10 Great Thrillers You Might Have Overlooked

1) The Interview (1998)

Number one on this list was set in stone before I even began compiling this article, and it goes to 1998’s The Interview. It’s not only the most underground entry of the 10, but it’s also the most surprisingly gripping story, and I only hope you go into it blind like I did. In fact, even writing about it in these pages risks spoiling one of the most subversive thrillers I’ve ever seen. And what’s amazing is that so few people seem to have ever seen it, or are talking about it.

Here’s the synopsis, courtesy of Wikipedia:

“Eddie Rodney Fleming is a quiet, nervous man who recently lost his job and family. One morning, Eddie is seized from his apartment for unknown reasons by two cops. They take him to headquarters and question him about a stolen car. But as tempers rise and the truth is slowly unraveled, it is revealed there is more to this interview than meets the eye.”

That’s all you need to know. The rest you can discover during 100 minutes of exceptional filmmaking, led by the quite brilliant Hugo Weaving and the equally compelling Tony Martin, who plays the senior cop assigned to the case.