Sentences with phrase «american slasher»

Granted, it's probably like pointing out that most American slasher films follow the same formula, but still, what's the point in remaking a movie we've already seen?

OK, the plot sounds like a standard American slasher flick, but «standard American slasher flicks» stole most of their tricks from the Italians.

If you grew up as a horror film fanatic in the 1980s, you may have run through most of the American slasher flicks and occult thrillers — and then you rented Lucio Fulci's 1980 cult favourite Zombie, which hopefully led you to all sorts of gore - laden apocalyptic mayhem from Italian splatter - slingers like Umberto Lenzi (Nightmare -LRB-...)

What it does serve to do, though, is remind of how interesting a «Bollywood» was Italy during this period: recycling the American western and American slasher side - by - side, sometimes within the same film, yielded a product that was all its own.

Being dull as dishwater is only the first crime of Ulli Lommel's The Boogeyman (1980), a pass by a Fassbinder protégé at American slasher flicks of the late»70s (Halloween especially, but also The Amityville Horror, Carrie, and The Omen) that produces predictably pretentious results without the pang of brilliance accompanying many of the films of Lommel's betters.

Psychologically, the American slasher villain is something less than his Italian forebears.

I think even genre fans (the best group of film fans out there) have particular tendencies to favour some styles over others, be it American slashers, Ozploitation or German expressionism.

Bohusz admits that he's largely unfamiliar with the Italian horror films that inspired the American slashers, a fact that has earned him condemnation among some hardcore horror fans.

Not exact matches

Child's Play 3 (also known as Child's Play 3: Look Who's Stalking) is a 1991 American supernatural slasher film.

American Psycho however, is anything but a slasher film.

Cursed is a terrible waste of makeup - effects master Rick Baker's return to the game (he's the guy behind the groundbreaking work in An American Werewolf in London); a waste of the menstruation metaphor suggested by its title; and a waste of the reunion of the creative team behind the gory, smart, post-modern slasher flick Scream (Craven and writer Kevin Williamson).

Blending body horror with the slasher genre, American Mary has cult status written all over it.

We, the audience, however, have seen an opening sequence in which another young African - American, walking in a white suburb, is felled by a masked man dressed like many a cinematic slasher.

Was a time that Argento redefined the slasher flick in the same way that countryman Sergio Leone redefined the Western; that Argento (like American rival and doppelgänger Brian DePalma) was appropriating bits and pieces from Alfred Hitchcock and rejuvenating them in films exhilarating for their willingness to do absolutely anything to anyone at any moment.

Tarantino's favorite record crates to pull from are 1960s - 70s Italian giallo (slasher) films, blaxploitation flicks, American b - movies and spaghetti Westerns.

Despite use of a Navaho consultant and some American Indian actors in subsidiary roles, this employment of coyote / tricker figure as a slasher nasty seems rather tasteless.