Sentences with phrase «body horror more»

Whilst they relied heavily on jump scares and body horror more than the likes of Silent Hill, they were masterpieces of horror for sure.

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

Not exact matches

The younger Cronenberg has made a derivative exercise in body horror that plays as little more than low rent Cronenberg pastiche.

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.

She has sustained more of a career than you might have expected, following her sophomore script the 2009 horror comedy Jennifer's Body falling short and Hollywood's general marginalization of female voices.

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.

Following a spot of genuinely unnerving body horror courtesy of Teller's infinitely extendable arms, the second half is nothing more than a sub - «Avengers» roundelay of superhero tics: naff catchphrases, brain - grinding exposition and lifeless punch - ups, the talented cast totally overwhelmed by the duff CG special effects.

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.

There's some business about alternate dimensions (or, more precisely, alternate universes), some Alien - style body horror, bits of metal and flesh that take on lives of their own, even the occasional hint of time travel.

«Get Out» directed by Jordan Peele: For white viewers, this debut feature from «Key & Peele» star Jordan Peele offers a glimpse at how the other half lives; for everyone else, it's more of a documentary in body horror movie drag.

Following a smidge of genuinely unnerving body - horror courtesy of Teller's infinitely extendable arms, the second half is nothing more than a sub-Avengers roundelay of superhero tics: dumb catchphrases, brain - grinding exposition and lifeless action scenes, the talented cast totally overwhelmed by lackluster CGI special effects.

A horror movie that is about more than just the body count?

And when the subject is body horror, I figure women always have more to lose.

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).

1 - You're Next (for more originality than the others & acceptable story) 2 - Maniac (for incredible Atmosphere and for really being schizophrenic horror) 3 - Conjuring (for Mastery Atmosphere & Shocking Moments) 4 - Evil Dead (GOOD GORE) 5 - We Are What We Are (Special Theme, Excellent Directing) 6 - V / H / S 2 (Surprising, Intense & Bloody moments) 7 - Insidious 2 (Just OK for being high class horror) I like this either: Sleep Tight / Hatchet III / No One Lives / Mama / Carrie / I spit on your grave 2 (i don't know what call warm bodies «horror or romance» but i like it anyway)

Aronofsky puts to work the tools of the horror genre (the haunted house - isolated in a forest, bumps in the night, body horror, unwelcome strangers, horror as a manifestation of marital problems) to construct a Trojan Horse from which springs a complex thesis about the commodity and vanity of celebrity, mass societal behaviour, procreation, religion and more.

Then again, how many horror movies have tried to appeal to lesser emotions than humor with even more gruesome sights, less intelligence, and a far higher body count?

«Covenant» is a visually Gothic movie that's more fixated with body horror than actual scares.

Mostly because Villeneuve and screenwriter Taylor Sheridan aren't selling more than a tautological action movie with the dread and body count of a horror film.

It's worth noting, too, that Cronenberg's decision to shoe - horn in moments of body horror, presumably in homage to his much more talented father, fall entirely and almost comically flat, while the pervasive lack of momentum ensures that Antiviral fizzles out to an astonishing degree long before it reaches its half - baked climax.

While Warm Bodies is more slanted towards comedy and romance rather than horror, it remains true to the zombie genre while pushing it in an unexpected direction.

Luckily Scott's formidable visual style and, more importantly, skill at the more down - and - dirty genre requirements is as sharp and confident as ever, the slow burn building up and paying off in thrilling fashion, delivering all the queasy body horror one would expect and then some with imagination and nailbiting suspense.

11:15 pm — TCM — The Body Snatcher Producer Val Lewton is known for his extraordinarily literate 1940s B - level horror films, and this one is more of a drama with a lot of creepiness throughout and a scary climax.

As a thriller, Black Swan doesn't do much more than graft a few phantom frames onto the periphery of Jean Benoit - Levy's Ballerina, Altman's The Company, or Powell / Pressburger's The Red Shoes — but note how the picture owes its creepy intensity to the sort of social satire - through - body horror popularized by David Cronenberg.

More underground than overt adolescent emo rock - star / rapist fantasies like vampirism, the flicks of this type that work — such as Sam Raimi's Spider - Man trilogy, or the third and fifth Harry Potters, or The Passion of the Christ — incorporate the uncertainty and body horror of growing up with hero / martyr fantasies and, ultimately, the melancholy of childhood's end.

Blue My Mind also centers on a high - school girl trying desperately to fit in, although its narrative goes in a more predictable direction — as predictable as a body - horror movie about a girl who's slowly turning into a mermaid can be, anyway.

Despite being described as a horror film, it feels more like a thriller, aside from a seemingly tacked on dream sequence / hallucination that tries to satisfy those looking for his father's trademark body horror.

Two ways I would love to see this go down: a more reserved, isolated space - horror title similar to Alien: Isolation, or a more intense body - horror like Dead Space.

The player must solve puzzles, which range from simple lever pulling to more grotesque displays of body horror — each made even more unsettling by its banality.

More recently Cindy Sherman has constructed scenes and photographs showing herself as characters from the grotesque and horror imagination, surrounded by discarded food, human body parts and rubbish.

Though horror nerds and true crime fans might want a little more information than is provided, you can always go digging for more info yourself or click one of the provided links to learn more (like I did when I learned about a missing woman whose body was found after 28 years... inside a false wall of her own home!)