The Psychological Horror of Insanity: Losing Grip on Reality

The Overlook Hotel is the setting of Stephen King's novel "The Shining" and the subsequent film adaptation.

Norman Bates is the motel owner and murderer in the film "Psycho" who suffers from dissociative identity disorder, also known as split personality.

The narrator in "The Tell-Tale Heart" is driven to kill the old man due to his insanity and obsession with the old man's "vulture eye."

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the novel "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" in 1886.

Buffalo Bill is the serial killer in the film "The Silence of the Lambs" who skins his victims and makes a suit out of their skin.

Patrick Bateman is the main character in the novel "American Psycho" who is a wealthy investment banker who leads a double life as a serial killer.

Nina Sayers is the main character in the film "Black Swan" who is a ballerina who becomes obsessed with achieving perfection.

Shirley Jackson wrote the novel "The Haunting of Hill House" in 1959.

The Babadook is the monster that haunts Amelia and Samuel in the film "The Babadook".

Jane is the main character in the novel "The Yellow Wallpaper" who is driven to insanity by her confinement in a room with yellow wallpaper.

The Armitages are the family who kidnaps Chris and tries to brainwash him in the film "Get Out."

Iain Banks wrote the novel "The Wasp Factory" in 1984.

Thomas Wake is the lighthouse keeper who descends into madness in the film "The Lighthouse."

The Narrator in the novel "Fight Club" suffers from dissociative identity disorder and creates an alter ego named Tyler Durden.

The Southern Reach Expedition is the team that enters the mysterious quarantined zone known as "The Shimmer" in the film "Annihilation."