10 Most Disturbing Psychological Film Thrillers

The vast majority of David Lynch’s films are heavy on the psychologically disturbing, but few are quite so unmitigatingly creepy and dense as 1997’s Lost Highway. Like a great many of Lynch’s finest works, the plot isn’t so easily digestible, but as far as viscerally eerie vibes go, there are few better directors.

Bill Pullman stars as Fred, an L.A saxophonist who finds himself being stalked. His wife (Patricia Arquette) is murdered, and Fred is sentenced to death, only to find himself replaced by a younger man (Balthazar Getty). There are further doppelgangers, an intensely creepy mystery man played by Robert Blake, an explosive villainous turn from Robert Loggia - there’s a lot to digest here.

Fans of Lynch will know what to expect, and Lost Highway is David Lynch at his most aggressively Lynchian. There’s little levity here, just a time bending mystery that pays off superbly.

You won’t come away with all of your questions answered - this is a David Lynch film after all - but it’s impossible to walk away from Lost Highway without feeling something. A truly evocative piece of movie making.