thriller

Thriller is a fiction genre that employs suspense and tension to create excitement and entertain.

Thrillers use conflict and anxiety to advance the plot, and will often rely on psychological ploy to create anticipation, surprise or uncertainty, and drive the behavior of the protagonists. Modern-day thrillers are often very visual and action-packed rather than reliant on suggestive imagery, in the manner of classical thrillers.

Thrillers employ a variety of literary devices, such as red herrings, macguffins and plot twists to surprise the audience, or gritty scenery to create the setting. Its subgenres include psychological thriller, political thriller, crime thriller and paranoid thriller (a relatively recent type of fiction with a heavy focus on conspiracies and secret historical plots).

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Original Technorati articles tagged “thriller”

• in Entertainment
  Injustice (2011) Questions Situational Ethics
  INJUSTICE, now on DVD, examines "slippery slopes"
  by missbobetier / on Nov 6, 2012
• in Film
  An Uncomfortable Visit to 388 Arletta Avenue (2011)
  Something bad is happening at 388 Arletta Avenue, and only one person knows what it is.
  by missbobetier / on Sep 30, 2012
• in Film
  Sleepless Night (2011) Will Keep You Awake
  “Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if…my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.” –Emile M. Cioran
  by missbobetier / on Sep 30, 2012

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• ROLLING THUNDER

  
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• The Pet (2006)

  
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      3.5 Watch The Pet: The story follows a young woman who, in an emotional and financial crisis, succumbs to the charm of an aristocratic benefactor. Their relationship develops from... The post The Pet (2006) appeared first on MoviezFever .
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• Watch kill Me Later 2001 Movie online

  
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  Movie Details:- Movie Name: Kill Me Later (2001) Directed By: Dana Lustign Written By: Dana Lustig (story), Annette Goliti Gutierrez (story) Star Cast: Selma Blair, Max Beesley, ONeal Compton Genre: Romance | Thriller | Crime Release Date: 14 September 2001   Run Time: 89 min ...
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• Ryan Reynolds leaves the Highlander reboot

  
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  Depending on your view of the Highlander reboot this is either good or bad news. Ryan Reynolds had been attached to play Connor MacLeod in the tale of the Immortals fighting for the Prize. The Wrap are now reporting that Reynolds had left the project. Highlander has been in development for a long time over at ...
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• Sci-Fi Thriller Sends Brands Into Future

  
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  Writer-director Neill Blomkamp takes some well-known brands and shuttles them into the future in his new sci-fi thriller, ‘Elysium.’ WSJ.com: Media & Marketing
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• Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) BRRip 750MB

  
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• Hellgate (2011) DVDRip 400MB

  
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  Hellgate (2011) English Movie | DVDRip Free Download Links For Hellgate (2011) DVDRip English Movie Plot:A western businessman, his Thai wife and son experience a horrible accident while visiting Bangkok. In the aftermath, they find there is a shadow world between life and death where endless ...
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• Golimar (2010) DvdRip Hindi Dubbed Mediafire

  
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• AMERICA ONE

  
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  by T I WADE From the age of seven Ryan Richmond dreamed about going to Space. Now Ryan Richmond has $3 billion to play with, he is in his forties; and still wants to go to space. Tweet
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• Man of Steel sequel in 2014, Justice League movie in 2015?

  
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• Heather Graham and Carrie-Anne Moss star in Compulsion trailer

  
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  In Compulsion, Saffron (Carrie-Anne Moss) is elegant, though she doesn’t emphasize the fact. A former child star, she’s emaciated, brilliant, excoriating and contemptuous of herself and the world. Amy (Heather Graham) is her neighbor, a chef, who is newly separated. She remains undaunted and is able to remold her ...
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• Review: Defiance revisited

  
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  So we are now two thirds into the first season of Defiance . I must admit I was actually surprised when I researched that, for the one hundred million dollars that SyFy has dropped into production of Defiance I was expecting at the very least a twenty episode run for season one. It is, in fact, only twelve (!), and ...
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• Book Review of Truly, Madly, Deadly

  
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  Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Release Date: July 16th, 2013 Pages: 272 Genre: Young Adult-Thriller Source: NetGalley Description from  Goodreads :  Sawyer Dodd has it all. Shes a star track athlete, choir soloist, and A-student. And her boyfriend is the handsome all-star Kevin Anderson. ...
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• How Hollywood softened us up for NSA surveillance

  
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  From Enemy of the State to Eagle Eye to Minority Report, US films have accustomed us to the idea that we are constantly being watched
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• Only God Forgives – New Trailer and Posters

  
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  Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives will open across the UK and Ireland on 2 August 2013, through Icon Film Distribution and Lionsgate. Bangkok. Julian (Ryan Gosling) runs a Thai boxing club as a front for a drugs operation. He has everything he wants for and is respected in the criminal underworld though, ...
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• Ghost Child (2013) – Singapore

  
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  English title : Ghost Child Year : 2013 Director : Gilbert Chan Genre : Horror/Thriller Runtime : 1hr. 23mins. Country : Singapore Language : Chinese (Mandarin Version) Subtitles : English Cast : Ming Bridges  as  Shirley Hanwei Chen  as  Choon Cecilia Heng  as Kim’s Grandmother Vanessa Lee  as ...
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• What inspired WHITE BERRY ON THE RED WILLOW? by Rita Karnopp

  
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  A little bit about me:   There aren’t enough hours in a day to pack inall I want to do.  I work full-time as theAdministrative Assistant for Emergency Preparedness at the State of Montana.  When I get home I answer emails for an hourand the balance of the night is devoted to writing.  I refuse to write less ...
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