The Little Things (2021)
The Little Things finds John Lee Hancock directing a mystery-thriller screenplay he’s kicked around for a few decades. The origin of the story began in 1992 after Steven Spielberg had read the script for...
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile (2019)
The personal life of smooth-talking, gas-lighting sociopath Ted Bundy gets put into the spotlight in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile (which takes its name from a quote by the judge in describing the...
Halloween (2018)
Esteemed but sometimes hit-and-miss director David Gordon Green (Joe, Prince Avalanche) takes a turn toward the horror genre with Halloween, a sequel to the 1978 classic slasher film from John Carpenter. Low-budget horror outfit Blumhouse Productions...
Summer of 84 (2018)
Summer of 84 is the collective directorial team known as RKSS’s follow-up to another cult film tapping into the vibe of the 1980s, the zany post-apocalyptic comedy called Turbo Kid. This time out, it’s more of...
Dark City (1998)
In 1990, Australian filmmaker Alex Proyas wrote the first script for Shadows, a fantasy concept that had percolated in his mind since he was a child deathly afraid of the dark. Proyas began having...
Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990)
George Zaloom and Les Mayfield, assistants to producer Hilton Green on the set of Psycho II, came up with an idea for another potential sequel. It was a riff on Hitchcock’s Spellbound except with an...
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...
The Lodger (2009)
David Ondaatje (if the last name sounds familiar, it’s because he’s the nephew of famous novelist Michael) writes and directs (his first attempt at both) this throwback thriller based on the Marie Belloc Londes...
Dead Man Walking (1995)
A magnificent effort all around by Tim Robbins (Bob Roberts, Cradle Will Rock), both as writer and director, very loosely adapting this book of the same name from real-life nun (and later an advocate...
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Director Alfred Hitchcock (Suspicion, Mr. and Mrs. Smith) may have wanted the then unavailable Joan Fontaine for the role, but Teresa Wright (Somewhere in Time, The Rainmaker) does just fine as young Charlie Newton, a dreamy...