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1. Fargo. 1996 1h 38m R. 8.1 (727K) Rate. 88 Metascore. Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson. Director Joel Coen Ethan Coen Stars William H. Macy Frances McDormand Steve Buscemi. 2. Primal Fear. 1996 2h 9m R.
- Rear Window. Alfred Hitchcock's legendary single-location thriller plays on our natural voyeuristic tendencies and uses this as the basis to explore what happens when a suspected murder is witnessed.
- Parasite. Bong Joon-ho's Oscar-winning film may be a relatively recent entry into the pantheon of great suspense films, but as it's made by the man who professes to have seen Hitchcock's "Psycho" more than 50 times (via The Guardian), it isn't hard to see why it's positioned as a contender to some of the all-time greats.
- North by Northwest. Mistaken for a government agent, advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) is pursued by the relentless spy Phillip Vandamm (James Mason) in one of Hitchcock's most action-packed thrillers.
- Psycho. When Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) impulsively steals a large amount of money and goes on the run, she's blissfully unaware that the night she spends in the off-the-beaten-track Bates Motel, will be her last.
- Bird Box
- The Call
- The Clovehitch Killer
- Gerald's Game
- Hush
- I Am Mother
- The Guilty
- Oxygen
- The Platform
- The Power of The Dog
Bird Box's premise is a simple but effective one: After a mysterious apocalyptic event, human beings can no longer open their eyes outdoors. If they do, they'll die by suicide. As you can probably imagine, this threat alone is more than enough to dial up the movie's background tension, while sequences like Sandra Bullock's character Malorie rowing ...
Not the 2013 Halle Berry film or the revenge-based horror film of the same name, but based on Matthew Parkhill's 2011 supernatural horror film The Caller, Lee Chung-hyun's The Call is a dark, chilling South Korean mystery that you can’t hang up on. When Kim Seo-yeon (Park Shin-hye) visits her family home, she loses her phone, then starts getting we...
What would you do if you began to suspect a family member might be guilty of some horrendous crimes? That's the premise of Duncan Skiles' dark domestic nightmare, which sees a seemingly perfect family torn apart when their teenage son, Tyler, finds a link between his dad and the infamous Clovehitch Killer — a man who tortured and murdered 10 women ...
Channeling the single room claustrophobia of Misery, Gerald's Game is a Stephen King novel that writer/director Mike Flanagan used to think was "unfilmable". It's not difficult to see why, either. The story follows a woman handcuffed to the bed of her remote lake house after her husband dies of a heart attack during a sex game. The vast majority of...
As a simple, terrifying scenario, Mike Flanagan and Kate Siegel’s Hush makes a strong horror-thriller elevator pitch: Siegel plays Maddie Young, a successful horror author, who is deaf and cannot speak, and who lives by herself in a house in the woods. When a murderous masked man starts threatening Maddie, things get seriously scary as she tries to...
The problem with robots is you can never tell what they're thinking. This is a lesson we've had drilled into us time and again in the sci-fi space, and Grant Sputore's futuristic mystery — about a girl being raised by a robot in a post-apocalyptic bunker — is no exception. Starring Hilary Swank, Clara Rugaard, and Rose Byrne, the suspense in this o...
Following a cop with an anger problem during a 911 dispatch shift, The Guiltysees Jake Gyllenhaal at his vein-bursting best in this twisty thriller about a kidnapped woman. "With the camera focused on him for almost the full 90 minutes in The Guilty, Gyllenhaal combines all [his] skills into one excruciatingly tense performance," I wrote in my revi...
A futuristic twist on the fear of being buried alive, Alexandre Aja's Oxygenis a claustrophobic nightmare about a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic box with no idea of who she is or how she got there. The good news? She's able to communicate with the outside world via a robotic medical unit called M.I.L.O. The bad news? Nobody she speaks to seems w...
Prison cells are stacked one on top of the other, with holes in the floor and ceiling. Randomly-assigned levels change each month. And a platform of food gets slowly lowered from the very top, getting sparser and sparser with each floor it descends. This is the concept at the centre of Spanish director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia's The Platform, a distu...
Set in 1925 Montana, The Power of the Dogfollows the tense relationship between a bullying, grim-faced rancher and the timid son of his new sister-in-law. "The menace threaded through the film mesmerizes," writes Kristy Puchko in her review. "Ari Wegner's searching cinematography weaves this mood into an aching vulnerability. His tightest close-ups...
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- Under the Shadow (2016) An exquisitely crafted and thoroughly unnerving chiller, writer/director Babak Anvari's feature debut blurs the line between supernatural terror and the horrors of the real world like few films you'll ever see.
- Cam (2018) Directed by Daniel Goldhaber, this Netflix original is about an adult webcam performer who discovers a sinister presence has taken her place on the internet.
- I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020) A year after she, frankly, stunned us with her turn as a Scottish bad-girl-turned-country-singer in Wild Rose, Jessie Buckley starred in Charlie Kaufman's darkly comic psychological thriller.
- Gerald's Game (2017) A career-high performance from the always-good Carla Gugino is front-and-center in Mike Flanagan’s Netflix original, a Stephen King adaptation about a woman who ends up handcuffed to a bed in the middle of nowhere when her husband drops dead.
May 3, 2024. Few films will provide escapist entertainment quite like an armrest-gripping, white-knuckle thriller. To help you make your next excellent streaming selection from home, we've...
Best-Reviewed Thrillers 2020. We were kept in suspense all year thanks to the caliber of thrillers released, starting with Blow the Man Down, the women-driven murder mystery with plenty of quirky...
