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Top 10 coolest thriller movies in history
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Contributed by lucy Written on Sep 30, 2009
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Summary: Have you ever watched the fourth installment of The Final Destination? This movie topped No.1 box office since it initially released in theater.The Final Destination series can be seen as a classic horror movies, would you like to know more classic horror movies in history of all time? Here we go!
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As the hot and leading trend of The Final Destination 4, A Perfect Getaway and Halloween 2, thriller movies are always attracting people and dominating a large part of box office. Though there will be a new thriller with fast speed, the coolest thriller movies cannot be replaced for ever. Let's review the 10 coolest thrillers in Cinematic History of all time!
1. Silence of The Lambs - The Most Impressive Thriller
The Most impressive of this movie should be the poster, and I was attracted by the butterfly on the lip of heroine's. The design, plot and perfect performence of each actor enable it top in this list! Let's retrospect the plot at once:
Promising student Clarice Starling (Foster) is pulled from her training at the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia by Jack Crawford (Glenn) of the Bureau's Behavioral Science Unit. Crawford tasks her with interviewing the notorious Hannibal Lecter (Hopkins), the brilliant psychiatrist and incarcerated cannibalistic serial killer, believing Lecter's insight might be useful in the pursuit of vicious serial killer Buffalo Bill. Starling travels to the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, where she is led by Dr. Frederick Chilton (Heald) to Hannibal Lecter, the sophisticated, cultured man restrained behind thick glass panels and windowless stone walls.
Although initially pleasant and courteous, Lecter grows impatient with Starling's attempts at "dissecting" him and viciously rebuffs her. As Starling departs, another patient named Miggs flings fresh semen onto her face, enraging Lecter, who calls Starling back and suggests she consult one of his former patients. Starling interprets the patient's name as a riddle. It leads her to a storage lot where she discovers a man's severed head. She returns to Lecter, who tells her that the man is Benjamin Raspail, who is linked to Buffalo Bill. Though Lecter denies killing Raspail, he offers to profile Buffalo Bill if he is transferred away from the venomous, careerist Dr. Chilton.....
2. North by Northwest - Produced by Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock produced many classic works, and North by Northwest is one of the best movies. He is a smart director in thriller movie field, differentiating from other ones is Hitchcock's style. You may ignore others, but Hitchcock gets his style, indeed.
A glib Madison Avenue advertising executive, Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant), is mistaken for a government agent named George Kaplan and kidnapped by Valerian (Adam Williams) and Licht (Robert Ellenstein). He is taken to the house of Lester Townsend on Long Island. There he is interrogated by a man he assumes to be Townsend, but who is really the smoothly sinister Phillip Vandamm (James Mason).
Thornhill repeatedly denies he is Kaplan, whereupon Vandamm becomes annoyed and orders his right-hand man Leonard (Martin Landau) to get rid of him.Valerian and Licht try to stage a fatal car accident, but Thornhill gets away and, after a car chase on a perilous road, manages to get himself apprehended and charged with drunken driving. He is unable to get the police, the judge or even his mother (Jessie Royce Landis) to believe what happened to him, especially when a woman at Townsend's residence informs them that Townsend is a United Nations diplomat.
Thornhill and his mother go to Kaplan's hotel room. There they find evidence of Kaplan's existence, but cannot find anyone at the hotel who has ever laid eyes on him.
Narrowly avoiding recapture by Valerian and Licht at the hotel, Thornhill catches a taxi to the General Assembly building of the UN, where Townsend is due to deliver a speech. Thornhill meets Townsend face to face and is surprised to find that the diplomat is not the man who interrogated him. Valerian throws a knife that strikes Townsend in the back. He falls forward, dead, into Thornhill's arms.
Unthinkingly, Thornhill removes the knife, making it appear to witnesses that he is the killer. A passing photographer captures the scene, forcing him to flee...
3. The Maltese Falcon - The Oldest Thriller in this list
Most of us might not watch The Maltese Falcon, since the film was released in 1941. The Maltese Falcon has been regarded as one of the greatest films of all time by many multimedia celebrities.
In 1941 San Francisco, private investigators Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) and Miles Archer (Jerome Cowan) meet a beautiful prospective client, Miss Ruth Wonderly (Mary Astor). Wonderly claims to be looking for her missing sister, who is involved with a man named Floyd Thursby. Wonderly is to meet Thursby and hopes her sister will be with him. After receiving a substantial retainer, Archer volunteers to follow her that night and help her get her sister back.
That night, Spade is informed that Archer has been killed. He tells his secretary Effie Perrine (Lee Patrick) to break the news to Archer's wife, Iva (Gladys George). He meets his friend, Detective Tom Polhaus (Ward Bond) at the murder scene. Spade tells Polhaus that Archer was tailing Thursby, but refuses to divulge any more information. Spade then calls Wonderly¡¯s hotel, but she has checked out without leaving a forwarding address. He returns to his apartment, and is grilled by Polhaus and his supervisor, Lieutenant Dundy (Barton MacLane).
They also inform Spade of the death of Thursby that same evening. Dundy suggests that Spade had the opportunity and motive (Archer's wife) to commit both crimes.
The next morning, Spade has to fend off Iva, who embraces him passionately. He then meets with Wonderly, now calling herself Brigid O¡¯Shaughnessy. She explains that Thursby was her partner and probably killed Archer, but claims to have no idea who killed Thursby. Spade agrees to investigate the murders.
4. Se7en - Brad Pitt's Masterpiece
Se7en enables an outstanding actor to be famous, for we know Brad Pitt mostly from this thriller. His handsome appearance and well acting in Se7en also marked this film cool.
In an unidentified city of near-constant rain and urban decay, Detective William R. Somerset (Freeman) is preparing to retire and leave the horrors of the city; before he does, he is partnered with Detective David Mills (Pitt), a cocky and short-tempered young cop who has recently voluntarily transferred to the precinct. The two investigate the murder of an extremely obese man who has been force-fed spaghetti until he passed out, when the killer kicked him in the stomach, causing it to burst.
Somerset investigates this murder while Mills handles the murder of a successful defense attorney named Eli Gould, found with GREED written in his own blood on the office floor. The killer had held him, presumably at gunpoint, and forced him to cut off a pound of his own flesh as a price to pay for his sins. Soon after, Somerset finds GLUTTONY written in the grease built-up behind the obese man's fridge and theorizes that a serial killer is basing his crimes on the seven deadly sins with five more murders to go.
To give Mills and Somerset a chance to get along, Mills' wife Tracy (Gwyneth Paltrow) invites Somerset over for dinner. After she goes to sleep, Mills and Somerset examine case evidence from the two scenes. They find a picture of Gould's wife with blood painted around the eyes. The detectives ask a distraught Mrs. Gould (now sequestered in a safe house) to look at the pictures and she notices an abstract painting that's hanging upside-down. Brushing fingerprint powder on the wall behind the painting, Somerset finds the words "help me" formed by overlapping fingerprints. Running the prints through AFIS, they are traced a day later to a mentally-disturbed pedophile nick-named Victor, who escaped conviction for raping a minor due to the efforts of his lawyer Eli Gould, the GREED victim. SWAT and the detectives raid his apartment to find Victor is the SLOTH victim, having been bound to his bed for exactly one year, as evidenced by pictures at the scene: one from every day since the day he was made a prisoner....
5. Fatal Attraction - The Most Hysterical Love Thriller
Wow, woman is blind in love! Fatal Attraction shows us the blindest woman to cause a cluster of tragedy. So, don't flirt with a woman especially you've married, otherwise, you might get the similar result as Fatal Attraction.
Daniel Gallagher is a successful, happily married New York attorney living in Manhattan when he meets Alex Forrest, an editor from a publishing company, through business. While his wife and his daughter are out of town for the weekend, Dan has a brief affair with Alex. What Dan thought would be a simple fling turns into a dangerous sequence of events when Alex begins to obsessively cling to him.
Alex Forrest's mental instability first surfaces, when she attempts suicide after Dan explains to her that he must go home and get on with his life. Dan thinks the affair is forgotten, but Alex begins to show up at various places to see him. She is waiting for him at his office one day to apologize and invite him to the opera Madame Butterfly, but he turns her down. She then begins to call Dan's office until he tells his secretary he will no longer take her calls. Alex then starts calling Dan's home at all hours and then informs Dan that she is pregnant and planning to keep the baby. Although Dan wants nothing to do with her, she argues that he must take responsibility. Alex then shows up at Dan's apartment (which is for sale) and meets his wife, Beth, feigning interest as a buyer. Later that night, he goes to her apartment to confront her about her actions. In response, she replies, "Well, what am I supposed to do? You won't answer my calls, you change your number, I'm not going to be ignored, Dan!"
6. The Sixth Sense - The Most Psychological Thriller
The Story of The Sixth Sense may be a little more different from other thriller, since it depicts a child's psychology by vivid action. Let's focus on this film and recall the classic chapters now.
As the film opens, Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) a prominent child psychologist, returns home one night with his wife, Anna Crowe (Olivia Williams), from an event in which he was honored for his efforts with children. The two discover they are not alone -- Vincent Grey (Donnie Wahlberg), a former patient of Crowe's, appears in the doorway of their bathroom brandishing a gun saying, "I don't want to be afraid no more".
Grey accuses Crowe of failing him, and Crowe recognizes Vincent as a former patient whom he once treated as a child for hallucinations. Grey shoots Crowe in the stomach, and seconds later turns the gun on him. The scene fades away with Crowe's wife by his side.
The next fall, Crowe is shown working with another boy, nine year-old Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) with a condition similar to Vincent's. Crowe becomes dedicated to this patient, though he is haunted by doubts over his ability to help him after his failure with Vincent. Meanwhile, he apparently begins to neglect his wife, with whom his relationship is falling apart.
Crowe earns Cole's trust and Cole eventually confides in him that he "sees dead people that walk around like regular people." Though Crowe at first thinks Cole is delusional, he eventually comes to believe that Cole is telling the truth and that Vincent may have had the same ability as Cole. He realizes this one night as he is listening to one of his old tapes, recorded while he was treating Vincent, and hears the pleading voices of dead people in the background. He suggests to Cole that he try to find a purpose for his gift by communicating with the ghosts, perhaps to aid them in their unfinished business on Earth. Cole at first does not want to, because the ghosts terrify him, but he soon decides to try it.
7. The Manchurian Candidate
This film is re-imaged in 2004 and the previous version released in 1961. The plot of The Manchurian Candidate a little bit relates with politics and the second version is just shot under the election background. OK, enjoy Denzel Washington's acts in The Manchurian Candidate now.
During the Korean War, the Soviets capture an American platoon and take them to the region of Manchuria in Communist China. There, communists implant false memories in the soldiers' minds. Brainwashed, the soldiers are covertly returned to action, unaware of their ordeal, and under the belief that one of their own, Staff Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), saved their lives in combat. Upon the recommendation of the platoon's commander, Captain Bennett Marco (Frank Sinatra), Shaw is awarded the Medal of Honor for his supposed actions.
In addition, when asked to describe him, Marco and the other soldiers automatically respond, "Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life." Deep down, however, they know that Shaw is a cold, sad, unsociable loner. As Marco puts it ¡®It isn't as if Raymond is hard to like. He's impossible to like¡¯.
After the war, Marco ¡ª who has since been promoted to major ¡ª suffers from the same recurring nightmare, in which a hypnotized Shaw kills two of his fellow soldiers before assembled Soviet, Chinese, and North Korean brass during a practical demonstration of the communists' brainwashing technique. Marco wants to investigate, but receives no support from his superior officers at Army Intelligence, because he has no proof. This changes when he learns that another soldier from the platoon, Allen Melvin (James Edwards), has been suffering the same nightmare and has identified the same specific communists in a photo lineup. Deciding that this is too much of a coincidence, Army Intelligence agrees to help Marco set up a task force to investigate.
8. The Game
The Game is a new style of noir psychological thriller, which was released in 1997 with the large sensation. The film attracted people to discover deeper and find the truth. Maybe you will associate jigsaws with The Game, since the poster is a man with jigsaw brain. Time to review!
Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) is a successful, extremely wealthy businessman, but his success has come at the cost of his personal life. He is estranged from his ex-wife. On Nicholas' 48th birthday, his younger, rebellious, brother Conrad (Sean Penn) presents him with an unusual gift ¡ª a game offered by a company called Consumer Recreation Services (CRS) - promising that it will change Nicholas' life. The nature of The Game is unclear at first, but it appears to be a sort of live action role-playing game that integrates directly into the player's real life.
After taking a lengthy psychological test and a physical exam, Nicholas is informed that CRS has rejected his "application" for The Game. However, he soon discovers the Game has not only begun, but it begins by focusing on a key traumatic moment of Nicholas's life when, as a child, he witnessed his father committing suicide by leaping off the roof of their family home (the same home
Nicholas lives in now) on his 48th birthday, the same one Nicholas is now "celebrating". Evidence mounts that The Game is actually an elaborate and dangerous scheme. Each time Nicholas thinks he has uncovered the truth; he finds a new layer of complexity to it. The game escalates into a no-holds-barred assault on everything Nicholas values, and his carefully ordered life seems to be disintegrating around him as The Game takes control.
He encounters an employee of Consumer Recreation Services, a waitress who calls herself Christine (Unger), who at first assists him in escaping from the clutches of the increasingly violent CRS operatives, but after a series of narrow escapes and repeated attempts on his life, Nicholas realizes he has been drugged by Christine.
9. The Taxi Driver
The Taxi Driver mainly tells aobut Travis Bickle, who is a lonely and depressed young man of 26. His origins are unknown. He occasionally sends his parents cards, lying about his life and saying he works for the government on a secret project. He settles in Manhattan, where he becomes a night time taxi driver due to chronic insomnia. Bickle spends his restless days in seedy porn theaters and works 12 or 14 hour shifts during the evening and night time hours carrying passengers among all five boroughs of New York City. He keeps a diary which is used as narration throughout the film.
An honorably discharged Marine, it is strongly implied that he is a Vietnam veteran; he keeps a charred flag of South Vietnam in his squalid apartment and has a large scar on his back.
Bickle becomes interested in Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), a campaign volunteer for New York Senator Charles Palantine (Leonard Harris), who is running for the presidential nomination and is promising dramatic social change. She is initially intrigued by Bickle and agrees to a date with him after he flirts with her over coffee and sympathizes with her own apparent loneliness. She compares him to a character in the Kris Kristofferson song "The Pilgrim, Chapter 33": "He's a prophet and a pusher, partly truth, partly fiction - a walking contradiction." On their date, however, Bickle is clueless about how to treat a woman and thinks it would be a good idea to take her to a Swedish sex education film (Language of Love). Offended, she leaves him and takes a taxi home alone. The next day he tries to reconcile with Betsy, phoning her and sending her flowers, but all of his attempts are in vain.
10. Jaws
Jaws begins at a late night beach party on Amity Island, from which a young woman (Susan Backlinie) leaves to go skinny dipping. She dives into the water, where she is suddenly jerked around and then pulled under by an unseen force, the next morning, and Amity¡¯s new police Chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) is notified that the woman is missing. Brody and his deputy Len Hendricks (Jeffrey Kramer) find her mutilated remains washed up on the shore.
The medical examiner informs Brody that the victim's death was due to a shark attack. Brody heads out to close the beaches, but is intercepted and overruled by the town mayor, Larry Vaughn (Murray Hamilton), who fears that reports of a shark attack will ruin the summer tourist season¡ªthe town's major source of income. The medical examiner says he was wrong about a shark attack and tells Brody that it was a boating accident. Brody reluctantly goes along with this.
A short time later, a young boy named Alex is attacked and brutally killed by a shark while swimming off a crowded beach on an inflatable raft. His mother places a $3,000 bounty on the animal, sparking an amateur shark hunting frenzy and attracting the attention of local professional shark hunter Quint (Robert Shaw). Quint interrupts a town meeting to offer his services; his demand for $10,000 is taken "under advisement". Brought in by Brody, ichthyologist Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) conducts an autopsy on the original victim's remains and concludes she was killed by a shark.
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