Reflecting the anxiety of the age, this year's best thrillers have run a gamut of phobias, from the environmental terror of Norwegian disaster movie The Wave to the paranoia of ill intentions that informs Karyn Kusama's supremely
creepy slow burn The Invitation, about a seemingly friendly dinner party and the one guest who begins to suspect that things are not what they seem.
Directed by Shyamalan himself, the pilot is a marvel of
creepy slow burn.
Not exact matches
It's
slow burn of a movie, more eerily atmospheric than truly scary with great cinematography, fantastic makeup, and a
creepy score.
A bizarro Grand Guignol psychological thriller about a young business executive (Dane DeHaan) who is sent to a rehabilitation spa in the Swiss Alps from which no one ever leaves, «A Cure for Wellness» is a
creepy,
slow -
burning exploration of the porous boundary between health and sickness, sanity and madness, packed with disturbing, visually striking images of slithering eels, torturous dentistry and eerily empty hallways.
This film is a great mix of
creepy slow -
burn almost Hammer like atmosphere with a solid horror angle mixed it.
It's an interesting mystery and it's clearly meant to be a
slow -
burn kind of
creepy movie, ramping up to all the running and teeth - losing in the trailer.
With a movie so heavily focused on a
slow -
burning mystery and soaking its story in so much
creepy tension, you don't get the ending you're expecting; far from it, actually.