Return of the yuppie revenge thriller | Benjamin Lee
Don't look now but the yuppies are in for it in a spree of forthcoming 80s and 90s-style revenge thrillers – a cautionary Hollywood reminder to us all after the recessionFrom the moment Glenn Close brewed up rabbit stew for Michael Douglas in Fatal Attraction, the yuppie thriller became a staple of late 80s/early 90s cinema. The "fill-in-the-blank from hell" subgenre gave us various incarnations of a monotonous formula, whether it was a flatmate (Single White Female), a lodger (Pacific He...
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