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Why 1995 changed the thriller
Two American thrillers released within three months of each other in 1995 set the terms for the twenty years that followed.
Procedure as horror
Se7en took the serial-killer film and removed the chase. The detectives arrive after each murder, read what has been left for them, and are outpaced from the first scene. The killer is not hunted down; he walks into a police station. What replaced the chase was procedure — evidence, libraries, paperwork — and the discovery that procedure does not save anybody.