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Ever see a movie that was so wild, so twisted that you couldn’t stop thinking about it? Maybe you wanted to know what happened to certain characters or what another ending would look like.
Here are 12 more movies your dark side might want to see.
1. Arrival
A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien life-forms after 12 mysterious spacecraft appear around the world.
You won’t be able to talk to other people for a few days.
2. Coherence
Strange things begin to happen when a group of friends gather for a dinner party on an evening when a comet is passing overhead.
If alternate universes are your thing, you’ll love this movie.
3. Moon
Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the moon.
He, working alongside his computer Gerty, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet’s power problems.
Scary, but so good.
4. Us
A family’s serene beach vacation turns to chaos when their doppelgängers appear and begin to terrorize them.
Scary and exciting.
5. Atonement
Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister’s lover of a crime he did not commit.
Heartbreaking and shocking.
6. Mr. Nobody
A boy stands on a station platform as a train is about to leave. Should he go with his mother or stay with his father? Infinite possibilities arise from this decision.
As long as he doesn’t choose, anything is possible.
You’ll question your existence.
7. Cape Fear
A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a 14-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.
Character-driven and horrifying.
8. Wag the Dog
Shortly before an election, a spin doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a presidential sex scandal. Will drive you crazy.
9. The Others
A woman who lives in her darkened old family house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that the home is haunted.
This one will take you weeks to get over.
10. Pulp Fiction
The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
You’re on your own to untangle the plots.
11. Cube
“Six complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless maze containing deadly traps.” Makes you wonder how you would respond to a crisis.
12. John Dies at the End
A new street drug that sends its users across time and dimensions has one drawback: Some people return no longer human.
Can two college dropouts save humanity from this silent, otherworldly invasion?
Hard to understand completely but still excellent.
These are the movies that will make you retreat inside your own head to turn over all the possibilities in your mind.
Only watch them if you don’t have to do a lot of mental heavy lifting in the coming days or weeks.
You’re welcome!