Tagged: Hitchcockian

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2000s / Mystery / Thriller

Identity (2003)

Part Agatha Christie, part Alfred Hitchcock, Identity is a modern updating of old-school mystery/suspense for today’s slasher-flick appreciative audiences. Shades of Psycho mixed with “Ten Little Indians“ get churned in the idea blender. Toss in a few new twists, and...

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2000s / Musical / Mystery

8 Women (2002)

Based on the play by Robert Thomas, 8 Women transcends the stage by becoming an homage to 1950s Hollywood films and the female archetypes within them, combining the glamour and conventions of that decade with the...

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2000s / Comedy / Thriller

Novocaine (2001)

After his memorable turn in Little Shop of Horrors playing a dentist, Steve Martin plays another one in Novocaine, an oddly interesting yet ultimately unsatisfying comic-thriller.  While the Hitchcockian plot and meandering storyline are too familiar...

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2000s / Mystery / Thriller

What Lies Beneath (2000)

If you’ve seen the trailer for this movie, I feel sorry for you. I had seen it about 4 times before seeing the full film and wished that I hadn’t, as it gives away...

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1990s / Drama / Thriller

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

Fittingly enough, this Hitchcockian suspenser was based on a book by Patricia Highsmith, who also wrote the book a Hitchcock classic was based on, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN. Somewhat similar in themes, this one...

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1990s / Horror / Thriller

Psycho (1998)

Treading on some serious hallowed ground here, folks. Director Gus Van Sant decides he wants the certain fruitless endeavor of remaking a masterpiece. Talk about doomed from the start! A secretary is entrusted with...

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Mystery / Thriller

Blue Velvet (1986)

Here’s one of these polarizing movies you either love or hate. I guess I fit into the former category, though I must admit writer-director Lynch (Mulholland Drive, The Elephant Man) has never impressed me...

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1990s / Mystery / Thriller

Rear Window (1998)

A man involved in a near fatal car accident becomes a wheelchair-ridden paraplegic, and through his strong desire for voyeurism and some cheap entertainment watches his neighbors though his second story Soho apartment. In...

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1990s / Mystery / Romance / Thriller

Final Analysis (1992)

A psychiatrist (Gere, Pretty Woman) begins a romance with the sister (Basinger, Batman) of one of his patients (Thurman, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen), although later finding out she’s married to a powerful gangster-type (Roberts, Runaway Train). His...

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1990s / Action / Thriller

Ronin (1998)

The Japanese word for a master-less samurai is “Ronin”. Fittingly enough, a group of international mercenary covert op specialists are employed by a mysterious underground spy organization to obtain a suitcase they do not...