The Trouble with Norman Bates – Hitchcock’s Psycho
Works of fiction have a way of disassociating from reality and creating their own worlds. There is a distance between real world and make-believe...
Tagged: thrillers
Underwater
One-part Alien another part The Meg, Underwater is a deep-sea thriller: what exactly lives seven miles under the sea—and what business do we have...
Alfred Hitchcock’s THE BIRDS
Okay, I’ll admit it: The Birds never scared me—not even as a child. Still, on the 55th anniversary of the picture’s release, Alfred Hitchcock’s...
Steven Spielberg’s DUEL
Four years before the release of his blockbuster hit JAWS, Steven Spielberg was hired on to direct DUEL (1971) an ABC TV Movie of...
John Boorman’s Deliverance
“Women get this movie much quicker than men. Women also understand. You know, for so many years men throw the word ‘rape’ around and...
Furious Action Thrillers: KIDNAP
Halle Berry’s three years old, still unreleased, film Kidnap was screened for a select group of journalists last week—yours truly among them. The challenge...
Walter Matthau and Bruce Dern star in the 70s crime classic THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN
On October 18th, Kino Lorber will be releasing Stuart Rosenberg’s 1973 crime thriller THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN on high-definition BluRay. BUY IT FROM AMAZON A...
James Coburn prescribes pain in the THE CAREY TREATMENT
In the late 60s into the 70s actor James Coburn starred in a bunch of great films like In Like Flint, The Presidents Analyst,...
Heinous Haberdashery of Horrors: Quentin Tarantino’s THE HATEFUL EIGHT
In a white wintry abyss, the sounds of Ennio Morricone‘s ominous score plays as a stagecoach slowly comes into view. Sitting square in the...
An epic amount of chills and thrills await in Quentin Tarantino’s THE HATEFUL EIGHT
The Wild West will be getting a whole lot wilder in Quentin Tarantino‘s upcoming thriller THE HATEFUL EIGHT. The first inglorious trailer for the...
