It’s not just Saturday anymore! For today is a day when everyone is off. A day of mass frenzy to get in all those demented delights that screamed in the back of your mind all week long. A day to relieve some tension or unwind-figuratively and mentally. Why not join the ever growing masses of hysteria celebrating the insanity of – well- it all! Spiraling lives contorting down that drain of society in a frenzy of delusion and paranoia. Don’t fight the urges, let loose and unravel with the rest of the world and make your Saturday truly PSYCHOTIC! Or you can just play it safe and lock your doors, close your blinds, hold that butcher knife you keep under your mattress close to your chest and enjoy these six twisted and tortured tales of disturbed souls. Celebrate the crazy with the deranged for it PSYCHOTIC SATURDAYS!6. Secret Window (2004)
Based on a story by Stephen King, “Secret Window” is one adaptation of his work that got it right. Johnny Depp truly delivers on psychotic performance as Mort Rainey. Not to give the whole plot away for future serials of psychosis I will just say that sometimes one must get all up in the minds to end break that block. In this case it is writers block which Rainey is finally free from as he writes one hell of a novel that carries just a little more than his blood, sweat and tears. It also demands his sanity- or insanity in this case.
5. Black Swan (2010)
Who knew that ballet could be so intense? “Black Swan” shows just how intense it can be to win that coveted role as “the swan queen”. For Natalie Portman it was maybe too intense for her own sanity. As she fights to keep up her “A” game as the lead Nina Sayers also fights keep from going crazy. Poor poor Nina it truly was a loosing battle for her as the role twists her into one truly crazy loon. To play the swan queen one must become the swan queen. In Nina’s case it became a literal transformation into the role a true psychotic.
4. American Psycho (2000)
“American Psycho” gives us Christian Bale as one truly fucked up and yet some pretty together psychopath. He plays a man with everything, everything that is except his sanity. He has the career he wanted, the money, the clothes and the body. He also has narcissistic and antisocial tendencies that are expressed through homicidal impulses. Apparently the pressures of having it all and being on top can really do some major mental damage. This guy may look together but that boy ain’t right. Just proves what I have always said-“that reflection may shine pretty but it is only hidden the cracks”!
3. “The Shining” (1980)
Jack Nicholson plays Jack Torrance in this film, as another adaptation of Mr. King’s work that got it write. “The Shining” gives us the delightful delusions of a struggling writer who takes up a job caring for one hell of a resort. Sadly for ole’ Jackie the isolated opportunity that writers crave does nothing for his goals nor his family. However if he set out to explore his delusional and homicidal rage as he isolates himself from reality then – goal achieved! This is truly one evil evolution from family man to family maniac. All work and no play makes Jackie a dull boy! Redrum muthah-fuckah!
2. Mr. Brooks (2007)
“Mr. Brooks” shines a dark light on a truly evil character – the corporate leader! A man sitting on top of the world admired by all as a god of commerce literally squishing the tiny little heads of the ants around him. A true psychotic who has been watched closely but an admirer who wants to learn from the master. Not how to be a successful business man but how to be a psychotically methodical killer. Mr. Brooks is an apex maniac who soon has to prove why he is the master of all thinks psychopathic.
1. Peeping Tom (1960)
“Peeping Tom” is truly a psychotic classic. The film follows a young director obsessed with getting that perfect shot and capturing the pure beauty and simplicity of that final scene. Of coarse that final scene that he captures is of him instilling fear in his victims just as he moves in for the kill. What better cinematic ambition could there be! Hey but it isn’t his fault that he is a homicidal maniac, his daddy made him do it. Poor Mark was raised as a lab rat in his farther psychological quest to study fear and the nervous system based on various catalysts. This film just proves that insanity is truly a hallmark moment and it is only a snuff film if you don’t have quality production!
So here are the first six psychotic flicks to to feed your maniacal minds. What do all these have in common besides expressing the beauty of the deliciously deranged? They show just how far one can go as they claw and scratch their way to the top of the human pile to achieve their glorious goals. They prove that ambition and the right path to ones future can truly be a pathway to madness where even those few who seem to have it all paved their way with blood, sweat and tears – of their victims of coarse- but they paid with their sanity. Now go make your Saturday a truly Psychotic Saturday!
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