A good psychological thriller often feels like a sit-com set-up taken utterly seriously, where the circular paths of interior logic quickly lead to insidious derangement. They can also, like horror, provide a perfect vector for vengeance and schadenfreude, in which hypocrisy and small-mindedness always earn their comeuppance. And psychological thrillers can also be about exploring the enormous capacity of humans to surprise, in ways both awesome and terrible. Like the depth of human experience, the selections below hold multitudes, and you can see the breadth of the genre through the diversity of this single snapshot.
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