Sentences with phrase «as a horror film -lsb-»

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.

As a horror film it works, but it is a «self referential» commentary on the genre itself.

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.

It is kind of packaged as a horror film, but there is nothing about it that is scary or seems to try to be scary.

As a horror film, it's bumblingly terrible, uninteresting, horribly shot, shodily edited and contains story & dialogue that are just egregious on all possible levels.

Easier to make a buck by marketing it as a horror film «from the director of William Friedkin» than a new level of psychological torment in cinema.

Benny (Pauline Cousty) is an independent filmmaker, trying to make what she describes as a horror film about horror films.

If you recall, The Village was sold as a horror film when in fact it was a drama.

Though not as stupid as some horror films, it is less exciting and fun than most modern films of any genre.

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.

«The Invitation» might be labeled as a horror film, but it far better fits the prodigious «mindfuck film» subgenre label, following the likes of «The One I Love» and «The Gift» in recent years.

Christmas movies are as formulaic as horror films or romantic comedies, in many ways they are worse.

The opening sequence is incredibly creepy and while the film isn't necessarily scary (IMDb lists it as a horror film but it most definitely is not), it is thrilling.

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.

It mistakenly advertises itself as a horror film (a desperate plea to get butts in seats), we would be so lucky if Refn could settle on a genre.

Misery is often classified as a horror film, but the term thriller suits the film more.

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-...)

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.

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, it's predictable.

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.

The movie works both a as a horror film — with a fairly high body count and several gruesome deaths — and as a whodunit.

Without Howery's presence, Get Out would work as a horror film.

«Here's how parenting works» becomes the theme of this public service reminder disguised as a horror film.

Viewed as a horror film, Funny Games is little better than mediocre.

And yet, it's not amusing, nor is it disturbing or shocking even as a horror film.

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.

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.

The Other was marketed as a horror film, but it's a decidedly unconventional one.

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.

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.

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.

The Forsaken's biggest failing, though, is a basic one: as a horror film, it's not scary nor suspenseful; and as an action picture, it's not terribly exciting, if at all.

Speaking of terrible movies, our Amazon highlight for the week is about as schlocky as horror films get.

Just as horror films stoke fear and also provide solace (that can't happen to me!)

Not exact matches

This one will be hard to stomach if you actually watch it, but as one of the first ever «found - footage» horror movies, about a fictional documentary crew shooting a film in the Amazon, it has been hugely influential.

Avnet (whose father, Jon, is a veteran Hollywood director and producer as well as the studio's co-CEO) told Fortune the studio wanted to maintain the film's authenticity — they wanted viewers to think the horror film playing out in real - time might really be happening — so they avoided marketing the movie and, in fact, they did not even run the idea by Snapchat before proceeding.

This classic German silent film from the 1920s (which some regard as the first horror movie) follows an insane doctor who uses a sleepwalker to commit murders.

Otherwise they might end up as a short horror film on the Internet.

Groups of young friends who go to see some of the more death - focused horror films in vogue of late will routinely take bets on which stock character will face a grisly end soonest, as when viewing the Final Destination series» a film series that is, essentially, the apex of the set - piece disaster horror movie as orchestrated by MacGyver.

It has been hailed as one of the most important films in recent years, for its frightening use of mystery and horror elements to look at racism in America.

As he continued to collect stories, with a small team filming the interviews, the horror of what happened during the Holocaust also grew.

While best known for appearing in such horror films as The Pit and the Pendulum and The Last Man on Earth, the late actor Vincent Price was also a world - class gourmet.

We have all heard of the concept used in horror films of aliens invading our bodies and minds, such as in movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

As 2017 comes to a close, I've been looking back at the year in the way the last person alive in a horror film occasionally checks over their shoulder while running at full pelt to see if the crazed killer is still behind them.

«He has previously described the Prime Minister as a dead woman walking who is on death row, and compared the Prime Minister to the living dead in a second - rate horror film.

Marshall, son of the late actor E. G. Marshall, is changing that — and at the same time, he hopes, the tarantula's image as the bloodthirsty villain of grade B horror films.