20 Mind Blowing Conspiracy Movies You Must Watch

16. Blow Out

This is the film from back when John Travolta was cool the first time round, long, long, long before Tarantino resurrected his career. This is the film back when Nancy Allen was a total fox before age was cruel to her. Best of all though, this is the film when Brian De Palma€™s supposed €œobsession€ with stealing mercilessly from Alfred Hitchcock was in it€™s infancy, resulting in one of the strongest films he has ever made. And as we€™re all aware, there is a well-known, much respected equation that reads €˜Brian De Palma Movie + Made And Released Prior To 1989 = A Very Good, Even Maybe A Classic€™. (Exceptions to said equation of course include Carlito€™s Way and Mission: Impossible) Blow-Out is a genuinely brilliant €˜conspiracy€™ classic with some of the best sound editing ever used in cinema. Travolta plays a sound technician called Jack Terri, working in dodgy horror movies (which gives us the excuse for that still ace opening sequence from De Palma where we have the Halloween-esque opening €˜stalk€™ and eventual kill, only to pull back and reveal the oft-copied €˜movie within a movie€™ moment). Jack accidentally audio tapes the sound of an automobile crash involving a presidential candidate that results in the loss of the candidate€™s life. As he plays and replays the tape, unearthing hidden sounds within the loop, Jack uncovers a political conspiracy that could topple the highest level of government and threatens the life of not only him but also the presidential candidate€™s secret mistress (Nancy Allen) who was in the car with him when he died. As a side note, if you only ever know the wonderful John Lithgow from the likes of Bigfoot and the Hendersons or Third Rock From The Sun then you really should check this film out. Lithgow is a government assassin going about strangling women and killing people indiscriminately. He€™s fantastic!