So, the other day I was cleaning out some things I’d clipped to Evernote in hopes of one day using them in a post. You know how it is, you save a lot but use very little. Eventually it becomes the electronic equivalent of hoarding and some extreme deep cleaning is necessary.
Anyway, I ran across the following link and thought, huh, why haven’t I ever talked about that one?
Because I use it all the time.
Seriously, I’ve had this one saved for years. I’m not simply talking about bookmarking the link either. I clipped the entire first page and really do refer back to it a lot when I’m looking up info on old detective movies or TV series. Not sure how “current” it is but it’s a fantastic reference for the old stuff. So here it is:
Suspense is added as the protagonist struggles within the puzzle-like narrative to gather evidence and testimony, to investigate all motives, and to discover the one essential clue or fatal flaw/alibi that betrays the identity of the culprit. The detective (or main protagonist) often succeeds in cleverly trapping the killer or criminal where law-and-order officers and local police officials do not. Intensity, anxiety, and suspense build to an exciting climax, often with the detective (or protagonist) using his fists or gun to solve the crime.
This genre has ranged from early mystery tales, fictional or literary detective stories, to classic Hitchcockian suspense-thrillers to classic private detective films. A related film sub-genre is that of spy films. If detection and the solution to a crime are not central to a ‘mystery’ film, then it blends into other genre film types, such as horror or suspense-thrillers.DETECTIVE-MYSTERY FILMS Part 1
Take a good long look and enjoy the journey. Oh, and there is a lot more than simply mystery movies on that site, too.