Sentences with phrase «killer thriller about»

Not exact matches

About four years ago, Lionsgate announced it was planning to remake «American Psycho,» the Wall Street serial killer psychological thriller that boasted a star - making turn by Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman.

«SEVEN,» a gruesome detective - thriller about a serial killer who ices egregious offenders of the seven deadly sins, portends an unpalatable combination of formulaic writing and unmitigated nastiness.

If The Raven would only settle down a little, take in all the atmosphere it's created rather than rush through it on the way to the next thrill, there could have been something interesting here, a period version of Copycat, the terrific little thriller from 1995 about a killer who recreates famous serial murders of the past.

Director David Fincher's stylish psychological thriller is set in the bowels of NYC and is about mismatched homicide detectives tracking down a biblically inspired elusive serial killer.

Director Joe Wright's follow up to The Soloist (2009) is an eclectic action thriller featuring Saoirse Ronan as a sixteen year old trained killer searching for answers about her past.

david j. moore chats with Kristanna Loken about her new film Black Rose... Action and serial killer suspense thriller collide with the new genre film Black Rose, starring Kristanna Loken and action star Alexander Nevsky.

Try Campion's controversial film In The Cut (2003), with Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo and Jennifer Jason Leigh, a dark and surprisingly existential thriller about a woman who may possibly have encountered a serial killer.

As reported by Deadline, Lily Collins has signed on for the «highly coveted role» of Elizabeth Kloepfer in Joe Berlinger's Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, And Vile, a thriller / biopic about serial killer Ted Bundy.

Released by United Artists in 1980, William Friedkin's notorious thriller about a straight cop (Al Pacino) who goes undercover in New York's hardcore gay leather scene to catch a serial killer remains to this day the most graphic representation of queer culture to come out of Hollywood.

Next week we get Ruby Sparks (very good, unexpected, non-traditional romantic comedy), Killer Joe (William Friedkin's grotty NC - 17 thriller, starring Matthew McConaughey), Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (documentary about the Chinese activist, said to be very inspiring), The Graduate (45th anniversary engagement of Mike Nichols» classic), Farewell My Queen (French period drama, said to be quite good), plus the wide releases of the Total Recall (possibly only for junk food fanatics, but who knows yet), so it's a good weekend to catch up on any holdovers you might have missed.

Charlie's difficulties in producing an «anti-narrative about flowers» is set against Donald's ease in producing a coveted bit of colluded formula called «The 3», a serial killer / multiple personality thriller that sets Hollywood ablaze.

Solace (R for sexuality, nudity, profanity, and pervasive violence and bloody images) Crime thriller about a psychic doctor (Anthony Hopkins) mourning the death of his daughter who joins forces with an FBI agent (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) to apprehend a serial killer (Colin Farrell).

Neat little B thriller about the manhunt for a crazed killer.

Even The Price of Salt — her second novel, adapted last year, by film director Todd Haynes, as Carol — was more than merely a lesbian love story (certainly a bold enough literary statement for 1952, when it was first published), occupying, in its intense focus on desire and its consequences, similar territory to Highsmith's thrillers about killers.

Meeting Evil (R for profanity and violence) Cajun country crime thriller about a depressed family man (Luke Wilson) who is kidnapped and taken on a killing spree by a demonic serial killer (Samuel L. Jackson).

Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw and Henry Barnes review a thriller about the real - life hunt for Robert Hansen, an Alaskan serial killer who murdered at least 17 women in the early 1980s

Then, next year brings Chris Evans» Cap back for a story ripped from Ed Brubaker's comic book run about Bucky (Sebastian Stan) recovered, resurrected, brainwashed and augmented into lethal killer Winter Soldier for what is promised as a blend of spy thriller and World War II hero Steve Rogers continuing to find his place in the modern world.

Dream House (PG - 13 for violence, terror, sexuality and brief profanity) Psychological thriller about a married couple (Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz) whose relocation from NYC to a quaint New England town leaves their family the target of the same sadistic killer who had brutally murdered the previous owners of their new home.

But the thing about this double - edged killer thriller is that it can alienate not only viewers with more delicate tastes but habitual consumers of spectacles of fictional violence.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening October 17, 2008 BIG BUDGET FILMS Max Payne (PG - 13 for profanity, sexuality, intense violence and drug use) Mark Wahlberg stars in the title role of this revenge thriller about a DEA agent and an assassin (Mila Kunis) who join forces to find the killers responsible for the murder of his family and her sister.

«The Following» — Golden Globe winner / Emmy nominee Kevin Bacon (Mystic River) and Rome's James Purefoy star in The Following, a cat - and - mouse thriller from Kevin Williamson (The Vampire Diaries), about a diabolical serial killer (Purefoy) and the psychologically scarred ex-FBI agent (Bacon) called in to stop him.

When: January 13th Why: It's pretty funny that a movie about counterfeiting should turn out to be an imitation itself (the Icelandic film on which its based featured the U.S. version's director, Baltasar Kormákur, in the lead role), but despite the fact that its clichéd plot seems to have been ripped off from a number of generic action thrillers just like it, «Contraband» has one thing that a lot of those films didn't — a killer ensemble cast.

cop Steve Burns (Al Pacino) is asked before going undercover in William Friedkin's dirty - scary thriller about a serial murderer preying on gay men in late - Seventies New York — in which everyone looks like Al Pacino, all the victims as well as the killer, which is why he's recruited: he's bait (and the movie keeps hinting — fuck — he might also be the killer).

Those hailing «Dexter» as an antiheroic crime thriller need to consider the storyline about the tough - talking Latina cop who has her heart softened by an Elian Gonzalez clone, or the revelation that Dexter might not be a serial killer after all, but a teddy bear with issues.

(In Persian and English with subtitles) Surveillance (R for drug use, pervasive profanity, graphic violence and deviant sexuality) Crime thriller about a couple of FBI Agents (Julia Ormond and Bill Pullman) who try to track down a serial killer in Santa Fe with the help of three eyewitnesses (Pell James, Ryan Simpkins and Kent Harper).

I Am Wrath (R for profanity and violence) Revenge thriller about a grieving widower (John Travolta) who takes the law into his own hands after corrupt cops fail to find his wife's (Rebecca De Mornay) killer.

Michael Fassbender plays detective Harry Hole in this thriller about a serial killer who murders women.

Oscar ® winners Jamie Foxx (Collateral) and Chris Cooper (Breach) and Golden Globe ® winners Jennifer Garner (Daredevil) and Jason Bateman (Smokin» Aces) ignite the screen in this high - intensity thriller about a team of elite FBI agents sent to Saudi Arabia to solve a brutal mass murder and find a killer before he strikes again.

Dressed to Kill: The Criterion Collection Unrated Available on DVD and Blu - ray I'm guessing that with the whole Caitlyn Jenner story eating up the press, Criterion decided it was time to jump in with Brian De Palma's 1980 sex thriller about a cross-dressing killer starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen.

Lipstick is a suspense thriller about a serial killer that targets male victims, spinning investigators through a myriad of twists and turns.

As a despairing political allegory about crime and punishment (and how the latter doesn't always go with the former), Sisters is weirdly profound; as an exercise in thriller mechanics, it's limber and energizing, wrapping itself around a wonderfully stupid plot about separated Siamese twins (both played by Margot Kidder, one of whom is, naturally, a psycho killer).

This relentless, bloody South Korean thriller from Kim Ji - Woon («The Good, The Bad, The Weird») starts as a typical thriller about a serial killer, but quickly diverges into a very bizarre yet poignant tale about obsession and vengeance.

Meskada (R for profanity, violence and one scene of sexuality) Crime thriller about a small - town detective's (Nick Stahl) effort to bring to justice the killers of the son of a powerful, local socialite (Laura Benanti).

(In Portuguese with subtitles) The Horsemen (R for profanity, sexuality, grisly images and disturbing content) Crime thriller about a recently - widowed police detective (Dennis Quaid) who uncovers a terrifying link between himself and the quartet of serial killers suspected in a string of Biblically - themed slayings.

It's a thriller about young glamorous killers traveling around Europe murdering couples.

In recent months, one of our favorite creepy thrillers is Sorry by Zoran Drvenkar, about four 20 - something German friends who get involved with a brutal killer.

Set in Stalin's Russia, the book is a nail - biting, gasp inducing thriller of the first order about a civil servant, Leo Demidov, who is investigating a serial killer.

Leather, who celebrated his seventh consecutive week at the top of the Amazon chart with his novella The Basement, about a serial killer in New York, also occupies fourth place with Hard Landing, another thriller, and 11th place with Once Bitten, a vampire novel.

Also on the 24th we release Deathtopia, the latest gonzo thriller from Cage of Eden's Yoshinobu Yamada, about a young man who gains supernatural powers from an accident but then finds himself embroiled with a serial killer with a disturbing fondness for eyeballs and a band of intriguing beauties in hot pursuit.

Based on the book's description, even though it's not thriller fiction, the book is about as close to that genre as you can get:» The chilling true account of one of the twentieth century's most prolific female serial killers.»

If you write ultra-violent thrillers about serial killers on Mars, those tweets may not help your marketing campaign, but if you write romance, cozies, womens» fiction, or environmental thrillers, you're drawing your target audience.