My favourite thrillers...PART 1

I have a request from a fellow friend, Iejan, to list out my favourite thrillers. Well, after listing my favourite Disney movie songs, I guess....why not for thrillers! So, (drumroll please...) I present to you my dear readers, my favourite thrillers, unsorted...

Ok, but before that, let me tell you what this list is all about. First, it is my personal favourite list. So, please do not compare it with other professional movie listers or top charts because it is not the same. Second, all the movies are the ones that I've watched before somewhere in my life, of course, I don't put  any movies that I haven't seen, right? Third, the list is unsorted in terms of least-most favourites, since I find it hard to put a certain kind of numerical value in it, I just love it! However, I still sort it but according to the year it was produced, ok. And fourth, by favourite, I mean, a thriller movie that is very thrilling, gluing me to my seat, then beaming on it and cannot forget about it after watching it, and the ones that give me some kind of satisfying or overwhelming (and still sane...) feeling afterwards. So, here's the list...

Rear Window (1954)

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I remembered borrowing this movie in VCD from my boss when I worked in a DVD/VCD shop many years ago, just because the director is Alfred Hitchcock. And it turned out a thrill as I expected. It tells about Jeff (James Stewart), a professional photographer who is confined in his apartment due to a broken leg. Having nothing to do, he spends his time watching his surroundings through his window. And that makes him becoming knowledgeable and attentive to his neighbours and their routines. One day he notices that a couple had an argument, and some time later he hasn't seen the wife anymore. He also notices that the husband picking up some sort of crates one evening plus other questionable things. As Jeff becomes suspicious, he continues to spy on this neighbour and began investigating with the help of some of his friends since the police cannot take any action without having evidence. So, can he finally be sure that a crime has been committed? Will he succeed in finding out the truth? The husband's innocence/guilt is only confirmed at the end of the movie.

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Misery (1990)

I have reviewed on this movie here. It is based on Stephen King's novel of the same name. Talking about the Master of Thrillers! Paul Sheldon is a famous novelist who, while on the way to send his latest manuscript to his agent, involves in an accident on a heavily-snowed road. He is rescued by a nurse, Annie Wilkes, who happens to be one of his fans. Although suffering massive injuries, he recovers little by little under the nursing of Annie, although still has a lot of difficulties to move. However, as time pass by, Paul feels that he is trapped in her home and it turns out that Annie is a really obsessive fan (and a psycho one too). Afterwards, Paul has to think of a plan on how to rescue himself from his manic rescuer.

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Se7en (1995)

Aww...Brad Pitt is still a budding handsome young star alongside the more experienced Morgan Freeman. And that is also how their characters are, one is a veteran cop and another a young detective, called to team up together to solve a series of cold-blooded and sick murder done by a sicko. This movie is where I first know about the Seven Deadly Sins, that is wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy and gluttony. The murderer chooses his victims according to the sins that they make

as shown by how he kills them and and how the body is found. The cops take on this seven deadly sins theory as they find each body and tries to capture him using this psychological profile (sort of  Criminal Minds lah kan..). This one is really psycho...and with a tragic end indeed.

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The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

Another brilliant story of a sick mind, I guess. Awesome too. This movie is an adaptation from a novel. Matt Damon is Tom Ripley, a normal man, perhaps an underachiever, who, in a sequence of events, finds himself trusted by a rich billionaire to go to Italy to find his son, Dickie (Jude Law) and convince him to return home. Now, Ripley, is a brilliant man, unfortunately, as we go along the story, we will learn that he is a master of impersonation, forgery and above all, a dishonest man. Scene by scene, we watch in horror and cringe in fear, although this is not a ghost story, to see Ripley plays his cards and turn all events to his advantage, gaining trust from Dickie and his girlfriend, Marge (Gwyneth Paltrow), just to maintain the wealthy lifestyle Dickie has provided him. When Dickie no longer interested in his continuous company, Ripley manages to spend one last time together on a boat trip that ends in a tragedy. Later on, Ripley takes on Dickie's identity but as he goes along, it is becoming more and more difficult for him to maintain that identity as he stumble upon Marge and other friends of Dickie. Will Ripley survive is acts? Or will he claim another victim? Uff, I hate Ripley more and more until the end of the movie.

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Fermat's Room (2007)

In Spanish, La Habitación de Fermat. I watched this movie on Astro by accident. It's a Spanish movie and of course dialogues in Spanish, but thanks to subtitles, I could enjoy this brilliant thriller. 3 mathematicians and an inventor received a mysterious invitation to a house on a quest to solve an enigma, a mind boggling game. But they have to use pseudonyms for communications based on famous historical mathematicians. So, they become Évariste Galois, Oliva Sabuco, David Hilbert, Blaise Pascal and the host himself uses Pierre de Fermat. When they are all at the house, they finally meet Fermat but shortly as when they start to discuss, Fermat received a call and has to leave. While that, the 4 people left in the room receive a message from a PDA that is left in the room. It is a puzzle and they have to solve it within one minute. They solved it but exceeded the 1-minute given, and they realized that the room shrinks a little bit. Then come more and more puzzle from the PDA, which they have to solve within the given time or else the room will further shrink and becoming smaller. During this, the story behind each people slowly unravelled and we can understand that each of them is linked in some way or he other. They later find out that Fermat is actually invited there too with specific instructions and thus wondering who is the real culprit. Are they all sent there as participants of a math game...or is there more sinister motive involve? Will they find the real culprit? What is the culprit's reason for trapping them there? What really happen to Fermat? Will they all die in the room?   

So, how's the list so far?

Alrighty, I don't want to write a very long post....so, see you in PART 2!

Geez, I'm dying to watch all these movies again!