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A quick look at any fiction bestseller list reveals that thrillers make up most of the titles at the top. HOW TO WRITE A DAMN GOOD THRILLER will help the aspiring novelist or screenwriter to design, draft, write, and polish a thriller that is sure to grab readers. Frey uses examples from both books and movies and addresses the following hot topics:
*Germinal ideas
*Breathing life into great thriller characters
*Crafting a gripping opening
*Maintaining...
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
On the way to her father's wedding, 16-year-old Charlie McLeod is involved in a serious car accident, leaving her in a fight for her life. For a brief moment, she dies on the table and has a near death experience, where she reconnects with her deceased mother, Claire. Charlie survives but Claire's spirit was so moved by the re-connection with her daughter, she has no intention of letting go.
5) Lazareth
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Following the death of their parents, Lee (Ashley Judd) adopts her nieces, Imogen (Katie Douglas) and Maeve (Sarah Pidgeon), and raises them in a remote cabin as a deadly pandemic rages on around them. For over 10 years, the girls are raised to never leave the woods, avoid any and all interaction with outsiders, and ultimately rely on Lee as their only connection to the outside world. Lee has convinced the girls this is the key to survival in what...
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In this 2016 eco-thriller directed by Werner Herzog, a scientist, Laura (Veronica Ferres), is kidnapped by a mysterious corporate figure, Matt Riley (Michael Shannon), while investigating an environmental disaster in South America. As tensions rise between them, a looming natural catastrophe threatens their survival. Laura soon discovers that their conflict might be part of a much larger plan. Combining philosophical musings with environmental themes,...
10) Nightwatch
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A law student starts working as nightwatchman at Department of Forensic Medicine in Copenhagen. His mad friend gets him on a game of dare that escalates. As a serial-killer's victims start piling up at work, he becomes a suspect.
11) 187
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
When a student writes the police code for homicide, 187, inside a textbook owned by teacher Trevor Garfield, he feels threatened. The principal dismisses the incident, but, soon after, Trevor is stabbed by the same student. Fifteen months later, a physically and emotionally scarred Trevor relocates to California and takes up substitute teaching. To his dismay, his new school is as full of dangerously undisciplined students as the last one, driving...
12) Goldstone
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Indigenous Detective Jay Swan arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on a missing persons inquiry. What seems like a simple investigation opens a web of crime, corruption, trampling of indigenous people's land rights, and human trafficking. Jay must pull his life together and bury his differences with young local cop Josh, so together they can bring justice to Goldstone.
13) Bad Genius
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Genius scholarship student Lynn Kang starts a cheating operation at her elite private school to fund her college dreams, giving her a unique opportunity to challenge the American education system, and her morals, in the process.
14) Breakwater
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this neo-noir thriller, a young ex-con named Dovey (Darren Mann) breaks his parole to assist his prison mentor, Ray Childress (Dermot Mulroney), in locating his estranged daughter, Eve (Alyssa Goss). Unaware of the danger that lies ahead, Dovey's quest entangles him in a web of deception and peril, as Eve's past harbors a dark secret that threatens them both.
15) Ecstasy
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Love is immortal. Seduction is inevitable. Revenge is irresistible. A journey into America in the year 2019. A man in search of a lost love. A woman lost in desire for revenge. A country paralyzed by heat and lost in suspicion and paranoia. And a twenty-year-old diary that evokes memories and the yearning to waste yourself in destruction.
16) Changing Lanes
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Modern society draws lines between right and wrong, good and evil, rage and redemption. A moment of self-absorption and a spark of anger will cause two men to cross them. As the battle of wills escalates, both lives are changed forever.
17) The Family
Publisher
Relativity Media
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The Manzoni family, a notorious Mafia clan, is relocated to Normandy, France, under the Witness Protection Program, where fitting in soon becomes challenging as their old habits die hard.
18) Match Point
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In this tense psychological drama, directed by Woody Allen, a former tennis pro, Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), marries into a wealthy British family and rises in social status. However, his affair with Nola (Scarlett Johansson), his brother-in-law’s fiancée, spirals into a dangerous obsession. As the pressure mounts, Chris must choose between maintaining his privileged life or succumbing to his illicit desires, leading to dire consequences....
19) Master Gardener
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Directed by Academy Award nominee Paul Schrader based on his original screenplay, MASTER GARDENER follows Narvel Roth (award-winner Joel Edgerton), the meticulous horticulturist of Gracewood Gardens. He is as much devoted to tending the grounds of this beautiful and historic estate, to pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager Mrs. Haverhill (three-time Academy Award nominee Sigourney Weaver). When Mrs. Haverhill demands that he take on her wayward...
20) Aftermath
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A man's life is changed forever after losing his family in a plane crash. He attempts to move on, but soon finds that he cannot face life without confronting the man responsible.
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