Sisters (1972)
The start of Brian De Palma’s “I’m just going to keep making Psycho” period, Sisters sees journalist Grace Collier (Jennifer Salt) investigating the case of a corpse folded into a […]
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Rebecca
In Monte Carlo, a nameless woman (Joan Fontaine) is companion to Mrs van Hopper (Florence Bates) who’s so awful she has to pay people to spend time with her. When […]
To Catch A Thief
The film opens with a woman screaming after someone pinched her family jewels. A cat burglar is on the loose in France, with the claw of blame pointed squarely at […]
The Lady Vanishes
In the snowy Bandrikan mountains a group of holiday makers are left stranded in a hotel during an avalanche. It then switches from The Hateful Eight to Murder on the […]
The Man Who Knew Too Much
A couple, Jill and Bob Lawrence (Edna Best and Leslie Banks), are on a skiing holiday in the Alps with daughter Betty (Nova Pilbeam). When a holiday friend (Pierre Fresnay) […]
Fatal Attraction
Glenn Close goes hopping mad in the thriller that spawned countless copycats and the expression “bunny boiler,” while the word “myxomapsychosis” sadly never caught on. Fatal Attraction isn’t the first […]
Waltzes from Vienna
In early 19th century Vienna, Johann Strauss II (Esmond Knight) plays second fiddle, both metaphorically and literally, in his father’s (Edmund Gwenn) orchestra, where he’s constantly denigrated by his elder […]
Sorry, Wrong Number
Thrillers have always exploited the latest methods of communication, whether people are witnessing murders over Skype (Unfriended), telephones (Phone Booth), pigeon (Bird Box) or cave paintings (Ice Age). 1948’s Sorry, […]
Deep Red
A pianist (David Hemmings) witnesses a brutal murder in 1975 giallo Deep Red, which would technically make orange. Directed by Dario Argento with another progtastic score by Goblin, Deep Red […]
Magic
Someone’s dummy starts to take over their life in Magic: The Melania Trump Story. Despite appearances, 1978’s Magic is not a haunted doll movie (Annabelle, The Boy, that episode of Buffy) but […]
