top 5 psycho chicks in indie flicks

Aaah, crazy girls. How could life seem ‘normal’ without them? Perhaps nowhere is this made more chilling and evident than the movies. Although such mainstream fare as “Fatal Attraction” and “Single White Female” may be the best known entries in this spine tingling genre, leave it to Urban Monarch to point out some lesser known freak shows of the feminine mind.

Top 5 psycho chicks in indie flicks

5. Swimfan

High school romance between the popular jock and the newly arrived outsider; cliched fodder for a thousand typical ‘romantic comedy’ style teen flicks? Of course. Replace typical ‘newly arrived outsider’ with the strikingly sexual-stalker-insanity of Erika Christensen however and the popular jock with increasingly freaked out Jesse Bradford and you’ve got the perfect recipe for carazy times.

4. Crimen Ferfecto (The Perfect Crime)

Truly bizarre Spanish film about a department store clerk and self proclaimed ‘ladies man’ who runs into trouble when he accidentally kills his in-store rival. After the ugliest employee in the store, Lourdes, helps him dispose of the corpse, he finds himself indebted to her in ways you can’t imagine.

3. Love Me If You Dare

To be fair, it could easily be said that both the male and female leads in this film prove themselves mentally uh, ‘unstable’, but we’ll call it a ‘psycho chick flick’ nonetheless. An engaging plot surrounding two childhood friends who grow up playing a bizarre game of constantly escalating truth or dare (well, actually just ‘dare or dare’); the jaw-droppingly horrific culmination of their antics in the final scene stands as one of the most disturbing images I’ve ever seen. And uh, I’ve seen some stuff.

2. Wicker Park

Set to an absolutely spectacular soundtrack featuring everyone from The Postal Service and Broken Social Scene to Mogwai (!!!!), Wicker Park tells an intriguing tale of love lost. Josh Harnett plays Matt, a Chicago area business man obsessed with finding his true love; a woman who apparently disappeared into thin air two years prior. After catching a fleeting glipse of her in a local bar his investigation begins in earnest, culminating with the discovery of the true reason she’s dropped off his radar. This movie is a gorgeous piece of cinema, and girls seem unanimously intrigued with it. Keep it in mind the next time you’re planning a date night ‘in’.

1.  He Loves Me He Loves Me Not

Anyone who fell in love with uber-cute Audrey Tautou in the warm and fuzzy “Amelie” is sure to be shocked by her turn in this completely fucked up piece of French madness.  “He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not” is ingenious in its technique.  It tells the same story, of a girl (Tautou) trying to win the affection of a distant (married) doctor twice; first, from her candy colored, ripe with romance perspective.  Then..  from his.  I can honestly say I just got chills typing those last three words, and anyone who’s seen this disturbing tale would likely agree.

Honorable Mention:  having nothing but the highest regard for Glenn’s taste in cinema, I’ll tack “Audition” on to the end of the list.  He assures me it redefines the bounds of female psychosis, and though I believe him, having not seen it (yet) myself procludes it from inclusion on the list proper.

How about you?  Comment away on your own choices.