Sentences with phrase «low budget horror films»

If you had to pull two in film right now, low budget horror films and Philip Seymour Hoffman could be pretty accurate.

Given the currency of contained horror films and psychological thrillers — «low budget horror films set within a single location» appears on every «Screenwriters Wanted» list in Hollywood — it it's no surprise that the above breakdown sounds so familiar.

A film crew moves to an abandoned psychiatric hospital with a shadowy past to shoot a low budget horror film.

This decision gave the film a grander feel for the viewer so it didn't seem like a low budget horror film.

The performances were all fine, and it was cool to see Kris Lemche from My Little Eye in another low budget horror film.

Not exact matches

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

Now, if you will, imagine yourself on the set of a low budget independently funded horror film and this is your first scene.

As a low - budget horror comedy outing, Severance is an impressive film that is original and lots of fun from start to finish.

This peculiar low - budget children's musical fantasy was directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis, who was best known for horror films like Blood Feast.

I thoroughly enjoyed this film and it's a fine piece of low - budget horror cinema that is guaranteed to be a memorable viewing experience.

This low budget but highly - effective horror film is exactly the kind of movie that legendary Hollywood D - movie producer Roger Corman would have knocked out in the»70s: plenty of writhing female limbs, no surprises.

Even though the film feels low budget, this still a fairly well done Sci Fi horror flick, though lacking in plot, it makes up for it in thrills.

Truth: Blumhouse Productions is the boutique horror studio whose high - volume, low - budget business model has fostered a culture of creative risk that actually pays off, and has given rise to films as vital as Whiplash and Get Out.

This is what makes the film better than other low budget horror's because of Johnson's brilliant makeup wizardry and freaky imagination with his monsters.

This low - budget horror film produced by Roger Corman and directed by Coppola before he went on the become a famous filmmaker has evident shades of Psycho but is not even frightening, with a lame, uneven plot in which nothing much really happens.

Roger Corman's movies would demonstrate the sheer trashy power of horror, and Hitchcock tapped into this B - picture aesthetic with his own low - budget masterpiece, Psycho, which popularised the psychological horror film, taking the genre away from its supernatural roots — although William Friedkin's masterpiece, The Exorcist, took it right back there again.

Found - footage horror thriller Unfriended was a welcome surprise back in 2015, when its commitment to a simple but ingenious premise — everything that happens in the film does so on the laptop screen of doomed teenager Shelley Hennig — managed to overcome a lot of the typical low - budget horror movie flaws.

John Carpenter's solo directorial debut reworks Howard Hawks» Rio Bravo as a low budget gang flick by way of a horror film.

Baghead Jay and Mark Duplass, the celebrated and derided members of the low - budget film movement known as mumblecore, marry their talky relationship fare («The Puffy Chair») with a horror story.

Universal's low - budget horror film «The Purge: Anarchy» finished fourth with $ 9.8 million.

I am not exactly sure why schlock horror director William Castle has been such a source for remaking films for today's audiences, except the idea that his films might be better if they weren't so low - budget.

This film is a must for any horror film aficionado, as well as any amateurs hoping to make it big from a low budget film.

«Polaroid,» a low - budget horror film from Bob Weinstein's Dimension Films genre division, is listed in court filings among The Weinstein Company's assets, but it isn't listed as an «unreleased picture.»

Teenager Max (Taissa Farmiga, «Anna») happens to be the daughter of the late scream queen Amanda Cartwright (Malin Akerman, «Rock of Ages»), who's best remembered for her role in the seminal low - budget 1980's horror film «Camp Bloodbath.»

Producer Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions has made a career out of taking low - to - moderately budgeted horror films like Paranormal Activity, Sinister and Oculus and turning them into profitable box office offerings - often with promise of sequel and / or franchise opportunities.

Most horror films are merely exercises in ritualized surprise, but a low - budget film titled «The Blair Witch Project» shook up Sundance Film Festival audiences with its gathering sense of menace.

Other films meriting mention include Robert Altman «s final picture, «A Prairie Home Companion ``; Mel Gibson «s Aztec - thriller, «Apocalypto ``; Tom Tykwer «s kinetic (perhaps too kinetic) «Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ``; John Cameron Mitchell «s low - budget erotica,» Shortbus ``; Richard Linklater's live - action rotoscoped Philip K. Dick adaptation «A Scanner Darkly ``; Spike Lee «s biggest commercial hit, the entertaining heist film, «Inside Man ``; Michael Mann «s flawed, but interesting «Miami Vice ``; Bryan Singer «s unfairly maligned «Superman Returns; «Nicole Holofcener «s wryly observational «Friends with Money,» the over-estimated, but enlivening horror «The Descent,» and «13 Tzameti.»

In 2015, he began an upswing with the fun mockumentary horror film «The Visit,» made on a low budget with the reigning champ of small profitable thrillers, producer Jason Blum.

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.

Last week, we let you know that Ethan Hawke had signed on to star in a low - budget, found footage horror film from director Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose).

Blumhouse has become one of the most profitable film studios out there, regularly releasing low - budget horror films that dominate the box office.

In a year made of horror films that have delivered more unintentional laughter than genuine scares, As Above, So Below fits the bill as exactly the kind of low - budget, lower - quality flick you'd see released on the big screen for the Labor Day weekend.

The 2012 Lionsgate horror film The Posession was a box office success, grossing nearly $ 80 million at the worldwide box office on a low budget.

Zombie master George Romero directed this tale of a film crew who are shooting a low - budget horror movie when a zombie outbreak occurs.

This picture was made with the goal of looking cheap and satirizing the horror and sci - fi genres, the media, corporate sponsorships, and the low budget film industry.

Some authors have pointed to a distinct house style in the 1930s (see Thomas Schatz and Paul Grainge), when MGM's Leo the Lion symbolized the opulence and grandeur of musicals (The Brodway Melody of 1938) and epics (Mutiny on the Bounty); Warner Bros. distributed «gritty,» social dramas and gangster films; Universal produced low - budget horror films (Dracula); and Paramount's distinctly «European» flavor, employing emigree directors such as Josef von Sternberg and Ernst Lubitsch.

After debuting with The Roostand Trigger Man, both low - budget DIY art - horror films that gained rave reviews on the indie festival circuit but were never afforded a wide release, he was entrusted with the large (ish) budget of Cabin Fever 2.

The low - budget horror film took first place and more...

For one, it saw the release of Night of the Living Dead, George Romero's low - budget, immensely influential zombie thriller, which essentially birthed an entire subgenre of horror films.

Baker protégé Rob Bottin's work on that film was arguably equal to that of his mentor (who left Bottin in charge of The Howling «s effects after he exited the project for the bigger - budget American Werewolf), and yet the Academy couldn't even be bothered to nominate him (or, perhaps more likely, its members simply couldn't bring themselves to watch a low - budget horror movie not put out by a major studio).

Wild Eye Releasing has debuted an official trailer for a low budget action horror film called Demon Hunter, formerly known as Taryn Barker: Demon Hunter.

Low - budget horror fare like Blumhouse's Truth Or Dare, for example: Starring Pretty Little Liars» Lucy Hale and Teen Wolf's Tyler Posey, the film looks like an appealingly unserious blend of the Final Destination and Ouija movies with a dash of It Follows, as a gang of teenagers starts dying one by one in diabolically clever ways after playing «a seemingly harmless game of truth or dare.»

, not to mention a host of low - budget films falling into the slasher sub-genre (sequels to Friday the 13th and Halloween, The Prowler, The Burning, et al) that came to define the decade in horror.

Swanberg's inclusion is a notable one, as the film has been referred to as helping to establish a new (and somewhat on the nose) subgenre that mixes the low budget and improvisational style of mumblecore with the horror setting («mumblegore» if you will), and the conversations here take on a casual, loosely scripted feel that would not seem out of place in a film like Computer Chess or The Puffy Chair.

ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction — This low - budget horror film takes a scattershot approach to social commentary that tends toward the funny and entertaining, if not particularly mind - blowing side.

Though modern audiences might notice that The Texas Chain Saw Massacre isn't as polished as its later imitators, that low - budget aesthetic adds to the film's grindhouse appeal and is part of why it's considered one of the most influential horror films ever made.

Eighteen years after the soul - crushing realities of self - funded film production were exposed in Chris Smith's landmark documentary American Movie, director Gary Doust puts a warm but no less anxiety - inducing Australian spin on the tribulations faced by the next - to - no - budget auteur in Horror Movie: A Low Budget Nighbudget auteur in Horror Movie: A Low Budget NighBudget Nightmare.

Horror films, specifically found - footage films, have excelled at their low budget qualities but this one just feels like it is trying to be Hollywood and isn't.

The low - budget horror film It Comes at Night finished in sixth - place bringing in $ 6 million which, while still a profit above the film's less - than $ 5 million production budget was still shy of the expected $ 10 million opening.

Ridley Scott and Scott Free London have put the pen to paper in a deal with Focus Features International and Orchard Media with the aim to produce low - budget horror films.