Sentences with phrase «as in a scary movie»

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In one of the scariest movies ever made, director William Friedkin uses his background as a documentary filmmaker to create horror that feels so real, some people fainted while watching the movie when it was first in theaterIn one of the scariest movies ever made, director William Friedkin uses his background as a documentary filmmaker to create horror that feels so real, some people fainted while watching the movie when it was first in theaterin theaters.

Basically the same thing as when you meet someone and get that knot in your stomach, when you watch a scary movie and get that creepy feeling, when you lose a loved one and feel heart - broken, when you have a «eureka» moment and feel inspired..

In a perfect world, women (and men) would learn about childbirth from reading books and websites and talking to their care provider (doctor or midwife), to a doula, to their mother, aunts and friends, but unless you live under a rock, women (and men) also learn about childbirth when they are bombarded with images on TV and in movies that depict childbirth as something scary, painful and out of controIn a perfect world, women (and men) would learn about childbirth from reading books and websites and talking to their care provider (doctor or midwife), to a doula, to their mother, aunts and friends, but unless you live under a rock, women (and men) also learn about childbirth when they are bombarded with images on TV and in movies that depict childbirth as something scary, painful and out of controin movies that depict childbirth as something scary, painful and out of control.

When elephants in the park saw another elephant behaving in this manner, the observers typically responded by «adopting the same emotion,» Plotnik says, «just as we do when watching a scary movie together.

We're not exactly sure what the former reality television star has been up to lately, as her career seems to be at a standstill since her last web series in 2011, «Dream Maker», save for filming some scenes in «Scary Movie 5» that didn't quite make it to the final cut.

Biography: Difficult to recognize in her natural blonde state following her turn as a raven - haired Neve Campbell knockoff in Scary Movie and it's sequel, Anna made her professional acting debut at the tender age of nine at Washington's Seattle Repertory Theater.

Making the move to Los Angeles in order to pursue an acting career full time, her previous improvisational experiences would soon come in handy as she landed her breakthrough role in the popular Scream - slanted spoof of teen slasher pics, Scary Movie.

Making the move to Los Angeles in order to pursue an acting career full time, her previous improvisational experiences would soon come in handy as she landed her breakthrough role in the popular Scream - slanted spoof of teen slasher pics, Difficult to recognize in her natural blonde state following her turn as a raven - haired Neve Campbell knockoff in Scary Movie and it's sequel, Anna made her professional acting debut at the tender age of nine at Washington's Seattle Repertory Theater.

This movie was billed as something along the «scariest movie in decades» or something along those lines and it failed to deliver on what was to be its top selling point.

Rule # 1: Don't show the creepiest / scariest / most shocking thing in the first 20 minutes of the movie or everything else won't seem as scary.

There was a great role in there for Geoffrey Rush as her scary Protestant hatchet man, and his ruthless manuevers to protect her from dangerous intrigues of the court gave the movie drive.

Also that year, Scary Movie 2 was released, in addition to the Mandel Holland comedy The Other Brother, featuring Hall as Vicki.

Her recurring role in Scary Movie and the sequel Scary Movie 2 exhibited the 30 - year - old's ability to maintain her youthful appearance, as she portrayed the high - school - aged Brenda Meeks.

As amateurish and fumbling as it is in every department, the sum total of the movie is pretty darn scarAs amateurish and fumbling as it is in every department, the sum total of the movie is pretty darn scaras it is in every department, the sum total of the movie is pretty darn scary.

It's a terrific movie — intelligent, magnificently acted, highly compelling as a thriller, and downright scary in its implications for the corporate - run world of the new millennium.

TWC also encompasses Dimension Films, the genre label founded in 1993 by Bob Weinstein, which has released such popular franchises as SCREAM, SPY KIDS and SCARY MOVIE.

This film is actually terrible — I mean, yeah — it is scary in the sense that its creepy, but I think, really, the film is just the byproduct of global DVD residuals from the directors father — allowing Panatos to string together a series of overproduced, overgrained interior sequences, cheap synth score and a slasher movie ending, and trying to pass it off as a «cult movie», when really we, the audience, need to know who, what or where the protagonist is coming from, what her dramatic need is, who she interacts with, and so on.

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.

Writer / director team Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer are betrayed as entirely lacking in imagination and surely after being responsible for Scary Movie 1 - 4, Date Movie, Epic Movie and now Meet the Spartans, someone could let them know this horse they've been flogging is well and truly dead.

It isn't that Scary Movie and its immediate sequel are masterpieces or even very good, but there's a pronounced drop in quality once Keenen Ivory Wayans left as director and took his brothers with him.

There is nothing as scary as Rick Baker's dog transformation scene, in the 82 version, in this movie.

It's that slow build that makes the movie as scary as it is, because we're in the same position that Gibson and his family (which includes Joaquin Phoenix's Merrill and Rory Culkin's Morgan).

The Autopsy of Jane Doe is a film as interested in process as it is in jump scares and the result is one of the most entertaining horror movies I've seen in a year that has had no shortage of great scary movies.

She has also most recently appeared in cameo roles for mainstream films like «Scary Movie» and «Starsky and Hutch» and is still heading the modern cabaret review in Los Angeles known as «The Pussycat Dolls.»

The main achievement of this gimmicky horror is that it manages to hit all of the essential scary movie beats as the story unfolds in real time on a computer screen.

That this artful mayhem looks both chillingly relevant and borderline cathartic has everything to do with Green Room's scary timeliness — its emergence, in our new age of politically emboldened hatemongers, as an accidental zeitgeist movie.

That someone is Dave Sheridan, most recognizable as Deputy Doofy in Scary Movie, whose uncanny resemblance to Jim Carrey in Frank McKlusky C.I. had me doing double - takes at times.

The bad acting (except for one actor, more on him in a sec), the tacky special effects, and the general misuse of the circus motif contributed to form a movie that isn't very scary, isn't very funny, and isn't as cute as the filmmakers would like you to believe.

What with goofball vixen Karen Black in a blonde wig, Bruce Dern doing full - on whimsical as an inquisitive cabbie, and William Devane suave yet scary as the volatile villain, it's a Hitchcock movie with a flavour like no other.

John Krasinski's supernatural thriller A Quiet Place already has a good hook in the form of unseen creatures who kill people when they make noise — as seen in the movie's short Super Bowl teaser — but this expanded trailer adds an extra scary angle with the reveal that Emily Blunt's character is pregnant.

Yet even a parody of scary movies should be scary (as were the «Scream» series and «The Cabin in the Woods»), but this pic is, well, not bloodless, but still, shall we say «neutral?»

While I came into this movie excited about every inch of it, M'Baku a.k.a Man - Ape in the comics has had a very messy and problematic history being written as the scary, angry, dark - skinned black man who wants Wakanda to be a primitive society that includes human sacrifice, because... this character was created by white authors in the late 1960s, and this was their idea of nuance.

It's as if a year of impressive scary movies is somehow a rarity, when in fact the genre has consistently delivered strong movies in recent -LSB-...]

As part of Warner Bros.» presentation at CinemaCon this past week, It director Andy Muschietti sent a videotaped message to those in attendance, promising that the second chapter to the hit Stephen King adaptation will be «darker and even scarier» than last year's first movie, and that fans may want to «bring your adult diapers».

Actress EMILY BLUNT endured sleepless nights as a child after watching horror movie THE EXORCIST.The Brit stars in scary new film The Wolfman,...

By the parade of wondrous U.K. thespians, cashing checks for 10 years (like Alan Rickman, who's played Snape in every movie) or breezing by the set for a week's work (like, in the latest film, Kelly Macdonald, who's touching and a bit scary as a ghost).

In total, the movie is scary and atmospheric and cinematic and gross and fun as hell.

In brief: the movie deals with Perseus battling demonic creatures such as Margaret Thatcher, er sorry, that would have been too scary for the kids, I meant Medusa, oversized scorpion monsters, the Kraken, etc..

Ranked on numerous lists as having one of the scariest climaxes in movie history, the true horror is not in Wait Until Dark's ending, but the story itself.

As Wallace put it, «I think what has been forgotten as time has gone on in the scary movie world, the horror world, is the difference between scary and gorAs Wallace put it, «I think what has been forgotten as time has gone on in the scary movie world, the horror world, is the difference between scary and goras time has gone on in the scary movie world, the horror world, is the difference between scary and gory.

Jimmy has been in prison for the last several years, and when our movie opens, it still opens with Eli finding this weapon, but it becomes this family drama, this brother's redemption story as this weapon gets Jimmy and Eli into some hot water that they did not anticipate, and they end up being on the run and on the road from some really scary dudes, both of our world and perhaps beyond.

cop Steve Burns (Al Pacino) is asked before going undercover in William Friedkin's dirty - scary thriller about a serial murderer preying on gay men in late - Seventies New York — in which everyone looks like Al Pacino, all the victims as well as the killer, which is why he's recruited: he's bait (and the movie keeps hinting — fuck — he might also be the killer).

The way she kisses her sons as the sign of affection uncannily reminded me of that memorable private moment between Mrs. Iselin, one of the most famous scary moms in the movie history, and her son in «The Manchurian Candidate» (1962).

All four movies start off as if they intend to be just as scary as the novel but then wind up simplifying the issues, either by letting a doomed sympathetic character survive (as in Cruel Intentions) or by sentimentalizing the motives or the fates of the more evil characters (as in the other three movies).

Scary movies were persona non grata for the first several decades of the Academy Awards, even as they were beginning to assert themselves with the public in the 1930s.

The Miramax library holds some of the world's most sophisticated, thought - provoking and critically - acclaimed independent films including sex, lies, and videotape, The English Patient, Shakespeare In Love, Reservoir Dogs, Chicago, Good Will Hunting, Pulp Fiction, My Left Foot, Cinema Paradiso, Life is Beautiful, Amélie, Kill Bill, Volume I and II, No Country for Old Men, as well as scores of commercially successful films such as Bridget Jones's Diary, the Scream, Hellraiser and Scary Movie franchises and Spy Kids.

Set in a Hooters-esque Texas tavern called Double Whammies, the punningly titled comedy stars Hall («Scary Movie») as the mother hen to a staff of young waitresses coping with sexism and racism.

Actress EMILY BLUNT endured sleepless nights as a child after watching horror movie THE EXORCIST.The Brit stars in scary new film The Wolfman, alongside Benicio Del Toro and Sir Anthony Hopkins, but admits she hasn't...

The PG - 13 horror movie hasn't had a hit in a long while and with the MPAA stamping The Conjuring with a R - rating simply because it was deemed «too scary», these all audience entries into the horror genre such as The Lazarus Effect and last year's much worse Ouija make me question whether it's even truly possible to have an effective PG - 13 horror flick.

She's able to convey bubble - brained zaniness about as well as anyone in the movies right now, and then she can switch gears and give you a scary dramatic performance in something like «Vanilla Sky.»