When Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaimed, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” he probably didn’t realize that he’d written a potential tagline for every paranoia-driven movie to follow that speech. The fears of paranoid characters are constructed, either by themselves or others around them, but our best filmmakers allow us to see the world from these fragile perspectives. Let’s immerse ourselves in the unsettling terror of the mind.

Remakes and sequels dominate the American horror movie market. If not blatantly derivative of their foreign counterpart, other movies of the genre emphasize gore and cheap shock over substance. But thank god for the filmmakers outside of the U.S. who consistently deliver psychological and philosophical horror films.