Sentences with phrase «abduction thriller»
An abduction thriller is a type of story, usually a movie or a book, that focuses on the suspenseful and thrilling events surrounding a kidnapping or abduction of a person. Full definition
This fall's publishing season has a lot of abduction thrillers, an especially creepy trend considering the real - life stories of the three women in Ohio who were found this year after being held in captivity for a decade.
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Turkey two was this latest from wobbling director Atom Egoyan, a child abduction thriller starring Ryan Reynolds.
When director Robert Allen Schnitzer (Rebel, 1970) purchased the original script for The Premonition, it was just a conventional abduction thriller with some social concerns but no supernatural elements whatsoever.
Kidnap is an asinine child - abduction thriller spliced with a touch of the early Steven Spielberg TV movie «Duel,» and the most likable thing about it is that it is utter, unabashed garbage.
Though the curvy British actress was relegated to eye candy in «Prince of Persia,» the latest Bond adventure, and a «Clash of the Titans» remake, she showed acting chops in an underseen abduction thriller «The -LSB-...]
Atom Egoyan's film is a shiveringly tense abduction thriller: half - opaque and bitingly cold like the surface of a frozen lake.
It's around about this point that «Ransom» turns from straight - down - the - middle generic abduction thriller to something a bit different.
Do you read abduction thrillers?
Norton's true crime expertise and research into a real kidnapping situation set her apart from most other authors of abduction thrillers, so I hoped a Q&A with Norton would help illuminate the «why» of this trend.
That's not to say that «The Captive» is a total failure, but when compared to Denis Villeneuve's similarly themed «Prisoners,» it lacks the cutting edge that made that film such a gripping and emotionally powerful child abduction thriller.
A chilling atmosphere and big ideas compensate for a lack of credibility in this child - abduction thriller, writes Mark Kermode
In his disturbing child - abduction thriller, The Captive, writer / director Atom Egoyan explores the ambiguous nature of the human condition and how ordinary people react when drawn into dreadful circumstances.
The new movie, which held its premiere here Tuesday night ahead of its Paramount release this weekend, is alternatively an abduction thriller, monster flick, science - fiction reverie, character comedy, horror pinprick, apocalyptic drama, duct - tape - and - chewing - gum chamber piece and alien - invasion movie.
Halle Berry is much better at driving than she is at parenting in this lackluster child - abduction thriller.
But as I look into the fall mystery titles, it's clear that The Never List was just a starting shot to what looks to be the most disturbing trend of the year: abduction thrillers.
One of the best of these abduction thrillers is Carla Norton's debut, The Edge of Normal, the story of a former kidnapping victim who uses her experience to help a fellow victim.