Sentences with phrase «of a murder mystery plot»

It's no part of a murder mystery plot.

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The premise of a murder mystery with an unreliable narrator is well - trodden territory at this point (The Girl on the Train, In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and Sharp Objects all come to mind) but there were at least two moments where I let out an audible gasp over an unforeseen plot twist... so I guess I'm saying if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

And while this adaptation - written by Akiva Goldsman - contains many of the same beats and plot twists as Brown's book, the film never quite becomes anything more than a sporadically engaging but mostly dull murder mystery.

This kind of misdirection comes pretty standard with murder mysteries, but Swanberg has fun tweaking the formula to contain an element of self - awareness which results in a plot twist ending.

Deliver a murder mystery plot of the quality you'd find in a Scooby - Doo cartoon, along with a dark serious revenge story.

Director Guy Ritchie is being quite honest in this new clip: A Game of Shadows will basically feature everything that the filmmaker's first Sherlock Holmes movie had (murder - mystery plot mechanics, witty banter, stylized action, and explosive set pieces) and make it even more plentiful or flashier - in the hopes that moviegoers will enjoy this new cinematic roller coaster ride across 19th century Europe.

It's only in its overwritten second act that Death Spa gets bogged down, spending time with a pair of cynical police detectives, a paranormal investigator, and Michael's lawyer, and developing half - assed plot threads in the corresponding genres of murder mystery, ghost story, and corporate thriller.

The first is the giallo, films indicated by their impossibly convoluted mystery plots and elaborate set - piece murders; the second, of which Suspiria is one, is the «supernatural,» distinguished by their surreality and lack of a traditional narrative.

So much needs to be explained about the plot, both Gone Girl and Dark Places are murder mysteries at their core, that it all but necessitates a narrator who can fill us in on the bits that would be difficult to include in the constrained space of 90 to 120 minutes.

Language: Korean Genre: Mystery / Thriller MPAA rating: R Director: Jong - hyuk Lee Actors: Jung - ah Yum, Jin - hee Ji, Ji - ru Sung Plot: A year after the brilliant psychopath, Shin Hyun, has handed himself in and admitted to the brutal and grisly murders of six girls, a spate of copycat killings rock the city.

And while Altman and Fellowes are setting us up for a murder, a visiting Hollywood producer (Bob Balaban) is plotting his Charlie - Chan - in - London mystery by transcontinental telephone, breathlessly reporting that there's one butler but many valets and maids, that servants actually have tasks to perform, that there's all kinds of things that Hollywood mysteries don't show.

In this modern day and age of courtroom / murder mystery thrillers there is a tendency to be either overly simplistic in there set ups or over complicated to the state of losing the plot, but Primal Fear is that rare moulding of everything coming together in not only a surprising way but a believable way.

A deeply frustrating and thrilling film in the best ways, Gone Girl manages to expand the rote murder - mystery plot into greater discussions of the media, the psychology of marriage, and the strange things women are forced to do when they are systematically denied agency.

The plot of director Mark Palansky and Mike Vukadinovich's screenplay is little more than a murder mystery, and it's one that doesn't even incorporate the central gimmick into the story enough for the concept of a memory - recording device to really matter.

With the hallmarks of the Italian horror sub-genre joyously honoured (the bizarre mystery plot, the elaborate murder set - piece, the lurid set design and cinematography), Delplanque's feature debut is impossibly beautiful to behold and executed with admirable amounts of artistic gore and disturbing eroticism.

By the way, Agatha Christie may have made up the plot of the murder mystery, but the Orient Express was not a creation of her imagination.

When Barri discovers Sylvia dead in her apartment, it sets off the murder mystery plot of the film, as she begins to suspect Sylvia's son Anthony (Kevin Corrigan, almost doing his best Christopher Walken impression) of foul play for the life insurance policy.

With The Grand Budapest Hotel, Anderson seems to be not so concerned with history, but with the history of cinema; we can see references to Kubrick and F.W. Murnau, and the plot descends into an elaborate caper full of bizarre character studies, wondrous sequences (including a superb cat - and - mouse chase where Gustave and Zero zoom down a precarious mountain atop a toboggan in pursuit of Willem Dafoe on skis), and meticulously - designed, glamorous sets that are reminiscent of the traits of classical Hollywood films and murder - mysteries.

To take other examples: people can relish murder mysteries without the reality of killing; they can watch suffering in a tragedy and still savor the presentation; they can observe evil characters in a film plotting horrible deeds and be hooked; a medieval painting of the tortures in Hell can draw tourists in droves.

Another Newbery winner, this cleverly plotted mystery introduces 16 heirs to the fortune of murdered multimillionaire Sam Westing.

Castillo moves the plot along skillfully as Chief of Police Burkholder unravels the mystery of the accident that was really a triple murder.

This mesmerizing debut, uncannily uniting the trials of a postmodern upbringing with a murder mystery, heralds the arrival of a vibrant new voice in literary fiction Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a darkly hilarious coming - of - age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer.

Little by little, Wilmot enters a mirror house of illusions and hallucinations that propels him into a secret world of gangsters, greed, and murder, with his mystery patron at the center of it all, either as the mastermind behind a plot to forge a painting worth hundreds of millions, or as the man who will save Wilmot from obscurity and madness.

Basically the player is a ghost trying to solve the mystery of its own murder, and to that end it goes around brute forcing the dialogue options (or out and out just picking the correct choice that advances the plot because it is always helpfully marked with an asterisk, lol) with every character until one of five - ish nearly identical but equivalently predictable and un-satisfying endings play out.

Meanwhile, the murder mystery that the game kicks off with almost seems to get forgotten about entirely rather quickly, fading into the background in favor of the bigger overarching plot and never getting properly resolved.

We hoped that a murder mystery plot in which a group of high school students pursued the culprit would connect with the players.

These artworks suggest various props, personas, sets, dialogues, and scenarios of an unpublished noir mystery narrative (written by Brannon)-- the plot of which involves a sexually frustrated private detective who is hired to investigate a murder whose prime suspect is a sexually deviant dentist.