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Knight Moves
Mystery, Thriller
A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect. After he gets a call from the killer urging him to try and figure out the game, he cooperates with police and a psychologist to try and catch the killer, but doubts linger about the grandmaster's innocence as the string of grisly murders continues.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy polished psychological mysteries built around intellectual rivalry, grisly crimes, and persistent uncertainty about a protagonist’s innocence.
- Tone
- tense, eerie, bleak
- Payoff
- unease, revelation
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- murder, obsession, suspicion, trauma, intellect
- Setting
- contemporary, tournament city and police investigation rooms