Throughout her career, Molly Keane expressed the unspeakable in her writing, caricaturing her acquaintances to sell out the secrets of the upper crust.

‘Obsessed’, the 2009 film starring Beyoncé and Idris Elba, argues for a new wave of domestic thrillers starring black families.

I’m always on the lookout for domestic thrillers with weird bodily fluid obsessions, so naturally the toilet fixation in Adrian Lyne’s 2002 film ‘Unfaithful’ caught my attention.

I can’t think of a film that better illustrates certain brutally casual truths about women’s loss of agency.

Max Ophüls’s 1949 noir “The Reckless Moment” demonstrates the centripetal power of the domestic sphere—as if the house itself were a femme fatale.

Sleeping with the Enemy cozies right up to the hard truth that abusers are everywhere.Every domestic thriller is the sequel to a romantic comedy. Romantic comedies reward impulsive, boundary-smashing gestures and unflagging perseverance; thrillers ch…

Violence and gentrification in John Schlesinger’s Pacific Heights.“This is our home. This is all happening to us in our home.”That is the sound of a white woman’s despair. It’s the second act break of the domestic thriller Pacific Heights, and Patty …

Welcome our newest correspondent, Amy Gentry. This is the first in her series about domestic thrillers. “In the midst of our current post–Gone Girl renaissance in domestic suspense,” she writes, “these films look more prescient than ever.”When the di…