Sentences with phrase «apocalypse genre»

Explaining how it all began, James said: «I'm a great fan of science fiction and the post apocalypse genre.

Developed by Undead Labs, State of Decay is fresh take on the zombie apocalypse genre, sort of.

When it comes the Zombie Apocalypse genre developers have very rarely ventured from their comfort zone, however in 2011 when Dead Island was released it accommodated a riveting open world, alongside unique zombie killing action, making it the perfect option for Dying Light's structure.

Final verdict: A fresh take on an exhausted apocalypse genre.

Not exact matches

The genre's enthusiasts and exegetes, whose fists I can already hear thumping away at the door, will say that theirs is a house of many mansions, with ample room for Tolkien's wan pastiche of Beowulf, Stephen King's Woodstock apocalypse in The Stand, and everything in between, including White's peculiar take on Britain.

While the subject of the Apocalypse has primarily been saturated by the horror genre, the romantic dramedy stands out as it instead features genuine glimpses into people's reactions to natural disaster.

Unlike many films dealing with the pending Apocalypse, which are often told in the horror genre with the visual horrors of the end of days, «Seeking a Friend for the End of the World» rightfully took a different perspective by focusing on people's natural reactions.

Indeed, it is a uniquely dreamlike, lushly romantic, highly erotic and prototypically Coppolaesque version of the story - a movie that does for the vampire genre what «The Godfather» did for the gangster saga, and what «Apocalypse Now» did for the war movie: raises it to the level of grand opera.

A hilarious and occasionally heartbreaking tale of lost youth crossed with a wonderfully over-the-top genre exercise, «The World's End» plays very much to its creators» strengths, deftly intertwining male menopause and the apocalypse as it follows a quintet of old friends reliving the key missed opportunity of their teen years — downing 12 pints in 12 pubs in their small town's «golden mile» of public houses.

Though many mark the bookends of the New American Cinema as Bonnie & Clyde on the left and Raging Bull on the right, a case could be made for The Wild Bunch (being, as it is, the death knell for an entire genre and the goddamned American naïvete that genre represents) and its emotional doppelgänger at the end of the Seventies, Apocalypse Now.

I love that each film is a blend of genres as they add their comedic style to a zombie horror film or in this case tackling the sci - fi genre and the apocalypse.

Overall, Train to Busan is a massively entertaining zombie apocalypse film that offers a more layered take on a genre that has become increasingly exploited in the name of cheap thrills.

In between, The Wild Bunch presents coffin nails for every single thing sacred in the western genre: its heroes are broken - down, paunchy, exhausted, and driven by the wrong things; its whores are nasty; and its bloodshed is excessive and unconscionable.3 Other New American westerns could only pretend at this picture's level of absolute obscenity; like Apocalypse Now, it wasn't a movie about Vietnam — it was Vietnam.

Manga Entertainment has announced that cult Japanese director Takashi Miike's vampire - gangster genre mashup Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld is set for a theatrical release here in the UK this January.

Ably assisted by screenwriter Mike Carey, adapting his own bestseller from 2014, their film takes the elaborately overdone zombie genre and resuscitates it, while also taking and revamping a handful of well - established genre tropes ---- apocalypse premise, creepy kids, mad scientists ---- and tweaks them in eccentric and imaginative new ways.

Whereas «Shaun» was a satirical send - up up zombie horror and «Fuzz» had fun with mismatched buddy - cop conventions, «The World's End» dares to take on a genre that's even larger and more complex, at least from a technical perspective: the sci - fi apocalypse extravaganza.

While the plot is unknown, Gambit has been described as «the Ocean's 11 of the comic book genre» and will reference X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men Apocalypse while Tatum revealed they decided to readjust the film's scope in the wake of Deadpool and Logan «s success.

The way the Americans look and talk is a kind of uncanny simulation of American - ness, reminiscent of the way Italian genre films of the 1970s and 1980s that were set in the United States (such as Lucio Fulci's The New York Ripper or Antonio Margheriti's Cannibal Apocalypse) sometimes seemed too American.

I'm not talking about the extremely entertaining Captain America: Civil War, because it made the uninspired decision to have Captain America's genre - jumping land in the less - than - storied genre of «Marvel Movie,» or the similarly enjoyable X-Men: Apocalypse, because I apparently liked it more than almost anyone else.

by Angelo Muredda The apocalypse becomes an occasion for everything from learning what makes humans tick to getting to know the distant alien who is your significant other in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's genre - defying twentieth feature Before We Vanish, which might be most firmly characterized as a black comedy if it weren't so puckishly sunny.

Going out with a bang It's become customary to talk about Sam Peckinpah's classic as the tombstone of the Western genre, the moment when Hollywood's already - tired tradition of white - hat heroics was plunged irrevocably into nihilism, apocalypse and zero - sum catharsis.

Based on a popular blog in the voice of a bookstore clerk who turns survivalist in the wake of a zombie apocalypse, Madeline Roux's debut novel puts a new spin on the zombie genre.

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Title: Journal of a South African Zombie Apocalypse Author: Lee Herrmann Genre: YA Horror / Dystopian Pages: 180 pages Publication Date: August 2014 ISBN Number: 978 -0-620615-92-1 South Africa has been infected.

double - dog dared me to read his favorite genre, post - apocalypse / dystopian, I said what the hell?

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Kind of sad to see you guys stepping away from Motorstorm, especially since Apocalypse blew my mind in the racing genre and made me truly appreciate the series.

Madfinger Games, known for their award winning Samurai series of action adventure titles, finally break out into the First Person Shooter (FPS) genre with their latest zombie apocalypse shooter, Dead Trigger.

With less emphasis on the zombie apocalypse and more on the realistic character development within the multiple seasons, Telltale separates itself from other games in the zombie genre by letting the horror and gore take a back seat.

The games span a variety genres and ideas that include making music, shadow puppetry, industry and its effects and Zombie apocalypse.

David Cage, head of game development at Quantic Dream, has stated that he wishes to make a war game with an «emotional» approach, moving away from the mainstream's idea of how the war genre is portrayed, citing classic films Apocalypse Now and Platoon as influences for such a project.

While video games and zombie apocalypses are certainly no strangers to each other, The Last of Us rises above and beyond the self - cannibalizing genre for one simple reason: It cares.

Release Date: Apr 24, 2012 Genre: Graphic Adventure Theme: Zombie Apocalypse Game Modes: Single player Game Series: The Walking Dead

Tequila Works brings us another zombie apocalypse game to add into the genre.

In 2011 — 12 Tate Britain and Newcastle's Laing Art Gallery co-curated a major retrospective exhibition of Martin's work in all genres - «John Martin — Apocalypse» — including his contribution as a civil engineer.

Using a genre - busting mix of narrative, portraiture, and nature photography, Hoey tells a loose tale of environmental apocalypse.