Thriller
Noah’s Barks pages relating to the thriller genre.
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Don’t Breathe
‘Don’t Breathe’ is an exercise in how to earn your false resolutions, jump scares, and all the stock tricks in the horror book that we’ve been accustomed to groaning about. (read more)
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The Mist
‘The Mist’ is incredibly dumb. The social commentary is overly contrived with its forced, quick pacing and is on-the-nose to the point of losing all actual relevance to the real world. (read more)
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Yuutai Nova
‘Yuutai Nova’ is about a man with the power of astral projection. It struggled to get its own feet off the ground and was cancelled. (read more)
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Tickled
‘Tickled’ is a documentary exposé on an underground, internet tickling fetish group. A thrilling watch revealing what the powerful do behind closed doors. (read more)
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A Quiet Place
A Quiet Place Review I’d imagine the success of A Quiet Place for the viewer would depend on if they can accept it as a series of varying-quality scenes looking at an interesting premise in different perspectives with uneven results. If questioning the logic of one event has the rest of the film crumble like… (read more)
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Inside Mari
In ‘Inside Mari,’ an early-adult shut-in finds himself suddenly inside the body and personal life of a high school girl. Shūzō Oshimi explores gender dynamics and alienation in this somewhat comedic psychodrama. (read more)
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City of God
It’s the production that really makes ‘City of God’ what it is: a symphony of a city God has overlooked. (read more)
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Bronson
An entertaining but ultimately shallow waste of potential. Bronson hints at social commentary beyond the story of its character with its metanarrative’s stand-up sections that seem to be leading into discussions about goading the mentally ill into stardom and exploiting it, but instead the film drops this for nothing. This flavor of Bronson as a… (read more)
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The Fury
When talking about Brian De Palma‘s sense of excess in his films, it’s more often a positive—he makes even typical tales grandiose. The Fury is excess by lack of imagination. The Fury takes a silly concept and tries to run straight with it, fucking up all the way with horrible dialogue, pointless scenes, dragged shots,… (read more)
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The Vanishing (Spoorloos)
Unforgettable ending, but what makes a truly great twist-film is when the scenes before it are strong enough to distract from the surprise and hold up on their own. The Vanishing is always engaging, but it’s mostly because of the momentum of its mystery, not for the scenes it takes to get there. I could… (read more)