Sentences with phrase «hallucinatory thriller»

Set amid the icy old - world charm of Vienna, the fragmentary romantic drama builds into a hallucinatory thriller, as Harvey Keitel's police detective — sans accent but with killer shoulder - length John the Baptist locks — begins to question Garfunkel over Russell's abortive suicide attempt and forces us to reconsider all that's gone before.

Starring Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Aaron Johnson, John Travolta, Benicio del Toro and Salma Hayek, Savages is «a stylish, violent, hallucinatory thriller.»

Not exact matches

The film works on multiple levels — as a supernatural thriller (though explicit paranormal elements are limited to a hallucinatory dream sequence and the final shot of the baby's eyes), as a psychological thriller about a paranoid pregnant woman who imagines herself at the centre of a conspiracy, and as the last word in marital betrayal, since the most despicable villain here is surely Guy, who allows his wife to be raped by the devil in exchange for an acting role.

Wormwood is assembled as a hallucinatory, psychologically penetrating collage and plays like a pulse - pounding thriller, a damning indictment of institutional malfeasance, and a chilling portrait of both self - destructive obsession and the elusiveness of truth.

Like Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan, this psychological thriller plumbs the violence of the mind with hallucinatory brilliance.