Vertigo (1958)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
the following contains spoilers.

WHAT I WAS EXPECTING

I had no idea what this film was about. All I could guess from the poster was that the main characer falls, metaphorically or literally, into a twisty and complicated situation.

SE7EN (1995)

Directed by David Fincher
the following contains spoilers.

WHAT I WAS EXPECTING
Detectives race against time to hunt down a serial killer who conducts his killings based on the seven deadly sins. The film ends in a tense showdown in a field. And there's a box.



How to get a head in crime investigation

Psycho (1960)

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
the following contains spoilers.

WHAT I WAS EXPECTING
A women goes to stay at a hotel. A crazy old man runs the hotel and stabs the woman in the shower in the first third of the film. There's an old lady who's either the man's wife or mother or something and you find out at the end that she's dead.



I am Murderous (Yellow)

Road to Perdition (2002)

Directed by Sam Mendes

the following contains spoilers.

WHAT I WAS EXPECTING
Tom Hanks thinks the world is going to the dogs so he decides to intervene in his son's life.

It was a dark and stormy night

Metropolis (1927)

2010 Restored Edition

Directed by Fritz Lang

the following contains spoilers.

WHAT I WAS EXPECTING

A huge city in the future is sustained by an oppressed working class. A scientist is commisioned by the goverment to create an android in female form. But for what reason? Will the android lead a revolt? Will someone fall in love with the android? Will I be able to make it through a two hour silent film?

Cyborgs and the City 

Alien (1979)

Directed by Ridley Scott
the following contains spoilers.

WHAT I WAS EXPECTING

Space explorers find aliens, aliens try and kills space explores. Space explorers return to the science center on earth but one of the creatures is living inside one of the astronauts and rips through his chest. Astronauts and scientists have to stop the Aliens from reproducing, breaking out of the science center, and infecting earth. They must not be entirely successful because many sequels follow.

In space no one can hear you complain about Prometheus

Blade Runner (1982)

1992 Director's Cut
Directed by Ridley Scott

the following contains spoilers.

WHAT I WAS EXPECTING
In the future, Harrison Ford is a detective. There are flying cars and video-screen billboards on sky scrapers. Everyone behaves like they are in an old-timey 1940s film noir. The detective is caught up in a case involving very life-like robots. As he investigates, he encounters fetching femme fatales and has run ins with spiky-haired punks in seedy Asian bars. Harrison Ford is probably a robot too but it's ambiguous.

Starring Harrison Ford, Sean Young and Harrison Ford's gun wielding twin