Top 21 must-see new mind bender movies from mind bender movies, including Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary, Donnie Darko, Ichi the Killer, Pulse, Suicide Club, The Others, Stygian, Cube, Lost Highway, and The Devil's Advocate ranked and rated by release date, new mind bender movie releases first.
Plot / Synopsis: A ballet rendition of Bram Stoker's gothic novel DRACULA, presented in a style reminiscent of the silent expressionistic cinema of the early 20th Century. This work employs the subtle and sometimes bold use of color to emphasize its themes, but mainly is presented in black-and-white, or tinted in monochrome. No spoken dialogue can be heard, and the story of...
Director: Guy Maddin Stars: Wei-Qiang Zhang, Tara Birtwhistle, David Moroni, CindyMarie Small, Johnny A. Wright
Plot / Synopsis: A troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes, after he narrowly escapes a bizarre accident.Tagline: Life is one long insane trip. Some people just have better directions...
Director: Richard Kelly Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Holmes Osborne, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Daveigh Chase, Mary McDonnell
Plot / Synopsis: As sadomas*chistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.
Tagline: Ai wa, kanari itai. (Love really hurts.)
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Plot / Synopsis: Two groups of people discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the Internet.
Tagline: Yûrei ni aitai desu ka? (Do you want to meet a ghost?)...
Plot / Synopsis: A detective is trying to find the cause of a string of suicides.
Tagline: Sore de wa minasan, sayonara [Well then, goodbye everybody.]...
Director: Sion Sono Stars: Ryo Ishibashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Mai Hosho, Tamao Satô, Takashi Nomura
Plot / Synopsis: A woman who lives in a darkened old house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that her family home is haunted.Tagline: Sooner or later she'll see them, then everything will be different...
Director: Alejandro Amenábar Stars: Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston, Alakina Mann, James Bentley
Plot / Synopsis: Jamie and Melinda, a young couple find themselves trapped in another world known as Exile. Jamie must seek out Melinda in this new world...
Directors: James Wan, Shannon Young Stars: Ryan Gibson, Lorna Pettifer, Gil Poznanski, Dominic Redfern, David Lorensene
Plot / Synopsis: Six complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless kafkaesque maze containing deadly traps.
Tagline: The only way out lies within your own mind...
Director: Vincenzo Natali Stars: Nicole de Boer, Nicky Guadagni, David Hewlett, Andrew Miller, Julian Richings
Plot / Synopsis: After a bizarre encounter at a party, a jazz saxophonist is framed for the murder of his wife and sent to prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins leading a new life...
Director: David Lynch Stars: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, John Roselius, Louis Eppolito, Jenna Maetlind
Plot / Synopsis: An exceptionally adept Florida lawyer is offered a job to work in New York City for a high-end law firm with a high-end boss - the biggest opportunity of his career to date.Tagline: Don't trust the devil...
Director: Taylor Hackford Stars: Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Jeffrey Jones, Judith Ivey
Plot / Synopsis: After a tragic car accident that kills his wife, a man discovers he can communicate with the dead to con people. However, when a demonic spirit appears, he may be the only one who can stop it from killing the living and the dead.Tagline: Something has put the fear of death in the living and sent the dead running...
Director: Peter Jackson Stars: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Jeffrey Combs
Plot / Synopsis: An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational.
Tagline: Lived Any Good Books Lately?...
Director: John Carpenter Stars: Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, David Warner, John Glover
Plot / Synopsis: Three years after the Metal Fetishist's nightmarish transformation in Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989), the ordinary salaryman, Taniguchi Tomoo, sees his world crumble when fanatic metal-worshipping skinheads abduct his only son. Forced to unleash his dormant destructive power, Tomoo will finally embrace the cathartic effect of the ultimate metamorphosis, as his naked rage transforms the once-feeble flesh into a...
Plot / Synopsis: Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to discover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusion, and perception of death.
Tagline: The most frightening thing about Jacob Singer's nightmare is that he isn't dreaming...
Director: Adrian Lyne Stars: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven, Pruitt Taylor Vince
Plot / Synopsis: A young man -- starving, nearly catatonic and barely responsive -- is confined in a sanitarium. He is taken on a field trip along with other residents to the city's red-light district. There, he encounters by chance a woman from his past, triggering a series of flashbacks. We see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and...
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky Stars: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell, Thelma Tixou, Sabrina Dennison
