5 Best Mindfuck Movies

It's really cool when you could mess with someone's mind. I'm interested and almost majored in psychology, but i thought communication would fit to my passion in journalism. So, i consider psychology as a hobby. But luckily, i got a psychological subject called "Psychology of Communication".

No wonder i love everything that has something to do with psychology. Something that could fuck your mind up. Mostly, mindfuck books and movies.

I do love Silence of The Lambs and The Shining. Those are my most favorite horror movies ever, but i don't put those into my 5 best list. Those are great psychological thrillers, but i don't think those are mindfuck enough to make you insomniac for the next 3 days.

So, here's my 5 best mindfuck movies that would make you insomniac for the next 3 days :

5. Vanilla Sky (2001)

Tom Cruise stars as David Ames, a womanizer who finds romantic redemption when he falls in love with his best friend's girlfriend Sofia (Penelope Cruz). Before that relationship can begin, however, David is coaxed into a car driven by an ex-lover, Julie (Cameron Diaz), who turns out to be suicidal. Driving her car off a bridge, Julie kills herself and horribly disfigures David. Reconstructive surgery and the loving support of Sofia seem to reverse David's luck. It turns out he is suspected of complicity in Julie's death, while horrible incidents are soon making him question the reality of his existence and his control over his life.

David struggles to find out the truth when his dreams turn into reality, and what he thinks is reality, turns into nightmares.From that point, the movie takes a Lynchian twist that ultimately and literally pulls us into his tortured mind. 

4. A Beautiful Mind (2001)

A mathematic nerd John Nash (Russel Crowe) is an introvert guy who made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. 

He's a brilliant student and became a professor, then started teaching. The mindfuck part starts when he found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery once he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. The fact that some parts of his life don't exist might possibly make you wanna repeat the movie and pay attention to some details.

In the end, he could cope with his schizophrenia but it made him look weird and eccentric. Eventhough he's finally rewarded with Nobel Prize.

3. Phone Booth (2003)

A New Yorker Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell) called his girlfriend from a phone booth everyday. But one day, the payphone called back. He picked up and a mysterious caller terrorized him.

The mysterious guy forced him to confess to his wife about his affair and he's getting a death threat. The caller really fucked his mind up and made him covered in sweat. The mind-terror act involved hookers, cops, reporters, and even live report on many TV stations.

The most mindfuck part is when the mysterious caller's identity revealed. I gotta admit that Phone Booth might be the most thrilling movie ever.

2. Shutter Island (2010)

In 1954, as World War II veteran and current federal marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his new partner, Chuck (Mark Ruffalo), ferry to Shutter Island, a water-bound mental hospital housing the criminally insane. They have been asked to investigate the disappearance of Rachel Solando (Emily Mortimer), a patient admitted to the asylum after she murdered her three children. 

As Teddy quizzes Dr. Cawley (Ben Kingsley), the head of the institution, he begins to suspect that the authorities in charge might not be giving him the whole truth, and that a terrible fate may befall all the patients in the spooky Ward C  (a unit devoted to the most heinous of the hospital's inmates). Complicating matters further, Teddy has a secret of his own. The arsonist who murdered his wife is incarcerated on Shutter Island. Driven to confront his wife's killer, and stranded on the island because of a hurricane, Teddy must unravel the secrets of the eerie place before succumbing to his own madness. 

1. Fight Club (1999)

Edward Norton stars as a depressed young man (named in the credits only as "Narrator") who has become a small cog in the world of big business. He doesn't like his work and gets no sense of reward from it, attempting instead to drown his sorrows by putting together the "perfect" apartment. He can't sleep and feels alienated from the world at large; he's become so desperate to relate to others that he's taken to visiting support groups for patients with terminal diseases so that he'll have people to talk to. 

One day on a business flight, he met Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), a charming iconoclast who sells soap. Tyler doesn't put much stock in the materialistic world, and he believes that one can learn a great deal through pain, misfortune, and chaos. Tyler cheerfully challenges his new friend to a fight. Our Narrator finds that bare-knuckle brawling makes him feel more alive than he has in years, and soon the two become friends and roommates, meeting informally to fight once a week. 

They formed a community called "Fight Club" which becomes an underground sensation, even though it's a closely guarded secret among the participants. (First rule: Don't talk about fight club. Second rule: Don't talk about fight club.) But as our Narrator and Tyler bond through violence, a strange situation becomes more complicated when Tyler becomes involved with Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), whom our Narrator became infatuated with when they were both crashing the support-group circuit.

This movie's gonna get your mind blown when you discover the true identity of Tyler Durden. If you're an anti-capitalistic person, Fight Club would be your best movie to watch on repeat.

Well, that's it. Those are my 5 best mindfuck movies. If you're a psychology freak like me and you've never watched those, i strongly recommend you to watch those immediately and get your mind fucked.