ZOE KAZAN FRACTURE, 2007 For those of us who favor crime and
suspense films over gore, this pick is for you.
Not exact matches
Antal builds
suspense over the first half of the
film by using the hunting ploys to which the group is subjected.
The tone of the
film is all
over the place, first romantic comedy than
suspense finally slapstick.
Mr. Brooks is an amazing
film that blends mind blowing
suspense and horror that will leave you looking
over your shoulders for weeks.
One of the more consistently underlined truisms in Hitchcock / Truffaut, a work of cinephilic devotion that takes the titular 1966 book as its starting point, is the notion of the master of
suspense as a director with full control
over every effect in his
films.
One of the greatest of all
suspense films, this legendary French shocker is Clouzot's nerve - rending account of four expatriate drivers trying to escape a horrible little South American backwater by driving two truckloads of nitroglycerin to a burning oil field
over dangerous mountain roads.
We went
over some of the themes of the
film with Evan, talked through the process of building
suspense while maintaining tone, and got into the grit of the relationships.
Unfortunately, what
suspense the
film manages to generate
over the course of its first two acts dissipates in the final third, once Winchester goes from being quietly atmospheric to loud and
over the top.
Fleischer leads us into this perverse noir world, but it only dallies with its noir atmosphere and instead turns into a straight mystery story — effectively
filmed in a semi-documentary style that emphasizes police procedures
over character studies or creating
suspense over suspects.
Lanthimos and his editor create
suspense very subtly
over the course of the
film.