by xerkdqmy | Oct 27, 2017 | General, Thriller Thursday
The Best Paranoid Thrillers of All Time The following is a compilation of the best paranoid thrillers of all time. In my opinion, what defines a paranoid thriller (as opposed to a thriller in general) is the manner in which tension and drama is built. Paranoid...
by xerkdqmy | Nov 10, 2016 | General, Thriller Thursday
The Conversation, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, is a disturbing and detail-specific paranoid thriller. It is not an epic adventure like Apocalypse Now, nor a wide-ranging family drama like The Godfather. Instead, it comes across as a small and personal movie. It...
by xerkdqmy | Jun 9, 2016 | General, Thriller Thursday
There is no more-mentioned heist thriller in any creative meeting I’ve attended than Heat. Directed by Michael Mann (some would argue in his prime) and starring Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino, the film centers around a squad of thieves, run by DeNiro’s character...
by xerkdqmy | Feb 11, 2016 | General, Thriller Thursday
One of the perennial thrillers of the 90’s, Enemy of the State helped define a new style of action filmmaking. Starring Will Smith, the movie also worked, despite intense Hollywood production and kinetic editing, because it obeyed many of the same structural rules...
by xerkdqmy | Jan 7, 2016 | General, Thriller Thursday
Marathon Man is a subversive, incredibly twisty, international espionage film written by William Goldman (from his own novel) and directed by John Schlesinger. The film sets up an anonymous U.S. intelligence service against a Nazi war criminal hell-bent on moving hot...
by xerkdqmy | Dec 17, 2015 | General, Thriller Thursday
Sicario makes you believe that you’re right there on the job with the United States’ top counter-narcotics operatives. But what you’ll eventually learn is that the world they occupy is not necessarily one you want to live in. That’s what makes the veiwer’s nerves...
