Sentences with phrase «british horror films»

Carol Morley's wonderfully eccentric film The Falling (4 *, 16, 102 mins) is set in 1969 and has echoes of the great British horror films of that period.

Peeping Tom is a 1960 British horror film whose premise wouldn't make any fan of modern horror bat an eye.

You can't make a British horror film these days without straining to articulate class anxieties, and Ciaran Foy's Citadel is no exception.

Unhallowed Ground is a brand new British horror film starring Morgane Polanski, Poppy Drayton, Rachel Petladwala, Thomas Law, Marcus Griffiths, Paul Raschid (who also wrote the original screenplay), Will Thorp and Ameet Chana.

The Psychopath (Kino Lorber) is a 1966 British horror film that deals with a series of horrible murders in London.

Just 2.8 days after 28 Days Later was named «best British horror film of the 21st century» in a wide - ranging survey of horror filmmakers, critics and fans, the new trailer for 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Dredd screenwriter Alex Garland's Ex Machina has arrived.

13 Ghosts — Low - budget British horror film from 1960 directed by William Castle.

Not exact matches

Series Overview These films are based on the book The Hellbound Heart by British horror writer Clive Barker.

The best purely British horror / science - fiction film in decades.

Combining newsreel footage with re-enactment's, the film captures the horror of the hostages — Americans Terry Anderson, Thomas Sutherland, Frank Reed; British citizens John McCarthy, Terry Waite; and Irish teacher Brian Keenan — as they are held by the Muslim fundamentalist group, the Hezbollah.

Named for the frozen treat that appears in each film, the two comedies feature British actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost combining comedy with elements of the horror and action film genres.

Roeg's film, originally adapted from a short story by Daphne du Maurier and considered one of 1970s British horror's most precious treasures, sees Sutherland (John Baxter) and Christie (his wife Laura) transplanted to Venice in the wake of their daughter's death.

A meek British sound engineer called, improbably, Gilderoy is hired by an Italian film company to deploy his wizardry in maxing up the horror effects on the soundtrack of a cheap flick about occultism.

On Michael Reeves and British gothic film [New York Times] Credited with directing three déclassé horror movies, dead from an overdose of barbiturates at 25, the British filmmaker Michael Reeves (1943 - 1969) is a quintessential cult figure.

Zombie's «Werewolf Women of the SS» tries too hard to be funny (of course, a last - minute cameo by Nic Cage as Fu Manchu certainly helps) and Roth's «Thanksgiving» (a play on seasonal horror films) has its moments, but it's Wright's trailer for the British horror flick «Don't» that proves the most effective.

Available same day as select theaters nationwide is Ghost Stories (2017, not rated), a British anthology horror film with a streak of dark humor co-starring Martin Freeman.

This scary picture, a remake of a 2003 Korean horror film by British brothers Charles and Thomas Guard, is three movies in one: a psychological thriller, a murder mystery and a zombie flick.

The film was the product of a partnership between British studio Anglo - Amalgamated (the same studio that brought us PEEPING TOM and Roger Corman's THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH) and US genre machine American International Pictures, their second after the successful Michael Gough vehicle HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM.

Fans of well - acted period dramas and good gothic mysteries should consider tuning in but the film will be of particular interest to anyone curious about the origins of modern British horror cinema.

Features both the American and British versions of the film, commentary track by creator / actor Richard O'Brien and co-star Patricia Quinn, an audience participation picture - in - picture track with a live version of the show and a «callback» subtitle track that cues viewers to classic audience responses, featurettes, two deleted musical scenes, outtakes, alternate opening and ending, and other celebrations of the culture of «Rocky Horror.»

'' I was honoured to be brought on board as the British Sign Language / Deaf culture consultant for Dawn of the Deaf, it meant I could indulge in my love for horror films whilst consulting and pointing out to Rob the many filmic references in his film!

The 54 - year - old director left a successful run in British theater and television to tackle a striking range of genres on film: horror, romantic comedy, family drama, thriller, dark comedy, among others.

British sci - fi horror film Monsters is being turned into a television series by Vertigo Films for UK broadcaster Channel 4, Deadline reports...

Today, we have a new clip from British - Indian supernatural horror film The other Side of the Door, which is written and directed by indie filmmaker Johannes...

In three weeks... Look out for superior British horror thriller Kill List... Terrence Malick's dazzling keynote film Days Of Heaven is reissued...

Scarlett Johansson did a wonderful job of voicing Samantha, and was mesmerisingly good as a flesh - eating alien in Jonathan Glazer's eerily atmospheric low - budget British horror movie Under the Skin, one of my stand - out films of 2014.

Winner: British actor Daniel Kaluuya has won the BAFTA Rising star award for his stellar performance in critically acclaimed horror film Get Out

We first heard about director Charlie Steeds» Cannibal Farm last year, a new British slasher horror film inspired by The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

The film falls into the subgenre Folk Horror, a largely British off - shoot of the horror genre exploring the urban inhabitant's unease about the countryside, where spiteful and superstitious bumpkins are still in the thrall of demonic fHorror, a largely British off - shoot of the horror genre exploring the urban inhabitant's unease about the countryside, where spiteful and superstitious bumpkins are still in the thrall of demonic fhorror genre exploring the urban inhabitant's unease about the countryside, where spiteful and superstitious bumpkins are still in the thrall of demonic forces.

Sarah Snook is Marian Marriott, Sarah's perhaps obsessively loyal niece and secretary, whose son Henry (Finn Scicluna - O'Prey) acts as the spooky, singing British tyke we can expect in any period horror film these days.

The film is a gothic horror story, set in an imposing 19th - century British mansion plagued by ghosts.

This remake of a 1989 British TV horror film actually has wonderful production design... the Gothic mansion is a sight to behold.

Produced by Hammer Films, that glorious British concern specializing in horror films that emphasize terror over gore, it is an elegant little flick, both creepy and atmospheric, that tells its tale of hubris and good intentions gone wrong with... Read More»

Adapting their British TV series into a film, Aardman Animations («Wallace and Gromit») has crafted a charming and delightful stop - animation film «Shaun the Sheep: The Movie,» a children's film that's pure joy — no trauma, no parents dying, no horror -LSB-...]

Ben Wheatley's Kill List is a dark and often gruesome film that has echoes of one of the best British horror movies ever made, The Wicker Man.

Based on the long - running British horror stage show created by English magician Andy Nyman, the film is about a psychologist and arch-skeptic named Professor Phillip Goodman who investigates three terrifying hauntings.

During an interview with New York radio station Hot 97, the revered actor questioned why British actor Daniel Kaluuya was cast as the lead character in the breakout horror film Get Out, which addresses racism in the U.S.; Jackson wondered why an African - American didn't get the role.

The official British Palme d'Or entry at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, Symptoms is a sophisticated modern gothic horror film exploring the themes of sexual repression and psychosis.

With their critically - acclaimed 28 Days Later, British writer Alex Garland and director Danny Boyle proved both that the zombie film was ripe for a new twist and that they could make a really good horror movie in their first try.

British actor Daniel Kaluuya has won the Bafta Rising star award for his stellar performance in critically acclaimed horror film Get Out.

American Honey emerged at the head of the pack at the British independent film awards, winning four and just edging British - Iranian horror Under the Shadow which took three.

The film is set in the Italian studios of a 70s horror film production and has been called «seriously weird and seriously good» by Bradshaw, who also said it marks Strickland's emergence as «a key British film - maker of his generation».

Thus we were graced with the 5 - hour Bollywood gangster - epic Gangs of Wasseypur, the Korean anime Dwae - ji - ui wang (The King of Pigs), the Chinese period film Dangerous Liaisons, and British horror - comedy Sightseers (well, Britain can seem strangely distant in the eyes of a Parisian).

The first film in Edgar Wright's «Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy,» a thematically linked series of three genre comedies about British masculinity, maturity and friendship, «Shaun of the Dead» announced Wright and co-writer and star Simon Pegg to an international audience with what might be the most balanced — and possibly the purely funniest — horror - comedy ever made.

In the 1970's, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film.

«The film is set in an illustrious British boarding school that becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site unleashing unspeakable horror.»

But it's the film side of things, often Amazon Prime Video's weak point, that really impresses this month, with the release not only of cracking British horror The Ritual and Kathryn Bigelow's powerful Detroit, but also the superb Oscar nominee The Florida Project.

Instead of a traditional horror piece, this Mummy is more of an adventure film, with our central trio — American adventurer Rick O'Connell (Brendan Fraser), British librarian Evelyn Carnarvon (Rachel Weisz), and her brother Jonathan (John Hannah)-- trying to unlock the secrets of a legendary lost burial site in 1930s Egypt.

Based on a script by former Emmerdale writer Paul Roundell, Bait is a gripping, brutal British horror that could easily have been missold as one of those «gritty» crime films that Danny Dyer and / or Terry Stone, but both Roundell and Brunt have an instinctive understanding of the horror genre (in this respect, it recalls Ben Wheatley's debut, Down Terrace).

In this edition of Now Stream This, we have a Stephen Hawking documentary, a scary - as - hell international horror movie, an influential classic, a surprisingly clever thriller, a gothic vampire film, a raunch comedy, an»80s action movie, a chilly British ghost story, and, believe it or not, Power Rangers.