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RICHARD’S NEW COLUMN “BIG SCREEN/SMALL SCREEN” IN MOVIE ENTERTAINMENT MAGAZINE!

Screen Shot 2014-08-20 at 10.28.23 PMRemember those wild Monster Trucks ads, “You Pay for the Whole Seat but You’ll Only Need the Edge!”? They were selling you on the excitement of watching giant trucks careening around an arena but the sales pitch could just as easily describe the feeling of slowly edging to the front of your seat while watching a thriller.

At their best these movies are adrenaline rushes that, as Wikipedia says, “heavily stimulate the viewer’s moods, giving them a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, surprise, anxiety and terror.” Or as author James Patterson put it, “Ultimately, a great thriller is a roller coaster ride.”

There are as many different kinds of thrillers as there are red herrings in a Dan Brown story… TO READ THE REST CHECK OUT THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE OF MOVIE ENTERTAINMENT ON NEWS STANDS NOW! 

 

 

 

 

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