Tag Archives: Thriller

Weekly Mini-Review: Hidaway (1995)

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Hilary

Story: Near death experiences link the mind of a suburban husband and father with that of a kwazy serial killer who goes after teenage girls – directing the killer’s attentions toward the man’s daughter. Review: The first time I saw … Continue reading →

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Weekly Mini-Review: Mister Frost (1990)

Posted on October 15, 2013 by Hilary

Story: A nutty serial killer, or possibly Satan, drives a female psychiatrist and a cop loopy. Review: Goldblum does a good job of being cheerfully creepy, but the other actors fall short, and the ending, sadly, has no witty turnabout … Continue reading →

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Weekly Mini-Review: A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

Posted on September 30, 2013 by Hilary

Story: In a society of limited birthrate, a couple whose son is in a coma adopts the first robot child ever designed to feel love. When the couple’s son reawakens, the robot boy (guided by a literal belief in fairytales) … Continue reading →

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Weekly Mini-Review: Three Days of the Condor (1975)

Posted on September 16, 2013 by Hilary

Story: When a member of a CIA office for reading and analyzing published material for hidden codes returns from a lunch run to find the whole building has been wiped out by a hit squad, he is forced to go … Continue reading →

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Weekly Mini Review: Toy Story 3 (2010)

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Hilary

  Story: When he goes away to college, a boy packs some of his toys in the attic – causing them to think about running away. When they all accidentally end up at a daycare center, they meet yet another … Continue reading →

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Weekly Mini-Review: The Uninvited (1944)

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Hilary

Story: A brother and sister buy and old mansion from an old man who wants to keep it away from the girl whose mother died there. But she’s is drawn to the house, and the brother, and the house is … Continue reading →

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Weekly Mini-Review: Super 8

Posted on October 14, 2012 by Hilary

Story: A group of kids out filming a scene late at night see something they weren’t meant to and eventually unravel a government secret. Review: It’s largely a kids movie, aimed shamelessly towards wannabe filmmakers, and Spielberg has just a … Continue reading →

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Socio-Political Symbolism in Dracula

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Hilary

Robert Sklar said the horror movies of the 1930s, like the 1931 film Dracula, expressed the public’s “fear for the survival their society and pleasure at seeing someone… vent his rage at it” (179). Rather than venting rage, one could suppose that it was more along the premise of seizing personal power over society Continue reading →

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Film Noir: The Mother of the Psychological Thriller

Posted on December 19, 2010 by Hilary

I believe it is possible that psychological thrillers such as Rope (1948), The Shining (1980), Jaws (1975); and the genre of psychological thrillers as a whole are natural extensions of film noir. Continue reading →

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