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Tag Archives: Suspense

Children of the Damned

May 8, 2011by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: It’s “yesterday Midwich, tomorrow the world” in the sequel Children of the Damned. Unusually gifted youngsters who may be a leap forward in human evolution are brought from around […]

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Village of the Damned (1960)

May 8, 2011by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: So Young, So Innocent, So Deadly. We have met the enemies and they are our children. Well, perhaps not our children, and that’s the problem: they are the offspring […]

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The Third Man

April 26, 2011by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime, and thus begins this […]

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13 Tzameti

April 14, 2011by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: 22 year-old Sébastien (Georges Babluani) leads an impoverished life constantly struggling to support his immigrant family. While repairing the roof of a neighbor’s house, he overhears a conversation about […]

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Les diaboliques

March 31, 2011by The Thorn 1 Comment

Synopsis: Before Psycho, Peeping Tom, and Repulsion, there was Diabolique. This thriller from Henri.Georges Clouzot (Le corbeau, The Wages of Fear), which shocked audiences in Europe and the U.S., is […]

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Oldboy

March 30, 2011by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Park Chan-Wook’s classic genre-defining revenge tale of a man who’s wrongly been imprisoned for 15 years and is then suddenly released. Given money and a cell phone, he’s challenged […]

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Red Riding Hood (2011)

March 27, 2011by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight) directs a fantasy thriller that puts a haunting twist on the classic fairy tale. For years the villagers of Daggerhorn have maintained an uneasy truce with […]

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Film, Literature

Coraline

March 21, 2011by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Coraline Jones is bored in her new home until she finds a secret door that leads her into a world that’s just like her own… but better! But when […]

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Se, jie

March 17, 2011by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Lust, Caution is the daring new film from acclaimed Academy Award winning director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). Set against the backdrop of a transforming country, […]

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A Simple Plan

February 26, 2011by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Sometimes Good People Do Evil Things. The American Dream. In a gym bag. That’s how three men size up what they’ve found in the snowy Minnesota woods. They’ve come […]

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Burn After Reading

February 21, 2011by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: An all-star cast, including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and John Malkovich, come together in this outrageous spy comedy about murder, blackmail, sex addiction and physical […]

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Ghosts of Mars

November 11, 2010by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Terror is the same on any planet. From John Carpenter, the master of horror behind 1998’s hit John Carpenter’s Vampires and classics like The Thing and Halloween, comes a […]

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Film

Village of the Damned (1995)

November 7, 2010by The Thorn Leave a comment

Synopsis: Beware the Children From the master of suspense, John Carpenter, comes a chilling new version of the sci-fi classic. Something is terribly wrong in the tiny village of Midwich. […]

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