Thriller

Nine Guests for a Crime

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  • Title: Nove ospiti per un delitto
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The 1977 giallo film, an Italian subgenre featuring both murder mystery as well as slasher and thriller elements, offers up 9 rather unlikable members of a dysfunctional rich family who start being killed off one by one when they gather at their family villa on a private island far removed from the prying eyes of the rest of the world. The family of the authoritative Ubaldo (Arthur Kennedy) include his disturbed sister Elisabetta (Dana Ghia), his second wife Giulia (Caroline Laurence), and his children Lorenzo (John Richardson), Michele (Massimo Foschi), and Patrizia (Loretta Persichetti) and their their mix of oversexed or frigid spouses Greta (Rita Silva), Carla (Flavia Fabiani), and Walter (Venantino Venantini).

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The Astronaut

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  • Title: The Astronaut
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I’ll give Kate Mara credit for taking unusual projects. However, when they don’t work they really don’t work. The Astronaut starts out as a psychological thriller with Mara cast as our astronaut recently returned from space and suffering “common” side effects while kept in seclusion in a secure facility off the grid (which at least makes for an interesting setting as events devolve). Mentioning several times what our astronaut is experiencing is normal, the film continues to push and prod Mara’s character to question her reality and her sanity.

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Ryde

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  • Title: Ryde (2017)
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There’s an interesting 20-minute short film buried in writer/director Brian Frank Visciglia‘s 2017 thriller Ryde. However, at 84 minutes, a serial killer (David Wachs) taking over a ride-share driver’s car to find victims gets stuck in attempts to elongate the story with our killer’s separate vignettes and lengthen the not-all-that-interesting dialogue between our other main character (Jessica Serfaty Michel) and her loser boyfriend (Ronnie Alvarez).

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Pretty Lethal

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  • Title: Pretty Lethal
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Maddie Ziegler leads a group of bickering ballerinas (Iris Apatow, Lana Condor, Millicent Simmonds, and Avantika) overseas for a recital who become trapped in a house full of Hungarian mobsters where they witness the murder of their instructor (Lydia Leonard) and find themselves hunted. In order to survive, the dysfunctional group will have to put their petty squabbles aside and use their dance moves with quite literally lethal efficiency.

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