Sentences with phrase «budget horror flicks»

This year we saw a smorgasbord of quality low budget horror flicks, a cornucopia of auteur dramas, and a slew of emerging filmmakers who might shape the future of cinema.

The impeccably choreographed jump scares are damn good, but the Warrens» nail - biting heroics and the family's intoxicating paranoia woven throughout are even better — proof that big - budget horror flicks don't have to suck.

He has collaborated on some low budget horror flicks as Home Sick and Pop Skull which had some critical success with Fangoria, Variety, and Bloody-Disgusting.com.

With a cast of only five main characters, director Vincenzo Petrarolo is able to develop them better than in typical low - budget horror flicks.

She loves making no - budget horror flicks with her friends, cooking, crafting, exploring, and being silly with her two kids, awesome husband, and lazy cats.

After producing mostly budget horror flicks, the studio released a low - rent version of War of the Worlds to coincide with Steven Spielberg's 2005 big studio adaptation.

There's modest fun to be had in this campy low - budget horror flick that ultimately doesn't have much bite.

There was no way to tell from the debut of Coppola, then 24, a low - budget horror flick produced by Roger Corman, that in a decade he would become the most influential director.

By George Wolf Back in'the early 80s, a low budget horror flick called The Evil Dead got an unexpected boost from legendary author Stephen King.

A low budget horror flick (naturally).

When Paramount picked up Oren Peli's low budget horror flick Paranormal Activity a couple of years back, they had initially intended to simply remake it with a bigger budget.

Back in'the early 80s, a low budget horror flick called The Evil Dead got an unexpected boost from legendary author Stephen King.

Well, that's not entirely true, because it does feature a good cast, but it's a little sad to see actors like Olivia Wilde and Mark Duplass resorting to a low - budget horror flick.

No one familiar with George Romero's primal low - budget horror flick Night of the Living Dead (1968) could forget that line.

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And they did, an impressive feat for a low - budget horror flick.

Not exact matches

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

Don't Breathe, a completely original horror flick with no intentions of a series or remake, brought in $ 150 million on a $ 10 million dollar budget.

Even though the film feels low budget, this still a fairly well done Sci Fi horror flick, though lacking in plot, it makes up for it in thrills.

The low - budget Amityville Horror flick had 10 times more dread.

John Carpenter's solo directorial debut reworks Howard Hawks» Rio Bravo as a low budget gang flick by way of a horror film.

Not once did I have to force myself to be gentler in my critique — this looks like a big - budget movie, and virtually stabs, mauls and garrottes the overwhelming majority of teen horror flicks out there.

All - star Agatha Christie mysteries, gritty - gory horror flicks, big - budget WWII epics, Kristen Stewart talking to ghosts in France and a Polish cult - musical about mermaids?

In a year made of horror films that have delivered more unintentional laughter than genuine scares, As Above, So Below fits the bill as exactly the kind of low - budget, lower - quality flick you'd see released on the big screen for the Labor Day weekend.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening January 4, 2008 BIG BUDGET FILMS One Missed Call (PG - 13 for mature themes, frightening images, terror, intense violence and some sexual material) Shannyn Sossamon stars in this remake of Chakushin Ari, a high attrition - rate horror flick from Japan about a traumatized young woman who's afraid to answer her cell phone after several of her ill - fated friends receive messages accurately predicting exactly when and how they are about to die.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening May 29, 2009 BIG BUDGET FILMS Drag Me to Hell (PG - 13 for terror, violence, disturbing images and profanity) Recession era horror flick about an ambitious loan officer (Alison Lohman) looking for a promotion who instead finds herself plagued by a supernatural curse after she forecloses on an old woman (Lorna Raver) begging for another extension on her mortgage payment.

Basically, if the great violence stylists of the era — like Sam Peckinpah, John Boorman, or Arthur Penn — ever opted to direct a low - budget 1978 horror flick, it might look a little like Carnage Park.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening October 19, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS 30 Days of Night (R for profanity and graphic horror violence) Josh Hartnett and Melissa George head an ensemble cast in this high attrition - rate horror flick about a sheriff who, with the help of his estranged wife, confronts a horde of bloodthirsty vampires that descend on a tiny Alaskan town during the pitch black month when the sun slips beneath the horizon.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening September 2, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS Apollo 18 (Unrated) Found - footage horror flick, set in 1974, shedding light on a government cover - up of a NASA space mission on which the crew of astronauts were attacked by parasitic life forms they discovered on the moon.