10 Haunting Movies That F*ck With Your Mind

4. Kill List (2011)

Kill List starts out simply enough, with two former soldiers - played by Neil Maskell and Michael Smiley - at a dinner party with their girlfriends. But even this "normal" scene is drenched in an atmosphere of total unease, and as Kill List moves forward towards it unbelievably bleak climax, this nightmarish feeling of something not being "quite right" becomes more and more intense - very nearly to the point of unbearableness. Directed by British filmmaker Ben Wheatley, Kill List's plot is better left as a surprise. As the main character, a soldier turned hitman, embarks on "one last job," the narrative twists in unexpected directions - an aspect imbued with an added sense of uneasiness because the film refuses to properly explain what is happening. At all. As a result, you're left both supremely chilled and confused - even as the horror (and signs of the occult) pile on. There are very few recent films that embody such a palpable sense of trepidation and foreboding, but Kill List - bewildering as it is - maintains the feeling for its entire length.