Writer-director Brian De Palma maintains a measured yet fevered pitch from start to finish with this bloody thriller, a taut psycho-sexual chiller is a razor-sharp tale of passion, madness and murder. Fashionable Manhattan therapist Dr. Robert Elliott (Caine) faces the most terrifying moment of his life, when a psychotic killer begins attacking the women (Dickinson […]
Single White Female
You can take this 1992 thriller one of two ways: it’s either a highly suspenseful movie about an unfortunate young woman’s psychological breakdown, or it’s a glossy slasher movie starring two of Hollywood’s best young actresses. Or maybe it’s both at the same time. However you look at it, there’s no denying that this is […]
The Hand That Rocks The Cradle
A potboiler featuring a demented caretaker and a seemingly hapless suburban family, this is The Nanny of the 1990s. However, it is much more predictable than that 1965 Bette Davis psychodrama, and more graphic. It works only because Rebecca De Mornay makes us intensely uncomfortable as the disturbed au pair who wants to take care […]
The Believers
John Schlesinger’s The Believers, a kind of voodoo twist on Rosemary’s Baby, is a horror movie where the echoes of otherworldly menace set the tone of terror, but the real evil comes from the hearts of humans. Recently widowed psychologist Martin Sheen moves to New York with his emotionally fragile son, and they become entwined […]
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