Sentences with phrase «budget horror thriller»

In the midst of the Viacom - CBS merger melee, Paramount Pictures is turning itself around and can celebrate the fact that their low budget horror thriller A Quiet Place has bested Universal / Blumhouse's Get Out at the domestic box office, $ 176.5 M to $ 176M.

Not exact matches

Found - footage horror thriller Unfriended was a welcome surprise back in 2015, when its commitment to a simple but ingenious premise — everything that happens in the film does so on the laptop screen of doomed teenager Shelley Hennig — managed to overcome a lot of the typical low - budget horror movie flaws.

This low - budget combination of heist thriller and horror saga might have an intriguing concept, but lacks the narrative dexterity that a successful genre mashup requires.

Other films meriting mention include Robert Altman «s final picture, «A Prairie Home Companion ``; Mel Gibson «s Aztec - thriller, «Apocalypto ``; Tom Tykwer «s kinetic (perhaps too kinetic) «Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ``; John Cameron Mitchell «s low - budget erotica,» Shortbus ``; Richard Linklater's live - action rotoscoped Philip K. Dick adaptation «A Scanner Darkly ``; Spike Lee «s biggest commercial hit, the entertaining heist film, «Inside Man ``; Michael Mann «s flawed, but interesting «Miami Vice ``; Bryan Singer «s unfairly maligned «Superman Returns; «Nicole Holofcener «s wryly observational «Friends with Money,» the over-estimated, but enlivening horror «The Descent,» and «13 Tzameti.»

In 2015, he began an upswing with the fun mockumentary horror film «The Visit,» made on a low budget with the reigning champ of small profitable thrillers, producer Jason Blum.

The first «Purge» movie was an incredibly stupid horror - thriller dragged down by its comically far - fetched concept, cardboard villains and idiotic characters, but it also made a lot of money on a micro-sized budget, so it was hardly a surprise when Universal greenlit another installment.

Paramount Pictures is looking to replicate the success of A Quiet Place with another low - budget horror - thriller, with the studio fast - tracking Crawl from director Alexandre Aja (Piranha 3D, Horns) and producers Sam Raimi (Evil Dead, Spider - Man) and Craig Flores (Fathers and Daughters, 300: Rise of an Empire).

Q: With this movie, you went into a different mode of filmmaking, partnering with Jason Blum who's a master of the low budget, atmospheric horror thriller.

For one, it saw the release of Night of the Living Dead, George Romero's low - budget, immensely influential zombie thriller, which essentially birthed an entire subgenre of horror films.

Given that horror thriller The Last Exorcism made $ 62.5 million worldwide from a thrifty budget of $ 1.6 million, it's not really a surprise to report that a sequel is now in the works.

This low - budget telefilm rarely gets any attention by Spielberg fans or horror enthusiasts who seem to prefer DUEL (1971) or his later attempt at producing a supernatural thriller, POLTERGEIST (1982).

Given the currency of contained horror films and psychological thrillers — «low budget horror films set within a single location» appears on every «Screenwriters Wanted» list in Hollywood — it it's no surprise that the above breakdown sounds so familiar.

In the liner notes to DigitMovies» soundtrack CD, author / Bavaphile Tim Lucas explains that horror films were quite verboten by Mussolini during the dictator's reign, and it's rather startling that the country's premiere sound thriller made it to the screen with such grand style when the budget wasn't as massive as a glossy Hollywood production.

He has continued to score increasingly desperate - looking horror thrillers (and they don't come much more desperate - looking than Joy Ride) and is now stuck in a seemingly never - ending rut of providing low - budget, low - impact music for these mediocre movies.

The coming weekend sees another balanced offering, with high - concept, low - budget horror The Devil Inside (a US box - office smash, on opening weekend at least), action comedy 21 Jump Street, heist thriller Contraband and family drama We Bought a Zoo.

«I thought it was a terrific, Hitchcockian thriller,» said Blum, whose Blumhouse Productions had made low - budget horror films such as Paranormal Activity as well as the best - picture - nominated drama Whiplash.

Release: Friday, February 26, 2016 (limited)[Netflix] Written by: Perry Blackshear Directed by: Perry Blackshear They Look Like People is the debut feature from Perry Blackshear, a quietly unassuming hybrid of horror and psychological thriller elements built on a shoestring budget.

The Terminator, released in 1984, was a considerable hit; when Carolco spent millions on buying the property, and around $ 100 million on making T2, it was betting that Cameron could turn a low - budget sci - fi thriller with horror overtones into a major summer blockbuster.