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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.

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What critics said: «It's at once minimalist and maximalist, cynical and dopey, a big - boy white elephant art film that is actually a lean and mean suspense set - piece machine.»

A great trailer gives you enough information about what to expect from a film while still keeping you in suspense and making you want to learn more.

There's not a lot of action in the movie, mostly plotting the escape and what not, but the suspense level couldn't be higher throughout the whole film.

There's no suspense about what will become of Anne: The whole film is a recounting of the events leading up to the one haunting pre-credit image, of Anne in her final repose, with which Haneke brings us into this experience.

Bassett uses lots of filtering and camera tricks to try and hide the budget of the film and it hurts the horror and ruins what little suspense is featured in the film.

What the film lacks is genuine suspense, because for all of its twists and turns, the set - up never reels us in effectively enough to bother paying attention when things become odd, and all interest is jettisoned in time for the epilogue where all is supposed to be explained.

What makes this film so outstanding is the way it juggles different genres (thriller, suspense, drama) and extremely controversial issues like rape and empowerment and sexuality.

However, as solid as it is in most areas, I can only give the film a modest recommendation because, as a whole, it is curiously uninteresting, and what should have built up to edge - of - your - seat suspense, lays dormant for the duration.

Part of what makes German director Christian Petzold's pulp psychological thriller so special is the way it wrings complex shades of suspense and disquiet out of very basic techniques, and its finale — the most sublime gasp moment of the year in film — is a master class in simplicity of form, cut almost entirely from just two angles and carried by stars Nina Hoss and Ronald Zehrfeld, whose performances have been building to this one exchange of subtleties.

It is in fact a prequel set just before the events with kurt russell, now having seen the 1982 version about 10x i kinda know whats gona happen for the most part in this film, now that does nt mean there wasnt alot to enjoy, seeing cool new versions of the thing (which are very well done), and still being in suspense on who is infected and who isn't.

However, he seems quite befuddled as to what to do within the atmospheric horror genre, never really building solid suspense, and offering nothing more than to throw more unpleasant images at us whenever the film starts losing momentum, which is quite often.

Affleck has never exactly been the most dynamic actor in my opinion, but in the other films he's both directed and starred in — The Town and the Oscar - winning Argo — he knew how to pace the action, build suspense and make you care about what happened.

However the problems with the film are its inability to build any real tension or suspense and what starts with promise fast becomes a typical haunted house stereotypical affair.

What it truly lacks is acuteness, because as a end - up of the Hitchcock style, the moments where Brooks actually spoofs the Master of Suspense are too few and far between, and the rest of the film is mostly uninspired filler.

Academy - award winning director William Friedkin discusses his early career — including making documentaries for David L. Wolper, working for Alfred Hitchcock and what he learned from studying his films, and directing his first movie Good Times (1967), starring Sonny and Cher; how his career path led to making The Exorcist, his initial reaction to reading the source material, the story's theme of Good versus Evil, and the role his own faith played in his approach to making the movie; the techniques he used to generate suspense and fear in the audience, his use of subliminal imagery, and his reasons for recently restoring deleted footage to the film.

Released last week, this is definitely one of the best short fan films we have seen, using some great camera angles, what feels like an actual Panaglide camera that Carpenter would die for, slow burn suspense, and a killer performance from leading actress Suzee Dunn playing «Jamie», who is stalked by Myers for no apparent reason (other than it's Halloween).

can deliver to the same extent that Black Swan did, as so far what we've seen of this latest film looks very dark and compelling - not to mention being full of eerie suspense.

The actors are also acting alongside the film's soundtrack and this assists in Wright capturing the suspense or a particular mood of what's on screen.

He said something to the effect that what he wanted to do was slowly build the dread and the tension, rather than explode to 11 in the opening moments and fail to be able to register that kind of suspense for the rest of the film.

The greatest suspense for the film is one we share with the characters, wondering what the heck everything means.

The creeping paranoia and the excellent setups that make you suspect various players, until the true story starts to unfold, creates an unsettling feeling of dread absent from American horror cinema which shifted quite a bit to gore and body horror for a good couple of decades until, probably, THE SIXTH SENSE... but even thereafter, what most filmmakers took from Shyamalan's film was not the buildup of dread, but rather the mystery box and the twist, diminishing the emphasis on narrative and suspense.

The creeping paranoia and the excellent setups that make you suspect various players until the true story starts to unfold creates an unsettling feeling of dread, absent from American horror cinema which shifted quite a bit to gore and body horror for a good couple of decades until, probably, THE SIXTH SENSE... but even thereafter, what most filmmakers took from Shyamalan's film was not the buildup of dread, but rather the mystery box and the twist, weakening the emphasis on narrative and suspense.

The results - watching party builds with the suspense of a slasher film: Whose insufferable political discourse will be what makes them the first person killed?

Also, the fact that this is a Tom Cruise film robs the action scenes of suspense because we know that no matter what kind of peril hes in, hes not going to die.

What do you get when you take what is probably the greatest baseball film ever made («Eight Men Out»), a magical Irish fairytale («The Secret of Roan Inish»), a strange science fiction film about a mute, black alien who lands in Harlem («The Brother from Another Planet») and one of the best mystery / suspense films in recent years («Lone Star&raquWhat do you get when you take what is probably the greatest baseball film ever made («Eight Men Out»), a magical Irish fairytale («The Secret of Roan Inish»), a strange science fiction film about a mute, black alien who lands in Harlem («The Brother from Another Planet») and one of the best mystery / suspense films in recent years («Lone Star&raquwhat is probably the greatest baseball film ever made («Eight Men Out»), a magical Irish fairytale («The Secret of Roan Inish»), a strange science fiction film about a mute, black alien who lands in Harlem («The Brother from Another Planet») and one of the best mystery / suspense films in recent years («Lone Star»)?

Kevin Smith has crafted what he calls a horror film, but what I found to be an engaging thriller with suspense, dark comedy, and quite possibly the best writing in the filmmaker's entire career.

Reviewers have praised its stellar performances and tight direction, praise that is deserved, but I'd like to highlight what I think makes director Dan Trachtenberg's film unique: A combination of suspense so elemental that most of the movie could easily be performed onstage with the kind of absurd humor you might expect to see on FX or Comedy Central.

Refn treats these characters not as people but as pop objects, and what he builds around them isn't a suspense film so much as an anything - goes dream play.

Instead of being a quirky gimmick, this character trait enhances the film, turning what could be an average pulpy yarn into something at once more solemn and exciting to watch: a poetic meditation on mortality and honor that delivers the action and suspense of any good gangster film — all set to a moody rap score (by RZA).

What works: The film stands the test of time, a taut suspense classic built on great performances and razor - sharp direction by Hitchcock.