Wait Until Dark Analysis Part 1: Which subcatagory does this movie fit into? Out of the suspense thriller subcatagories I think this movie is a mixture of two; the psychotraumatic thriller and the thriller of moral confrontation. Although this movie doesn`t completely fit into...

John Nichol's first novel, Point Of Impact, is an amazingly gripping thriller in which Flight Lieutenant Drew Miller takes it upon himself to find out why Air Force jets are dropping out of the sky on practice flights' Even if it takes his own life. I guarantee that once you start reading...

Espionage and thrillers is a novel genre that contains unlimited amount of action. Espionage and thrillers emerged after WW2 and during the cold war is primarily in response to the climate of fear and suspicion that the war, and the threat of a potential nuclear holocaust, created. Furthermore, wri...

This now-famous book is one of those rare creatures - a real-life thriller that's actually interesting for the average person to read. Starting with a simple break-in at the Democratic headquarters in the Watergate Hotel, two reporters from the Washington Post followed the trail of money and corrupt...

A Painted House is not only an entertaining story of the hardships of a typical rural Arkansas tenant-farmer family struggling to keep afloat. It's also a tale of a young boy, Luke Chandler, and his journey from innocence to experience. During the course of Luke's adventures, John Grisham also sha...

SPHERE – Book Review About the Author Michael Crichton was born in Chicago, in 1942. After graduating from the Harvard Medical School, Crichton embarked on a career as a writer and filmmaker. Called "the father of the techno-thriller," his novels include The Andromeda Strain, Sphere, T...

Hitchcock's MarnieMarnie can be said to be at the forefront of pioneering a psychological thriller. Many of Hitchcock's films deal with a similar aspect, but none require the viewer to pay the amount of attention that this film calls for. It is in patience and careful observation that one can begin ...

Generally, it is believed that in order for an author to write a successful text, they need to effectively engage their audience and maintain their interest throughout by incorporating aspects they know will prove appealing and entertaining. However, the more experienced reader should have develope...

Americans visit the movies everyday in search of a couple hours filled with mind blowing entertainment. Is it the digitally re-mastered sound, the out-of-this-world special effects, or tear jerker dramas? New movies are released every week, but what movies are the top grossing movies of all ti...

Good literature is a piece that has an affect on the reader. A well written literary piece should be something that holds your interest and makes you think. A story does not have to be an action thriller to hold your attention, if it is well written it can have the same effect on you as a action p...

Critique of "On Being a Real Westerner" by Tobias WolffWolff throughout this account shows how a great storyteller can twist a basic story into thriller in every sense of the word. Wolff's plot structure is very simplistic given the personality of an autobiography. The paragraphs fallow the form th...

The Amazing Sixth Sense!The 1999 movie, The Sixth Sense, both written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, with its amazing final twist, is one of the best thrillers ever made. Bruce Willis and 10-year-old Haley Joel Osment make an incredible connection that is rarely seen in other movies. It is to W...

The Killing by Stanley Kurbrick (1956) is a crime thriller with a twist. An ex-con by the name of Johnny Clay has planned the perfect robbery. He uses inside men and various well timed distractions so he can clean out the local racetrack's money office, only to succeed and lose it all at the en...

Hannibal, released in 2001, is part three of the Hannibal Lecter trilogy. Edited by Pietro Scalia and directed by Ridley Scott, also known for ground-breaking films such as Alien, Blade Runner, and Gladiator, Hannibal stars Anthony Hopkins as the criminally-insane Dr. Lecter. The movie also stars ...

Summary After the first death is a psychological thriller. Patriotism plays a big role in it. The behaviour of some principal figures entirely arises from patriotism. And innocents become victims of it. The story begins with a boy, who kept saying he has a tunnel in his chest. The boy named Ben is t...

This Is Your Brain On Bondage. The entertainment industry has come a long way since the invention of movies and television. It opened the door to a vast new world. If it's comedy you want, it will deliver. If it's action you crave, it can give that to you too. It also has romances, thrillers, ho...

The word genre is defined as a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, marked by a distinctive style, form, or content. (www.doctionary.com) Some of these genres are, comedy, horror, thriller, and or action. The novel written by S.E. Hinton titled The Outsiders may fall into a w...

The novel Absolute Power by David Baldacci is an intense thriller that, like its author, is clever and interesting. The knowledge he gained as a lawyer aided in shaping his career as a successful suspense writer. Baldacci writes about what interests him, and his interest comes through in the pages ...

Violence in the media and in the movies today is more gratuitous than it ever has been. Many experts have pointed out that society should take appropriate ethical actions to minimize violence by adolescents. Many believe that this violence was caused by the increased brutality in movies today. I ...

Bag of Bones is the best book Stephen King has written in years. As shocking as Carrie, as mysterious and menacing as The Shining, as funny and honest about writers as Misery, as evocative of place as his record-setting bestseller The Green Mile, this is a horror novel steeped in all the finest qu...

The play "Equus", written by Peter Shaffer, creates a psychological thriller that explore deeply into the misguided intentions of religious Alan Strang. Alan Strang is playing as a seventeen-year-old boy that is repressed and forces to fit into a rational society. From the pressures of A...

Absolute Power This job started off as any other for 66 year-old Luther Witney. He had everything checked off as he was about to break an entering into the worlds richest mans mansion in Mudleton, Virgina. He successfully got in and went straight up to the vault in which he noticed some t...

"The Tragedy of Macbeth" is one of Shakespeare's greatest works, and is a #"chilling ghost story, and a psychological thriller." Macbeth, who is the main character begins as a noble, good-natured person, but falls prey to the will of the three witches who predict his fate. #"The waning of Macbeth's ...

Walter Mosley is mostly known for his series of mystery writing about "Easy Rawlins". The Easy Rawlins series were the best selling crime thrillers he ever wrote. But Walter Mosley also wrote "RL's Dream" in which he wrote about a man named Soupspoon Wise whose life has be...

When Oliver Stone created JFK in 1991 he produced a historical drama that works as a mystery and a thriller. Not only did he create a movie that crossed multiple genres he did well. How does a movie that runs over three hours long find success? It realizes that the world is filled with conspiracy...