Thriller movies are the safest bet if you ask me! Want to know how?
It has all the elements of all genres. Thriller movies have a bit of fear but don't scare you; it has action but with more plot and bits of comedy and drama.
A good thriller movie engages you and, as the name suggests, thrills you and Netflix has an awesome library of thriller movies. While we can't name all, we have handpicked our eight best Netflix thrillers that you need to watch!
The Devil All the Time
Our new favorite Spider-man, Tom Holland, will definitely surprise you with his fantastic acting skills. The Devil All the Time has Robert Pattinson, Bill Skarsgård, and Sebastian Stan in important roles too.
The Devil All the Time tells a gothic story of a young man facing off against sinister characters and corruption. The Netflix psychological thriller is an adaptation of a novel written by Donald Ray Pollock.
The Devil All the Time shows how evil and faith are often intertwined. The movie is dark, engaging, and thrilling.
The Guilty
The Guilty, starring Jake Gyllenhall as Joe Baylor, Ethan Hawke, and Paul Dano, is a story of a single night.
Joe Baylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a disturbed police detective who has been demoted to a 911-responder who receives a call from a distressed caller, Emily (Riley Keough)
As the story proceeds, the night becomes more thrilling as the terrified woman on the phone says she and her 6-year old daughter, alone at home, are in danger. Joe vows to save Emily, but he doesn't know what is happening exactly.
The 90-minute Netflix thriller is about a night, a broken cop, and a woman in danger.
The Woman in the Window
The Woman in the Window is a story about Dr. Anna Fox (Amy Adams), who suffers from agoraphobia. She has been staying inside her house for ten months after suffering a breakdown.
Anna keeps looking inside a house across the street, and one day, she thinks she witnessed a murder, which triggers her mania and loneliness.
The psychological thriller will make you doubt and believe Anna from time to time. Amy Adams's performance makes this psychological thriller even more intoxicating, especially how she navigates the fallout after witnessing the murder.
I Care a Lot
I Care a Lot is about a legal caregiver, Marla Grayson, played by Rosamund Pike, an expert in manipulating the judicial system. She scams elderly people to snatch away everything they own. Marla is a razor-sharp woman driven by hard and cold ambition.
The scam was going well until she tried to scam someone she shouldn't have.
Marla targets a wealthy elderly woman who turns out to be the mother of a dangerous crime lord, Roman Lunyov (Peter Dinklage). But, Marla Grayson doesn't let the woman go.
The storytelling will keep you hooked, and Rosamund Pike's performance will captivate you.
Gerald's Game
Gerald's Game looks like a horror movie but turns out to be a story about beating nightmares and past demons. Mike Flanagan is the director, and he proves yet again why he is the new horror master.
The story is about Gerald and his wife Jessie, who try to rekindle their romance. As Gerald handcuffs Jessie to the bed, he dies of a fatal heart attack!
Jessie finds herself handcuffed, all alone in the house with her dead husband dead on the floor, and her nightmares coming to life. But Jesse must survive, and she must face her demons.
Fractured
Fractured is a psychological thriller directed by an expert filmmaker, Brad Anderson(The Machinist, Session 9, and Transsiberian). Fractured is another edge-of-the-seat thriller from Brad Anderson.
Fractured is a story about Ray Monroe (Sam Worthington), who takes his family on a road trip. Unfortunately, his daughter suffers a severe injury and Ray, with his wife, takes her to the nearest hospital. The doctors and nurses take his daughter to get a CT scan, and they never come back!
The film shows Ray convinced the hospital hid them or did something worse. Will he ever find them? Watch Fractured and find out.
Bird Box
Bird Box is a post-apocalyptic thriller based on a novel by Josh Malerman and features Sandra Bullock as the lead.
The movie follows a woman named Malorie Hayes (Sandra Bullock), who is seen constantly trying to protect her kids from otherworldly entities that make people kill themselves if they see them!
The movie shows two time periods - the first day when unexplained mass suicides were reported the first time and the world after five years from the first day. Director Susanne Bier captures the first day of the mass suicides so well that it feels terrifying!
Bird Box is not a typical post-apocalyptic thriller with loads of CGI and explosions; instead, it makes you feel a world where if you see, you die. Imagining blocking your greatest sense in the face of any danger, seeing, is scary.
The Perfection
If you have been looking for a thriller with unnerving, unpredictable twists and turns, The Perfection is perfect for you.
Charlotte (Allison Williams) was a pupil of an elite and renowned music school, Bachoff Academy of Music, but she had to leave the school for her mother, who was on her deathbed.
Charlotte comes to know that the music school is in China to organize a competition. Hopeful Charlotte goes to China to meet former mentor Anton (Steven Weber). She meets and becomes close to a bright music academy student, Lizzie (Logan Browning), and sees Lizzie as everything she ever wanted to be. They become close. The following morning, Lizzie invites Charlotte to a road trip, where the story takes a scary turn.
Lizzie starts to feel very sick, and her condition worsens with each passing minute. Charlotte and Lizzie are on a bus where nobody speaks English. The story then reveals the events that led to this moment, and they are shocking!
The Perfection is a perfect Netflix thriller about fame, ambition, and their ugly sides.
Comments
Post a Comment