Sentences with phrase «basis for the suspense»

This is simple, blunt - force dramatic territory; the threat of rape is omnipresent throughout, and vulnerability provides the basis for the suspense.

I had a genre, and eventually worked out the theme within the series (which helped me work out catch - phrases like «serious thrills» — I tend to use domestic crimes and serious issues as a basis for the suspense (issues like stalking and hate crime for instance)-- not themes like ultimate world domination or destruction, or spy or technical suspense as found in different thriller sub-genres.

Not exact matches

Given a good basis for a thriller in the Patricia Highsmith novel and a first - rate script, Hitchcock embroiders the plot into a gripping, palm - sweating piece of suspense.

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.

This is a suggestive emptiness: a car racing down an empty rural highway, creating suspense; a sky that hangs ominously over a gas station, and then begins to fill with the fiery ribbons of a spy satellite breaking up in the atmosphere; people standing in empty fields and clearings in anticipation of the supernatural; the spotless white space of the test room of a secure government facility; the camera pivoting around NSA analyst Sevier (Adam Driver) as the massive hangars of an Army base flicker on one after another, readying for pursuit.

Based on the graphic novel series by Anthony Johnston and Steven Perkins, This movie is everything that was promised by the trailer: action, suspense, and the falling of old governments with distrust for everyone.

A pair of gray suede gloves abandoned on a department store counter; a small 35 mm still camera obscuring a woman's face except for her eyes; an electric train set; a finger on the disconnect button of a telephone; an ungloved, well - manicured hand resting briefly on another woman's shoulder: Todd Haynes's Carol is not a Hitchcockian thriller, although it is adapted from the second novel by Patricia Highsmith, whose first, Strangers on a Train, was the basis for one of the master of suspense's great movies.

Filmmaker Viet Nguyen impressively sustains suspense and paranoia, qualities he first demonstrated with the 2010 short of the same title and its 2013 sequel that loosely serve as the basis for this film.

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, is a nail - biting masterpiece of suspense, operating on a philosophical level that is as sophisticated as it is compelling.

Based on true events in the resistance against the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, the film is so effective at its generic thrills, the suspense and action sequences and quiet moments of melancholy patriotism and laments for lost comrades that form the core of the resistance / war film, everything from For Whom the Bell Tolls to Army of Shadows, that one almost doesn't notice that she's radically revised one of the most masculine of genres into a story about the unbreakability of womfor lost comrades that form the core of the resistance / war film, everything from For Whom the Bell Tolls to Army of Shadows, that one almost doesn't notice that she's radically revised one of the most masculine of genres into a story about the unbreakability of womFor Whom the Bell Tolls to Army of Shadows, that one almost doesn't notice that she's radically revised one of the most masculine of genres into a story about the unbreakability of women.

, a suspense - adventure story for grades 4 to 6 that is based on peer - reviewed science.

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.

• Maintained, monitored and processed suspense programs for more than 60 EPRs and distributed 166 copies of EPRs to several Base agencies.