I am more
aware of thriller authors, since this is the genre I read and write in, but perhaps you have other examples of hybrid authors — or perhaps you are one.
Not exact matches
Wan makes it almost a comedy
thriller as you're
aware of how he's toying with your emotions yet gleefully going along for the ride.
This could have been the West Coast camp equivalent
of the Southern fried neo-noir soft core sleaze fest Wild Things (1998), but Martin falls into the same self -
aware pretense many similarly set and structured Los Angeles indie
thrillers are prone to (Dennis Hauck's yet - to - be released Too Late starring John Hawke is another recent example
of this overly rehearsed, hopelessly contrived claptrap).
The aim
of a good
thriller was never clear to me until now — it should make you
aware of your own heartbeat.
In spite
of the ending being well known — and certainly it was in the trailer, so most viewers will be
aware now even if not before — he manages to turn Frost / Nixon into a
thriller of sorts, with tension building throughout.
Funny Games extends the counter-cinematic strategies
of alienation in the debut trilogy and superimposes the framework
of the generic structures
of the
thriller and the horror film in order to attract the very spectators who, according to Haneke, need to be critically
aware of the cine - televisual medium.
Audiences may not be
aware of Graham Greene's 1938 novel
thriller Brighton Rock, or its original 1947 adaptation starring Richard Attenborough.
What appears to be an elegant, self -
aware exploitation
thriller in costume drama dress reveals itself to be a love story hidden in a tale
of exploitation and allegiance and it rewards us with a perverse fairy tale ending, albeit a fairy tale where the big bad wolves are pornographers, forgers, and pimps.
It's not necessary they have perfect grammar skills or knowledge
of the genre (although they need to be
aware of the conventions, so they don't try to turn your sweet romance into a gritty
thriller, or vice versa.)
But if you're writing romance, you'd better have read Debbie Macomber, and if you have a wartime
thriller, you should be
aware of Mark Sullivan.