Thrillers

becomes a mysterious thriller. In Blow Up Antonioni creates mystery through murder after the main character; Thomas discovers a dead corpse in the negatives of his photos he took at the park. The film ends with the viewer wondering who the killed man was and if Thomas ever takes this matter to authority or not, which is similar to L'Avventura. In L'Avventura once all the friends get to the island one of the protagonists; Anna goes missing. This film is more of a mystery than a thriller, but…

Desterbia, one of the better films that I’ve seen in a long time. Is also a go to movie that I use to show a nice light to thriller transition in films. I believe is up there with some of my favorite movies. I have high ratings for it, but many other reviewers think otherwise. On rotten tomatoes, it was rated a 69/100. That is something that I really don’t agree with. This film has great transition between genres, and it does it well. I believe is better than it is credit for. Desturbia is set…

The book, We All Fall Down, is a thriller written by Robert Cormier. Robert Cormier was an American author who was known for his negative, pessimistic writing. The story We All Fall Down is a thriller book that received high ratings for the suspense it brought. It received a rating of 3.8/5 stars and even received a nomination for the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult. Some reviews of the book are from: Publishers Weekly, “Cormier surpass most other writers by the sheer force of his words,”…

Stephanie Kuehn is a clinical psychologist and author best known for writing several freestanding psychological thrillers. She debuted her writing career with Charm & Strange, which won the William Morris Award in 2014. Stephanie Kuehn raised in Berkeley, California, a quirky sort of place full of bookstores. As an infant, she was adopted by a father that was an editor and journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle. As such, hence she spent a lot of her childhood with persons that had a passion…

Laura Cardinal series are a series of police procedurals cum mystery detective thrillers by the J. Carson Black the American author from Tucson, Arizona. Darkness on the Edge of Town that went on to become a fan favorite and a bestselling novel in the series was the first novel in the series that also introduced the lead character Laura Cardinal. After the much-vaunted success of the first novel in the series, Black went on to publish several more titles in the still ongoing series. The series…

M. Night Shyamalan’s suspense thriller The Sixth Sense (1999) scrutinizes the unusual and unseen relations between the living and the deceased whilst exploring the unknown world of the afterlife. Cole Sear (9 years old) struggles with understanding that he is a medium and finds closure and help within Malcom Crowe- a child psychologist who is unaware of his own death. The Sixth Sense was the first of many thriller films that Shayamalan wrote and directed. M. Nigh Shayamalan uses a variety of…

about Kennedy’s writing. This commentary was simply that Kennedy’s ability to bring all the elements of a thriller. Now a thriller comprises of multiple components, such as: a heroic yet ordinary protagonist, an interesting setting, multiple view points and suspense around every corner. Just by considering these few elements it is already easy to say that Thirteen Days is indeed a thriller in some form. Especially the suspense of never knowing if your country is going to go into nuclear war or…

The classic thriller, suspense film Rear Window directed by Alfred Hitchcock is one of his greatest masterpieces. In a small Greenwich Village apartment, a newspaper photographer with a casted leg takes frequent views of the surrounding Lower East Side apartment buildings, lower courtyard and garden. With a suspicion about one of his neighbors, Jeff believes that one neighbor inparticular is a murder, then decides to solve the mystery himself. With a combination of thriller, action and mystery,…

the start and has a strange attachment to his his mother just like Gein. One of the quotes that stays in my mind from this movie is when Norman tells Marian "After all, a boys best friend is his mother." Psycho falls into the genres of horror and thriller. I am not a scary movie type of person, but Psycho really impressed me. There is more than what meets the eye in this film and that is what makes it so well done and…

Growing up in the 1940’s was tough for everyone. Having a father that you idolized as a journalist who later got drafted into World War 2, was not an easy task. Michael Crichton respected all over the world and viewed as one of the greatest writers had a unique childhood. 6 foot 3 inches and ill his whole childhood made Crichton to stand out (Crichton, Michael). Due to spending most of his time at home, Crichton began exploration into the field of science and journalism, following in his…