I love thrillers. I read them . I watch them. I eat them with a spoon. If I was forced to choose a single genre in which to indulge it would be the thriller/suspense thriller. I even bet with my hubby or bro sometimes on who's the real culprit in the movie...he..he..I'm into suspense thrillers that are not necessarily horror. They are scary not because they shout BOO, but because they whisper watch your back. Most of my selections are very contemporary, as this is where my tastes tend to run, but the suspense genre spans the history of film.
My entry for tonight is Kiss the Girls. This film keep me on the edge of my seat – literally. I tend to sit through it wide eyed and stupid; watching with childlike (childish?) glee as the story unfolds, surprising me, scaring me, giving me the creeps.
Here's the plot (from Wikipedia)
Washington, D.C. detective and forensic psychologist Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) heads to Durham, North Carolina when his niece Naomi (Gina Ravera), a college student, is reported missing. He learns from the local police, including Nick Ruskin (Cary Elwes), that Naomi is the latest in a series of young women who have vanished. Soon after his arrival, one of the missing women is found dead, bound to a tree in a desolate forest, and shortly after that, intern Kate McTiernan (Ashley Judd) is kidnapped from her home.
When she awakens from a drugged state, Kate discovers she is being held captive by a masked man calling himself Casanova, and she is one of several prisoners trapped in his lair. She manages to escape and is severely injured when she jumps from a cliff and into a river to escape from his clutches. After she recuperates, she joins forces with Cross to track down her sadomasochist captor, who Cross concludes is a collector, not a killer, unless his victims fail to follow his rules. This means there is time to rescue the other imprisoned women, just as long as they remain subservient.
Clues lead them to Los Angeles, where a series of gruesome kidnappings and murders have been credited to a man known as the Gentleman Caller. Cross deduces he is working in collusion with rather than imitating his East Coast counterpart, but his efforts to capture and question him are foiled and the man escapes. Upon returning to North Carolina, he eventually discovers the underground hideaway used by, as well as the true identity of, the man who calls himself Casanova.
Do you know any suspense thriller's films that are worth watching? Share them to us at Just about Anything, the host of Tuesday Couch Potato.
When she awakens from a drugged state, Kate discovers she is being held captive by a masked man calling himself Casanova, and she is one of several prisoners trapped in his lair. She manages to escape and is severely injured when she jumps from a cliff and into a river to escape from his clutches. After she recuperates, she joins forces with Cross to track down her sadomasochist captor, who Cross concludes is a collector, not a killer, unless his victims fail to follow his rules. This means there is time to rescue the other imprisoned women, just as long as they remain subservient.
Clues lead them to Los Angeles, where a series of gruesome kidnappings and murders have been credited to a man known as the Gentleman Caller. Cross deduces he is working in collusion with rather than imitating his East Coast counterpart, but his efforts to capture and question him are foiled and the man escapes. Upon returning to North Carolina, he eventually discovers the underground hideaway used by, as well as the true identity of, the man who calls himself Casanova.
Do you know any suspense thriller's films that are worth watching? Share them to us at Just about Anything, the host of Tuesday Couch Potato.
