Sentences with phrase «about the horror genre»

Not only do they have one hell of a director in place, but they've got one who knows a thing or two about the horror genre and considering he'll be responsible for some of horror's most classic characters, I'd say that's a pretty good thing.

BL: My favorite thing about the horror genre is doing conventions and meeting the fans.

This week's roundtable discussion is about the horror genre in games and films.

It's arguably the most important thing about the horror genre, but I'll wait until Thursday to get into details.

Not exact matches

It's hard to consider fears about the world as the motivation for the rise in the horror genre when» from Mary Shelley's The Last Man to Max Brooks» World War Z, and from Richard Jefferies» After London to Cormac McCarthy's The Road» post-apocalyptic subject matter is hardly a creation or expression confined to this century.

So, what does the most recent trend in the horror genre — demon possession — tell us about today's social anxieties?

, which deconstructed horror tropes and told a profound story about racial appropriation, to the point where debates are still raging over which genre it best represents.

When most people think about horror movies these days they think about the traditional slasher film or the recent (and grotesquely named) «torture porn» genre.

I am not really selective about reading but fantasy and horror genres of books, doesn't hold a great appeal to me.

There's almost excessively little within Cabin Fever that won't seem all - too - familiar to horror fans, as scripters Randy Pearlstein and Roth have infused the narrative with just about every convention and cliche of the genre imaginable - and yet it's clear that the movie, in its early stages, fares much better than one might've anticipated.

It melds the horror and documentary genres together to talk about a weird and haunting topic.

CRUST is a new indie horror film starring some of the genres favorite stars, and to be honest, not much is know about the project at...

THE CONJURING The director James Wan («Saw,» «Insidious») continues to scramble up the genre ladder with a classically paced horror film about a husband - and - wife team of paranormal investigators (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) who meet a particular challenge at a Connecticut farmhouse.

It's the kind of movie Guillermo Del Toro would have made back in his Devil's Backbone days; and it certainly doesn't hurt that it knows enough about its genre to make a knowing, haunted reference to Robert Wise's Curse of the Cat People in not just a tree - knot mailbox, but also the depth of its parent / child relationship, all of disappointment and horror.

After I realized how this movie massages nuanced social commentary (about fetishization of the african american body, caucasian self - image, etc.) into a film «genre» that does not neatly fit into any particular category (it's neither thriller, nor horror, nor comedy, but a taste of all three), I was absolutely impressed.

Taylor - Joy claims never to have even seen a scary movie before The Witch, but as I chat to her about my decreasing faith in Hollywood horror, she's surprisingly well aware of the formulaic approach to the genre that seems to have been adopted by so many.

The Strangers In about as simple a horror film premise as a high school screenwriting student might come up with, this night out with Scott Speedman («Felicity,» «Anamorph») and Liv Tyler («The Lord of the Rings» series) hits the standard horror buttons to ensure a spectrum of shocks so that inveterate genre fans won't won't be demanding their money back.

A decade or so ago, it would have been hard to talk with any conviction about Irish horror as a genre.

Okay, so to be fair... he invented the genre, changed the way horror films are made, blah blah blah — I'm not going to reiterate what's already been said a thousand times about Romero's body of work.

It is worthy of the title for so many reasons, because Peele invented a genre of horror we've never seen, because it was made for $ 5 million and make $ 175 million at the box office, because it is truth about the black experience in America, not just among the white supremacists, but really everywhere you go.

AVC: One of the interesting things about horror as a genre is that it's possible to work on a micro-budget and still make an effective film.

I knew there were some scripts around about it, but I knew that they were horror films, and I thought it was impossible to do a story about this as a horror genre film.

As we head towards the 2017 Academy Awards, many horror fans (myself included) are insisting that John Goodman be nominated for 10 Cloverfield Lane, and all the Oscar chatter got us thinking about other great genre performances that probably should have, at the very least, nabbed nominations.

The thing that I love about horror is how effortlessly it can be injected into other genres.

The horror genre is probably the most frequent producer of remakes, as most of them tend to adhere to one of about a half dozen basic formulas, so why not add a brand name to the mix if you're going to be taking on such a similar story anyway.

It's one of those films, like «The Babadook,» that will transcend horror fans and become one of the most talked - about films of 2016 in any genre.

We are stoked about the upcoming The Evil Within, a new survival horror game by the master of the genre, Shinji Mikami.

Above: a 1983 interview with Michael Mann about filmmaking and The Keep, from The Electric Theatre Show: «Mann talked about the power of dreams, and moving The Keep story out of the horror genre of the novel and into a dream reality.

One uniting theme we've heard in conversations about cult horror hit «The Babadook» is what a shame it is that genre fare is so resolutely ignored by the Academy.

What you more often get from movies is something that could be called «science fiction - flavored product» — a work that has a few of the superficial trappings of the genre, such as futuristic production design and somewhat satirical or sociological observations about humanity, but that eventually abandons its pretense for fear of alienating or boring the audience and gives way to more conventional action or horror trappings, forgetting about whatever made it seem unusual to begin with.

«I think it makes a special kind of sense for horror games where immersion is more important than perhaps in other genres... I think we should most definitely start thinking about what we could do with that kind of technology in the future.

That's why I've gone from dystopian future to corsets, and I'm excited about doing a horror and having tried a different genre.

Media Mikes had a chance to chat with Thomas about his work and his love for the horror genre.

When a director that I like is trying to cover all the genre bases, the one I'm usually most excited about and interested in seeing what they can do with, is absolutely horror.

These are articles about movies which have been tagged with the genre «Horror and Thriller», but excluding posts on Don \» t Breathe.

As the postscript to a successful year for the Australian film industry — 2007 has seen the release of Clubland, Noise, The Home Song Stories and IF Best Feature Film award winner The Jammed — and hot on the heels of horror film Rogue comes Gabriel, a moody and visually impressive genre piece about the battle for the souls of those committed to purgatory.

As the Steven Spielberg - produced, Joe Dante - directed movie nears its 30th anniversary, its star Zach Galligan has returned to the big screen and the horror genre, and he sits down with ETonline for an extended, exclusive interview about all things Gremlins, from working with the stunning Phoebe Cates and those unpredictable animatronic creatures to the controversy surrounding the film's MPAA rating and the unexpected celebrities who have since outed themselves as fans!

What works best about Insidious, which is about as adoring a love letter to Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist as a good film can get, is how it takes horror flick concepts both old and relatively new and mixes them up, blender - style, and the result is a 95 - minute fun - time ass - kicker that has as much love for the genre as it does in making you pounce out of your seat.

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.

Aronofsky puts to work the tools of the horror genre (the haunted house - isolated in a forest, bumps in the night, body horror, unwelcome strangers, horror as a manifestation of marital problems) to construct a Trojan Horse from which springs a complex thesis about the commodity and vanity of celebrity, mass societal behaviour, procreation, religion and more.

In the video above, Simon, whose a fan of the genre, talks about the allure of horror films.

My complaint with the horror genre in the years since Scream has been about how little it has changed.

69) «Rings» Smart Rating: 15.43 Release date: Friday, February 3, 2017 Genre: Horror, thriller Starring: Matilda Lutz, Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki Description: A young woman (Matilda Lutz) becomes worried about

Here you will find all of the latest news and updates about the annual haunt event Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios theme parks in Orlando, Florida and Hollywood, California, featuring new mazes and attractions every year inspired by many of your favorite horror movies and genre icons, including Michael Myers of «Halloween», Leatherface of «The Texas Chain Saw Massacre», and manyHorror Nights at Universal Studios theme parks in Orlando, Florida and Hollywood, California, featuring new mazes and attractions every year inspired by many of your favorite horror movies and genre icons, including Michael Myers of «Halloween», Leatherface of «The Texas Chain Saw Massacre», and manyhorror movies and genre icons, including Michael Myers of «Halloween», Leatherface of «The Texas Chain Saw Massacre», and many more!

This little gem features American treasure and all - around genre cinema maestro John Carpenter discussing his 1988 sci - fi / action / horror cult classic They Live, going into detail about such things as the conceptual ideas behind the movie's premise, his casting of professional wrestler «Rowdy» Roddy Piper as the protagonist, and the rebellious inspiration for the film's infamous fight scene between Piper and the great Keith David.

However, I also didn't sit through a lot of the worst titles from the horror lineup this year so I guess I really don't have much to complain about in terms of the genre.

Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Joe Hill (a.k.a Stephen King's son), «Horns» is a unique horror flick about the devil inside us all, and the film, adapted by one of the genre's true prankster geniuses (Alexandre Aja of «Piranha 3D» infamy), carries forth the same nutzo spirit of the book, which is equal parts love story, murder mystery, and supernatural, metaphysical nightmare.

The details: Trick» R Treat's Michael Dougherty makes his return to the horror genre with Krampus, about a Yuletide demon given life by a child's lack of holiday spirit.

2 «The Shape of Water»: Master cinematic chef Guillermo del Toro whips up a Michelin star charcuterie plate of genres — horror, romance, drama and political commentary — for one gorgeous fable about the movies of yore and society's «outcasts.»

If you've never touched the horror genre, or any film about dolls coming to life, watch it alone.