I just can't get over its failings in the comparison to the original, and I don't think it does enough to win me
over as a horror film.
A profoundly unsettling work from the great American director Todd Haynes, Safe functions on multiple levels: as a prescient commentary on self - help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and
as a horror film about what you can not see.
I was hooked from «The Sixth Sense» and «Unbreakable,» and I stand by my contention that «The Village» is a fantastic film that was poorly and incorrectly marketed
as a horror film when it's clearly not.
Jordan Peele's «Get Out» is, again, a work of savvy craft that pulls an unsuspecting (white) viewer into a Sunken Place that other moviegoers know all too well; the movie
works as a horror film, as a goof on horror films, as a working street - map of African - American anxieties, and, for a white liberal audience, as an endlessly reflective hall of mirrors that urges a hard, necessary look at oneself.
In this one, Mary Poppins is reimagined
as a horror film by editing the same footage differently.
The independent production is skillfully cobbled together on a microbudget (
as horror films often are) by writer / director team Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead — the minds behind similarly Lovecraftian indie thrillers Resolution and Spring.
He'd very much like for his new film, the magnificently wrought Crimson Peak, to not be spoken
of as a horror film.
Their worries about negative associations outweigh their desire to tap into the massive market commanded by fear - based entertainment
such as horror films or video games,» says Dunn.
Marketing this
film as a horror film was a major misstep and will likely account for much of the negativity this film received.
Far be it from me to expect any sort of cerebral experience from a slasher about a doll, but it's evident that a degree of thought DID go into this, which makes its overall
failure as a horror film all the more disappointing.
The Transfiguration is a character study as
much as a horror film, and the underwritten lead, slow burn and somewhat tidy resolution undercut both efforts.
Defying run - of - the - mill genre expectations, the supernatural forces here are primordial and mythic in origin, and as unlikely as it sounds, try to imagine Before Sunrise
redone as a horror film.
The tsunami sequence is a remarkable technical achievement that perfectly captures the danger and desperation of being caught in the storm, and the scenes that follow are every bit as harrowing and
intense as any horror film.
If you grew up
as a horror film fanatic in the 1980s, you may have run through most of the American slasher flicks and occult thrillers — and then you rented Lucio Fulci's 1980 cult favourite Zombie, which hopefully led you to all sorts of gore - laden apocalyptic mayhem from Italian splatter - slingers like Umberto Lenzi (Nightmare -LRB-...)
It is usually
classed as a horror film, but the director Nicolas Roeg doesn't work with fright in the easy, jumpy sense of the word, like The Exorcist, which also came out in 1973.
Alex Ross Perry's «Queen of Earth» is as
unsettling as any horror film that you'll see this year but it so by virtue of its filmmaking and its performances instead of a twisting and turning narrative.
Usually known for his comedic work (and there are plenty of comedic moments throughout courtesy of LilRel Howery), Jordan Peele has
excelled as a horror film maker.
I really love THE GREY and it's another some might
disagree as a horror film, but like FROZEN a couple years ago it features a battle for survival against the elements as well as nature and for me the situation is pretty horrific so it qualifies.
As a horror film though, Happy Death Day often falls tragically short of the mark, almost completely absent of frightening moments, clever kills or even effective jump scares.
Though it was
made as a horror film for a cable channel, it plays more like an American indie drama: Mamet in a boat with a teenage cast and a seriously savage portrait of survivalism at all costs.
Oh, the Horror The creeper biz was crawling this
summer as horror films either didn't meet expectations («Insidious: Chapter 3,» «Poltergeist,» «Sinister 2») or missed badly («The Gallows,» «The Vatican Tapes»).
DU: We are extremely sad for your loss but so very happy you made that
choice as the horror film community needs you big time.
As a horror film from a first - time feature - film director, it's far from a prototypical Oscar contender.
Not only did that one star the great Mary Elizabeth Winstead, but it's also probably the only entry in the series that's
effective as a horror film.
Peele has said this is Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
re-imagined as a horror film; and just as that film sparked discussion about race relations in America at a time it was sorely needed, Get Out has done the same.
The elevator pitch for it must have been a quick one because the film is just essentially GROUNDHOG
DAY as a horror film, subbing in a blonde sorority sister for Bill Murray.
We're talking about Hammer Films, the organization that brought us such cheesy, guilty pleasure,»50s era creepshow treats as Horror of Dracula and Revenge of Frankenstein, only to find itself increasingly less
relevant as a horror film factory in an emerging era of schlock, gore and torture porn.
Despite being
described as a horror film, it feels more like a thriller, aside from a seemingly tacked on dream sequence / hallucination that tries to satisfy those looking for his father's trademark body horror.
Shot on entirely on an iPhone, the mysterious movie is being
billed as a horror film, starring The Crown breakout Claire Foy as a woman who believes she sees her stalker everywhere and inadvertently commits herself to a psych ward.
As a horror film, The Hearse does entertain, but it uses a derivative formula and what could have been a great horror film is simply a good one.