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Old 10th September 2019, 06:00 PM
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Frankenstein
The Invisible Man
The Man in the White Suit
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
The Prestige
The Imitation Game
Iron Man
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Outbreak
Moneyball
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Old 12th September 2019, 06:21 AM
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inventors and innovators.

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In a way this list could be filled with Frankenstein or mad scientist movies.

Deciding not to go that route i thought one Frankenstein film (my fave) and one other, in this case Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, was enough.
True, people could make a list of Frankenstein films, but that would probably be more for them and very boring for everyone else!

It would probably be better if, as you did, you list your favourite from any film series featuring an inventor or innovator.

Some cracking lists so far.
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FILMS ABOUT INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS
  1. The Bride of Frankenstein
  2. Back to the Future
  3. Ghostbusters
  4. A Grand Day out
  5. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
  6. Iron Man
  7. Edward Scissorhands
  8. Despicable Me
  9. The Dam Busters
  10. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory


Just missing out:
  • The Prestige
  • The Wind Rises
  • The Invisible Man
  • Primer
  • Spider-Man 2
  • Big Hero 6
  • The Time Machine
  • Safety Not Guaranteed
  • Joy
  • The Social Network
  • The Aviator
  • Hugo
  • Tron
  • Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
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Thank you to everyone who contributed a list of their favourite films about inventors or innovators.

The topic for this week is a broad one with many different definitions, where there's some overlap with horror and gialli films.

Of all the definitions I've seen, my favourite is this one by Peter Hutchings:
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"The label "psychological thriller" has been applied, often loosely or vaguely, to different types of film. It usually refers to narratives with domesticated settings in which action is suppressed and where the thrills are provided instead via investigations of the psychologies of principal characters. There's nothing intrinsically horror-like about the psychological thriller. However, post-1950s horror cinema has increasingly deployed psychological concepts and scenarios, consequently there is a category of psychological thriller that sits, sometimes uncomfortably between the genres of crime and horror."
This week is limited to those psychological thrillers which were made in the United States and Canada.

NORTH AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS


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You could split this into three categories. British, US and world cinema and have it over three separate weeks (none consecutive of course as that would be boring)
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Old 17th September 2019, 02:25 PM
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PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS

Audition
Breakdown
Copycat
Hard Candy
Primal Fear
Phone Booth
Session 9
Se7en
Single White Female
The Vanishing
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You could split this into three categories. British, US and world cinema and have it over three separate weeks (none consecutive of course as that would be boring)
Considering what a big pool of films there is to choose from, that's a great idea. I've modified my initial post to change this week's topic to North American psychological thrillers.
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Coma 1978
Play Misty for Me
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Cape Fear 1962
Gaslight 1944
Rebecca 1940
Falling Down
Memento
Jacob's Ladder
Vertigo
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Old 17th September 2019, 10:09 PM
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Top 10 Psychological Thrillers (US)

Vertigo (1958)
The Spiral Staircase (1946)
Black Swan (2010)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
Scissors (1991)
Tightrope (1984)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
The Ward (2010)
Misery (1990)
Dead Ringers (1988)


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