literary genre; fiction literature in which the reader is kept on tenterhooks by plots that feature a build-up of suspense, tension, uncertainty, menace, and anxiety
The hard-working action hero gives us exactly what we expect, and often want, in this sturdy cargo ship-set caperThe dog days of August have already seen the trotting out of some usual suspects from a
Uninteresting mythology and junky effects push a once-promising horror franchise further from what it once wasWhen the Insidious franchise started in 2010, it felt like a liberating moment for directo
Online dating’s eternal bugbear reaches a horrific apotheosis in this funny, grimy and impishly directed shockerPaola (Humberly González) is a pretty young woman about to turn 30 who hasn’t found hers
Edinburgh film festivalA women’s spiritualist investigation team go after the serial killer, braving evil forces conjured into being by fear, misogyny and political rageHere is a cheerfully ingenious
A woman wakes up in a trailer as it speeds along in this effective and icky thriller, though you do end up wondering when you (and she) will ever get outThis survival thriller-horror starts in “what w
Producer-star Alice Eve seems to be laughing along with the audience in this deeply silly high-concept thrillerTo be as clear as the crystalline waters in which the characters here frolic before their
Where the 80s series was all pastels and shoulder pads, the noughties action thriller has flip phones and Linkin Park – a better fit for a less optimistic worldOn its release in 2006, Michael Mann’s M
Based on a short story by the Goosebumps author, this derivative but tautly plotted tale over-relies on Scooby-Doo-style sleuthery, and its truly unsettling turn comes too lateAdapted from a 1999 shor
