As his chilly new Netflix thriller The Killer is released, Guardian writers look back on their top picks by the director
More than The Silence of the Lambs, Seven launched a mostly risible trend of late 90s serial killer thrillers that mimicked Fincher’s grimy neo-noir style and the invariably disgusting fetishes that spice up the villain’s dossier. Yet none of the film’s successors could hope to equal the meticulousness of his direction or the bruised humanity that makes its characters such affecting and ultimately tragic figures.
Fincher capped his spectacular 90s run of existential noirs with a pressure-cooked thriller that rings with Y2K paranoia and strips cat-and-mouse tropes to the bone. Jodie Foster is Meg, and a young Kristen Stewart is her Razor-scootering tween in a Sid Vicious tee who really, really needs her diabetes medicine as the family hides from squabbling crooks in their doomsday-prepped panic room.
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