God Bless America (2011)
Standup comedian Bobcat Goldthwait (That’s How We Do It, World’s Greatest Dad) writes and directs this wildly violent satire that targets popular television programs and the media in a bold and very bloody way....
Category: Thriller
Heat (1995)
Neil McCauley (De Niro, Casino) is a professional criminal who has earned a living with big “scores”. After pulling off an armored car heist in which three guards are killed, he and his cohorts find they...
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Foreign Correspondent is a very loose adaptation of actual wartime reporter Vincent Sheean’s memoirs, “Personal History”, produced by Walter Wanger (Stagecoach, Invasion of the Body Snatchers) and directed by Alfred Hitchcock (Jamaica Inn, The Lady Vanishes),...
Psycho III (1986)
In August 1984, Universal greenlit the next entry in the Psycho franchise, Psycho III. Psycho II director Richard Franklin and screenwriter Tom Holland declined to return, causing Universal chairman Frank Price to hire Charles...
Carrie (1976)
Carrie is an adaptation of Stephen King’s first published novel, and the first to be adapted for the big screen. Despite its age, the film still holds up as quite effective to this day, thanks...
Cape Fear (1991)
Martin Scorsese’s lucrative follow-up to Goodfellas sees the director in more of an experimental mood, and the result is intriguing, beguiling and frustrating at the same time. It’s a remake of a noir-ish 1962 thriller starring...
Side Effects (2013)
Reviewing a film like Side Effects poses a bit of a challenge, as revealing the aspect of it that will make or break it for most people will likely be the very thing that spoils that...
Psycho II (1983)
In 1980, the screenwriting team of Gary Travis and Michael January concocted an original horror film idea of a woman buying a house and coming to believe it’s haunted. It’s later revealed that there...
Psycho (1960)
In 1957, a rural hermit named Ed Gein was arrested on suspicion of murder. Searches of Gein’s Wisconsin farmhouse revealed the bodies of several missing women, mutilated, decapitated, and their organs preserved in various...
Gaslight (1944)
Gaslight opens in Victorian-era London, with the death of acclaimed opera diva Alice Alquist, who had been strangled by someone trying to heist her jewels, and who still looms at large. The scene shifts to...