Tag: thriller

Ten Great Movies Featured at the London Korean Film Festival 2016

Now in its eleventh edition, this year’s London Korean Film Festival boasts some 40 features, a smaller number of which toured beyond London to Sheffield, Manchester, Nottingham, Glasgow and Belfast. Amid the usual programme of Korea’s latest hits and indie titles, shorts and documentaries, there was also a welcome showcase of work directed by women […]

Voyeuristic Movies: The Fascinatingly Disturbing Works of Hitchcock, Lynch…

“You like to watch … don’t you?” Sharon Stone’s iconic line in 1993’s erotic thriller “Sliver” addresses the viewer as much as it does a character in the movie. Voyeurism in cinema is a theme long exploited by directors and writers. Films often like to address voyeuristic tendencies, whether through plot or aesthetics, but movies […]

Films about Vicious Killers

Note: Contains images that may be considered graphic and disturbing to some readers. Serial killers and mass murderers have been terrifying filmgoers for almost as long as moving pictures have existed. There is something about getting inside the mind of a killer that is both compelling and repulsive and it is this friction that makes […]