Sentences with phrase «serial killer story»
Interestingly it is my New York serial killer story, The Basement, that is currently selling best — and heading the Kindle UK bestseller list.
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Our reviewer calls The Light in the Ruins «a brilliant blend of historical fiction and a chilling serial killer story.»
Set in Florence in 1955, the novel is described by our reviewer as «a brilliant blend of historical fiction and a chilling serial killer story.»
Some of his more recent novels are injected with an element of mystery, and he continues on that track with his latest — a brilliant blend of historical fiction and a chilling serial killer story.
Only Donald wants to write the epitome of the brain - dead Hollywood product, a serial killer story with a stupid twist ending.
The great French filmmaker Claire Denis has never shied away from genre, be it noir (No Fear, No Die; Bastards), horror (Trouble Every Day), serial killer stories (I Can't Sleep), or whatever was going on with that Russian organ - harvesting ring in The Intruder.
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You want to talk about serial killers, I can give you the names of some midwives...), and the fourth is the forceps story AGAIN.
The source for the quote meant to serve as a character witness for Latimer may be the family dog walker but presenting her to readers as the family dog walker without mentioning she is a reporter for the Rye Record and former employee of Craig is like doing a story about serial killers and presenting Dennis Radar as an alarm system installer without mentioning he is the BTK Killer.
When does algorithmic quantification part ways with the canny editor who knows that sex, serial killers, and how - to stories sell?
Even American Horror Story Hotel was inspired by H.H. Holmes one of America's notorious serial killers.
Although Abel is still hoping for an email inviting him to a wedding from two people who met at his event, he said he has heard many stories of people dating and even falling in love at Serial Killer Speed Dating.
To cut the long story short, Plenty of Fish (POF) got itself into a surreal cinematic thriller involving Argentinean hackers, Russian gangsters, American dating site owners, Capitol Hill reporters, website serial killers, and an e-mail to a mother to stop all the madness.
Playing Contestant on Dating Game Show Turned Out to be a Serial Killer A bachelor looking for love on The Dating Game in the 70s, who wound up sitting Claims about hot dog invention are difficult to assess, as stories assert the creation of the sausage, the placing of the sausage (or another kind of
This is no Aileen Wuornos Goes Glam story, though, with the «2001 «- style imagery at the start being a tip - off that Johansson is not your garden - variety female serial killer but rather an actual alien abductor in butt - hugging stonewashed jeans.
A unique story about a serial killer who works with the Miami metro homicide, what more could want in a t.v show.
«Beast,» however, is not a typical, superficial treatment of the subject of serial killers but a story with enough depth that even European history becomes a player.But blink, and you'll miss a key point, when Pascal (Johnny Flynn) informs snobbish family members at a family dinner on the British island of Jersey that they, despite their wealth and haute manners, are sitting on land that belonged to his ancestors.
the one thing that always been proved that however know Dexter secrete is ether dead or gone but this time its different Cuz this is Debra **** morgan this time there is someone who's not going anywhere,,, I think all Dexter fan dig this and as always the writers always show us that therre is a story here about the Ukrainian mob and whatever,,,, they show us that this is not some lame drama show this show is about a serial killer (a good one) always been always will be and all the drama is just a side story...
... But in the middle of this comes a brand new kind of story for the show, and one that made me cringe not with delight at Banshee's latest impressive bit of the old ultraviolence, but with concern that Banshee had become TV's latest drama to prominently feature a serial killer.
Focusing on a serial killer, the story begins with the capture of the suspect and moves backwards in time to the crime itself.
Bolstering her TV series fame with TV movies, beginning with the adaptation of the Danielle Steele romance Star (1993), Garth also played the eponymous abused wife in Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laurie Kellogg (1994), a serial killer target in Falling for You (1995), and executive - produced and starred in the teen psychiatric drama Without Consent (1994).
by Walter Chaw The more cynical among us would note that the title might also refer to the time that movies exactly like Taking Lives have stolen from hapless audiences, but the fact of it is that if not for our mortal curiosity, we might have missed genuinely good mad - dog killer flicks like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Manhunter, The Untold Story, and killer flicks like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Manhunter, The Untold Story, and Killer, Manhunter, The Untold Story, and Se7en.
Working from a brilliant screenplay by Steven Zaillian, Fincher's take on the story focuses more on what I've come to understand is really a classic locked room mystery in the Agatha Christie mode — in the case of the murder / disappearance of Harriet Vanger, the locked room is an island whose sole entry point is blocked by an overturned tanker truck — that is concealed within a study of unlimited misogyny and sidetracked into the discovery of a serial killer.
Based on the true story of John Christie, serial killer in WWII - era England.
Still working in purely exploitation terms, Ferrara and writer Nicholas St. John build the story around a serial killer who stalks New York streets methodically hunting down exotic dancers.
The story revolves around a serial killer with a penchant for carving codes into his victim's flesh.
Kevin Phillips's Super Dark Times is a coming - of - age story that unexpectedly transforms into a serial - killer thriller.
Woody Allen plays a magician named Sid Waterman, who gets tangled up in a plot to capture a suspected serial killer (Hugh Jackman), hatched by a conniving journalism student (Scarlett Johansson) eager to get the Scoop on a career - making story.
In this horror thriller adapted from Clive Barker's short story, a serial killer haunts the subway.
In his brilliant and haunting first feature, he tells the story of a vicious young serial killer and his impassive underage girlfriend, both perfectly rendered by Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek.
The crime scene precisely resembles the one in Poe's story «The Murders in the Rue Morgue,» and before long a valiant police detective (Luke Evans) has enlisted the author to help capture a serial killer who's riffing on Poe's work.
The dark tone was set in part through the use of flashbacks to a 1995 serial killer investigation framed in the context of interviews with the two primary detectives, with McConaughey's intense Rust Cohle looking and acting like a burned out alcoholic as he told his part of the story.
The story of the film follows a mentally fragile college student named Ashley (Caitlin Gerard from «Magic Mike» and «The Social Network») who, after learning of an urban legend in which a mysterious serial killer named «Smiley» can be summoned through the Internet, must decide whether she is losing her mind or becoming Smiley «s next victim.»
Instead, in telling this bizarro story of Wallace (Justin Long), a brash podcaster who goes to interview an old seafarer (Michael Parks) up in Manitoba only to discover the guy's a serial killer with an unthinkable predilection, Smith too often kneecaps the picture's would be terror and urgency.
(Surely, the star of one of cinema's most notorious serial - killer stories has been cast as the most vicious character, right?)
Looking at the billboard posters for «The Snowman» (2017, Tomas Alfredson), I had the feeling that if I paid close attention while watching the movie, I might see a red flag or perhaps spot a clue that the police miss in a complex and carefully constructed story of a serial killer on the loose.
The stories aren't bad, but they are not nearly as intense, grisly, and violent as Marv going after a prostitute's killer or an honorable cop rescuing a little girl from a psychotic serial killer pedophile.
Set in an unnamed, gloomy American city, the story follows two cops, Mills (Brad Pitt) and Somerset (Morgan Freeman) as they pursue a serial killer who models his murders after the seven deadly sins.
Rating: PG - 13 Year: 2012 Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Daniel Sunjata, Jennifer Carpenter Director: Heitor Dhalia A young woman is forced to look for a crazy serial killer who she thinks took her sister after the police do not take her story seriously.
The other is that two cute girls, ages 18 and 17, who look like the sort that any parent would love, are serial killers, guns for hire who in the story's leading incidents are motivated by the wish for money to buy expensive dresses.
The film is based on an acclaimed graphic novel and tells the story of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who murdered 17 men and boys in the Midwest United States between 1978 and 1991 before being captured by police.
Considering King's love for the sensational, the upsetting and the obsessive, it is only natural that some of his stories would feature serial killers of the human, non-supernatural kind.
DEADLIER THAN THE MALE (working title) Picked up to series STUDIO: Made Up Stories / Studio T TEAM: Harriet Warner (w, ep), Houda Benyamina (d), Bruna Papandrea (ep), Casey Haver (ep) LOGLINE: Follows a trio of characters, each with a mysterious and troubling past: a young woman who once looked into the eyes of a dangerous killer, a former serial predator desperate to find redemption and Mary, a grieving mother obsessed with finding her missing daughter.
The macabre writer is pitted against a serial killer who utilises the inventive murder methods described in Poe's mystery stories.
The Raven is as silly as it sounds: Poe's stories are brought to life by a serial killer.
The brilliantly perverse story of a Victorian serial killer waging a one - man class war is captured in 2001's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert featuring Tony - winning Patti Lupone, George Hearn and Neil Patrick surrou... more
Next we had cinema's first zombie, then serial killers, «based on a true story» stories, which led to the fake documentary horror movies, followed by Olympic athlete zombies and, in the last few years, we got the torture porn films.
However, when a brutal serial killer begins to dispatch victims, by recreating famous murders from Poe's published stories, including «The Murders in the Rue Morgue» as well as «The Pit and the Pendulum,» the author is thrown into a malicious battle of wits — with life and death hanging in the balance.
«The Factory», directed by Morgan O'Neill, tells the story of partnered detectives Mike (played by John Cusack) and Kelsey (played by Jennifer Carpenter) working in New York City as they track a serial killer that has been targeting prostitutes.
The Manson Family isn't a perfect film by a long shot (framing stories are the pits), but it portrays atrocity as atrocity with the mean precision of John McNaughton's Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.
This feeling is only heightened by the film's framing device, the conversation between FBI agent Wesley Doyle (the late Powers Boothe) and Fenton, the killer's son (played by Matthew McConaughey) who narrates much of the film, with it feeling like it's going to also double as a serial killer origin story, albeit one with a big twist that we think we can see coming a mile off.