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Rating: 8/10 (20 January 2015)

A 'GOOD' psychological thriller succeeds when you never see whats coming, but a 'GREAT' psychological thriller achieves its master feat is when you are left jaw-dropped and baffled even after you saw what was coming but you were hit by it when you least expected it. Usually thriller movies like Shutter Island have a really tight script and there is no creative freedom or much room for improvs or re-writes especially when its based on a solid source material - as most of the psy-thrillers are. So the filmmaker and the crew are slaves to a pre-ordained script, oops, the great Monsieur Truffaut would not have liked the sound of that as he believed in the naturalism of movies, that's where real life comes from and letting things flow. But then again there is Martin Scorsese way of doing it, and that is visualizing a script in the best possible manner by doing full justice to it. He is a true master of creating tension and showcasing the character dynamic, he added a new dimension to psychological thrillers with his innovative yet inspired ideas and he kept coming back in each decade with his freshness.
Since, the turn of the Century thrillers were taken to a whole new level with the entry of the likes of Takashi Miike,the Alfonso Cuaron ,Park Chan Wook, proving how the visual, the color scheme and the photography can add so much to the anticipation and tension. After all those decades Scorsese stayed young, at least his mind did, his ideas did. He gave the world, one of the most popular psychological thrillers of modern times - The Shutter Island, which is a brilliant adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel of the same name. With a unique and intimidating narrative style, a grey-ish photography and most importantly stunning performances, an absolutely deceptive screenplay with an insane plot twist, Shutter Island had the audiences gutted as those credits were rolling in the end. Now, here in this article we take a look at seven essential psychological thrillers, since the turn of the Century, which are essentially movies like Shutter Island, with an unanticipated plot twist or if you did anticipate it, it hit you hard when it did !
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