Tag: THRILLER

BODY OF EVIDENCE (1992)

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Directed By: Uli Edel
Written By: Brad Mirman
Cinematography: Douglas Milsome
Editor: Thom Noble 


Cast: Madonna, Willem Dafoe, Joe Mantegna, Julianne Moore, Anne Archer, Frank Langella, Stan Shaw, Richard Riehle, Michael Forest, Charles Hallahan, Mark Rolston, Jurgen Prochnow, Jeff Perry 


A millionaire is found dead of heart failure handcuffed to the bed with a home video tape of him and his lover. When cocaine is found in his system, and his will leaves $8 million to his lover, they arrest her on suspicion of murder. Her lawyer succumbs to her charms, and he begins a torrid and kinky affair with her. As new evidence turns up during trial, he begins to wonder if he’s defending a murderer.

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FREEWAY II: CONFESSIONS OF A TRICK BABY (1999)

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Written & Directed By: Matthew Bright
Cinematography: Joel Ransom
Editor: Suzanne Hines 


Cast: Natasha Lyonne, Maria Celedonio David Alan Grier, Michael T. Weiss, Vincent Gallo, Max Perlich, John Landis, Jenn Griffin 


In this modern update of the Hansel and Gretel fairy tale (actually more like Gretel and Gretel), 15-year old Crystal is a bulimic delinquent who makes her living by beating and robbing potential “tricks”. While awaiting a 25-year jail term, Crystal hooks up with a psychotic young lesbian named Cyclona, doing time for slaughtering her entire family. After escaping, they head for Mexico, where Cyclona’s saviour Sister Gomez lives in a confectionery full of children. Along the way, they leave a trail of crack rocks, binging and purging, and dead people.

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RUNNING SCARED (2006)

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Written & Directed By: Wayne Kramer
Cinematography By: James Whitaker
Editor: Arthur Coburn 


Cast: Paul Walker, Vera Farmiga, Chazz Palmenteri, Karel Roden, Cameron Bright, Johnny Messner, Ivana Milicevic, Michael Cudlitz, Bruce Altman, Elizabeth Mitchell, Idalis DeLeon, Jon Noble

After a drug-op gone bad, Joey Gazelle is put in charge of disposing the gun that shot a dirty cop. But things goes wrong for Joey after the neighbor kid stole the gun and used it to shoot his abusive father. Now Joey has to find the kid and the gun before the police and the mob find them first.

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THE PERFECTION (2019)

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Directed By: Richard Shepherd
Written By: Richard Shepherd, Eric C. Charmelo & Nicole Snyder
Cinematography: Vanja Cernful
Editor: David Dean  


Cast: Allison Williams, Logan Browning, Steven Weber, Alaina Huffman

When troubled musical prodigy Charlotte seeks out Elizabeth, the new star pupil of her former school, the encounter sends both musicians down a sinister path with shocking consequences.

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DON’T BREATHE (2016)

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Directed By: Fede Alvarez
Written By: Fede Alavarez & Royo Sayagues
Cinematography By: Pedro Luque
Editor: Eric L. Beason, Louise Ford & Gardner Gould
Art Direction: Adrian Asztalos & Erick Donaldson (Detroit) 

Cast: Jane Levy, Stephen Lang, Daniel Zovatto, Dylan Minnette 

Hoping to walk away with a massive fortune, a trio of thieves break into the house of a blind man who isn’t as helpless as he seems.

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BUSHWICK (2017)

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Written & Directed By: Cary Murnion & Jonathan Milott
Cinematography By: Lyle Vincent
 Editor: Joe Hobeck
Music By: Aesop Rock 

Cast: Dave Bautista, Brittany Snow, Angelic Zambrana, Arturo Castro, Jeremie Harris 



the story of twenty-year- old Lucy and war veteran Stupe. Texas is trying to secede from the U.S., and NYC is being used as a negotiation tool. Lucy meets Stupe after coming up from the subway into the military invasion of Brooklyn. Together they decide to cross the treacherous five blocks of Bushwick – littered with looters, local militias, the invading forces, and one crazy cousin – in order to get home and be reunited with Lucy’s grandmother.

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THIEVES HIGHWAY (1949)

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Directed By: Jules Dassin
Written & Based On The Novel By: A.I. Bezzerides
Cinematography By: Norbert Brodine
Editor: Nick DeMaggio 


Cast: Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Lawrence, Jack Oakie, Millard Mitchell, Jospeh Pevney 


A war-veteran-turned-truck driver attempts to avenge the crippling and robbing of his father at the hands of an amoral produce scofflaw. What I like about this film is that inherently it is a simple film. It’s has a simple premise that has monkey wrench a thrown into plans that generally shock the audience as considering the time it came out. It has such a cynical heart and unpleasent scenes mixed in with some they are more jolly.

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EXTREMELY WICKED, SOMETHING EVIL AND VILE (2019)

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Directed By: Joe Berlinger
Written By: Michael Werwie
Based on the book “The Phantom Prince: My Life With Ted Bundy” By: Liz Kendell
Cinematography: Brandon Trost
Editor: John Schaeffer 

Cast: Zac Efron, Lily Collins, Angela Sarafyn, James Hetfield, Jeffrey Donovan, Terry Kinney, Haley Joel Osment, Kaya Scodelario, Dylan Baker, John Malkovich, Brian Geraghty, Jim Parsons, Grace Victoria Cox 

A courtroom frenzy ensues and sweeps 1970s America when a young single mother meets Ted Bundy.

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UNDER THE SILVER LAKE (2019)

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Written & Directed By: David Gordon Mitchell
Cinematography: Mike Gioulakis
Editor: Julio Perez
Music By Disasterpiece 


Cast: Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough, Topher Grace, Riki Lindhome, Grace Van Patten, Callie Hernandez, Zosia Mamet, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Jimmi Simpson, Lola Blanc, Sydney Sweeney, Summer Bashil, Don McManus, Patrick Fischler

Sam is a disenchanted 33-year-old who discovers a mysterious woman, Sarah, frolicking in his apartment’s swimming pool. When she vanishes, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal and conspiracy in the City of Angels.

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