Cross-media picks for Joel Schumacher fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
Joel Schumacher drew audiences who like their crime and drama served with atmosphere and edge. The picks here share that pull: urban menace, characters caught between worlds they chose and worlds they can't escape, and plots that move fast but leave something unsettling behind. Whether it's the psychological dread of Dead Ringers, the pulpy drive of The Last Boy Scout, or the stylish criminal romance of B. Monkey, the connecting thread is darkness worn lightly.
Film
Twelve
A young drug dealer's life unravels after his cousin's murder and his best friend's arrest.
Film
Dead Ringers
Twin doctors sharing patients and lovers drift toward psychological horror in this unsettling thriller.
Film
WΔZ
Ritualistic murders carved with equations draw detectives into dark city streets hiding something inhuman.
Film
The Last Boy Scout
A private detective and an ex-footballer reluctantly team up to solve a stripper's murder in seedy LA.
Film
B. Monkey
A man falls for London's top criminal thief, where charm and danger prove inseparable.
Film
Three Way
A small-time schemer intercepts a kidnapping plot and tries to outsmart the real criminals — badly.
Film
Disturbing Behavior
A new student discovers his eerily perfect classmates are hiding something far more sinister underneath.
Film
Deadly Sweet
A 1960s London mystery blends blackmail, murder, and nightclub intrigue in stylish thriller fashion.
Series
Terror in Resonance
Two cryptic terrorists devastate Tokyo, leaving police scrambling to decode their chilling internet clues.
Series
The Escape Artist
A gifted barrister who wins the unwinnable faces a case that pushes law and justice into conflict.
Series
LOVED ONE
Forensic medicine becomes a lens for grief and love, examining what lingers after someone is suddenly gone.
Series
Dies Irae
A Nazi occult ritual in Berlin's final hours unleashes something that will resurface generations later.
Series
Psych
A fake psychic cons his way into police consulting work, blending comedy and sharp crime plotting.
Series
Beethoven Virus
Misfit musicians unite under a tyrannical conductor — ambition, rivalry, and unexpected heart collide.
Series
Shadows
A double-living taxi driver secretly works for a mobster, his family oblivious to who he really is.
Series
Minority Report
In a near future without Precrime, a haunted man and a precog race to prevent murders before they happen.
Game
Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo
A writer survives a canyon crash but insists his missing wife and daughter were with him in the car.
Game
The Suffering: Ties That Bind
A convicted man wages war on the demons — literal and internal — haunting a city's corrupted streets.
Game
Kane and Lynch: Dead Men
Two condemned criminals are freed, then hunted, in a relentless crime thriller dripping with betrayal.
Game
Fear The Timeloop
A sheriff trapped in a 15-minute death loop must uncover the truth before time runs out — again.
Game
Obscure: The Aftermath
High school survivors of a monster attack face a new outbreak — teen horror with genuine dread.
Game
Beyond: Two Souls
An interactive film about a woman with a supernatural entity entwined with her life across many years.
Game
Quarantine (1994)
A dystopian hovercar city ruled by corporate violence invites you to drive your way out or die trying.
Game
DTR: Retribution
A vice cop betrayed by his own department fights back hard in a corrupt, rain-soaked city.
Book
Iron cast
Two young illusionists run cons in a 1919 gangster's club — charm, crime, and high social stakes.
Book
The Treatment
A couple found imprisoned in their own home leads DI Caffery into London's most disturbing criminal territory.
Book
The straw men
Linked disappearances across Montana and LA converge on something missing — and deeply sinister.
Book
The 50/50 Killer
One detective, one day, two missing people and a killer — a ticking-clock procedural with real pressure.
Book
Shadows
An anthology of dark fiction spanning horror and mystery — unsettling voices for fans of the eerie and strange.
Book
Forever and five days
A true account of nursing-home murders driven by intimate evil — real crime as disturbing as any thriller.
Book
Midnight Flight
Teenagers sent to a brutal girls' reform school discover their captors are crueller than any street they fled.
Book
Wild Night
An heiress's disinherited cousin brings scandal and danger crashing back into her carefully ordered life.
Try The Last Boy Scout for sharp LA crime with dark energy, or Dead Ringers for slow-burn psychological unease. On TV, The Escape Artist delivers the same tension between law, justice, and dangerous charm.
Yes — Kane and Lynch: Dead Men captures grimy crime-thriller energy, while Beyond: Two Souls plays like an interactive film with a layered, character-driven mystery at its heart.
Mo Hayder's The Treatment brings brutal London crime fiction, and Iron Cast offers 1920s criminal glamour with sharp style. Both suit fans who like atmosphere as much as plot.