Showing results for tag "twisted"

Shutter Island

Shutter Island

+16

Martin Scorsese

It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy's shrewd investigating skills... [Read More]

Tags: Dark, Twisted
The Others

The Others

+13

Alejandro Amenábar

A woman named Grace retires with her two children to a mansion on Jersey, towards the end of the Second World War, where she's waiting for her husband to come back from battle. The children have a disease which means they cannot be touched by direct sunlight without being hurt in some way. They will live alone there with oppressive, strange and almost religious rules, until she needs to hire... [Read More]

Tags: Ghost, Scary, Dark, Twisted
The Sixth Sense

The Sixth Sense

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M. Night Shyamalan

Malcom Crowe is a child psychologist who receives an award on the same night that he is visited by a very unhappy ex-patient. After this encounter, Crowe takes on the task of curing a young boy with the same ills as the ex-patient. This boy "sees dead people". Crowe spends a lot of time with the boy (Cole) much to the dismay of his wife. Cole's mom is at her... [Read More]

Tags: Dark, Ghost, Twisted
The tales of two sisters

The tales of two sisters

+4

Jee-woon Kim

Two sisters who, after spending time in a mental institution, return to the home of their father and cruel stepmother. Once there, in addition to dealing with their stepmother's obsessive and unbalanced ways, an interfering ghost also affects their recovery.... [Read More]

Tags: Dark, Twisted