Sentences with phrase «attempts at a horror»

Idle Hands is definite a poor attempt at horror comedy, one that everyone should forget about.

Lacking that, all it is is just another attempt at horror of the most cheesy variety, filling a void where The Exorcist ended and The Shining began.

It should be noted that this is Soderbergh's first attempt at horror, and it's a laudable one, but it isn't genre defining.

The attempt at horror is subtle yet effective.

Not exact matches

I was fully expecting Cabin In The Woods to be another sad attempt at rebuffing Friday The 13th style scares, and what I got was a completely unique interpretation of what a horror movie should be.

Despite its dour atmospherics and some attempts at higher - caliber acting from Kevin Bacon and a large ensemble cast, The Following is a trite, gratuitously violent exercise in still more stylishly imagined American horror stories.

In doing so we lose the attempts at humor and get a sequel that's more in touch with the series horror roots.

It was by way of Jemaine Clement that I discovered «Tongan Ninja» director Jason Stutter's 2009 impossibly dry supernatural comedy «Diagnosis: Death,» a film which strives to poke fun at the J - horror genre while attempting to infect you with an incurable case of the giggles.

Kevin Smith doesn't ever really commit to whether he thinks everything is a joke or not and gets mixed up with some French Canadian humor that falls flat on its face but it's the sharp juxtaposition between the botched attempts at humor and the barbaric visual horror onscreen that makes Smith's body transmogrification so fucking fucked up.

Director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell may be best known for kicking off the long - running (and phenomenally successful) Saw franchise, but the pair's latest film is arguably their first attempt at pure horror.

Although the creep factor is high, the crap factor is even higher, in this ridiculously overblown and underdeveloped attempt at an Exorcist - style horror film.

But while the actors embrace the silliness of the mashup by playing it totally straight, Steers attempts to juggle so many different genres — comedy, action, romance, horror — that it continually feels at odds with itself.

When: October 21st (limited) Why: Although it's technically been available on Video On Demand for a few weeks now, Kevin Smith's low - budget attempt at making a horror movie is getting a limited theatrical run towards the end of October in conjunction with its home video release.

A Quiet Place feels like a conscious attempt by Paramount to ape the Blumhouse blueprint, much like A24, another fleet and industrious production company, which has achieved critical inroads with idiosyncratic horror - adjacent movies such as The Witch, A Ghost Story and It Comes at Night.

This low - budget telefilm rarely gets any attention by Spielberg fans or horror enthusiasts who seem to prefer DUEL (1971) or his later attempt at producing a supernatural thriller, POLTERGEIST (1982).

The Exorcist - Lite with a Hebrew twist, The Possession is an earnest attempt at a family drama masquerading as a horror movie, one that is ultimately rendered toothless by overly familiar tropes and a emasculating PG - 13 rating.

Neither Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal nor a creepy - crawly monster can save this so - so attempt at sci - fi horror

Okay, so maybe Craven's attempts at blending comedy and horror are pretty awkward, but you can't say he didn't learn anything from the experience; his next film was «Scream,» where the comedy / horror blend was almost perfect.

Junior, Eraser, Jingle All the Way, and Batman & Robin have been the worst string of failures since Arnold's early days, and in his attempt at a comeback he decided to do a genre he had never done before with End of Days, action - horror.

It can make the game infuriating to play at times, especially as the economy is prone to huge shifts in either direction seemingly at random so that you can suddenly find your companies going bankrupt one after the other, and attempting to find out what the problem is might just leave you clenching your teeth so hard that dentists around the world shudder in horror.

As a child — which is assuming I've actually progressed mentally from that point, which I clearly haven't — I had freaking loads of teddies in the shape of monkeys and apes that had pride of place on my bed, their job being to defend me from the potential horrors that lurk within dreams and to act as unwilling test dummies for attempts at performing wrestling moves.

The attempts at complete mind - numbing horror might fail, but in terms of atmosphere and creep factor Layers of Fear wins.

This leads me to this review's biggest caveat - The Following is an immensely enjoyable and well - crafted survival horror experience that I implore any fan of the genre to at least check out, but don't attempt to do so without levelling Crane up to at least level 12, as the difficulty, even on Normal, will more than give you a run for your money if you try to jump straight in.

The WarZ is a terrible attempt at a Zombie Survival Horror game.

Blind them with your flashlight and attempt to live for as long as you can in this survival horror game inspired by Five Nights at Freddy's.

If you're a survival - horror fan who's found the latest run of Resident Evil titles have failed to impress, you might want to check out Dead Space, EA's attempt at snatching the crown from Capcom's slackening grip.

Fresh from their most recent attempt at sending the series back to its horror roots, Capcom has announced that Resident Evil 7 will be going to back to its horror roots.

Overall, Sega's Rise of Nightmares makes valiant attempt at a creepy matured rated action horror game for the Kinect.

And while many of them are jump scare fests targeted at the YouTube / streamer population, others are more earnestly attempting to embrace the great horror predecessors of before.

To celebrate this occasion, it made sense to take a look back at Konami's attempts at survival horror and rank the Silent Hill games from worst to best.

Human rights are far from universal, and individuals who believe that religious mandates trump individual rights are plentiful and all too often in power, attempting to actually institute the horror that is Old Testament law, literally applied, but fortunately «the West» remains steadfastly in favor of heresy and an individual's right to choose what to believe (including the choice to believe nothing at all) and the individual's right to not have their moral behavior dictated in law and enforced by threat of violence by a set of religious rules with which they do not agree.