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“What’s in the box?!”
“Can you hear them Clarisse?”
A great thriller needs a great villain and they don’t get much better than Hannibal Lector. Played with delicious relish by Anthony Hopkins he threatens to steal the whole movie from the actual villain who’s pretty unpleasant in his own right.
In this movie he plays a jailed psychopath who helps a young FBI agent track down a killer, who gets his kicks by skinning his victims. It’s a truly unsettling film, leading to a spin chilling confrontation as she finally finds her man.
“It’s just you and me now sport…”
While Silence of the Lambs may be the film we most remember Hannibal Lector for, it’s easy to forget we saw him much earlier in the film Manhunter. Again we have an FBI agent using Hannibal Lector to track down a brutal serial killer.
This time we have Brian Cox playing Lector as a much more human sounding character, but the key relationship between the killer and cop is still the same as Lector recognises something of himself in William Petersen’s Will Graham.
“The first rule of Fight Club, you do not talk about Fight Club”
After Seven, Fincher followed things up with the equally disturbing Fight Club. Edward Norton plays a thirty something who’s become a little tired of his dead end job. He finds solace in Brad Pitt who helps him to found an underground fighting club.
This is a film that would have been fine if this was all there was to it, but another fine twist puts it up there on another level.
“Your life is on the line…”
Starring Colin Farrell Phone Booth is another film in which you can’t help but think the victims deserve it.
Farrell plays a sleazy businessman who’s been up to all sorts of no good. He finds himself trapped when he answers a ringing phone in a booth. On the other end of the line is someone who gives him a simply warning – if he leaves the booth he will die.
It’s a short film, but a great one, as Farrell must face a basic option – either confront his own faults or take a bullet to the head.
The films so far all focus on two of the things that made Seven so memorable – a good baddie and memorable plot. But what Seven is also good for is a twist that goes down in movie legend.
Here are some other movies like Seven which are also honed in the fine art of the twist.
“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
If you haven’t ever watched this film then make sure you don’t see it with someone who has. Throughout you’ll have to put up with muffled squeals as they find a bit which signals what’s coming.
The plot follows a gang of petty criminals who are pulled in for a police line-up. However, once together they find themselves employed by mysterious crime legend Keiser Soze to take on one big job. Who is he? And does he even exist?
“Fear can hold a man prisoner; hope can set him free…”
A complete change of pace here in this film about a lawyer sent to prison for killing his wife. Tim Robbins plays the lawyer who strikes up a friendship with Morgan Freeman – another lifer.
It’s a slow paced but gripping film which leads us all to a truly unexpected and uplifting ending.
