Thursday Movie Picks #12: Unstable Characters

Hello and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks! The Halloween Edition! Brace yourself for some scary flicks as for 5 Thursdays in the month of October, the themes will all be Halloween related. 

October 2 - Unstable Characters (characters that seemed off...eg. Donnie Darko)
October 9 - Zombie Movies
October 16 - Found Footage Movies
October 23 - Vampire Movies
October 30 - Haunted Buildings

As you can see there are some fun themes in the coming weeks. So if you haven't join us already, now is definitely the time to.

Before we start let's go through some of the simple rules for the newbies; Each week there is a topic for you to create a list of three movies. Your picks can either be favourites/best, worst, hidden gems, or if you're up to it one of each. For more information and future topics please visit the Thursday Movie Picks page here.

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Unstable Characters (characters that seemed off...eg. Donnie Darko)

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Stories with unstable characters are always interesting because things are almost never as they seem. Here are some of my favourites as usual in alphabetical order:

Orphan (2009) - "A husband and wife who recently lost their baby adopt a 9-year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent as she claims to be."

There are so many creepy kids movies that it can be a sub genre itself and Orphan is one of the newer entries. Esther the orphan is the creepy kid in this movie and she is definitely weird. She wears clothes that look like they belong to a few decades before and always has this ribbon choker thing around her neck which reminds me of an eerie folk tale of sorts of a ribbon wearing woman. Possessing a mature intelligence, Esther charms her way into the hearts of her adoptive parents, but its clear to us pretty soon that Esther has more than some anger management issues

Psycho (1960) - "A Phoenix secretary steals $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother."
This is a classic. I'm not sure anyone could ever go into this not knowing anything. I kind of wonder if I had known nothing of Psycho, would I have guessed when Marion first meets Norman that Norman was off his rocker? 

Stoker (2013) - "After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him."  

The story is somewhat similar to a certain Hitchcock movie (which I heard it was inspired by and shall not be name here so as to not be a spoiler) but has a different interesting twist to it. In Stoker, India is a quiet loner who has just lost her father and the arrival of her creepy Uncle Charlie is about to further shake her idyllic existence and awaken a suppressed side of her. Visually Stoker is just so pretty to look at despite the disturbing premise. Everything is just so stylish and immaculate which just heightens the suspense and tension incredibly well as we wait for that something terrible we know is coming to finally come out.

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So that's it...my three picks. What three movies made your list today?

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