Sentences with phrase «like psychological thrillers»

If you like psychological thrillers definitely give this one a try.

I don't want to say too much about this book, as I do not what to spoil it for anyone but if you like psychological thrillers with a good dose of mystery I would advise you to pick up this book.

The theatrical trailer and TV spots for The Missing made the film look like a psychological thriller and perhaps even a supernatural horror movie.

If anything, Banker feels more like a psychological thriller than a character - driven crime drama.

Not exact matches

«It feels like a very trippy, Kubrick-esque, psychological thriller,» Plaza says.

With the most impressive graphics I've seen in an indie game, this first person psychological - thriller felt like a AAA title at times.

Toller has psychological and physical problems that lead him toward a reckoning that allows the film to pass from an austere, Ingmar Bergman-esque story to an out - and - out thriller like «Taxi Driver.»

Its ambition is admirable: It wants to be an adult thriller like its director's justly famous «Three Days of the Condor,» with political and psychological reverberations, on real - world topics, with a reasonable cause - effect dynamic at play, clear motives, action plausible and not overdone, free of computer effects, full of recognizable, compellingly flawed characters, yet taut and gripping to an astonishing end.

Writer and director Alex Garland manages to take a high - concept premise — a reclusive, Steve Jobs - like genius (Oscar Isaac) invites a young employee (Domhnall Gleeson) to test the android he created (Alicia Vikander) to see if she's truly intelligent — and tuns it into a claustrophobic, tense thriller, as the three circle each other through an hour and a half of vicious psychological manipulation and constant shifts in the balance of power.

I'm actually interested in seeing this, a slick psychological thriller about a lunatic almost like American Psycho.

I kind of like slow paced films, especial when they are psychological thrillers... that's when a movie really gets under your skin.

It's a teen movie that starts off funny ha - ha but turns into something more like a light - fingered psychological thriller.

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

This looks like it is reminiscent of Shutter Island and a few other psychological horror thrillers, all with Aronofsky's unique touches and incredibly powerful performances.

«The Edge of Seventeen» was written and directed by Kelly Fremon Craig (it's her first feature), with James L. Brooks serving as its lead producer, and it's a teen movie that starts off funny ha - ha but turns into something more like a light - fingered psychological thriller.

That's the superficial starting point of The Gift, the directorial debut of actor Joel Edgerton, who takes the cuckoo - in - the - nest thriller template — which became ubiquitous in the early»90s with films like Pacific Heights, Unlawful Entry, Single White Female and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle — and, by introducing psychological depth and a streak of social conscience, fashions an intriguing morality tale.

On paper, Unsane certainly sounds like it lands firmly in Soderbergh's wheelhouse; past projects like Side Effects, Bubble, and those twisty Ocean's capers have all played with delayed reveals and unreliable points of view — the stuff of a good psychological thriller, in other words.

However, like those two grisly thrillers, I can still compare it to the Usual Suspects and Seven, two films that have developed the formula for many psychological thrillers of the past decade.

Apart from the fact that Natalie Portman is pretty much perfect in everything she does, and that this film is directed by Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler), Black Swan looks like it's going to be a beautiful and nightmarish blend of insanity, rivalry and a psychological, sexual thriller.

He was involved in a couple of psychological thrillers like The Watcher and The Gift, as well as more romantic fare like Sweet November and The Lake House, but still had some sci - fi chops with A Scanner Darkly, Constantine, and The Day the Earth Stood Still.

This looks like a chilling psychological thriller, for sure.

It is listed as a romantic comedy, but plays more like a dramedy, and has a premise that feels better suited for a psychological thriller.

There's a lot of misinformation and conflicting reports about the real Sarah Winchester, and a film about her could have played out as more of a psychological thriller that leaves audiences questioning (like Dr. Price does at first) how much of what they're seeing is even real.

I like creating original stories and I like psychological cerebral thrillers like «Fight Club» and «Donnie Darko.»

He made his film debut in the psychological thriller «Like Minds» in 2006 with Toni Collette and Tom Sturridge and appeared in «The Good Shepherd» in the same year.

Known more for sexually charged films like Lolita and Indecent Proposal, director Adrian Lyne's psychological horror film doesn't quite play out like a traditional horror film, nor does it play like a standard psychological thriller either.

Like each of his plays, it oscillates between black comedy and psychological thriller, and is doubtless guaranteed to contain at least one nasty twist.

Tesson said the film begins like a drama and progressively becomes a psychological thriller with fantasy elements.

Release: Friday, February 26, 2016 (limited)[Netflix] Written by: Perry Blackshear Directed by: Perry Blackshear They Look Like People is the debut feature from Perry Blackshear, a quietly unassuming hybrid of horror and psychological thriller elements built on a shoestring budget.

Fans of gothic horror and psychological thrillers will sense the presence of Horace Walpole, Mary Shelley, and even Poe, hovering over this book like guardian angels of darkness.

I wanted to write a commercial novel and decided on a psychological thriller because I like reading this genre.

As with Trollope's book, it sounds like we can expect the story to play out like the original, but it will be interesting to see McDermid, «the acknowledged queen of the psychological thriller,» take on Austen's famous Gothic parody.

Fans of psychological thrillers like Gone Girl will root for Evie's version of the truth right to the end.

Like her last book, this is a gripping psychological thriller that will have the reader on the edge of the seat until the last chapter.

With Malice by Eileen Cook Like The Girl on the Train for the teen set, Cook's psychological thriller opens with 18 - year - old Jill Charron in a hospital room with no memory of the previous six weeks and her entire senior trip to Italy.

Like a great piece of classic literature it works on many levels — a simple story of two strangers who will transform each other's lives, a page - turning psychological thriller and a story about faith, doubt, and love.

For Evie Jones, the cub reporter and amateur sleuth at the center of Elisabeth de Mariaffi's chilling psychological thriller, anxious moments like these have become a way of life.

The rise has been fuelled by the growth of psychological thrillers and the success of big names like Lee Child, James Patterson and Dan Brown.

I liked the mystery list, because it's really broad: children's, YA, cozy, classic Golden Age, British, American, noir, thrillers, spy novels, police procedurals, psychological mysteries...

«Psychological thrillers interested me because I've enjoyed writing some horror in the past, and I found myself transfixed by books like Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train.

Now don't mis - understand me, co-op I guess could be done in any genre / game but outside of shooters it doesn't automatically make sense, Alan Wake is a psychological action thriller, set in an open world game where YOU play as a writer who's trying to discover the mystery of what seems to be your latest horror story which you can't even remember for some reason is now coming to life, in a small isolated town; oh and your wife has vanished too = Alan Wake himself IS the story, co-op in this case would be redundant for a story driven type game like Alan Wake since at its core its all about YOU deciding where to go an «unlocking» the plot for YOURSELF.

Alan Wake A psychological thriller the likes of which Silent Hill only aspires to be these days, the world of Alan Wake is nightmarish, bleak, and insanely fun.

Grasshopper Manufacture — the cult game developer behind critically acclaimed, if financially unrewarding, titles like Killer7 and No More Heroes — recently worked with Electronic Arts on a psychological action thriller due in stores next summer.

Jon Williams, creative director of Cherrymochi, tells me that while Tokyo Dark, released today, takes cues from harrowing choice - a-thons like Dontnod's Life Is Strange and psychological thrillers like Se7en, the majority of his inspiration was drawn from the city itself.

A mix of horror and psychological thriller, this game hopes to build off a story that was not as amazing as many horror fans would have liked but has potential to be great.

The game will play out like many others that consider themselves psychological action thrillers — the player will have to interact with NPC's and various other objects in order to the advance the story and gain hints about solving the complex puzzles.

The aging nature of the building itself creates odd situations that the women share — perfect fodder for the psychological - thriller mood Vance likes to give her paintings.

She liked Chaucer; she liked Shakespeare, but she was also keen on Patricia Highsmith's psychological thrillers and cited James Baldwin's writing as a «really big» influence.

Revealed last June, The Long Reach is a psychological thriller that takes inspiration from games and movies like Lone Survivor, The Cave, Fargo, and The Matrix.