the vibe
Scott Kosar’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe
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Highest-ranked title
Highest-ranked title
Scott Kosar has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2010s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Machinist.
Recurring themes
Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to notice him.
Dir. Brad Anderson · With Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
Dir. Marcus Nispel · With Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Andrew Bryniarski
George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Dutch colonial mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.
Dir. Andrew Douglas · With Ryan Reynolds, Melissa George, Jesse James
Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.
Dir. Breck Eisner · With Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Joe Anderson