Brent Briscoe’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

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Highest-ranked title
Brent Briscoe has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2010s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Mulholland Drive.
Recurring themes

One Eight Seven
1997
Drama · Thriller

The Iceman
2012
Thriller · Crime

Coldwater
2013
Thriller · Drama

The Returned
2013
Horror · Thriller

Painless
2012
Drama · Horror

Lifechanger
2018
Horror · Thriller

In Her Skin
2009
Drama · Thriller

A Walk Among the Tombstones
2014
Crime · Drama

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
Dir. David Lynch · With Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux

Karl Childers, a mentally disabled man, has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly institutionalized, he is deemed fit to be released into the outside world.
Dir. Billy Bob Thornton · With Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh

Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane. Their simple plan to retain the money while avoiding detection opens a Pandora's box when the fear of getting caught triggers panicked behavior and leads to virulent consequences.
Dir. Sam Raimi · With Billy Bob Thornton, Bill Paxton, Bridget Fonda
A teen learns that his birth mother is a mermaid after he begins to grow fins and slimy scales on his thirteenth birthday.
Dir. Duwayne Dunham · With Chez Starbuck, Justin Jon Ross, Courtnee Draper

In the hope of a big score, two junkie couples team up to commit various drug robberies which go disastrously wrong, leading to dissent, violence, and murder.
Dir. Larry Clark · With Melanie Griffith, James Woods, Vincent Kartheiser

Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.
Dir. Frank Darabont · With Jim Carrey, Martin Landau, Laurie Holden
A crew of coal miners becomes trapped 600 feet below ground after a disastrous collapse. As the air grows more toxic and time runs out, they slowly descend into madness and begin to turn on one another. Inspired by true events.
Dir. Ben Ketai · With Brent Briscoe, Kurt Caceres, Eric Etebari
Candy and Lonnie Earl are just crazy about each other. The problem: she's married to Roy and he's married to Darlene. So far it's been a secret affair. But that's about to change, because this foursome is driving cross-country and headed for some big surprises.
Dir. Jordan Brady · With Natasha Richardson, Charlize Theron, Billy Bob Thornton
When the Solomons trade in the craziness of big-city life for the quiet of a North Dakota farm, little do they expect the nightmare that follows. Soon after arriving, teenage Jess and her younger brother see terrifying apparitions and endure attacks from a supernatural source. Jess must warn her disbelieving family before it is too late to save them.
Dir. Danny Pang Phat, Oxide Pang Chun · With Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller

Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his "sickness": He is a brilliant, but disturbed sociopathic sadist.
Dir. Michael Winterbottom · With Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba
College friends find their weekend of sex and debauchery ruined when deadly zombie beavers swarm their riverside cabin.
Dir. Jordan Rubin · With Rachel Melvin, Cortney Palm, Lexi Atkins

Talented rookie race-car driver Jimmy Bly has started losing his focus and begins to slip in the race rankings. It's no wonder, with the immense pressure being shoveled on him by his overly ambitious promoter brother as well as Bly's romance with his arch rival's girlfriend Sophia. With much riding on Bly, car owner Carl Henry brings former racing star Joe Tanto on board to help Bly. To drive Bly back to the top of the rankings, Tanto must first deal with the emotional scars left over from a tragic racing accident which nearly took his life.
Dir. Renny Harlin · With Sylvester Stallone, Burt Reynolds, Kip Pardue