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Director Claude Chabrol’s 1959 Hitchcockian suspense thriller is good if not his best. But it is engagingly told in slick, colourful style with self-conscious flashbacks, witty dialogue and a surprise finish. It is Chabrol’s third […]
Producer-director William Castle’s mysterious and eerie 1961 Psycho-style shocker is patently absurd but compelling none the less. It stars Joan Marshall as a homicidal nurse called Emily, who shares a mansion with a paralysed Swedish […]
The 1948 British noir mystery thriller film Corridor of Mirrors stars Eric Portman and Edana Romney in her sole starring vehicle, and is the film debut of both director Terence Young and Christopher Lee. Eric […]
Brian De Palma’s self-mocking 1992 psychological horror suspense thriller film Raising Cain is stylistically and thematically extravagant, and gleefully self-indulgent. John Lithgow stars as psychopathic, multiple-personality child psychologist Carter Nix. Writer-director Brian De Palma’s self-mocking […]
In director Phil Joanou’s 1992 thriller, Richard Gere stars as Dr Isaac Barr, a psychiatrist who falls for Heather Evans (Kim Basinger), the sister of his patient, Diana Baylor (Uma Thurman). Basinger is married to a Greek mobster by […]
Curtis Hanson’s twisty, quite brilliant 1987 neo-noir film The Bedroom Window stars Steve Guttenberg as Terry, who makes love to Sylvia (Isabelle Huppert), his boss’s wife. There ensues a nail-biting, sexy adult thriller that Hitchcock […]
Writer-director Claude Chabrol’s tantalizing, mesmerizing 1970 French thriller Le Boucher [The Butcher] is absolutely superb, a miniaturist masterpiece of tension, atmosphere and character. Chabrol’s then wife Stéphane Audran stars as a repressed French provincial small-town […]