The original Knives Out revived the old-school murder mystery in the most Clue-y sense of the term, investigating the death of a rich old man and relishing in every cliche of the genre. Its inevitable sequel modernises the details – a billionaire tech douche (Ed Norton) invites a bunch of his douchey friends to his private island, only to have one of them turn up dead – but the formula remains more or less the same, and thank goodness for that. Really, they could (and probably will) make a million of these things and they’ll all be fun, as long as Daniel Craig and his utterly unconvincing Southern accent keep returning as ace sleuth Benoit Blanc.
Has this ever happened to you? It’s the end of a long work week, so you throw on your coziest sweats, pour a glass of the cheapest red wine from the nearest corner store and settle in on the couch for a night of streaming. You pull up that ratty blanket you’ve had since college, pick up the remote… then wake up hours later to the Netflix home screen with absolutely no memory of the movie you picked.
That’s a whole stinkin’ movie night, just gone! To keep it from happening again, you’re going to need something guaranteed to keep your eyes open – something that’ll fry your nerves and knot your stomach so tight there’s no way you’ll fall asleep. In other words, you need a good thriller movie. Netflix has plenty of flicks that should do the trick, but it also has a ton of endless catalogue filler that’ll knock you out just as quickly as that boring second-rate romcom you went with last week. If you want a thriller that actually thrills, we’ve dug out these 22 flicks that’ll truly take you for a wild ride.
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