If You Loved Shutter Island, Watch These 8 Next

You finished Shutter Island, stared at the wall for a while, and now you want that feeling again. Here's the prescription. No spoilers, doctor's orders.

Number one is better than Shutter Island. Yes, really. Start sharpening your comments.

1. 8
   Rear Window (1954)9.8

   The original 'is he paranoid or right?' movie.

   James Stewart, stuck in a chair, sure he saw something nobody believes. Same 'am I losing it?' itch as Shutter Island. Metacritic 100, a 9.8 movie.guru score, reported $1M budget.
2. 7
   Chinatown (1974)9.6

   A detective in way over his head, in sunshine.

   Jack Nicholson pulls one thread and the whole town unravels. Shutter Island's slow-dread investigation, minus the storm. 98% on Rotten Tomatoes. The pace will test phone-addicted brains.
3. 6
   12 Monkeys (1995)7.7

   The most underrated mental hospital movie on this list.

   Bruce Willis locked up, insisting he's telling the truth. Sound familiar? Only a 7.7 movie.guru score, but Guru's Take is 8.4 and Brad Pitt is gloriously unhinged.
4. 5
   Gone Girl (2014)8.0

   Fincher turns a missing-person case into a hall of mirrors.

   Ben Affleck, a missing wife, and a story that keeps rearranging itself under you. Audiences gave it a B CinemaScore, which means it rattled them. Guru's Take: 8.7.
5. 4
   Memento (2000)9.5

   Shutter Island's closest cousin. Nolan just shuffled the deck.

   Guy Pearce hunts a killer with no short-term memory, told backwards. Same 'can you trust this guy's head?' itch. Over 1.46 million IMDb votes on a reported $5M to $9M budget.
6. 3
   Vertigo (1958)9.6

   The obsession movie every psychological thriller quietly steals from.

   James Stewart again, now spiraling over a woman he can't let go. Metacritic 100. It made just $7.9M domestic in 1958, and the first hour still drags.
7. 2
   Get Out (2017)8.7

   A horror movie disguised as a weekend with the in-laws.

   Daniel Kaluuya in a house where everyone's too calm. Shutter Island's 'something is very wrong here' dread, built on a reported $4.5M budget that grossed $259.7M worldwide.
8. 1
   Mulholland Drive (2001)9.0

   This is better than Shutter Island. Fight me.

   Naomi Watts in a Hollywood dream that curdles into a nightmare. Same identity-melting puzzle, zero answers handed out. Only $7.2M domestic, but a 9.0 movie.guru score and 9.2 Guru's Take.

$419.17 says you finish Mulholland Drive and search 'Mulholland Drive explained' before the credits are done.

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