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 […]
Tag Archives: thriller
Shut In
Single mother and recovering addict Jess (Rainey Qualley) gets locked in her cupboard in this Christian thriller they should have called Satanic Panic Room. Disturbia director D.J. Caruso takes another […]
Trap
Months after producing his daughter’s first directorial feature (The Watched), M. Night Shyamalan launches his other daughter’s pop career in this thriller they should have called Attack of the Nepo […]
Influencer
This 2022 thriller follows an influencer (Emily Tennant) who goes on holiday to Thailand and soon learns to live without her phone. Or food or water. Influencer starts interestingly enough, […]
Watcher
This 2022 psychological thriller follows Julia (Maika Monroe), an American who moves to Bucharest and becomes convinced she is being watched through her window; a heightened risk in Romania since […]
Infernal Affairs
A mob rat and a police mole (Tony Leung and Andy Lau) face off in the 2002 movie subsequently remade as The Wind in the Willows. I mean The Departed. This […]
Tattoo (2002)
Tattoo is a German thriller from 2002, not to be confused with the 1981 American movie Tattoo or the Russian band t.A.T.u. This film has perhaps the most ridiculous opening […]
Holy Spider
This Persian-language thriller is based on the real case of a serial killer who murdered 16 sex workers in Masshad circa 2001. Let’s call it Iranian Psycho. Born in Iran […]
The Northman
When the Northboy’s (Oscar Novak) uncle (Claes Bang) kills his father (Ethan Hawke) and abducts his mother (Nicole Kidman), he goes on to live a peaceful wandering life where he […]
Suspicion
A stinking rich young woman, Linda (Joan Fontaine) falls for the charming-but-cheap Johnnie (Cary Grant) after they encounter each other on a train. But will someone become suspicious of someone? […]
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