Sentences with phrase «been a great year for horror»

However, it was a great year for horror movies.

WHY: 2016 was a great year for horror, and Korean director Yeon Sang - ho's latest film «Train to Busan» is right up there among the best.

2016 has been a great year for horror so far.

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It's charming, touching, and mostly successful — and a great example of the reasons 2015 specifically and the» 10s generally have been such great years for horror fans.2015 was just a cornucopia of....

It's charming, touching, and mostly successful — and a great example of the reasons 2015 specifically and the» 10s generally have been such great years for horror fans.

It seems to me, nevertheless, that he suffered, at the hands of the BBC This World programme in particular, and the media in general, a profound injustice, and that this injustice was made possible only because it fed into a narrative which Catholics have endured over recent years for the most part without protest, so great has been their numb horror at the seemingly endless procession of abusive clergy who have been dragged from the shadows by police and media.

-- getting a point (which is good result when away)-- Ospina's great performance despite he had to pick the ball from the net after 40 seconds (not great for confidence after last years CL horror show)

There was a great opportunity for the meta element here, considering the changes in horror movies along the past ten years, but this useless reboot is never original and basically redoes the same slasher of fifteen years ago.

For series newcomers, Resident Evil Revelations game director, Kōshi Nakanishi, also directed this year's acclaimed Resident Evil 7 biohazard, making this a great way to be further immersed into the world of survival horror.

It's been a great year for horror — from the boundary - breaking satire of Get Out to the visionary gore of Raw, 2017 has consistently delivered on increasingly effective, and more importantly, inventive frights.

Britain fared better, with my favourite sci - fi horror film in a long time, Glazer's Under the Skin, and my favourite entertainment film of the year, the conventional, but charming Pride, while the flawed Mr. Turner impressively reflects the great painter's sun worship through Dick Pope's widescreen cinematography.Highlights of my year included being on the FIPRESCI jury at the Hong Kong IFF, where I admired Yang Hen's third feature, Na pian hu shui (Lake August), and a couple of first features among others, as well as attending the amazing HK film market for the first time, where I saw one of my three 2014 «films for the ages», Tsai's Journey to the West; and seeing a nitrate print of Hitchcock's Rebecca at the George Eastman House in Rochester (where they are doing a three - day all - nitrate festival in May, 2015!).

And while the cast is wall - to - wall great, what's notable (for genre fans, anyway) is that the title character is played by none other than Anya Taylor - Joy, who broke out in this year's hit horror movie The Witch — only now it looks like she's the one doing the tormenting.

So far 2016 has been a pretty great year for horror films and thrillers, with Karyn Kusama's The Invitation, Jeremy Saulnier's Green Room, Jaume Collet - Serra's The Shallows, and now Alvarez's Don't Breathe.

For my money, I think there's only a handful of truly great horror films in any given decade, but our own Tim Buel sees many more films in that genre than I do each year.

Despite having only seen it once, that didn't stop me from buying it on Blu - ray, and it made a great choice for a chilly October evening with some people who had never even heard of it before, and it reminded me that this is easily one of the best horror movies of not only 2009, but at least of the past five years.

«' The Room» has been playing for 14 - and - a-half years, sort of like the new «Rocky Horror Picture Show» but, like, even worse,» Franco, 39, chuckles about the ineptly written, acted and directed tale of romantic betrayal that novice director Wiseau thought would be a Tennessee Williams - style, Oscar - contending drama, but since its laughed - at premiere has agreed with the world that it is a so - bad - its - great comedy.

It's been a particularly great year for horror movies, some of which broke into the mainstream with both financial and critical success, and some of which are still looking for their audience.

After all that it was back into the freezing cold, where we noble warriors of New York's critical army, charged once more by star power, steeled ourselves for another year of festival scheduling nightmares, summer superhero blight, sequels, prequels, inelegant issue - oriented documentaries and cheapo horror pics, knowing that it was our solemn obligation to sift through this morass, uncover and celebrate the great performances and future classic films.

Final thoughts: This summer has already provided a great horror sequel in The Conjuring 2, and although expectations are not as high for The Purge: Election Year, this could be the Purge installment that satisfies both horror fans and the core supporters of the franchise.

Not as commendable were the slick but forgettable Leatherface, the first disappointment by French filmmaking duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury; the Spierig Brothers» Jigsaw, part 8 of the exhausted Saw series; the dull Amityville: The Awakening by Franck Khalfoun, usually a respectable genre director, who does still add his share of clever touches (and meta moments, like when a group of teenagers watch the original Amityville Horror in the «real» Amityville haunted house, into which one's family has just moved); Open Water 3: Cage Dive, whose shark - franchise designation was tacked on as an afterthought, not that it helped to draw in audiences (in an anemic year for great whites, 47 Meters Down takes the prize for the best shark film); Jeepers Creepers 3, a super-limited release — surely in part because of director Victor Salva's history as a convicted child molester — which just a tiny bit later would probably have been shelved permanently in light of the slew of reprehensible - male - behavior outings in recent months.

I'd like to take this opportunity to say that I just played Manhunt for the first time last year and it was a fucking great game, a great blend of stealth and survival horror that offered a very good challenge

Despite the misogynistic horror of Donald Trump's campaign and eventual election victory, 2016 was a great year for women in the art.

From the article:... You might think this would be great news for all those scientists who have been warning us over the last few years about the impending horrors of «man - made global warming» but in fact they are not happy about it, not one bit.