10 Psychological Thrillers That Totally Messed With Your Head
9. Fight Club
The name David Fincher is, to a certain extent, synonymous with the psychological thriller. The director is responsible for many of the most celebrated examples of the format: Seven, Zodiac, Gone Girl.
However, no one Fincher film hinges as squarely on the workings of an imbalanced brain as his 1999 adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 novel, which stars Brad Pitt and Edward Norton as... SPOILER WARNING, although surely most of us have seen the film by now... two versions of the same person.
Fight Club's central twist, though some smart alecs may purport otherwise, really isn't one you can see coming on first viewing. Yet while it may initially seem to come completely out of left field, it does make sense within the film's disturbed mindset, a mood well-established once the revelation comes to light.
The film goes to lengths to show us the world from the viewpoint of Norton's delusional insomniac, played to darkly hilarious effect, yet hugely unnerving at the same time.