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1. Physiological Thriller Examples
Kate Meredith

2. Shutter Island
The film takes place in 1954 in a remote island off the coast of
Massachusetts where is located Ashecliffe hospital for mentally
disturbed and violent criminals. Two detectives, Teddy Daniels
(Leonardo DiCaprio) and his new partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) are
summoned to the island to investigate the disappearance of a patient
named Rachel Solando (Emily Mortimer) who is considered to be very
dangerous. This will start a chain of events in which nothing is as it
seems at first glance. Doctors, medical staff and guards are not willing
to cooperate, which only deepens suspicions of Sheriff Daniels whom
will further investigation lead to the terrifying discoveries. In an effort
to solve the mysteries of the hospital, Teddy through flashbacks returns
to his personal tragedy, the death of beloved wife Dolores (Michelle
Williams) that occurred during a fire. With each new day, Teddy is
getting more secure that maybe would never leave this island…
Shutter Island requires complete attention and makes that viewers be
maximally involved in the story to along with Teddy reveal the mystery
of the island. This brilliant psychological thriller is directed by Martin
Scorsese and screenplay is based on same name novel by Dennis
Lehane.

3. Psycho
Marion Crane steals $400,000 from her employer to get her boyfriend, Sam Loomis, out of debt. She flees Phoenix, Arizona, by car. While en route to Sam's
California home, she parks along the road to sleep. A highway patrol officer awakens her and, suspicious of her agitated state, begins to follow her. When
she trades her car for another one at a dealership, he notes the new vehicle's details. Marion returns to the road but, rather than drive in a heavy storm,
decides to spend the night at the Bates Motel.
Owner Norman Bates tells Marion he rarely has customers because of a new interstate highway nearby and mentions he lives with his mother Norma in the
house overlooking the motel. He invites Marion to have supper with him. She overhears Norman arguing with his mother about letting Marion in the house;
and, during the meal, she angers him by suggesting he institutionalize his mother. He admits he would like to do so, but he does not want to abandon her.
Later that night, while Marion is changing, Norman secretly watches her from a peephole in his office and masturbates before heading back to the house.
Marion resolves to return to Phoenix to return the money. After calculating how she can repay the money she has spent, Marion dumps her notes down the
toilet and begins to shower. An unidentified female figure, presumed to be Norman's mother, enters the bathroom and stabs Marion to death. Later, finding
the corpse, Norman is horrified. He cleans the bathroom and places Marion's body, wrapped in the shower curtain, and all her possessions—including the
money—in the trunk of her car and sinks it in a nearby swamp.
Sam is contacted by both Marion's sister, Lila, and private detective Milton Arbogast, who has been hired by Marion's employer to find her and recover the
money. Arbogast traces Marion to the motel and questions Norman, who lies unconvincingly that Marion stayed for one night and left the following
morning. He refuses to let Arbogast talk to his mother, claiming she is ill. Arbogast calls Lila to update her and tells her he will contact her again in an hour
after he questions Norman's mother.
Arbogast enters Norman's house and, at the top of the stairs, is attacked and murdered by the Mother figure. When Arbogast does not call Lila, she and Sam
contact the local police. Deputy Sheriff Al Chambers is perplexed to hear that Arbogast saw a woman in a window, as Mrs. Bates had been dead for ten years.
Norman confronts his mother and urges her to hide in the cellar. She rejects the idea and orders him out of her room, but Norman carries her to the cellar
against her will.
Posing as a married couple, Sam and Lila check into the motel and search the room Marion had occupied. They find a scrap of paper in the toilet with
"$400,000" written on it. While Sam distracts Norman, Lila sneaks into the house to search for his mother. Sam suggests to Norman that he killed Marion for
the money so he could buy a new motel. Realizing Lila is not around, Norman knocks Sam unconscious with a golf club and rushes to the house. Lila sees him
and hides in the cellar where she discovers the mummified body of Norman's mother. Wearing his mother's clothes and a wig and carrying a knife, Norman
enters and tries to attack Lila. But Sam, having regained consciousness, subdues him with Lila's help.
After Norman's arrest, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Simon Richmond tells Sam and Lila that Norman's dead mother is living in Norman's psyche as an alternate
personality. After the death of Norman's father, his mother found a lover. Norman went over the edge with jealousy and murdered both of them. He stole
her corpse and preserved the body. When he is Mother, he acts, talks and dresses as she would. Norman imagined his mother would be as jealous of a
woman to whom he might be attracted just as he was of his mother's lover, and so Mother kills any woman for whom Norman has feelings. When Norman
regains consciousness, he believes that his mother has committed the crime and covers up for her. Richmond concludes that the Mother personality has now
taken complete control of Norman's mind, erasing his existence.