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
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
Gugu Mbatha-Raw is a lawyer sent to Jamaica to get to the bottom of a mystery about an inheritance. What unfolds is an evocative story packed with horrors, past injustices – and a supernatural element
From Obsession to Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, a new wave of movies are ditching minimalism for retro settingsThe indie-horror hit films Obsession and Backrooms opened this summer’s movie sea
Pleasingly potboilerish tale of a woman trying to make sense of a traumatic fall that left her comatose slightly loses track of its toxic mind gamesIt is fair to say that spending your time doodling o
Three decades after he channelled his heroin addiction into the cult classic Trainspotting, the Scottish author has discovered the joys of yoga, breathwork and standing desks. But is he quite as ‘Zen’
