Why you loved it
Movies like Shutter Island
Shutter Island ends with one question on the steps, and people still argue about what Teddy meant. Before that, they came for different things: the mystery, the dread of the island, or the grief at its centre. Here are three reasons people love it.
The 3 reasons people love Shutter Island
Read them all. One will sound more like you than the others.
A mystery that turns on you
This was your reason if…
- You watched it again straight away to see the clues.
- You noticed the glass of water that isn't there.
- The last line is the one you argue about.
A US marshal investigates a disappearance at an asylum, and every scene can be read two ways. The second viewing is a different film. If this is your reason, you want mysteries that make you doubt what you saw.
Gothic dread on an island
This was your reason if…
- The storm, the cliffs and Ward C.
- The music made you uneasy before anything happened.
- You liked feeling as lost as Teddy.
An island hospital for the criminally insane, a hurricane, a lighthouse nobody may enter, all of it scored with unsettling modern classical music. If this is your reason, you want slow, gothic films where the place itself is a threat.
A man haunted by loss
This was your reason if…
- The dream where Dolores turns to ash in his arms.
- The scene by the lake broke you.
- You felt for Teddy more than you expected.
Teddy can't stop dreaming about his wife, or forget what he saw in the war. Under the thriller, it's a film about what grief does to a mind. If this is your reason, you want dramas about loss and memory, even dark ones.
Picks that share your reasons
Memento2000
- The twist
- Grief
A man with no short-term memory hunts his wife's killer, the story told backwards. You'll doubt everything.
The Sixth Sense1999
- The twist
- Grief
A child psychologist and a boy who sees things he shouldn't. A film you'll want to see again the moment it ends.
The Others2001
- Dread
- The twist
A mother and her two children in a fog-bound house, waiting for the dark. Gothic, quiet and tense.
Prisoners2013
- Dread
- Grief
Two girls vanish on Thanksgiving, and a father goes too far to find them. Rain, dread and grief.
Gone Girl2014
- The twist
A wife disappears and her husband becomes the suspect. Nothing is what it looks like.
Fight Club1999
- The twist
An insomniac office worker meets a soap salesman and starts a club in a basement. Pay attention to the details.
Mystic River2003
- Grief
- Dread
From the same novelist, Dennis Lehane: three childhood friends, a murder, and a past that won't let go.
The Lighthouse2019
- Dread
Two lighthouse keepers on a storm-beaten rock slowly lose their minds. Black and white, and very strange.
Black Swan2010
- Dread
- The twist
A ballerina's hunt for perfection turns into horror, and you're never sure what's real.
Inception2010
- Grief
The same year, the same DiCaprio, another man haunted by his dead wife, inside dreams this time.
Reasons and picks chosen by the Ipsomap team. This application uses TMDB and the TMDB APIs but is not endorsed, certified, or otherwise approved by TMDB.
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