Psychological Thriller Bucket List

Office workers whose memories are split between work and home; Lumon and the Waffle Party.

A videotape that kills seven days later; Sadako climbing out of the television.

A hypnotist leaves a trail of murderers who cannot say why; Kiyoshi Kurosawa's slow terror.

A grief-stricken American at a Swedish midsummer festival where everything happens in daylight.

Benedict Cumberbatch as a cruel Montana rancher and the boy who undoes him; Campion's Oscar.

Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson go mad on a rock in black-and-white 1.19:1; Eggers' seagulls.

Cate Blanchett as a conductor whose power comes apart in Berlin; Todd Field's return.

Ethan Hawke as a pastor losing his faith over climate change; Schrader's Bresson film.

Toni Collette, a miniature-maker, and a grief that turns into something worse; A24's horror peak.

A surgeon must kill one of his family or a boy's curse takes them all; Lanthimos' Greek tragedy.

Joaquin Phoenix dances down the Bronx stairs; a comic-book film that won the Golden Lion.

Kristen Stewart as Diana over one Christmas at Sandringham; a fable, not a biopic.

A programmer tests whether Ava is conscious in a glass house in the mountains.

A pop-up book monster and a grieving mother; Australian horror about depression.

Tilda Swinton as the mother of a school shooter, before and after.

Michael Shannon builds a storm shelter for a storm only he sees.

A giant rabbit tells a teenager the world ends in 28 days; the cult film of 2001.

A widower auditions for a wife; the last twenty minutes are Miike's most infamous.

Grieving parents in a winter Venice and a small figure in a red coat.

Mia Farrow, a Manhattan apartment building and very helpful neighbours.

Nuns in a Himalayan palace, and Kathleen Byron in red lipstick; shot entirely in a Surrey studio.

A guilt-ridden detective cannot sleep through the Alaskan midnight sun.

Light Yagami and the notebook that kills; the manga the anime followed closely.

A Japanese surgeon in Germany saves a boy who becomes a serial killer; Urasawa's thriller.

Amy Dunne vanishes and her diary tells one story; the twist halfway changed thrillers.

A novelist held captive by his number-one fan; the hobbling scene.

Harry Mason looks for his daughter in a town that changes; the fog was a draw-distance trick.

A dating sim that is not a dating sim; the free horror that fooled everyone.

A boy in a dream world and a truth in the real one; the RPG Maker horror that became a cult.

A Pict warrior with psychosis walks into Helheim; voices in binaural audio.