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Thriller – A Cruel Picture

In Daniel Ekeroth's book on Swedish exploitation movies, Swedish Sensationsfilms: A Clandestine History of Sex, Thrillers, and Kicker Cinema, it is revealed that the producers took out a huge life insurance policy on star Christina Lindberg, as real ammunition was used in the action sequences, and that she was asked to inject saline solution during the drug scenes.


A Long Way to Shiloh

A Long Way to Shiloh (known in the USA as The Menorah Men so as not to be thought a Civil War novel) is a thriller by Lionel Davidson.

Aaru Sundarimaarude Katha

Aaru Sundarimaarude Katha (English: A Tale of Six Women), abbreviated as ASK, is a 2013 Malayalam thriller film directed by Rajesh K. Abraham.

And Now You're Dead

And Now You're Dead (also known as Enter the Eagles) is a 1998 Hong Kong action thriller film directed by Corey Yuen, and starring Shannon Lee, Michael Wong, Jordan Chan, Anita Yuen, Benny “The Jet” Urquidez and Jordan Andrew Perry.

Anthony Peckham

Eleven years later, in 2001, the Michael Douglas thriller Don't Say A Word, Peckham's second screenplay to reach production, premiered.

Antonia Bernath

Bernath was cast as jealous sister Jimi in upcoming British thriller Cuckoo, co-starring Richard E. Grant and Laura Fraser.

Bhoot Aaya

Bhoot Aaya is an Indian thriller television series which airs on Sony Entertainment Television India and Sony Entertainment Television Asia.

Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons

Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons is a 1960 British thriller directed by W. Lee Wilder and starring George Sanders, Corinne Calvet and Jean Kent.

Bogomilism

The Secret Book is a Macedonian feature film combining the detective, thriller and conspiracy fiction genres, based on a fictional story of the quest for the original Slavic language "Secret Book", written by the Bogomils in Bulgaria and carried to Western Europe during the Middle Ages.

Brad Sihvon

Brad's career began in 1999, and he first made his movie debut in the Sci-Fi/Thriller movie The Man Who Used to Be Me which was released in 2000, then sometime in the 2000s, Sihvon had appeared in television series and movies including Halloween: Resurrection, The Snow Walker, White Noise, Severed: Forest of the Dead and finally Scary Movie 4.

Carlos Monzón

In 1975, he began a very publicized romance with the famous actress and vedette Susana Giménez; they had previously met in the 1974 thriller La Mary, directed by Daniel Tinayre, where the two played husband and wife.

Charlie's Death Wish

Charlie's Death Wish (2005) is an action thriller film directed by Jeff Leroy and starring Ron Jeremy and Phoebe Dollar.

Copper Scroll

A Long Way to Shiloh (known in the USA as The Menorah Men so as not to be thought a Civil War novel) is a thriller by Lionel Davidson, published in 1966, whose plot follows the finding and contents of a similar treasure scroll.

DBCult Film Institute

The study and the interest of the organization is focused primarily on genre film productions, especially Horror film, Science Fiction film, Action film, Adventure film, Comedy film, Crime film, Mondo film, Drama film, Fantasy film, Mystery film, Noir film, Peplum or Sword-and-sandal film, Sexy, Spy film, Thriller film, War film, Western film, and related subgenres.

Dead Time: Kala

Kala (Dead Time: Kala), or also known as (The Secret) is a 2007 Indonesian film noir thriller directed by Joko Anwar and starring Fachri Albar, Ario Bayu, Shanty and Fahrani.

Francesca Fowler

Francesca Fowler (born 1985, Hammersmith, London) is a British actress, best known for her appearance in the 2007 thriller movie Straightheads alongside Gillian Anderson and Danny Dyer; she is also recognised for her appearances in Rome HBO, and various BBC TV series.

Get Lost!

Using characters inspired by Nick and Nora Charles, the detectives in the film The Thin Man (1934) and its sequels, Plater sought to juxtapose the conventions of the hardboiled thriller, as expounded by the likes of Raymond Chandler and Dashiel Hammett, with the mundanity of life in Yorkshire.

I'll Bury You Tomorrow

I'll Bury You Tomorrow is a 2002 low-budget independent thriller written and directed by Alan Rowe Kelly produced by New Millennium Pictures, starring Zoë Daelman Chlanda, Bill Corry, and Katherine O'Sullivan.

J. Tobias Anderson

In his video works, most frequently in the form of animations, Anderson refers to film history and renowned film classics, as well as film genres - particularly Hitchcock, along with action and thriller sequences of escape and chase (from films North by Northwest, Rope, The Birds and Bullitt).

Jonas Pate

In 1996, Pate started his career by writing and directing the thriller film called The Grave with his brother Josh.

Juan Antonio Bayona

In October 2008, Variety announced that Universal Studios has signed Bayona to direct Hater, an adaptation of British author David Moody's thriller novel about an epidemic of violence caused by regular people.

Mahmoud Abdel Moghny

That same year he returned to the big screen to star in Amir Ramsis’ mystery thriller, Kashf Hesab and Egyptian Director Sherif Arafa’s Gezira.

Mitchell Leisen

When his film career ended, Leisen directed episodes of The Twilight Zone, Thriller, Shirley Temple's Storybook and The Girl from U.N.C.L.E..

Myrna Fahey

Her image branched out in the 1960s, helped by House of Usher and a role on the Boris Karloff-hosted TV series Thriller that same year entitled 'Girl With A Secret'.

Pablo P. Garcia

His son, Byron, the former security consultant for the Cebu provincial government, gained attention in 2007 after instituting a program of choreographed exercise routines for the inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) and uploading the routines on YouTube, including the popular Thriller viral video.

Patricia Medina

Medina also made television appearances on Perry Mason ("The Case of the Lucky Loser", 27 September 1958); Bonanza ("The Spanish Grant", 6 February 1960), Thriller ("The Premature Burial", 1961) and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour ("See the Monkey Dance", 9 November 1964).

Paul Newlan

Newlan portrayed General Prichard on the ABC war series Twelve O'Clock High and appearances on series such as Gunsmoke, The Deputy, Thriller (4 episodes), Wagon Train and most notable the 1964 Twilight Zone episode "The Brain Center at Whipple's".

Prayers for the Assassin

Prayers for the Assassin is a political thriller, and a work of speculative fiction, written by American crime writer Robert Ferrigno.

Quicksand: No Escape

Quicksand: No Escape is a 1992 thriller film directed by Michael Pressman, and stars Donald Sutherland, Tim Matheson, Felicity Huffman and the debut role of an six year old Kaley Cuoco, who over 13 years later achieved fame in the final season of the fantasy TV show Charmed and especially as one of the stars of the popular sitcom The Big Bang Theory.

Robert D. Cardona

Cardona has also worked on other British TV series such as The Flaxton Boys, The Four Feathers, Thriller, Fraud Squad, Crime of Passion, Emmerdale and Virgin of the Secret Service.

Robert Loren Fleming

Fleming worked for DC Comics initially as a proofreader and later writer, creating Thriller, and was writing an Aquaman limited series and one-shot special in 1989 with plotter/breakdown artist Keith Giffen and artist Curt Swan.

Shades of Truth

The story is a parody on the legendary story of Wu Song from the Chinese classical novel Water Margin (水滸傳) and also the 2002 Hong Kong crime-thriller film Infernal Affairs (無間道).

Soul Punk

Stump recorded himself singing a mash-up of Jackson hits, blending "Billie Jean", "Scream", "Man in the Mirror," "Thriller" and other Jackson songs over pre-recorded backing vocals.

Swedish Sensationsfilms: A Clandestine History of Sex, Thrillers, and Kicker Cinema

The book discuss the movies from late the 60s and early 70s that constituted the basis of the legend of Swedish sin—such as Ur kärlekens språk, Hon dansade en sommar and Thriller - en grym film.

The Backwoods

The Backwoods, alternately known in Spanish as Bosque de Sombras, is a 2006 Spanish-British thriller film directed and co-written by the Spanish director Koldo Serra.

The Bride Collector

The Bride Collector is a 2010, thriller, and suspense novel written by Ted Dekker.

The Girl in the Kremlin

The Girl in the Kremlin is a 1957 American thriller which puts forth the premise that Joseph Stalin (played by Maurice Manson) faked his own death in 1953 and then moved to Greece with a fortune in Soviet currency.

The House of Usher

The House of Usher is a 2006 thriller based on the Edgar Allan Poe story, "The Fall of the House of Usher".

The Magnetic Monster

The Magnetic Monster marked Carlson's initial foray into sci-fi and horror and he would follow it with several better known titles that would forever associate him with that genre: It Came from Outer Space (1953), The Maze (1953), Riders to the Stars (1954), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), and such TV series as Thriller and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

The Marine 2

The Marine 2 is a 2009 American thriller film directed by Roel Reiné, written by Christopher Borrelli and John Chapin Morgan, and produced by Michael Lake.

The Night Letter

The Night Letter is a 1978 book by Paul Spike, with a double-layered structure: an anti-Nazi spy thriller on the background of the early part of the Second World War, and an exposure of cynical and machiavellian maneuverings in the American corridors of power.

Top Pop Catalog Albums

Three of Michael Jackson's albums (Number Ones, The Essential Michael Jackson and Thriller) claimed positions 1-3 respectively on Top Pop Catalog Albums and Top Comprehensive Albums in the week following Jackson's death.

Trois 2: Pandora's Box

Trois 2: Pandora's Box (also known as Pandora's Box) is a 2002 erotic thriller written and directed by Rob Hardy.

Uniunea Producătorilor de Fonograme din România

The biggest-selling album in Romania is Michael Jackson's Thriller whose sales figure stands at over 200,000 copies (20x Platinum), while the biggest-selling digital release is Adele's 21 with over 10,000 digital copies sold within two years.

Viva Riva!

Viva Riva! is a Congolese crime thriller film written & directed by Djo Tunda Wa Munga and starring Patsha Bay, Manie Malone, Fabrice Kwizera, Hoji Fortuna, Marlene Longage, Alex Herabo & Diplôme Amekindra.

Welcome to the Jang House

The album contains samples from a wide variety of sources, ranging from the Michael Jackson song "Thriller" sampled in "Cheap Thrills"; to The Smiths song "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" in "Holla Plastique"; and even "A Whole New World" by Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle, as featured in Disneys Aladdin, in "Driz Hollering".

Zuvembie

When "Pigeons from Hell" was adapted into an episode of the television anthology series Thriller the "zuvembie" was adapted with it, played by Ottola Nesmith.


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