Sebastian Perillo's directorial debut Amateur (Argentina 2016) is a unique serial
killer thriller with distinctly De Palmaesque flavours.
Not exact matches
With the Evil Soviets pacified and ex-Nazis too old to put up a fight, the «fun» action
thriller Speed turned to the Mad Serial
killer.
A low budget British
thriller that is pretty tense and gripping,
With some good performances from the cast especially Jack O» Connell, The story has been done before but the whole mystery to it kept it fresh, We all knew how it would end and when we found out who the
killer was it wasn't a great surprise, A few gruesome scenes keep it entertaining, It's as good as it ever was going to be.
Now
with «Beast,» a well - developed
thriller with some horror undertones, Pearce emerges as a fellow to watch, since he keeps the audience
with an uneasy feeling throughout while trying to guess the identity of a serial
killer and wondering whether the woman on whom he focuses so much attention is in danger of being murdered.
A hardened detective enters into a tenuous symbiotic relationship
with the vicious serial
killer she is tracking after earning the respect of the murderous madman in this vicious psychological
thriller starring Demi Moore, Kevin Costner, and William Hurt.
In 1999, Washington starred in another
thriller, The Bone Collector, playing a paralyzed forensics expert who joins forces
with a young policewoman (Angelina Jolie) to track down a serial
killer.
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.
Fans of Jason Statham will no doubt have some fun
with Killer Elite and there's one show - stopping moment in the first Statham / Owen brawl that will certainly get a reaction from audiences, but for anyone looking for either an over-the-top action flick or a smart - witted political
thriller, the film fails to live up to the sum of its respective parts.
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.
Despite being trapped
with potential
killers due to their own decision - making, they make intelligent decisions, making them more than the stupid victims in a
thriller movie.
How many times must we see her in a formulaic serial
killer thriller, especially where she must team up
with an older, more seasoned partner to get to the bottom of things?
Happily, The Bird
with the Crystal Plumage also stands as a superb murder mystery
thriller that will excite new and old fans alike, even if you already know who the
killer turns out to be.
In this gritty
thriller, Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack, Being John Malkovich) joins forces
with a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans, Immortals) to hunt down a mad serial
killer who's using Poe's own works as the basis in a string of brutal murders.
The spirit of a vicious child serial
killer resurfaces in the nightmares of teens in modern - day and is responsible for their subsequent and shocking deaths in this tense, spooky
thriller from who else, but Wes Craven (I'm actually not that familiar at all
with his style, but since this is a horror film for the ages I figured I'd best get ahead and jump on the bandwagon as quick as possible to make up for lost time).
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).
The Killing (1956)-- 7:00 PM Stanley Kubrick's hard - edged 1956 heist
thriller was low budget by Hollywood standard but far more elaborate than her earlier
Killer's Kiss,
with a bigger cast, a complicated puzzle of a plot and a clever construction that slips around the timeline of a racetrack heist.
The homoerotic themes that have been associated
with John Woo's best - known Hong Kong action
thrillers are basically carryovers from the work of the late French cult director Jean - Pierre Melville, to whom Woo's 1989 The
Killer is explicitly dedicated.
3:15 pm — TCM — The Spiral Staircase A classic example of the «old dark house» atmospheric
thriller,
with Dorothy Maguire as a mute domestic servant whose life is endangered when a serial
killer seems to be targeting people
with disabilities like her.
A feeble
thriller involving children,
with echoes of The Bad Seed, The Good Son put fan favorite Macaulay Culkin (My Girl, Uncle Buck) in a role nobody particularly wanted to see him in — a sadistic
killer.
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.
In this audaciously kinky, meta - comedic
thriller, a lonely father
with a secret taste for S&M (Nao Ohmori, best known for his titular turn in Takashi Miike's Ichi the
Killer) hires a boutique dominatrix agency that specializes in guerilla acts of public degradation.
Jason Statham teams up
with Robert De Niro — yes, really — to take on baddie Clive Owen in the first trailer for action - packed
thriller,
Killer Elite.
Topher will soon be seen in upcoming romantic comedy «A Many Splintered Thing,» and the serial
killer thriller «The Calling,» which reunites him
with his «Big Wedding» co-star Susan Sarandon.
Sophie Cookson, best known as Roxy in Matthew Vaughn's Kingsman films, who will join Adam Gillen, Steffan Rhodri and Neve McIntosh - along
with the already cast Orlando Bloom - in Tracy Letts's noir comic
thriller Killer Joe, which Simon Evans will direct at Trafalgar Studios from May 18.
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).
«The Killing» (Criterion), Stanley Kubrick's hard - edged 1956 heist
thriller, also gets the Criterion treatment in a new edition on DVD and Blu - ray, both
with a bonus co-feature: a remastered edition of Kubrick's 1955 shadowy boxing drama «
Killer's Kiss.»
Anthony Franciosa stars as Peter Neal, a best - selling
thriller novelist whose promotional tour in Italy takes a terrible turn when a mysterious
killer recreates the brutal murders from his book
with real life victims.
pleads a nearby placard as serial
killer Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre) closes in on little Elsie Beckmann... In his harrowing masterwork M, Fritz Lang merges trenchant social commentary
with chilling suspense, creating a panorama of private madness and public hysteria that to this day remains the blueprint for the psychological
thriller.
Available same day as select theaters nationwide is the
thriller «Dark Crimes» (2018, R)
with Jim Carrey as a police detective on the trail of a brutal
killer.
Common most recently wrapped production on action -
thriller HUNTER
KILLER opposite Gerard Butler, Billy Bob Thornton, and Gary Oldman, as well as indie film SAINT JUDY
with Michelle Monaghan, Alfred Molina and Alfre Woodard.
The Kingdom: In this high intensity
thriller, a team of elite FBI agents (Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, and Jennifer Garner) sent to Saudi Arabia to solve a brutal mass murder must join forces
with their Saudi counterparts to find a
killer before...
Tracy Letts» searing stage
thriller «
Killer Joe» comes to the screen
with all its nervous laughs, its jittery fear and sexual sweat intact.
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.
The mystery /
thriller, directed by Renny Harlin and scripted by Wayne Kramer and Kevin Brodbin adds a few unconventional twists to the tired «tracking down a serial
killer» plot, but ends up outfoxing itself
with a few too many narrative convolutions and contrivances.
Unlike many
thrillers of recent years, where you don't find out why someone murders until the very end, THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY seductively pulls you into the mind of the
killer, and at times will wickedly have you hoping he'll get away
with it.
Blumhouse produces an original and inventive rewinding
thriller in Happy Death Day, in which a college student (Jessica Rothe) relives the day of her murder
with both its unexceptional details and terrifying end until she discovers her
killer's identity.
This crime
thriller stars Sandra Oh as Eve Polastri, a bored MI5 agent turned spy
with a morbid interest in female
killers and who's tasked
with tracking down the mysterious Villanelle (Jodie Comer), a mercurial Russian assassin who's the suspect in a series of high - profile murders.
Pair
With: Blue Ruin — for another gritty, 80s - inspired revenge thriller, this time with a killer who is startlingly vulnerable and woefully unprepared for the dark deeds he must
With: Blue Ruin — for another gritty, 80s - inspired revenge
thriller, this time
with a killer who is startlingly vulnerable and woefully unprepared for the dark deeds he must
with a
killer who is startlingly vulnerable and woefully unprepared for the dark deeds he must do.
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).
Starring newcomer Jessie Buckley in her first film lead, Beast is a psychological
thriller in which a young girl
with a tortured past meets a dangerous stranger (Johnny Flynn) who may or may not be a
killer.
(In Italian, Russian and English
with subtitles) The
Killer inside Me (R for bizarre sexuality, graphic nudity and disturbingly - brutal, eroticized violence) Grisly crime thriller set in a sleepy Texas town with a serial killer for a deputy sheriff (Casey Aff
Killer inside Me (R for bizarre sexuality, graphic nudity and disturbingly - brutal, eroticized violence) Grisly crime
thriller set in a sleepy Texas town
with a serial
killer for a deputy sheriff (Casey Aff
killer for a deputy sheriff (Casey Affleck).
In movies as diverse as «Mission: Impossible 3,» the Farrelly brothers» comedy remake, «The Heartbreak Kid,» and the hard - edged
thriller, «Gone Baby Gone,» the willowy small - town brunette
with the
killer smile is definitely playing in the big time now.
Projects in development include
Killer Instinct,
with Bruce Beresford attached to direct; The Last of the Tribe; Hidden Mountain: Unsaid, based on the novel by Neil Abramson; Spiral, based on the techno -
thriller by Paul McEuen; and Wrong Move, based on the novel by Jonathan Stone.
(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.
I can't tell if I'm more impressed
with Saoirse Ronan as a bio-engineered
killer adolescent, Cate Blanchett as a bleeding - gums control - freak villain, or The Chemical Brothers for constructing the most whimsical score ever for a Bourne - like
thriller that never lets up from start to fabulous finish.
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.
Carr's first novel was a surprise best - seller when it was published in 1994, but savvy trendspotters should have recognized all the ingredients that sometimes launch a literary
thriller into the limelight: a mainstream crime - fiction plot (cops and shrinks track psycho
killer) overlayed
with some vivid history (late - nineteenth - century New York), and a famous hero (Teddy Roosevelt as the city's police chief).
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.
A nineteenth - century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic
with a
killer aboard in this dark, sharp, and highly original tale that grips like a
thriller.