Thrillers

Schmidt in New Girl Hey Winston Schmidt, I know you are the wealthiest person within your roommates, I doubt that you never worried about money in your life. I would like to introduce a netflix original movie whose main clue is money to you. It is a thriller and suspense film about how a sheriff revenged for his illegitimate young son and ‘robbed’ the bank without being suspected. The movie was narrated from the end, which makes the story more interesting. Unlike some flashback movie, which…

Personal Statement To wander into the domain of science is to seek after a way of vast disclosures and to have the chance to venture into such a field and widen my insight has always been an enthusiasm of mine. Biology has always enticed me, as learning about the way our body is particularly 'engineered' to battle against infection, has constantly grasped my interests. What fascinates me most about the workings and mechanics of the human body is how it constantly overcomes the many challenges…

“The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell is a short story and a suspenseful thriller that deals with hunting and survival skills. Rainsford is a skilled hunter that goes overboard. Leaving him stranded on an Island. On this Island he finds a large home and meets General Zaroff a hunter too, but hunts a different kind of animal. A lesson in “The Most Dangerous Game” is strategy outweighs strength. Strategy outweighs strength is first shown when Rainsford makes a Malay Man Catcher to trap…

cell next door. The detectives question him about why all his stories contain brutal child murders, and more importantly, why they match some recent child murders in the area. The director, Bert Lyons, did a stupendous job producing this chilling thriller and the actors did an equally fantastic job playing the roles of these characters.…

exaggerating the amount of shark attacks. The line-up of the Documentaries for 2016 include inflammatory titles such as Return of the Mako Monster Shark, Air Jaws: The Night Stalker, and The Killing Games. Scientific facts equal impositions to their horror/thriller genre shows. When conservation is mentioned, Discovery treats it as a side note then returns to the Jaws theme. Facts do not stick with viewers when information is dispersed between violent imagery to the contrary. With how little…

Baker, Bill Smitrovich, Frank Wood, Ed Lauter, Kevin Conway, and Michael Fairman Director: Roger Donaldson Writer: David Self Producers: Armyan Bernstein, Peter Almond, and Kevin Costner Country of Origin: United States Genre: Historical, Drama, Thriller My assessment of this film would be that the acting was amazing but with the special effects it would get confusing at times. The acting was amazing by all the main actors especially Bruce Greenwood and Kevin Costner. For example while watching…

events that they never experienced. The Parallax View (1974), directed by Alan J. Pakula with the screenplay by David Giler and Lorenzo Semple Jr. (based on a novel by the same name by Loren Singer) is a highly stylized and disturbing political thriller that intents to depict social distrust in government and explores the possibility of a corporation recruiting political assassins. Under Pakula’s direction, The Parallax View has a Hitchcockian style of suspense and uncertainty. The film opens…

The author Stephen King is well known for writing books meant to entertain an audience. The Shawshank Redemption is one of these. It is a fiction book belonging mainly to the crime genre, but it fits in the drama or thriller genres as well. The book follows a banker named Andy in his late 20's who was accused of murdering his wife, and the man she was cheating with. Although the man was innocent he was found guilty and sentenced to two life sentences in Shawshank Prison. The story is used to…

The Martian, by Andy Weir, is a novel that is extremely comical and surprisingly, scientifically accurate. The Martian chronicles the tales of Mark Watney, a NASA astronaut who was left stranded on Mars after his crew presumed he was dead. Mark Watney uses his engineering and botany skills as a means of surviving on the barren planet that is Mars. In Watney’s stay on Mars, he must determine how to make more food, how to make more water, and ultimately, how to got off of Mars. The Martian obtains…

Numerous of movies nowadays have at least one thing that relates with a topic involving sociology; for example, the newly released horror/thriller movie by Jordan Peele titled “Get Out”. The film frames the familiar anxieties of modern black/white intercultural awkwardness as a mask for something much more sinister, and the result is a suspenseful, thrilling film. In addition, this movie deals with very serious issues including race and ethnicity, and also social interaction. This movie…