Mr. Gavin's quietly fascinating premise — combined with some stellar music, production design, and cinematography — provides all you need for
an effective thriller about the power / danger of blind faith, but A Dark Song is also backed by a pair of simply fantastic lead performances.
It's a smart and
effective thriller about a ghost that exploits the comforts of private, digital spaces that we create for ourselves online.
Not exact matches
Driftwood is presented and promoted as a horror movie with psychological elements, and while this is true, it undersells what is an
effective psycho
thriller, less
about gore and horror, more
about story and character.
What also makes 28 Days Later
effective, and sets it apart from other
thrillers, is that it makes you care
about the characters.
Breaking In This is an
effective home invasion
thriller about a woman, played by Gabrielle Union, fighting to protect her family from several maniacs.