Sentences with phrase «as psychological horror»

Through The Woods is described as a psychological horror game.

I agree with the others commenting on your blog that should be understood as a psychological horror game.

Especially if you're going as psychological horror that I think you are.

The Terror The surviving crew members are forced to make life - or - death decisions as this psychological horror - drama about an ill - fated 19th century expedition in the Arctic airs its final episode.

-- Kurt Halfyard [BEST] Though billed as a psychological horror film, it strides confidently past the edges of «Rosemary's Baby» and «Gaslight» into whole other regions of insanity.

And some may argue that Black Swan deserves inclusion in this select Best Picture group — although this 2010 dance - dance - scarevolution is probably more accurately described as a psychological horror film.

While the film is being promoted as a psychological horror - thriller, this trailer definitely leans towards the horror side of that description.

10 Cloverfield Lane established the film's anthological style by acting as a psychological horror film set in the same universe (it's the best of the trilogy).

As far as psychological horror goes, the films work well, and that they realize Poe's stories were mainly internalized distortions of the world works to their advantage, even as they approach the material in vastly different ways.

Not exact matches

It would have been nice if they included some more survival elements given the setting, but as is it's a really gripping psychological horror experience.

Tweet to: @Writerscube A Studio Makes Its Horror Debut On the 28th of June, 2017, the Turkish studio of Oldmoustache Gameworks released the anticipated psychological horror / adventure game known as No70: Eye of Horror Debut On the 28th of June, 2017, the Turkish studio of Oldmoustache Gameworks released the anticipated psychological horror / adventure game known as No70: Eye of horror / adventure game known as No70: Eye of Basir.

Loosely inspired by a shocking true story, this chilling psychological horror story follows a bickering couple on vacation in the Caribbean who are accidentally abandoned during a diving expedition and forced to fend for themselves in the ocean as they are surrounded by sharks - while the tour operators back at the harbor take 24 hours to realize that they have left a pair of customers stranded.

Driftwood is presented and promoted as a horror movie with psychological elements, and while this is true, it undersells what is an effective psycho thriller, less about gore and horror, more about story and character.

What starts as a fascinating tale of a psychological horror game, soon changes into a repetitive experience that feels like it drags on even in its short length of less than two hours.

With its combination of psychological and body horror, The Brood laid the groundwork for many of the director's films to come, but it stands on its own as a personal, singularly scary vision.

[Watch the trailer for true story - inspired The Disappointments Room right HERE] Disturbia director D.J. Caruso returns to the horror genre with a haunted house film that was inspired by true events in The Disappointments Room, a psychological thriller that they are saying is in the same vein as The Shining.

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.

Even as it detours into generic horror tropes in the final act, the film is bolstered by a complex portrayal from Powley and a screenplay that smartly sidesteps fish - out - of - water clichés and instead focuses on Anna's psychological demons.

A psychological horror film brings an Ancient Greek play to life as a successful surgeon and his family are caught up in a disturbing tale of revenge and retribution

In January, M.Night Shyamalan released Split, a psychological thriller - horror, starring James McAvoy as a man with 23 different personalities.

Featuring Howard Shore's hair - raising debut film score, this deeply personal take on the trials of parenthood and the trauma of divorce — which Cronenberg described as his version of Kramer vs. Kramer — establishes the mix of body horror and psychological terror that would soon become the director's trademark.

Up - and - coming filmmaker Trey Edward Shults follows his acclaimed debut film Krisha with It Comes At Night, a psychological horror thriller centering on a teenage boy (Kelvin Harrison, Jr.) as he faces mounting terrors — both external and internal — in the aftermath of an unnamed apocalypse.

This isn't the first time he's slammed the critically acclaimed psychological horror film that stars Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance, but he does add some new clarity.

Unfortunately, as a plausible psychological horror film, it just doesn't make a great deal of sense.

Bloody Disgusting now has a Hitchcockian one - sheet for Keating's psychological horror story that «Begins as a lonely young woman (Lauren Ashley Carter) moves into an old, mysterious Manhattan mansion.

Yet, the film plays out with little sense of requisite suspense that made the first Psycho such a great film, and many of the scenes, including the murders, play out as if they were made for a psychological drama, rather than in a scary horror flick or tense, nail - biting thriller.

If you're worried about this film being touted as a «psychological thriller» and not a full - blown horror film, well, boy oh boy, don't you worry.

You may notice something like thirty - five minutes passing without so much as a genuine chill, but that legwork is essential to putting you in the right psychological mindset to appreciate the horror soon to be delivered.

Joel Potrykus's film introduces some canny aesthetic digressions as the story wades into psychological horror.

«American Sniper» wants to have it both ways — as a war - on - terror fantasy and poignant PTSD drama — but while it doesn't shy away from the physical and psychological horrors of battle, the movie is so heavy on pro-military propaganda that it doesn't realize its dramatic potential until it's too late.

David Cronenberg is best known for psychological horror films such as Videodrome and Dead Ringers, and although Maps to the Stars is ostensibly a bleak satire on movie folk, there's an underlying gothic mood that simmers nicely to the boil.

This however isn't a horror story in space, á la Event Horizon, as the synopsis might make it appear — it could be better described as a psychological drama or perhaps even as a metaphysical love story.

With their surprise hit Layers of Fear, Bloober Team has proven itself adept at delivering psychological horror games that are as...

BRIE Brie Larson has accepted an offer to star in the psychological horror drama as «Ma», about a woman who's trapped in her father's basement for years with her son.

In terms of box - office success, the movie world is see - sawing between sub-genres such as slasher, psychological, paranormal, teen, comedy - horror, found - footage and «torture porn».

The film then becomes a psychological horror for the houseproud (which is me - I was squirming), with Bardem oblivious to his wife's discomfort as he laps up the praise of his new found friends.

It isn't exactly the horror that it's been marketed or advertised as — instead leaning more to psychological thriller — but there's no mistaking Peele's dramatic flair or natural ability to work outside his comfort zone.

While the latter is ratcheted up, to the Guards» credit, their film not more of a supernatural horror film but a psychological thriller along the lines of the original, and it almost works as its own thing, mostly thanks to Banks (obviously relishing the chance to play against type) and the talented young lead actresses.

The musical score combined with the familiar songs topped with amazingly subtle (and some not so subtle) effects makes this best described as an artsy horror film meshed with a crackling psychological thriller held together by nightmarish melodrama.

In the psychological horror film It Comes at Night, Director Trey Edward Shults thrusts viewers into a situation without explanation, but enough facts become clear as the story moves on.

Slow and steady wins the race here as The Witch is more psychological horror than anything that could be considered run - of - the - mill.

I really liked Black Swan — I didn't see it as horror - ish, but more about neurosis and the psychological effects of intense pressure and competition.

Some might describe it as tonally schizophrenic or less than the sum of its calculated parts, perhaps feeling a bit tricked by being lured into a psychological horror film whose full - blown depravity takes a while to develop, like a Polaroid.

IFC Films picked up the psychological horror film «The Babadook» and the latest from Jim Mickle and Nick Damici, «Cold in July,» while A24 snatched up the horror - comedy «Life After Birth» as well as Jenny Slate's «Obvious Child.»

The delusional Myers, who envisions being influenced by a white stallion (a pretentious and silly artsy - farty psychological dream sequence), aims in this bloody horror / slasher flick to go on his rampage to reunite the family with his deceased mother — she appears as a ghost.

It means that Grave will feature a modern psychological horror story, while keeping the classic survival horror gameplay found in games such as Resident Evil and Silent Hill when it comes to PS4 in 2015.»

Elizabeth Olsen's turn as a recovering cult member plays like a psychological horror film — the latest genre, from sci - fi to action, that arthouse flicks have raided

Blanchett's modulated turn is key to the psychological horror of the piece; her controlled work as Annie finds herself increasingly unable to control or make sense of her visions adds a layer of subtlety that not only makes the proceedings a bit more unsettling but also consistently grounded in a convincing reality.

A better word for «weak» would be «hodgepodge,» as the psychological thriller cum horror «A Cure for Wellness» brings in elements from «Bride of Frankenstein,» «The Phantom of the Opera,» «Hostel 2,» and all the laughable sci - fi pictures of the 1950's wherein the scripts for dystopian civilizations seem often enough to end up with «Perhaps we scientists would be better off if we did not interfere with nature.»

Trey Edward Shults» sophomore feature It Comes at Night is a psychological horror film that traps the audience along with two families in an abandoned house in the woods that, over the course of a slow - burning 90 minutes, turns into a cauldron of fear, mistrust and paranoia as they try to survive an unnatural threat that is terrorizing the world.