The Comprehensive Movie Mind Fuck List Entry #17 The Conclusion

June 4, 2026

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! Couldn’t have planned this better if I had tried! Hahaha. Several months ago we started on this journey to explore the depths of our mindjob chaos movie list… One Hundred and Sixty Six movies. Ten per post, and now we find ourselves at the end of that journey. What a fun ride. Hopefully you found a bunch of movies in this list you have never heard of before… and hopefully you’ve been watching a lot of extra mindjobby movies in your spare time as a result. Because, after all, that has been the point.

And even I, the creator of this list (with lots of help from you all) am continuing to see movies on this list I haven’t watched, or don’t remember well… and I have been having tons of fun rewatching, and watching for the first time, many of these movies.

As one final reminder, here is our list of the criteria necessary to make a movie a mindjob movie… and our arbitrary rule is that each movie needs to have at least two of these criteria applied to it.

Reality is Untrustworthy
The Ending Reconstitutes Everything
Identity is Unstable
Time is Fractured
Psychological Dread
Moral Inversion.

Fantastic. With all that said, let’s finish off this list, shall we?

Mind Fuck Ranking: #6 of 166
The Shining (1980) • Read My Review
IMDB Rating: ★ 8.4 | Director: Stanley Kubrick
Genre: Horror
Mind Fuck Categories: Reality Untrustworthy, Psychological Dread
Synopsis: A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future.

Mind Fuck Ranking: #5 of 166
The Prestige (2006) • Taylor’s Pick
IMDB Rating: ★ 8.5 | Director: Christopher Nolan
Genre: Thriller / Drama
Mind Fuck Categories: Reality Untrustworthy, Ending Recontextualizes, Identity Unstable, Moral Inversion
Synopsis: Two friends and fellow magicians become bitter enemies after a sudden tragedy. As they devote themselves to this rivalry, they make sacrifices that bring them fame but, with terrible consequences.

Mind Fuck Ranking: #4 of 166
The Usual Suspects (1995)
IMDB Rating: ★ 8.5 | Director: Bryan Singer
Genre: Crime / Thriller
Mind Fuck Categories: Reality Untrustworthy, Ending Recontextualizes, Identity Unstable
Synopsis: The sole survivor of a pier shoot-out tells the story of how a notorious criminal influenced the events that began with five criminals meeting in a seemingly random police lineup.

Mind Fuck Ranking: #3 of 166
The Matrix (1999) • Read My Review
IMDB Rating: ★ 8.7 | Director: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Genre: Sci-Fi / Action
Mind Fuck Categories: Reality Untrustworthy, Identity Unstable, Psychological Dread, Moral Inversion
Synopsis: When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth–the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.

Mind Fuck Ranking: #2 of 166
Fight Club (1999) • Read My Review
IMDB Rating: ★ 8.8 | Director: David Fincher
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Mind Fuck Categories: Reality Untrustworthy, Ending Recontextualizes, Identity Unstable, Psychological Dread, Moral Inversion
Synopsis: An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.

Mind Fuck Ranking: #1 of 166
Inception (2010) • Read My Review
IMDB Rating: ★ 8.8 | Director: Christopher Nolan
Genre: Sci-Fi / Thriller
Mind Fuck Categories: Reality Untrustworthy, Time Fractured, Psychological Dread
Synopsis: A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a CEO, but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.

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Alrighty! There you have it. One Hundred and Sixty Six mindfuck movies for you to peruse, mine, plumb, and enjoy. I hope you enjoyed this journey into the depths of mindfuckery. Until next time!!