Curated playlist
Films about psychopaths and sociopaths
- Psycho (1960 film)Paramount refused to fund Hitchcock's Psycho, so he financed the 1960 film himself. He used his television crew.
- Scream (franchise)The Scream franchise began as an 18-page script called Scary Movie, written by Kevin Williamson. Two things fed that first draft. One was a news story about the murders committed by the Gainesville Ripper. The other was Williamson's own…
- Blade RunnerBlade Runner exists in seven versions, but Ridley Scott controls only one.
- The Dark KnightThe Dark Knight, a 2008 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan, begins with a bank robbery that turns on its own crew. The bank belongs to the mafia in Gotham City. The masked robbers betray and kill one another until a single man…
- A Clockwork Orange (film)Warner Bros. pulled the film A Clockwork Orange from British cinemas in 1973. Kubrick himself requested it.
- Apocalypse NowFrancis Ford Coppola bet his house and car on Apocalypse Now. He also put up his Godfather profits as security.
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was filmed in a working psychiatric hospital. Real patients joined the crew.
- Taxi DriverPaul Schrader wrote Taxi Driver in ten days while living in his car. He had been through a divorce and a breakup.
- Badlands (film)Badlands lost two cinematographers during its 1972 shoot. Malick's first film still finished and became a classic.
- The Hitcher (1986 film)Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel each gave The Hitcher zero stars. Christopher Nolan later named it a favorite film.