Poirot and Hastings started off as equivalents of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Holmes and Watson, but Agatha Christie wasn’t interested in giving Poirot a Moriarty equivalent.
If Hercule Poirot could design his own mystery to solve, it would be “Murder on the Orient Express” (1934). Because the train is stuck in
“Orphan” (2009) is one of the all-time great “creepy kid” horror films, driven by an amazing turn by Isabelle Fuhrman and a skin-crawling final-act twist.
In “Third Girl” (1966) we really see Agatha Christie moving into the Sixties and musing about being out of touch with changing times. She had
Try not to think too much about the murders that might be committed in St. Mary Mead while she’s gone, but Miss Marple vacations on
Drawing on the notion that the supernatural is things science hasn’t explained yet, Agatha Christie holds a spooky vibe for most of the page count
Director/co-writer Eli Horowitz’s “Gone in the Night” starts in one place – a couple arrives at their rental cabin only to find it’s been accidentally
Before the original run of “The X-Files” (1993-2002), weird horror movies stood out. Afterward, they we more likely to get lost in the shuffle (although
A school is a great place for a moody mystery. I’ve been drawn to this combination through the years, from “Buffy” and “Veronica Mars” episodes
Agatha Christie tends to fill her large British houses with lots of characters, the better to supply her story with suspects and victims. “Hickory Dickory Death”