Sentences with phrase «state is a horror film»

Since Smith's Red State is a horror film and Salvation Boulevard is a comedy, the two films couldn't be more different.

Not exact matches

Some of this ground - breaking horror film's most famous scenes were filmed in Seneca State Park, Maryland — a totally not creepy place to take a run or go hiking.

Either because they were being compared to some of the classics in the horror / comedy genre or, as the consensus on here states, there's not a good enough of either comedy or horror in the film.

A few minutes into director Steven Spielberg's Lincoln, immediately following the notoriously awkward scene between the 16th president of the United States and a pair of African - American Union soldiers, is a brief moment of horror expressionism that greatly informs the remainder of the film.

For example, prior to digital distribution, horror films from filmmakers working in countries like Japan, Spain, and Italy were traded on VHS and DVDs by American fans of the genre, including movies that never saw an official theatrical release in the United States.

I knew Smith, a filmmaker most known for his juvenile comedies, was putting the finishing touches on his first horror film, Red State, and I was giddy to find out more about that.

At first I questioned the decision to release the French horror flick, High Tension, in the United States dubbed instead of subtitled, as most foreign language films released here would be.

Here's two more movie posters for the upcoming horror film «Red State» written and directed by Kevin Smith (Clerks) and starring John Goodman (Thicker, Pope Joan), Kyle Gallner (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Jennifer's Body), Michael Angarano (Noah's Ark: The New Beginning, The Forbidden Kingdom), Stephen Root (Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, True Blood), Kevin Pollak (Cop Out, Middle Men), Melissa Leo (Welcome to the Rileys), Ralph Garman (Family Guy) and Anna Gunn (Breaking Bad).

This new film is incredibly stylized (some stated this was a bad thing a la Platinum Dunes» horror duds) however I think it created atmosphere and a character out of the story itself.

The title of DuVernay's extraordinary and galvanizing film refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution — «Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States...» The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass incarceration and the prison industry in the U.S. is laid out by DuVernay with bracing lucidity.

Crucially, it's not a product of the United States or South Korea, two cultures married to a specific kind of morally relativistic nightmare that have produced films like this for years, but of an Israeli movie industry that marks this as only their second «horror» release.

The film is a sly feature that combines horror, satire and sociology as it jabs at race relations and perceptions about black people in the United States.

Hot off the heels of news that Kevin Smith's upcoming horror film Red State was recently accepted into the Sundance Film Festival, new images have been revealed from the film and a new poster has been unveiled by Smith himself.

For all the teeth gnashing about the state of horror films being in a decline, there's no shortage of smaller independent features that push the genre forward.

And the accolades for the films seeming comedic brilliance didn't stop there with Michael J. Hein, Director of The New York City City Horror Film Festival, stating «Postal is the funniest film of the year... hands down!»

Very much a self - portrait of Western culture delivered through the envisioned landscapes of it's imagined destruction, McWreath's film perpetually wavers in a state between horror and beauty, science and fantasy, suspense and relief.