Collider's 10 most twisted thrillers of last 25 years: Antichrist tops list

Collider published a Jan. 29, 2026 list by Robert, a Chicago-area film writer, ranking the 10 most twisted thrillers of the last 25 years, with Lars von Trier’s Antichrist (2009) named the most twisted. The piece calls Antichrist a “manic and uncompromising” work inspired by von Trier’s experiences with clinical depression and anxiety, noting its masochistic grief, sexual violence and unsettling dream sequences as reasons it sits atop the list.

The article cites the film’s willingness to alienate viewers as central to its power. Collider places Speak No Evil (2022) at No. 2 for its bleak, escalating sadism and a finale the author describes as among film’s most dour; Oldboy (2003) is No. 3 for its 15-year captivity, nihilistic revenge and painful final twist; The Skin I Live In (2011) is No.

4 for Pedro Almodóvar’s eerie, sadistic plastic-surgery story; and Goodnight Mommy (2014) is No. 5 for its child-driven torture plot and a harrowing third-act reveal. The remaining entries include Revenge (2017) at No. 6, noted as a blood-soaked contemporary rape-revenge thriller; Titane (2021) at No.

7 for its hybrid of body horror, murder and shocking imagery; Irreversible (2002) at No. 8 for Gaspar Noé’s reverse-order, infamous rape-revenge shock; Swallow (2019) at No. 9 for its unsettling premise of compulsive ingestion; and Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020) at No.

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