Sentences with phrase «hitchcockian suspense film»

The list of horror, mystery, and suspense films

The whole finale is white - knuckled, some of the best aciton and suspense film - making I've ever seen.

He did several suspense films, including Johnny Allegro and Dangerous Profession, but it was his work on The Window that earned Tetzlaff a permanent place in the memories of filmgoers — a dark, chilling, and suspenseful thriller, based on the fable of the boy - who - cried - wolf, this film, about a young boy (Bobby Driscoll) known for telling tall tales, who witnesses a murder in his tenement building and can't get anyone to believe him, was an instant hit.

Some descriptions of The Salesman call it a thriller, suggesting a Hollywood - style suspense film.

A generally suspense filmed movie that unfortunately is flawed with the Randy Newman - wet dream piano soundtrack and schmaltzy - gee whizz ending.

Not dissimilar to Rosemary's Baby, the made - for - TV The Glow was supposed to have aired during the fall of 2001, but for various reasons (including an unofficial post-9 / 11 moratorium on suspense films set in New York) the film did not make its Fox Network bow until August 30, 2002.

An artificial human may or may not be the enemy in the dark suspense film «Morgan.»

Robert Redford leads an all - star cast in one of the most satisfying suspense films!

Ambiguity permeates almost every scene in new suspense film «Disorder.»

Wait Until Dark (1967) One of the best suspense films ever made, a tour - de-force for Audrey Hepburn and Alan Arkin.

Larraín has an interesting way of crafting his version of her story almost as if it's a suspense film with his central character always on the precipice of completely losing it.

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9 «The Lives of Others» With its slow - burn paranoia and pitch - perfect performances, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck «s Oscar - winning «The Lives of Others» (it beat out «Pan's Labyrinth» among others) works as a political suspense film for the majority of its running time.

However, those viewers looking for a good suspense film that breaks new ground will be very disappointed by the unrealistic set - up and poor delivery.

It's also a relentlessly entertaining suspense film.

On the other hand, almost all of his 50 - odd suspense films feature the same consistent excellence.

One of the greatest of all suspense films, this legendary French shocker is Clouzot's nerve - rending account of four expatriate drivers trying to escape a horrible little South American backwater by driving two truckloads of nitroglycerin to a burning oil field over dangerous mountain roads.

I highly recommend both this fine disc and the smart, sharp suspense film it holds; both are worthy of your time and money.

GET OUT An unbelievable achievement from a first time director and a film which has inspired discussion around an important subject in the way that the best horror / suspense films always do, utilising subversion and subtlety instead of bombast and realism.

Quirky little suspense film that earns all of its payoff.

Halloween is deeply fixed with our primal and elemental anxieties, due in large part to Carpenter's Hitchcockian sensibility for seizing and showing the enticing and tempting voyeurism that suspense films prize and applaud.

Alfred Hitchcock's iconic suspense films, like «North By Northwest,» are celebrated at the Stanford Theatre.

ZOE KAZAN FRACTURE, 2007 For those of us who favor crime and suspense films over gore, this pick is for you.

This stimulating exploration of people who willingly delve into the taboos of society to uncover the reasoning why others extract pleasure from forbidden activities is captivatingly presented in writer - director Joe Swanberg's new suspense film, ’24 Exposures.»

The weekend's other top 10 newcomer, Universal Pictures» PG - 13 suspense film Breaking In, bowed with about $ 17.6 million.

Excellent performances, with interesting twists on the original film, and compelling direction by THE FUGITIVE's Andrew Davis highlight this intruiging suspense film.

In most horror films, and indeed in most suspense films of the Alfred Hitchcock tradition, the characters are at the mercy of the plot.

For this reason, this is strictly for viewers that watch nearly every B - movie suspense film on the rental shelves, straight - to - video or otherwise, offering sensational escapism in place of plausibility, pressing the titillation button in our psyches whenever possible.

However, despite many easy attempts for the masked men to kill them, they hold themselves back, as a way of turning the planned murders into a game, into a suspense film within a suspense film.

While a terrific suspense film, only one surprise left many pundits wanting more.

Kwedar's script asks important questions, while at the same time delivering a thrilling suspense film that is easily among the best and most effecting work debuting at the 2016 SXSW film festival.

Unfortunately, what suspense the film manages to generate over the course of its first two acts dissipates in the final third, once Winchester goes from being quietly atmospheric to loud and over the top.

«Eye in the Sky» is both a white - knuckle suspense film and a freshman ethics seminar — and there will be a quiz.

We've seen many horror and suspense films with cults as the backdrop, either on - site at a commune or pulling strings in some shadowy or supernatural way, but there's never been one quite like The Endless from directing duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead.

The filmmakers went on the road with itinerant anarchists for their new eco-terrorist suspense film

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One of the great mystery suspense films, Chinatown makes its Blu - ray debut with a fairly fine feature presentation and all but one of its DVD bonus features intact.

Both are well - acted suspense films with good performances, and on an evening when there's nothing great on the video store shelves, the two films make for a nice double feature.

For those who enjoy old - fashioned espionage suspense films, very similar to the ones done by Hitchcock during the Forties, there's quite a bit to like in this throwback.

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What do you get when you take what is probably the greatest baseball film ever made («Eight Men Out»), a magical Irish fairytale («The Secret of Roan Inish»), a strange science fiction film about a mute, black alien who lands in Harlem («The Brother from Another Planet») and one of the best mystery / suspense films in recent years («Lone Star»)?

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But all Katz does here is to set up a slow - speed suspense film around the elusive personality and talents of this Girl Friday.

Like Die Hard and Rear Window before it, Panic Room pushes right to the dramatic and cinematic limits of a closed - space suspense film.

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The problem is that he tries to make a suspense film without any suspense.

Refn treats these characters not as people but as pop objects, and what he builds around them isn't a suspense film so much as an anything - goes dream play.

It also a comedy of manners, a Hitchcockian suspense film, and a sly parody of everything that is dull about modern French middlebrow films.

This 1949 thriller is based on a story by the great Cornell Woolrich, who probably provided more source material for suspense films than any writer in history.