«I never wrote so much as a poem as an adult, in part because, for the longest time — probably since 1988 when The Silence of the Lambs was published — the market was dominated by serial
killer thrillers by the likes of Thomas Harris, James Patterson and Patricia Cornwell.
Two thriller titles, The Atlantis Gene: A Thriller (The Origin Mystery, Book 1) by A.G. Riddle and 9
Killer Thrillers by Russell Blake, finished the top ten on Amazon in the sixth and ninth spots, respectively.
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.
In this erotic
thriller, Los Angeles is being terrorized
by a serial
killer, and detectives Sam Stone (Michael Nader) and his ex-wife Hannah (Shelley Hack) are thrown together in an attempt to capture the murderer.
Attempting to recover from a recent family trauma
by escaping into the woods for a peaceful hiking trip, an ex-lawman and his young son stumble across a dangerous contract
killer in director Bruce Beresford's forest - bound
thriller.
A pulse-less, predictable
thriller which seats Denzel Washington in a thankless role as a decorated Philadelphia cop who is tormented
by a demon who once possessed a serial
killer (Elias Koteas) that the detective helped put to death.
Robert Davi turns in a
killer performance in Ariel Vromen's crime
thriller, The Iceman, portraying Leo Marks, a character inspired
by Anthony Gaggi, the captain of the Gambino crime family.
The bulk of
Killer Joe is built like a standard things - go - terribly - awry small - town crime
thriller, but because it was written
by a young, sensational - minded Tracy Letts (who here adapted his own script) and is directed
by The Exorcist's William Friedkin, the NC - 17 rated action reaches the Grand Guignol
by the end.
A small town sheriff retires his badge to avenge his brother's murder, but finds himself tempted into the criminal lifestyle
by a beautiful
killer in this gritty crime
thriller.
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.
Directed
by Jonathan Demme, this Academy Award - winning
thriller stars Anthony Hopkins as serial
killer / cannibal Hannibal Lecter alongside Jodie Foster as FBI cadet Clarice Starling.
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.
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).
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.
Directed
by Vaughn Stein, the
thriller follows two assassins on a mysterious mission in sinister city, where they run into all sorts of kooky characters, including Robbie's beguiling waitress who may or may not be a serial
killer.
The Snowman
by Hope Madden The Snowman, a Norway - set serial
killer thriller, runs like a 3 - hour flick that someone gutted... read more →
By the same token, even though Escape Plan is a very dumb action -
thriller, if all it takes is the allure of seeing Sly and Arnie trade a few quips and exchange a few blows to get you on board, you'll likely find this low - aiming vehicle to be an adequate time -
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.
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.
The film is a
by - the - book serial
killer thriller but delivers a nice surprise ending.
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).
Asian cinema's sole representative is Psycho Raman, a serial
killer thriller from India directed
by Gang's of Wasseypur helmer Anurag Kashyup.
Noir expert Richard Fleischer specialized in true - crime movies («Compulsion,» «The Boston Strangler») and this is one of his best: a chilling realistic
thriller modeled on the famous case of British serial
killer Dr. John Christie (brilliantly underplayed
by Richard Attenborough), and the hapless man he frames for one of his murders, (a brilliant job
by John Hurt).
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.
RICHARD WIDMARK
By Kent Jones Nominated for an Oscar for his debut performance as the giggling
killer in Kiss of Death, he escaped typecasting and went on to become an icon of driven, intense postwar America masculinity in some of the key Westerns, noirs, and
thrillers of the Fifties and Sixties.
The Racketeer
by John Grisham Doubleday, $ 28.95 Grisham's latest
thriller has a
killer concept: Only four active federal judges have ever been murdered — until Judge Raymond Fawcett makes # 5.
His 2013 horror book, The Santa Claus
Killer, releases September 1st, and follows in 2014
by the much anticipated summer disaster
thriller, Cataclysm.
A GRIPPING SERIAL
KILLER THRILLER An entire family is murdered and,
by a quirk, a young girl is left unharmed.
The Long Drop
by Denise Mina Set during the 1950s in Glasgow, Scotland, Mina's standalone
thriller The Long Drop is a fictionalized look at the true deeds, arrest and prosecution of Peter Manuel, Scotland's most notorious serial
killer.
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.
Also included are two edgy serial -
killer thrillers, EMPTY ROOMS
by Jeff Mariott and THE FLY GUY
by Colum Sanson - Regan.
In this ingenious, suspenseful historical
thriller, Sigmund Freud is drawn into the mind of a sadistic
killer who is savagely attacking Manhattan's wealthiest heiresses Inspired
by Sigmund Freud's only visit to America, The Interpretation of Murder is an intricate tale of murder and the mind's most dangerous mysteries.
But writers can, should and are doing more
by creating author collectives like Top Suspense Group — a place where
thriller authors hang out (disclaimer — I'm a proud member) and
Killer Thrillers.
In the
thriller Ten, published in 2012, ten teenagers are trapped on an island and murdered, one
by one,
by a serial
killer.
The Beautiful Dead
by Belinda Bauer A riveting new novel
by award - winning
thriller writer Belinda Bauer, in which a desperate crime reporter unwittingly becomes the accomplice of a serial
killer hungry for attention.