Sentences with phrase «audience manipulation»

«Munger Road» does an efficient, skillful job of audience manipulation using the techniques of darkness and vulnerability, and the truth that a horror not seen is almost always scarier than one you can see.

That uneven mood leaves you squirming in your seat, which is exactly what the filmmakers want; this is the most unabashed exercise in audience manipulation since Haneke's Funny Games.

The subject matter seems inherently depressing and just unpleasant, although this isn't necessarily a bad thing if the film's done tactfully and avoids obvious audience manipulation.

This scene is so contrived and artificial, it could be subtitled «Shameless Audience Manipulation.»

But, more than either of those things, it ends up being a stupid exercise in illogical audience manipulation.

Transsiberian is a model of audience manipulation, a slow - fuse thriller that builds its suspense gradually, in increments, until it has becomes close to unbearable.

Rowan Joffé's drizzly, workmanlike thriller Before I Go To Sleep turns a ludicrous premise into a fitfully suspenseful, consistently interesting exercise in audience manipulation.

Haunted by uncanny similarities between Nazi stage techniques and the showmanship employed by modern entertainers, a filmmaker investigates the dangers of audience manipulation and leader worship.

Novelist Suzanne Collins, whose trilogy has been decreed «awesome» by, among others, my 5th grade son, indicts violence and organized brutality as tools of mass - audience manipulation.

Blurring the line between art and commerce as it ponders the very topic, POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold offers an entertaining look at consumer and audience manipulation, but doesn't tell us any more than we already know.

The story centers around an uninspired love affair, then tries to develop dramatic power by employing traditional techniques of audience manipulation.