#thrillers — Public Fediverse posts

📚 The Great Alone by: Kristin Hannah

Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife and daughter north where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier.

Cora will do anything for the man sh...

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#books #reading #libraries #fiction #womenfiction #familylife #thrillers #domestic

Mutiny review – Jason Statham’s fight-by-numbers action thriller just about stays above water
By Benjamin Lee

The hard-working action hero gives us exactly what we expect, and often want, in this sturdy cargo ship-set caper

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/19/mutiny-movie-review

#JasonStatham #Film #Actionandadventurefilms #Thrillers #Culture #AdrianLester #TheGuardian #BenjaminLee

Mutiny review – Jason Statham’s fight-by-numbers action thriller just about stays above water https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/19/mutiny-movie-review #JasonStatham #Film #ActionAndAdventureFilms #Thrillers #Culture #AdrianLester

Insidious: Out of the Further review – evil returns but so does boredom https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/19/insidious-out-of-the-further-review #HorrorFilms #Film #Culture #Thrillers

Insidious: Out of the Further review – evil returns but so does boredom
By Scott Tobias

Uninteresting mythology and junky effects push a once-promising horror franchise further from what it once was

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/19/insidious-out-of-the-further-review

#Horrorfilms #Film #Culture #Thrillers #TheGuardian #ScottTobias

Match review – gory and slyly satirical catfishing horror for the age of Hinge
By Leslie Felperin

Online dating’s eternal bugbear reaches a horrific apotheosis in this funny, grimy and impishly directed shocker

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/18/match-review-gory-and-slyly-satirical-catfishing-horror-for-the-age-of-hinge

#Film #Thrillers #Dating #Culture #Lifeandstyle #TheGuardian #LeslieFelperin

Snapshot review – fun found-footage scarer follows amateur Ripper hunters in the 1880s
By Peter Bradshaw

Edinburgh film festivalA women’s spiritualist investigation team go after the serial killer, braving evil forces conjured into being by fear, misogyny and political rage

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/15/snapshot-review-fun-found-footage-scarer-follows-amateur-ripper-hunters-in-the-1880s

#Film #Edinburghfilmfestival #Thrillers #Horrorfilms #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Crimefilms #JacktheRipper #Culture #Festivals #UKnews #TheGuardian #PeterBradshaw

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
By Laura Wilson

The Amateur by Chris Bohjalian; Claws Out! by Bella Mackie; Plant Lady by Minyoung Kang; Children of Wolves by Lawrence Osborne; Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/14/the-best-recent-and-thrillers-review-roundup

#Books #Culture #Fiction #Thrillers #TheGuardian #LauraWilson

📚 There Is No Antimemetics Division by: qntm

One could be in the room with you now, just to your left. You could be seeing it right now—but from this second to the next, you’ll forget that you did. If you managed to jot down a note, the paper would look blank to you afterward.

These entities can feed on...

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#books #reading #libraries #fiction #sciencefiction #horror #thrillers #technological

Chum review – daft shark attack movie with wedding guests running gamut of toothy undersea beast
By Leslie Felperin

Producer-star Alice Eve seems to be laughing along with the audience in this deeply silly high-concept thriller

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/12/chum-review-shark-attack

#Film #Thrillers #Sharks #Culture #TheGuardian #LeslieFelperin

Edgier than the TV series, Michael Mann’s take on Miami Vice is gritty and intoxicating
By Brogan Morris

Where the 80s series was all pastels and shoulder pads, the noughties action thriller has flip phones and Linkin Park – a better fit for a less optimistic world

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/12/michael-mann-miami-vice-reboot-film

#Film #Culture #Actionandadventurefilms #Thrillers #MichaelMann #ColinFarrell #JamieFoxx #TheGuardian #BroganMorris

RL Stine’s Pumpkinhead review – horror from Goosebumps writer has kid confined inside large fruit
By Phil Hoad

Based on a short story by the Goosebumps author, this derivative but tautly plotted tale over-relies on Scooby-Doo-style sleuthery, and its truly unsettling turn comes too late

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/10/rl-stines-pumpkinhead-review-goosebumps-author

#Film #Horrorfilms #Thrillers #Comedyfilms #RLStine #Filmadaptations #Books #Comedy #Culture #TheGuardian #PhilHoad

Old Like Us: Darkest Waters is a solid pick if you enjoy thrillers with characters who bring life experience to the table. Community, what are your go-to books featuring older leads? #Books #Thrillers

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Possession review – a nightmarish plantation drama with a divisive paranormal twist
By Lucy Mangan

Gugu Mbatha-Raw is a lawyer sent to Jamaica to get to the bottom of a mystery about an inheritance. What unfolds is an evocative story packed with horrors, past injustices – and a supernatural element that you will rate or hate

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/aug/06/possession-review-plantation-horror-drama-sky-atlantic-now

#Television #Televisionradio #Culture #JonnyLeeMiller #Thrillers #TheGuardian #LucyMangan

Analogue evil: why today’s horror film-makers are obsessed with obsolete tech https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/05/horror-movies-obsession-backrooms-tech-props #HorrorFilms #GillianAnderson #Culture #Film #Thrillers #Backrooms

Analogue evil: why today’s horror film-makers are obsessed with obsolete tech
By James McClellan

From Obsession to Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, a new wave of movies are ditching minimalism for retro settings

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/05/horror-movies-obsession-backrooms-tech-props

#Horrorfilms #GillianAnderson #Culture #Film #Thrillers #Backrooms #TheGuardian #JamesMcClellan

It’s been a wild couple of years. This year, I have four books out. Last year, I did also. And there are several more going back to 2018 under both my pen names.

Adult, young adult, and middle grade in horror, thriller, fantasy, and sci-fi!

Learn about all my books and choose where to start: #books #fantasy #horror #thrillers #scifi

https://jendiagammon.com/2024/09/25/current-and-forthcoming-books/

This morning I watched a really awesome movie, 'The Black Windmill' from 1974. This movie had so much intrigue & plot twists & excitement in it, I absolutely loved it!

#movie #movies #cinema #film #films #geek #nerd #suspense #thrillers #noir #filmnoir #neonoir #artist #artists #mystery #art #arts

This Tempting Madness review – watchable psychological suspense offers Mexican standoff of gaslighting
By Phil Hoad

Pleasingly potboilerish tale of a woman trying to make sense of a traumatic fall that left her comatose slightly loses track of its toxic mind games

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/03/this-tempting-madness-review-watchable-psychological-suspense-offers-mexican-standoff-of-gaslighting

#Film #Thrillers #Culture #TheGuardian #PhilHoad

Looking for Mysteries? From cozy to thrillers, 80+ authors discounted their books just for you, check them out here:

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#CozyMysteries #CozyMystery #CozyMysteryBooks #Whodunnit #Books #Bookstodon #BookSale #BooksOnSale #FirstInSeries #Whodunit #MysteryBooks #CrimeFiction #MysteryFiction #thrillers #MysteriesAndThrillers

‘Am I 68? 69?’ Irvine Welsh on growing old, getting clean, bashing out his new novel – and flirting with guns
By Paula Cocozza

Three decades after he channelled his heroin addiction into the cult classic Trainspotting, the Scottish author has discovered the joys of yoga, breathwork and standing desks. But is he quite as ‘Zen’ as he claims?

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/aug/03/irvine-welsh-trainspotting-new-novel-can-nothing-save-us

#IrvineWelsh #Books #Drugs #USpolitics #Trainspotting #Healthwellbeing #Culture #Film #Stage #Yoga #Fiction #Thrillers #TheGuardian #PaulaCocozza

How Harlan Coben became the king of potboiler TV
By Stuart Heritage

The prolific crime author’s latest Netflix thriller I Will Find You has become one of the streamer’s most-watched shows of all time – but what’s his secret?

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jul/30/how-harlan-coben-became-the-king-of-potboiler-tv

#Television #HarlanCoben #UStelevision #Culture #Televisionradio #Netflix #Thrillers #Books #TheGuardian #StuartHeritage

Blood-Chilling Thrillers to Cool Off With

Survive the summer heat by escaping into these bone-chilling thrillers and mysteries.
https://bookriot.com/blood-chilling-thrillers-to-cool-off-with/

#MysteryThriller #UnusualSuspects #thrillers #Winter

The Devil’s Mouth review – Amazon’s shark thriller gives us just about enough to chew on
By Benjamin Lee

A group of holidaying friends get trapped in a cave system with a bull shark in a solidly entertaining b-movie lifted by a toxic central friendship

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/29/the-devils-mouth-review-amazon-shark-thriller

#Thrillers #Horrorfilms #Film #Culture #Sharks #AmazonPrimeVideo #TheGuardian #BenjaminLee

The Killer: without John Woo’s gun fu classic, Hollywood action films would be far more dull
By Adam Fleet

The 1989 Hong Kong thriller established Woo as one of the greats, with its explosive gun fights, high-speed car chases and an incorruptible hero

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/29/the-killer-john-woo-gun-fu-classic

#Film #JohnWoo #Culture #Actionandadventurefilms #Thrillers #Crimefilms #HongKong #TheGuardian #AdamFleet

Just when you thought it was safe … the shark movie is back for more
By Jesse Hassenger

Shark Week arrives in an overstuffed period for the film genre even if nothing will ever rival the greatest of them all

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/28/shark-week-movies

#Thrillers #Sharks #Jaws #Film #Horrorfilms #Actionandadventurefilms #Culture #TheGuardian #JesseHassenger

‘People who commit heinous crimes can be victims’: Michael Mann on the provocative power of Manhunter at 40
By Matthew Allan

As a stunning 4K restoration arrives in theaters, the director and cast reflect on creating the disturbing descent into a criminal underworld

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/25/michael-mann-interview-manhunter

#MichaelMann #BrianCox #Culture #Film #HannibalLecter #ThomasHarris #Crimefilms #Thrillers #TheGuardian #MatthewAllan