Justin Chang of Variety wrote that the film was "a smoothly executed revenge thriller."

The movie is a revenge thriller within the tradition of Fargo and Oldboy.

Left for Dead is a revenge thriller set in a city called Hope, where a crime lord called Kincaid rules with an iron fist.

Into "Moods" (her passionate adult novel) and her female revenge thrillers, she put every alternative she had ever seen or imagined.

The stylish revenge thriller explodes when Sonny Chiba launches a one-man war against the mafia in a non-stop action thrill ride.

Butler won the lead in the 2010 rape and revenge thriller, I Spit on Your Grave, a remake of the 1978 cult film of the same title.

It can be read as a high-class revenge thriller, an ode to the futility of vengeance or almost anything in between.

Wan described the film as "a raw and gritty, 70s styled revenge thriller ... It's my arthouse movie with guns."

These include the 2009 revenge thriller The Butcher and the crime drama Charlie Valentine.

She will produce and star in "Descent," a rape revenge thriller.