Mia Shaw: Thrillers from the last 50 years (roughly)

Psycho-1960

Director:Alfred Hitchcock

Starring:Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh

Premise:A young woman stays at a hotel that is run by a man and his mother.

Cape Fear-1962
Director: J. Lee Thompson

Starring: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum and Polly Bergen

Premise: A prisoner is released and stalks the family of the lawyer that was responsible for putting him in jail.

Rosemary's Baby- 1968

Director: Roman Polanski

Starring: Mia Farrow

Premise: A couple move to a new apartment and are surrounded by strange neighbours. The pregnant woman is paranoid that her husband promised the neighbours that the baby can be used as a sacrifice for their unusual rituals.

Deliverance- 1972

Director:John Boorman

Starring:Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight

Premise: A group of friends go on a trip to the American back-country

Jaws- 1975

Director: Steven Spielberg

Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss

Premise: A great white shark starts to attack people living on a small island

Carrie- 1976

Director: Brian De Palma

Starring: Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie

Premise: A 17 year old girl with telekinesis is pranked on prom night, pushing her to the edge

The Shining- 1980

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Starring: Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall

Premise: A man gets a job as a janitor at a hotel and moves his family there during the winter, while no one else is staying

Blue Velvet- 1986

Director: David Lynch

Starring: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan and Dennis Hopper

Premise: A young man finds a human ear in a field, and when he tries to find out where it came from and why it is there, he gets dragged into a dark story

Fatal Attraction- 1987

Director: Adrian Lyne

Starring: Michael Douglas and Glenn Close

Premise: A man has a weekend affair, but the woman does not want it to end

The Silence of the Lambs- 1991

Director: Jonathon Demme

Starring: Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins

Premise: In order to track down a murderer, an FBI agent has to speak to an imprisoned cannibal for help

Fight Club- 1999

Director: David Fincher

Starring: Edward Norton and Brad Pitt

Premise: An insomniac bored with his life meets a carefree man that makes soap. They both start up a fight club for others wanting to escape their dull lives but it spirals out of control

Kill Bill Volume 1- 2003

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Starring: Uma Thurman

Premise: A group of assassins attempt to kill a pregnant bride at her wedding rehearsal, but instead put her in a coma. After waking up four years later, she wants revenge