Sabotage (1936)
Not to be confused with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Sabotage or Alfred Hitchcock’s Saboteur, Alfred Hitchcock’s Sabotage is a 1936 thriller about terrorists targeting Piccadilly Circus with the unthinkable aim of causing […]
Tag Archives: thriller
Dead of Winter
Barb Sorenson’s (Emma Thompson) ice fishing trip is rudely interrupted by a kidnapping, in this survival thriller they should have called Deadliest Catch. Dead of Winter proudly references Fargo in […]
The Long Walk
50 teenage boys volunteer for a walking tournament where they are shot if they drop below 3 miles per hour, in this carbon-neutral version of Speed. Based on a 1979 […]
Devil
Five strangers are trapped in a lift where one of them is the actual Devil, in this M. Night Shyamalan-produced thriller they should have called Hellevator. Shyamalan opted not to […]
Dead Mail
The Coen brothers meet the Chemical Brothers in this 2024 thriller about a Midwestern music enthusiast (John Fleck) who kidnaps a talented synthesiser engineer (Sterling Macer Jr.). They should have […]
Old
Holidaymakers with various medical conditions head to a luxury resort and wind up stranded on a beach (and film) that accelerates the ageing process. Known colloquially as The Beach That […]
Drop
A first date gets a crash course in connectivity when Violet (Meghann Fahy) starts getting airdropped threatening messages from someone in the restaurant, in this high-concept thriller about dater protection. […]
September 5
Hot on the heels of Companion comes another film whose title causes unnecessary confusion in the booking process, September 5. This historical thriller recounts the 1972 Olympics hostage crisis, when […]
Blink Twice
A cocktail waitress (Naomi Ackie) accompanies a disgraced tech billionaire (Channing Tatum) to his private island, where she slowly realises that partying with tech bros is exactly as fun as […]
Cure
An amnesiac (Masato Hagiwara) uses a cigarette lighter to hypnotise people in this Japanese thriller they should have called Silence of the Lambert & Butler. The 1997 neo-noir has shades of Se7en […]
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