Month: April 2020

The true story of a Bowie knife toting airline CEO and a Volkswagen van driving hippie who risk their live to save mixed race orphans from being murdered. CAST LIST: Jenkins: Christopher Bautista Narrator: Sean Ballantyne Daly : Malcolm Taylor Cory: Luke Robinson **** via Screenplay of the Day (Watch Reading): OPERATION BABYLIFT by John McCarney… Continue reading Screenplay of the Day (Watch Reading): OPERATION BABYLIFT by John McCarney — Festival Reviews

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (1899 – 29 April 1980) was one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema and the father of the thriller genre. He was a master of pure cinema, able to reconcile aesthetics with the demands of the box-office. He used of the camera angle to draw the viewer’s […]… Continue reading 40th anniversary of Hitchcock’s death — words and music and stories

The celebrations with the Romantic Novelists’ Association continue as they mark their 60th anniversary and I’m delighted to welcome Adrienne Vaughan as my next guest in this series of posts looking at romantic suspense. Romantic suspense comes in many forms, how would you describe the sort you write? My stories tend to be multi-generational, so… Continue reading Adrienne Vaughan: The Layers and Textures within Romantic Suspense — Sue Fortin, Author

I don’t like suspense. I disdain horror, splatters, thrillers, mysteries, police procedurals, or almost any story where a character’s sole reason for existence is to serve as a dead body. As you might imagine, Stephen King and the authors of his ilk do not grace my TBR list. Watching any graphic displays in the form […]… Continue reading Taking Fear Out of Suspense – Daily Quote — Jo Hawk

Writing romantic suspense involves the skillful juggling of romantic elements and nail-biting suspense. A daunting task but so rewarding when all the essential ingredients come together in a well-crafted, character-driven novel. Here are eight tips: Ask yourself: what is intriguing about the premise? What will attract readers to the book? In Sue Grafton’s Alphabet Series, […]… Continue reading On Writing Romantic Suspense — sisterhood of suspense

Originally posted on Ludwig’s Thrillers: 1. Defending Jacob – William Landay Apple TV+ has announced that the first three episodes of its crime show “Defending Jacob” – based on the bestselling novel by William Landay – will premiere on April 24, starring Evans, Michelle Dockery, Jaeden Martell, Cherry Jones, and Pablo Schreiber. It revolves… via Read… Continue reading Read These Thrillers Before They Become Movies/Series This Year — Angie Dokos

Movie Blurb Directed by Charles Laughton, starring Robert Mitchum, Shelly Winters, and Lillian Gish Billed as one of the scariest movies ever made, Night of the Hunter (1955) is certainly chilling. Nobody does menace quite like Robert Mitchum. He plays a psychopathic man of the cloth who wields a switchblade knife like an erect penis.… Continue reading Night of the Hunter (1955) — Ghost Dog

People have been ordered to stay in their respective houses to enjoy the comfort of their homes and to avoid the spreading of the novel coronavirus. There have been different takes on this order, some are okay with it while others are struggling. It is because not everyone is the same. In a family of […]… Continue reading Making the Most of Quarantine: Different Kinds of Thriller Movies You May Binge Watch — Alex Writes

Contagion is a 2011 thriller about a deadly pandemic with an ncanny resemblance to the current COVID-19 pandemic. Here is how the movies compares to real-life via Of Contagion: Movie VS Reality — Becoming The Muse

Good morning. . . This treacly sweet song is from a late 50s movie, Post Box 999, which was produced and directed by Ravindra Dave, ( that was inspired by a 1940’s Hollywood thriller Call Northside 777), was by far the most famous of the Crime/Thriller movies made by Dave, & the most commercially successful […]… Continue reading An insomniac’s anthem — Aniruddha Chandorkar