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"Horror movies can reveal much more than we realize about psychological disorders--and clinical psychology has a lot to teach us about horror. Our fears--mortality, failure, loneliness--can be just as motivating as our wishes or desires. Horror movie characters uniquely reveal all of these to a wide audience. If explored in an honest and serious manner, our fears have the potential to teach us a great deal about ourselves, our culture, and certainly...
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"Alfred Hitchcock is not often associated with a social justice movement. But in 1956, the world's most famous director focused his lens on an issue that cuts to the heart of our criminal justice system: the risk of wrongful conviction. The result was THE WRONG MAN, a wrenching and largely overlooked drama based on the real-life arrest of Queens musician Christopher "Manny" Balestrero for two robberies he did not commit. With documentary-like authenticity,...
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John Sutter volume 2
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"When John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later, he has come home to the Gold Coast, that stretch of land on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America, to attend the imminent funeral of an old family servant. Taking up temporary residence...
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In "The Moment of Psycho," film critic David Thomson situates "Psycho" in Alfred Hitchcock's career, recreating the mood and time when the seminal film erupted onto film screens worldwide. Thomson brilliantly demonstrates how Hitchcock's creation represented all America wanted from a film--and still does.
"It was made like a television film, shot with a tight budget and completed in less than three months. It killed its star off after forty minutes....
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"Features Steve Dark, the ultimate crime-scene tactician on the tail of a killer so brutal law enforcement has invented a new classification of evil to account for him," as he is beyond the world's most dangerous killers, the "organized, premeditated torture-murderers who inhabit Level 25." "About every twenty pages, you will have the option of logging in to experience a digital cyber-bridge - a three-minute motion picture scene with A-list actors......
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Writing and Selling Thriller Screenplays has the lowdown on how to get your thriller feature script on to the page, and how to get it in front of producers and investors. This time around, Lucy V Hay doesn't just guide you through the writing of movies, but spec TV pilots too. Putting iconic, mixed-genre projects under the microscope -- such as Stranger Things (horror thriller), Brooklyn 99 (comedy thriller) and Lost (sci fi thriller) -- she considers...
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Martin Scorsese puts Leonardo DiCaprio through the wringer again in Shutter Island, a gothic adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel. Leo's character, a Federal Marshal named Teddy Daniels, is first seen vomiting and jittery aboard a ferry; he and his new partner (Mark Ruffalo) are being taken across the water to investigate an escape from a prison for the criminally insane, located on a forbidding rock called Shutter Island. From the first, Scorsese...
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Hellraiser: "When Kirsty Cotton's (Ashley Laurence) family moves into their ancestral home, they are terrorized by the resurrected corpse of her uncle (Sean Chapman), who requires the flesh of murdered innocent victims to oder to become whole and alive again."--Container.
Hellbound: "Picking up a mere two hours after Hellraiser left off, the sequel finds young Kirsty (Laurence) in a mental hospital in the aftermath of the horrific events she witnessed...
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2103: Captain Sean Murdoch and warden Tarkis discover a bomb aboard the prison ship Lilith.
Triangle: a close group of friends travel to the Caribbean for their annual vacation. Their fishing trip turns to terror as their boat enters the Bermuda Triangle and they encounter a ghost ship.
Poseidon adventure: As the luxury liner Poseidon slices through the waters of an ocean storm, a terrorist is on board with an explosive message for the world.
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The purge. Election year: It's been two years since Leo Barnes stopped himself from a regrettable act of revenge on Purge Night. Now serving as head of security for Senator Charlie Roan, his mission is to protect her in a run for president and survive the annual ritual that targets the poor and innocent. But when a betrayal forces them onto the streets of D.C. on the one night when no help is available, they must stay alive until dawn, or both be...
14) Get out
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"Jordan Peele's powerful thriller 'Get Out' debuted in 2017 to enormous public and critical acclaim, a 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?' for the age of Obama and Trump that scared audiences and skewered white liberal pieties at the same time. Rather than rely on popular archetypes, Peele weaves together the material realities and daily manifestations of horror with sociopolitical fears and elements of true suspense, and combines them with pitch-perfect...
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Ocean's Eleven: Three prestigious Las Vegas casinos. More than $160 million. Danny Ocean and his 10-man handpicked team of grifters and conmen are ready to carry out the most elaborate casino heist in history, and they just might get away with it.
The blind side: Michael Oher is a homeless African-American teenager who is from a broken home. Mike is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same...
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