Of course, everyone has seen Strangers on a Train, the quintessential psychological thriller by the master, Alfred Hitchcock. Quintessential not because it is the best, though it is deservedly in the top 2o of just about every cinephile’s list, but because it is the best representation of the genre through the lens of its elements: […]
Category / Psychological Thriller
Good Me Bad Me, a novel by Ali Land; Flatiron Books, New York, 2017; Psychological Thriller
Some parents live vicariously through their children. They are enlivened by their accomplishments. They are invigorated by their potential. With some families, the children are encouraged to carry on the familial occupation passed down one generation to the next. Doctor. Lawyer. Teacher, perhaps. Police officer. Nurse. That’s what Annie’s mother was. A nurse. Annie […]
The Vanishing 1988; a film directed by George Sluizer; Dutch
God forbid that it ever happens to one of us: a loved one leaves, never to return. There is no dreaded call from the hospital or the police. There is nothing. He just doesn’t come home for dinner. She never shows up for work. They seemingly vanish; into thin air as it were. How could […]