In fact, his particular style of using suspense and psychological elements to promote thrills got its own name The " Hitchcockian " style includes the use of camera movement to mimic a person's gaze, thereby turning viewers into voyeurs , and framing shots to maximize anxiety and fear. Film critic Robin Wood wrote that the meaning of a Hitchcock film "is there in the method, in the progression from shot to shot.
A Hitchcock film is an organism, with the whole implied in every detail and every detail related to the whole. These details defined the Hitchcock move. He returned several times to cinematic tropes such as the audience as voyeur, suspense, the wrong man or woman, and the " MacGuffin ," and twist endings that provided shock and awe.
It would be easy to fill any article with only Hitchcock examples. So I wanted to give him his own section so I could go into detail on other great works. When it comes to finding examples of this genre, I wanted to keep things relatively current so you could see where we're at today. We might as well start off with best-picture winner and international sensation, Parasite. This Bong Joon-ho movie really builds on the worry of what's living in your basement, by answering the question literally.
Another movie I think had me so upset while watching that I nearly vomited was Uncut Gems. Adam Sandler headlines this Safdie brothers ' masterpiece where the world of jewels and gambling is constantly swirled through high-risk sports betting. This character has his life turned upside down. Your heart beats so fast while watching the movie, it's fairly dangerous if you are out of shape.
That brings us to David Fincher , who I think has become our new Hitchcock in many ways. He's got his own personal style, and he doesn't always make thrillers, but when he tackles the genre as he did in Gone Girl , he's one of the best at it. Gone Girl subverts what we know about murder mysteries and has so many twists you have to hold on tight. Fincher is not only a master of thrillers on the big screen, but on the small one as well.
His work on Mindhunter helped the show find its thrilling tone. Each week we meet and get in the minds of serial killers. We're hunting someone while they are hunting someone else.
That kind of storytelling works on TV very well, as each week builds tension for the season finale. I cannot think of a more intense first season of thriller TV than that of Homeland. It's about a terrorist on American soil with access to the president. Someone who was converted and trained to do his worst. We also follow the CIA trying to see if there will be new danger moving forward. Across the world, we love thrillers. Take a show like Killing Eve.
It transcended the BBC and became an international sensation. It was a show that played on lots of different thriller genres and subgenres.
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But Fletcher pushes him harder and harder, breaking him into pieces in pursuit of perfection. Are you a rusher, or are you a dragger? Two men beat a Jewish man to death, Captain Finlay Robert Young investigates and narrows the suspects down to a group of off-duty soldiers.
Alarmed that his friend might be the prime suspect, Sergeant Keeley Robert Mitchum wades in. As the net closes around the real killers, things start to get even more ugly. This is a gritty look at antisemitism at a time when the world was still coming to terms with the Holocaust, and a stark reminder that that atrocity didn't start with people being marched into camps — it started with the indifference of ordinary people.
It got a five Oscar nominations, and became the first B movie to get any nods from the Academy to boot. This heist movie set on Tyneside deserves to be seen more widely. Four crims get together to rob a payroll van but, as you might expect, not everything goes according to plan. There's a shootout, a love triangle, blackmail, inter-gang squabbling and a finale set in Norfolk: all the good stuff. Filmed on location around Newcastle, Gateshead and Whitley Bay, there's a noirish vibe to the blunt, brutal violence which stalks the streets of the north-east and a jazzy score by bandleader Reg Owen.
It's Get Carter 's even less glossy big brother. Tom Ripley Matt Damon, reportedly stepping in for Leonardo DiCaprio borrows some Princeton duds for a piano-playing gig at a fancy party, only to find that the Ivy League crest alone buys him entry into a world of festering privilege when shipping magnate Herbert Greenleaf mistakes Tom for a classmate of his wastrel son, Dickie Jude Law.
Well, that very much depends on who you ask. But all in the Armitage residence is very much not as it seems, and Chris soon finds that he has been summoned to the house for monstrous reasons. Nor is it a surprise to discover that the Korean director first conceived the idea — about a poor family, the Kims, who infiltrate the life and house of a rich one, the Parks — as a play, given that it has the intensity and claustrophobia of a Greek tragedy, albeit with a few more laughs. But who is the parasite here?
The wily Kims, or the lazy, exploitative Parks? When he was a boy, David Fincher noticed that the police had been tailing his school bus. So started his fascination with the Zodiac killer, and eventually this starry and masterful retelling of the manhunt which followed a string of still unsolved murders across California and Nevada — Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr and Mark Ruffalo lead it.
Put together for next to nothing, this word-of-mouth Indian hit is set in the aftermath of a poison gas attack on a Kolkata commuter train. Vidya Bagchi arrives from London looking for her missing husband Arnab, but it soon looks like there was a lot she didn't know about him. Suddenly she's drawn into a conspiracy involving rogue agents, mistaken identities and domestic terrorism. Kahaani is a lively, barrelling thriller which gets under the skin of the city with handheld footage and a DIY ethos.
Right, hold onto your hats, another big opinion coming through: this is Danny Boyle's best film. It's got all the ingredients that would make Trainspotting so huge in — a stylish look, a belting soundtrack from techno duo Leftfield, Ewan McGregor delivering every line of John Hodge's script with arch topspin — but here it's bolted onto a thriller engine which Hitchcock would have been proud of.
Three Edinburgh flatmates McGregor, Christopher Eccleston and Kerry Fox interview for someone to take their spare bedroom, eventually landing on the mysterious Hugo.
But Hugo suddenly dies, and leaves behind a suitcase with a gigantic stack of cash in it. What do the flatmates do with a corpse and a fortune on their hands?
They get rid of the former and keep the latter, obviously. And, just as obviously, their choice means the walls start to close in around them. It's a brilliantly claustrophobic and taut watch. Bill Duke's noirish tale of a drugs cop who goes undercover in Los Angeles to get inside a cocaine ring is built around a brooding performance from Laurence Fishburne as officer Russell Stevens Jr and a lugubrious but flinty turn by Jeff Goldblum as David Jason.
That's the man who becomes Stevens' self-appointed attorney when he gets deep into the cartel, not the beloved elder statesman of British sitcoms. It's all about split loyalties and shifting identities, and the theme song, by Dr Dre and an extremely young Snoop Dogg, is a banger. A bungled bank robbery turns into a fiasco of a hostage-taking in Sidney Lumet's classic heist-without-the-heist film. In an attempt to get money for his trans partner's gender affirmation surgery, Sonny Wortzik Al Pacino and Sal Naturale John Cazale, in his third collab with Pacino following the first two Godfather films try to hold up a bank.
Unfortunately, their third man runs off, and they turn up after all the money's been picked up.
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