great thriller movies

If there’s something that David Cronenberg truly excels at, it’s freaking out the audience with the kind of creepy, disgusting imagery that sends chills down your spine and etches in your mind for long after the credits roll. Whether it’s the bug typewriters of ‘Naked Lunch’, the head-bursting explosions of ‘Scanners’, the teeth-bulleted guns of […]

When it comes to thrillers deliberately crafted to make your skin crawl and haunt you long after the credits roll, Park Chan-wook is second to none. With iconic masterpieces such as ‘Oldboy’, ‘Thirst’ or ‘Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance’ under his belt, it wouldn’t be too much of an overstatement to claim that he’s pushed the […]

Surrealism, as defined by the movement’s founder André Breton, seeks to express the real functioning of consciousness, of thought. Such expressions are dreamlike and are absent of logic, stylization, and linearity. Normal objects and activities become displayed in abnormal or distorted ways that sever the traditional associations we have to them. Common themes explored in […]

Sound the horns! ‘The Northman’, Robert Eggers’ brawny and bloody Viking epic has finally arrived with much fanfare. Flexing one of the best ensembles in recent memory (Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicole Kidman, Willem Dafoe) and a $90 million price tag, the film is without a doubt his biggest undertaking yet, as well as one of a […]

In a matter of years, Ari Aster has breathed new life into what not long ago appeared to be a watered-down genre on its very last legs, where derivative schlock and uninspired sequels still reign supreme as the industry’s bread and butter. His meteoric rise from unknown New York film student to one of the […]

There’s a lot to talk about William Friedkin. He has made some of the greatest films of all time (“The French Connection,” “The Exorcist”); some of his films were ahead of their time (“The Boys in the Band”); some others became cinephile favorites (“Sorcerer,” “To Live and Die in L.A.”) and also, not every director […]