Sentences with phrase «body horror film»

Brandon Cronenberg has been extremely quiet in regards to his upcoming body horror film Antiviral.

Another highly anticipated film premiering at Toronto International Film Festival is Brandon Cronenberg's body horror film Antiviral.

Body horror film The Void actually had a raft of brilliant posters (that proved better than the actual film) but we're big fans of this deceptively simplistic one, not least because it's reminiscent of the iconic artwork for Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.

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That sounds like an intro to a horror film, but think about it: a whole human being is coming out of her body.

We have all heard of the concept used in horror films of aliens invading our bodies and minds, such as in movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

The physiological responses to horror films result in decreased appetite while your body's response to stress could boost basal metabolic rate, experts suggest.

The both films were directed by Fernando Mendez, who also shot a few notable horror films such as «The Body Snatchers» (1957), «The Black Pit of Dr. M» (1959) and «The Living Coffin» (1959).

I don't know, just the way her body language and how she acted actually really worked and added something to the film that improved it much more than just your basic horror film.

There are some gruesomely well - orchestrated scenes of body horror (one particular dissection is nightmarishly staged) and Garland's knack for gonzo imagery ensures that many scenes in the film will make a lasting impression.

Her feature - length debut, 2013's «It Felt Like Love,» focused on the bumpy trajectory of an introverted teenage woman exploring her urges with dangerous results; with the markedly similar «Beach Rats,» Hittman brings the same tropes to the plight of a young man in a film that has the precision of a great short story and the uneasiness of body horror.

Drawing on mythology and body horror, Annihilation is an intelligent film that asks big questions and refuses to provide easy answers.

This is a film about a horrific act of violence that eventually results in more bloodshed and gruesomely realistic, Cronenbergian body horror than anything I've seen in a long time.

The film, which clearly shows David Cronenberg's love for body horror running through the family, revolves around a man (Caleb Landry - Jones) working for a company who inject paying customers with the same viruses as famous celebrities.

Taking Lives is a socio - political horror film trapped in the body of a game show hostess; smart in spite of itself, it's a statement on a bedazzled culture forever reaching for enlightenment with one hand and distractedly fondling the contents of its corpulent crawlspaces with another.

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.

After I realized how this movie massages nuanced social commentary (about fetishization of the african american body, caucasian self - image, etc.) into a film «genre» that does not neatly fit into any particular category (it's neither thriller, nor horror, nor comedy, but a taste of all three), I was absolutely impressed.

Star Garance Marillier, whose transformation from a wide - eyed innocent into a feral seductress really sells the body - horror element of the film, is another one to watch.

This edition of Now Stream This brings you a highly underrated and very recent Todd Haynes movie, a new Netflix horror flick, a gloriously over-the-top action movie, a cynical noir loaded with snappy dialogue, the first Hannibal Lecter film, a romantic horror movie, a Steven Spielberg adventure, a cringe - inducing social media comedy, and some good old fashioned body horror.

This is a persistent problem throughout the film, and yet, it still got its hooks in me thanks to a sure, persistent unpredictability, not to mention some more unpleasant divergences into David Cronenberg-esque body horror.

The younger Cronenberg is clearly following in his father's footsteps here, delivering a nasty, queasy film loaded with social commentary and body horror.

Okay, so to be fair... he invented the genre, changed the way horror films are made, blah blah blah — I'm not going to reiterate what's already been said a thousand times about Romero's body of work.

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.

Since finishing The O.C. in 2007 Brody has gone down the indie film route with roles in Diablo Cody's horror JENNIFER»S BODY and Julian Farino's THE ORANGES.

The fact that it's Polanski directing this movie that derives much of its horror from the notion of a woman who does not have control over her body and the dark things being done to it certainly don't make the film un-problematic by modern standards.

IFC Midnight has debuted a short teaser trailer for an indie horror film titled The Autopsy of Jane Doe, a new thriller about morticians who encounter a «Jane Doe» body unlike any other.

There were rumors that Trank was hoping to make PG - 13, summer - friendly body horror, and there are vestigial traces of that conception; it would have been better for the film to have gone all the way, for at least then the bleakness of tone would have felt like it had some actual purpose.

A modern day twist on Invasion of the Body Snatchers, this is a subversive horror film that's a must - watch for anyone that's lived through the terror of high school.

Pretty quickly, the film turns into a horror show, with the airborne, microscopic spores from a plant on the planet serving as the way those killer aliens end up in their human hosts (Scott offers a microscope - level shot of the infection entering a crewmember's body through his ear canal, which is simultaneously frightening and deviously amusing).

Aronofsky's film slips into body horror more than once — indeed, its quite Cronenbergian at times.

The master of the specific subgenre called body horror and the man who put out such classics as Dead Ringers and Videodrome, the Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg seemingly stepped out of his (dis) comfort zone and delivered one of the best movies of the first decade of this century when he made the film cleverly and multilayeredly called A History of Violence.

Here's two more movie posters for the upcoming horror film «Red State» written and directed by Kevin Smith (Clerks) and starring John Goodman (Thicker, Pope Joan), Kyle Gallner (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Jennifer's Body), Michael Angarano (Noah's Ark: The New Beginning, The Forbidden Kingdom), Stephen Root (Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, True Blood), Kevin Pollak (Cop Out, Middle Men), Melissa Leo (Welcome to the Rileys), Ralph Garman (Family Guy) and Anna Gunn (Breaking Bad).

Although, the version of this movie where the staff have realistic eyes embedded in metal bodies would tip the film even further into David - Cronenberg - body - horror than it already is.

It is a film with interesting, grand ideas and some of the most stunning manifestations of David Cronenbergian body horror that Ive seen.

Winstead's wide - eyed cringing in the lead doesn't give the film much personality — particularly by comparison with Kurt Russell's shaggy swagger in the 1982 version — and the concepts and visuals that don't come from Carpenter instead come from Ridley Scott's Alien, or David Cronenberg's body - horror films.

It nods in the direction of a number of other films — The Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, Arrival, Alien even — but never leans on them too heavily, creating a story and an environment of its own where exquisite, near - hypnotic beauty exists side by side with gruesome horror.

No simple logline can account for the rubbery slapstick, like something out of a morbid Stephen Chow movie; the body horror played for insane laughs; or the existential despair that invades the film like a thief in the night.

It's arguably David Cronenberg's finest film: Who knew he could do romantic tragedy as confidently as he could gross us out with his signature body horror?

The connection to classic American tough - guy movies isn't always apparent in his celebrated horror films, but it's all over the body of work he produced in relative obscurity before he finally caught a break with Cure.

Below, we'll tell you who is handling films like Richard Linklater's Before Midnight, the horror anthology S - VHS, Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara's Ain't Them Bodies Saints, and a few others.

Equal parts baroque fairy - tale, atmospheric mystery, and hideous body - horror nightmare, the film puts what could have been a cost - effective genre exercise on steroids, giving life to a...

The ups and downs of filmmaker Kevin Smith's career would certainly not discount the strangeness of his latest film, Tusk, a body sci - fi / horror / comedy.

As it turns out, Fox has neither the acting chops nor the movie star charisma to elevate the disorganized tornado of horror movie clichés and leaden one - liners whirling around her, and with no real base to support the film, Jennifer's Body quickly careens into an incoherent exercise in high production values glossing over an utter lack of imagination.

From the bleak settings and synth - heavy soundtrack to the hyper - stylized violence and hints of body horror, this film would feel right at home next to Carpenter's early output like «Assault on Precinct 13» and «Halloween.»

Cocaine and excess are the body snatchers of this horror film: Clay finds Blair robotic and Julian jittery.

Raw combines the body horror of cannibal films with a sexual coming - of - age story about a young woman attending veterinarian school, where a hazing ritual awakens all manner of new appetites.

Surprisingly, of all of the King adaptations, that 1986 film — which featured young characters on a journey to find a dead body — feels the most similar to this one despite the fact that this movie belongs in the horror genre.

I want horror films where bodies are treated like meat, but terrifyingly still attached to real people who are too scared to scream.

After all, «Jennifer's Body» is a comedy first and a horror film second, and nobody writes high school characters better than Cody at the moment.

I'm hoping it follows in the fine tradition (Night of the Living Dead, Invasion of the Body Snatchers) of horror / sci - fi films pushing cultural envelopes.

«I just kinda jumped to «body horror» in my head,» director Josh Trank said of the film.