an object of ridicule but now, all these years later, is embraced as a masterpiece exploring themes of loneliness and isolation, repression and the loss of self.