Sentences with phrase «cronenberg-esque body horror»

The infamous series Hellraiser is the perfect archetypal example of the body horror genre, and it has set the standard for the entire future of the subgenre.

revitalized the horror world when it came to unprecedented levels of violence and terror, providing a continuation of Lynch's body horror and combining it with the harsh reality of torture and apathy.

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The younger Cronenberg has made a derivative exercise in body horror that plays as little more than low rent Cronenberg pastiche.

Critics Consensus: Antiviral is well - crafted body horror, packed with interesting — if not entirely subtle — ideas.

There are some gruesomely well - orchestrated scenes of body horror (one particular dissection is nightmarishly staged) and Garland's knack for gonzo imagery ensures that many scenes in the film will make a lasting impression.

Ex Machina writer - director Alex Garland's unnerving sci - fi concoction combines gut - wrenching body horror and trippy science to compelling effect

Critic Consensus: Antiviral is well - crafted body horror, packed with interesting — if not entirely subtle — ideas.

After some inspired nonsense (surprise cameos; a strong team - building sequence; an ace comic set piece involving a Fast & Furious — style heist plan; a dada bit of healing - factor body horror / humor), Cable and Deadpool find the kid and, to prevent his own first kill, slaughter dude after dude themselves.

It stays far away from mainstream tradition of horror and instead goes for the kind of body horror that was obviously inspired by Brandon Cronenberg's father, David Cronenberg.

Simultaneously trying to be science fiction, satire, body horror and a psychological thriller, ANTIVIRAL has a lot of moving parts that don't always mesh together; its wickedly interesting ideas and an excess of style help smooth over the many rough patches, though.

Her feature - length debut, 2013's «It Felt Like Love,» focused on the bumpy trajectory of an introverted teenage woman exploring her urges with dangerous results; with the markedly similar «Beach Rats,» Hittman brings the same tropes to the plight of a young man in a film that has the precision of a great short story and the uneasiness of body horror.

The body horror elements don't fully feel integrated as well.

Drawing on mythology and body horror, Annihilation is an intelligent film that asks big questions and refuses to provide easy answers.

This is a film about a horrific act of violence that eventually results in more bloodshed and gruesomely realistic, Cronenbergian body horror than anything I've seen in a long time.

The film, which clearly shows David Cronenberg's love for body horror running through the family, revolves around a man (Caleb Landry - Jones) working for a company who inject paying customers with the same viruses as famous celebrities.

With its combination of psychological and body horror, The Brood laid the groundwork for many of the director's films to come, but it stands on its own as a personal, singularly scary vision.

Trank plays the transformation of the Fantastic Four from plucky kids to mutants blessed but mostly cursed with superhuman powers from another dimension as Cronenbergian body horror.

Bloody Disgusting is excited to share the fantastic first trailer for the body horror indie that will surely get under your skin.

Following a spot of genuinely unnerving body horror courtesy of Teller's infinitely extendable arms, the second half is nothing more than a sub - «Avengers» roundelay of superhero tics: naff catchphrases, brain - grinding exposition and lifeless punch - ups, the talented cast totally overwhelmed by the duff CG special effects.

This edition of Now Stream This brings you a highly underrated and very recent Todd Haynes movie, a new Netflix horror flick, a gloriously over-the-top action movie, a cynical noir loaded with snappy dialogue, the first Hannibal Lecter film, a romantic horror movie, a Steven Spielberg adventure, a cringe - inducing social media comedy, and some good old fashioned body horror.

Body horror film The Void actually had a raft of brilliant posters (that proved better than the actual film) but we're big fans of this deceptively simplistic one, not least because it's reminiscent of the iconic artwork for Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.

This is a persistent problem throughout the film, and yet, it still got its hooks in me thanks to a sure, persistent unpredictability, not to mention some more unpleasant divergences into David Cronenberg-esque body horror.

It wouldn't be a Chan - wook Park joint without some deliciously squirmable grotesqueries — de-phalanged hands, brutal spankings, etc. — but the body horror is appropriately blanched by colorful depictions of graphic sexuality.

The younger Cronenberg is clearly following in his father's footsteps here, delivering a nasty, queasy film loaded with social commentary and body horror.

It ranks with The Thing and Alien as one of the best sci - fi / body horror mashups of all time.

The world that Garland has created here, constantly defamiliarised by impossible mutations, is a surreal place, natural seeming yet painted and sculpted with grotesque Dalí-esque flourishes and the odd flash of body horror.

A coming - of - age tale conveyed with deftly handled emotional complexity and chilling thematic subtext, Raw is above all else a gut twisting work of classic body horror.

There's some business about alternate dimensions (or, more precisely, alternate universes), some Alien - style body horror, bits of metal and flesh that take on lives of their own, even the occasional hint of time travel.

«Get Out» directed by Jordan Peele: For white viewers, this debut feature from «Key & Peele» star Jordan Peele offers a glimpse at how the other half lives; for everyone else, it's more of a documentary in body horror movie drag.

If you're a fan of bonkers body horror and demented humor, then Tusk just might be a short but potently nasty little treat for you.

Featuring Howard Shore's hair - raising debut film score, this deeply personal take on the trials of parenthood and the trauma of divorce — which Cronenberg described as his version of Kramer vs. Kramer — establishes the mix of body horror and psychological terror that would soon become the director's trademark.

There were rumors that Trank was hoping to make PG - 13, summer - friendly body horror, and there are vestigial traces of that conception; it would have been better for the film to have gone all the way, for at least then the bleakness of tone would have felt like it had some actual purpose.

Once Carpenter lets loose completely, there are moments of body horror that rival the tearing flesh of The Thing.

Aronofsky's film slips into body horror more than once — indeed, its quite Cronenbergian at times.

By far the most evocative of these are Reed's stretched - out limbs — a nightmarish bit of body horror.

The master of the specific subgenre called body horror and the man who put out such classics as Dead Ringers and Videodrome, the Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg seemingly stepped out of his (dis) comfort zone and delivered one of the best movies of the first decade of this century when he made the film cleverly and multilayeredly called A History of Violence.

And when the subject is body horror, I figure women always have more to lose.

Jen and Sylvia Soska «s remake of David Cronenberg's 1977 body horror classic Rabid is set to begin shooting in early 2018.

David Cronenberg's 1977 body horror classic Rabid is receiving a modern remake from the twisted sisters directing duo Jen and Sylvia Soska, which is to start...

Halloween's John Carpenter fought hard to make his somber, disgusting masterpiece, an elegant combination of the director's synth - scored minimalism and a maximalist expression of special - effects body horror (creatures designed by Rob Bottin).

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

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It is a film with interesting, grand ideas and some of the most stunning manifestations of David Cronenbergian body horror that Ive seen.

Another highly anticipated film premiering at Toronto International Film Festival is Brandon Cronenberg's body horror film Antiviral.

Sure Singer's touch of character drama and Cronenberg-esque body horror for the mutant powers is missed, but Ratner clearly took the gravity of the movie's events seriously.

The introduction of a mysterious woman (Elizabeth Debicki, always with inappropriately dazzling hair in space) is one of the few strong suits, combining the suspense of this confusing crisis with wince - inducing grotesqueness, which reminisces of the body horror of Tetsuo: The Iron Man or David Cronenberg's eXistenZ.

Looks like a good ol fashion body horror flick.

Brandon Cronenberg has been extremely quiet in regards to his upcoming body horror film Antiviral.

Part body horror, part survivalist thriller, this stands out for its stellar all - female lead cast, who bring a feminine edge to the traditionally male sci - fi genre.