To get ideas for, and feed into, our upcoming HVN Film Night on Friday 22 May (8-9.30pm UK time), we want to know what films you know feature voices, visions or other extreme states. We will be showing clips from a shortlist of films and choosing our ‘film night award winners’ with the help of an audience vote on the night.
Whether you’re a film buff, or an occasional viewer – it’d be great if you could fill out our polls below. The first one is your chance to list all the films you’re aware of. The other ones are there to get a sense of which films stand out to you as interesting, accurate, stigma-busting or stigma-increasing.
We’ve started you off with a few examples … but please add your own too. We want these lists to grow 🙂
List all the films you know about that feature voices, visions or extreme states
Please add extra examples to the list! If you want to say more about the films you add, just add a comment to this post. We want to hear about the good, the bad and the quirky. We’re happy to hear about films that are meant to feature voices/visions, as well as those that take a more symbolic or metaphorical route.
- A Beautiful Mind 13%, 5 votes5 votes 13%5 votes - 13% of all votes
- Split 10%, 4 votes4 votes 10%4 votes - 10% of all votes
- Donnie Darko 10%, 4 votes4 votes 10%4 votes - 10% of all votes
- The Sixth Sense 10%, 4 votes4 votes 10%4 votes - 10% of all votes
- Shutter Island 10%, 4 votes4 votes 10%4 votes - 10% of all votes
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 5%, 2 votes2 votes 5%2 votes - 5% of all votes
- Bird Man* 5%, 2 votes2 votes 5%2 votes - 5% of all votes
- Sucker Punch 5%, 2 votes2 votes 5%2 votes - 5% of all votes
- The Beach 5%, 2 votes2 votes 5%2 votes - 5% of all votes
- Constantine 5%, 2 votes2 votes 5%2 votes - 5% of all votes
- INK - Jamie Winans* 3%, 1 vote1 vote 3%1 vote - 3% of all votes
- X-men 3%, 1 vote1 vote 3%1 vote - 3% of all votes
- Inside Out 3%, 1 vote1 vote 3%1 vote - 3% of all votes
- The Fisher King* 3%, 1 vote1 vote 3%1 vote - 3% of all votes
- Mad Max: Fury Road 3%, 1 vote1 vote 3%1 vote - 3% of all votes
- Psycho 3%, 1 vote1 vote 3%1 vote - 3% of all votes
- Field of Dreams 3%, 1 vote1 vote 3%1 vote - 3% of all votes
- Stranger Then Fiction 3%, 1 vote1 vote 3%1 vote - 3% of all votes
- Bringing Out The Dead 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
Which films do you think have the most accurate portrayal?
Everyone’s different – so here we’re looking for films that you feel are close to your own experience, or to the experience of someone you know personally.
- Shutter Island 17%, 2 votes2 votes 17%2 votes - 17% of all votes
- Undone* 8%, 1 vote1 vote 8%1 vote - 8% of all votes
- X-men 8%, 1 vote1 vote 8%1 vote - 8% of all votes
- A Beautiful Mind 8%, 1 vote1 vote 8%1 vote - 8% of all votes
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 8%, 1 vote1 vote 8%1 vote - 8% of all votes
- Split 8%, 1 vote1 vote 8%1 vote - 8% of all votes
- The Sixth Sense 8%, 1 vote1 vote 8%1 vote - 8% of all votes
- Donnie Darko 8%, 1 vote1 vote 8%1 vote - 8% of all votes
- Field of Dreams 8%, 1 vote1 vote 8%1 vote - 8% of all votes
- Constantine 8%, 1 vote1 vote 8%1 vote - 8% of all votes
- Bringing Out The Dead 8%, 1 vote1 vote 8%1 vote - 8% of all votes
- Sucker Punch 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- Inside Out 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- Stranger Than Fiction 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- Psycho 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- The Beach 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- Mad Max: Fury Road 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
Please add extra examples to the list! If you want to say more about the films you add, just add a comment to this post.
Which films do you think have the most interesting portrayal?
This might include films that you find intriguing, that approach the topic from an interesting angle or add something that makes you think. They don’t have to be explicitly/knowingly about voices/visions to count.
- Split 17%, 2 votes2 votes 17%2 votes - 17% of all votes
- A Beautiful Mind 17%, 2 votes2 votes 17%2 votes - 17% of all votes
- Constantine 8%, 1 vote1 vote 8%1 vote - 8% of all votes
- Sucker Punch 8%, 1 vote1 vote 8%1 vote - 8% of all votes
- X-Men: Days of Future Past 8%, 1 vote1 vote 8%1 vote - 8% of all votes
- Shutter Island 8%, 1 vote1 vote 8%1 vote - 8% of all votes
- The Sixth Sense 8%, 1 vote1 vote 8%1 vote - 8% of all votes
- Donnie Darko 8%, 1 vote1 vote 8%1 vote - 8% of all votes
- Just like me. Though the goodness of my alters developed better coping strategies than taking people captive to play out their experiences of abuses.* 8%, 1 vote1 vote 8%1 vote - 8% of all votes
- Inside Out 8%, 1 vote1 vote 8%1 vote - 8% of all votes
- Psycho 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- Bringing Out The Dead 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- Stranger Than Fiction 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- Mad Max: Fury Road 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- The Beach 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- Field of Dreams 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
Please add extra examples to the list! If you want to say more about the films you add, just add a comment to this post.
Which films do you think have the most stigma-increasing portrayal?
This might include films which you feel add to the stigma, discrimination, misinformation and prejudice that can surround voices, visions and extreme states. The kind of films you wish the team had come and spoken to people who hear voices first (to stop them getting it so badly wrong).
- Psycho 23%, 3 votes3 votes 23%3 votes - 23% of all votes
- A Beautiful Mind 15%, 2 votes2 votes 15%2 votes - 15% of all votes
- Shutter Island 15%, 2 votes2 votes 15%2 votes - 15% of all votes
- Split 15%, 2 votes2 votes 15%2 votes - 15% of all votes
- The Beach 8%, 1 vote1 vote 8%1 vote - 8% of all votes
- The Sixth Sense 8%, 1 vote1 vote 8%1 vote - 8% of all votes
- X-Men: Days of Future Past 8%, 1 vote1 vote 8%1 vote - 8% of all votes
- Just a schizophrenic total bullshit. Dissociative spectrum more like.* 8%, 1 vote1 vote 8%1 vote - 8% of all votes
- Field of Dreams 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- Bringing out The Dead 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- Inside Out 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- Mad Max: Fury Road 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- Stranger Than Fiction 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- Constantine 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- Donnie Darko 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- Sucker Punch 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
Please add extra examples to the list! If you want to say more about the films you add, just add a comment to this post.
Which films do you think have the stigma-busting portrayal?
This might include films you think that challenge the stereotype (in a good way) and/or might provide some helpful non-stigmatising messages about voices/visions to the audience.
- A Beautiful Mind 29%, 2 votes2 votes 29%2 votes - 29% of all votes
- Shutter Island 14%, 1 vote1 vote 14%1 vote - 14% of all votes
- Constantine 14%, 1 vote1 vote 14%1 vote - 14% of all votes
- Donnie Darko 14%, 1 vote1 vote 14%1 vote - 14% of all votes
- Inside out 14%, 1 vote1 vote 14%1 vote - 14% of all votes
- The Sixth Sense 14%, 1 vote1 vote 14%1 vote - 14% of all votes
- Sucker Punch 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- Stranger Than Fiction 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- Mad Max: Fury Road 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- X-Men: Days of Future Past 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- Field of Dreams 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- Psycho 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- The Beach 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- Split 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
- Bringing Out The Dead 0%, 0 votes0 votes0 votes - 0% of all votes
Please add extra examples to the list! If you want to say more about the films you add, just add a comment to this post.