Sentences with phrase «as horror films often»

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.

Not exact matches

The original sci - fi, horror, macho action bonanza PREDATOR is one of my top films of all time, its gory as f*ck sequel PREDATOR 2 has grown on me with age (maybe because today's movies are more often than none sub par and castrated hence it glows in comparison).

Rarely do I see a film that makes me squirm as often as I did while watching the superb Austrian horror film Goodnight Mommy.

However, he seems quite befuddled as to what to do within the atmospheric horror genre, never really building solid suspense, and offering nothing more than to throw more unpleasant images at us whenever the film starts losing momentum, which is quite often.

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

Doug Jones (born May 24, 1960) is an American film and television actor best known to science fiction, fantasy, and horror fans for his various roles playing non-human characters, often in heavy makeup, in films and television series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

Perhaps more notable, however, was a non-win: the mere nomination of Sigourney Weaver for Best Actress, an extreme rarity for a film that combined three genres often viewed as pariahs to major awards programs: horror, science fiction, and action.

As many horror fans know, that phrase is used quite often in the marketing of horror films, and rarely do the events of the film truly reflect the events they are based on in a significant way.

These films take a subtle approach, burying their ideas in stories that often mix hallmarks of the horror genre with characters belonging to dysfunctional families that function as metaphors for the global mood.

There are several graphic moments of brutal violence — you will see things done to the human head that you don't often see in a mainstream horror film — but one of the most affecting moments of violence wisely happens off - screen and with little fanfare (such as swelling music) to accompany it.

Putatively a horror film, it plays far more often as a drama of sorts, relegating the locked - room struggle of the three girls to the backburner.

Whatever the truth of this, Poltergeist had far more in common with the positive vision of bourgeois suburbia found in Spielberg's own Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) or E.T. — The Extra-Terrestrial (released within a week of Poltergeist) than with any unnerving Texploitation made by Hooper, and often seemed to be a feel - good family film merely masquerading as horror.

Sadly, the film isn't as smart as the original and often settles for generic horror cliches.

The Oscar potency for «Get Out» defied the conventional wisdom that films released early in the year («Get Out» came out last February) often struggle to get awards love, as do horror films.

Tellingly, his two biggest regrets, as he told GQ in 2012, are turning down two films that presented a similarly more complex idea of «winning» and «losing» than the more generic fare he often accepts: the Brad Pitt role in David Fincher's horror - thriller Se7en and the George Clooney role in corporate psychodrama Michael Clayton.

It's a strong reminder as to how powerful an independent film can be and why they are often some of the best horror films out there.

The term «low - budget horror» is often tacked onto reviews as a way to get your quote onto a films poster.

Also taking a critique of popular culture as her point of departure, Glasgow - based Rachel Maclean's hyper - saturated videos unfold narratives through characters — often played by the artist — that quote classic films such as The Wizard of Oz but also draw from horror movies, talent shows and TV advertising.

The project evolved from an interest in horror films as a genre where certain aesthetics and fear are often constructed by means of architecture.