thriller
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“We have to share tools, guys,” said Camila Morrone, who plays a bride-to-be who learns her fiancé’s family dark secrets in the horror thriller “Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
Fast facts: The “E.T.” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” director Steven Spielberg revisits interplanetary life in this thriller starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor as two strangers drawn together by their extraterrestrial experiences.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026
The cinematic, seven-minute music video for both tracks is directed by Jessica Lee Gagné, who was a lead cinematographer on the psychological thriller series Severance.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
"We did a 12-hour shift or maybe more every day for 'Mrs Deshpande'," she told AFP, mentioning the 2025 crime thriller.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
Each tiresome new thriller includes a scene in which the hero, trapped by some version of the enemy, runs for his desk in a desperate race against time.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
Vocabulary lists containing thriller
Literary Genres - Introductory
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