Psycho (1960) Director Alfred Hitchcock bought rights to this novel, and as many copies of the novel as he could to keep the ending a secret. While Eve is undergoing psychotherapy, a third “face” emerges-that of “Jane,” who reveals that she endured childhood trauma when forced to kiss her grandmother’s corpse during an open-casket funeral. She is entirely unaware of her alter ego, Eve Black-who is a wild woman that enjoys dancing, drinking, and cheating on her husband.

Eve White is a quiet, obedient, and rather dull housewife and mother who suffers from blackouts and memory lapses. Released the same year as the bestselling book of the same name by two psychiatrists who based their tome on a case study of a patient named Chris Costner Sizemore, The Three Faces of Eve stars Joanne Woodward in all three title roles.

The Three Faces of Eve (1957) Real-life Eve signed three different contracts for each of her personalities to protect the studio from any possible legal action. Then, when triggered by anxiety and not taking the serum, he finds that he morphs into Mr. He also develops an antidote that can bring him back to the good and non-murderous Dr. Hyde, a malevolent character who begins murdering the people around him. Jekyll decides to take the potion himself and transforms into the bestial Mr. He concocts a chemical compound that can conjure a person’s evil side by experimenting on animals such as guinea pigs and rabbits. Henry Jekyll is a prominent London physician who is fascinated with the fact that all humans have the potential for both good and evil inside them, so he wonders whether he can develop a serum that rids a person of evil and isolates the good. In this cinematic adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic 1886 novel Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Spencer Tracy stars in the dual-title roles. Hyde (1941) The first horror movie ever to win an Academy Award. Here are some of the most enduring and famous films that deal with split personalities. Hyde-in real life, the differences are much more subtle. Jekyll is the complete opposite of the evil Mr. Although for dramatic effect, films often make the personality states as different as night and day-for example, the mild-mannered Dr. Brad Pitt in the violent and chaotic movie Fight Club (1999).īecause split personalities are so rare and misunderstood and were once thought to have been caused by demonic possession, they are fascinating enough to have become a movie trope going back at least as far as the 1940s. The following are the best lines from Split, which is just one of several January 2017 films in theaters along with the likes of Monster Trucks, Sleepless, Patriots Day, and Hidden Figures.Having a split personality is officially known as “dissociative identity disorder.” It is diagnosed when one person has two or more personalities and has a mental “blackout” when transitioning between them. To escape and survive, the girls must work with the different personalities to persuade one to help them flee before they end up hurt or worse. Each seem to know why the girls are being held captive and talk about the last personality, the beast, who will kill them. The teens are visited by Kevin's various personalities, including one who thinks she's a British woman and another who thinks he's a nine-year-old boy. The girls think that if they band together, they can overpower Kevin and escape but soon they realize that it's not three against one, but three against Kevin's 24 personalities. Kevin continues to abduct the girls and lock them in a furnished, windowless room. In Split, three teenage girls, Casey (Anya Taylor-Joy), Claire (Haley Lu Richardson) and Marcia (Jessica Sula) are sitting in a car in the middle of the day waiting for a parent to drive when a strange man, Kevin (James McAvoy) gets in. Split opened in theaters in the United States on January 20, 2017. The psychological thriller was written and directed by M. This movie told the story about one man with multiple personalities who kidnaps three teenage girls.

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