Sentences with phrase «budget slasher»

Vacancy (Screen Gems, April 20) Starring: Luke Wilson, Kate Beckinsale, Frank Whaley, Ethan Embry Director: Nimród Antal Rating: NR The Pitch: After their car breaks down, a married couple (Wilson and Beckinsale) wind up in an isolated motel, where their evening of watching low - budget slasher films is ruined by the discovery that said films were all made in their room.

From the emotional making of a low - budget slasher to zombie nightmares, Gothic horrors, an outrageously strange mind cult, a sci - fi alien action extravaganza, a comic strip creature feature and the last word in Killer Clowns, this year - s line - up is an eclectic mix of the quirky, unusual and extreme.

When David (Luke Wilson) and Amy Fox's (Kate Beckinsale) car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, they are forced to spend the night at the only motel around, with only the TV to entertain them... until they discover that the low - budget slasher videos they find in their room were all filmed in the very room they're sitting in.

«So he's into low - budget slasher flicks... with really, really big special - effects budgets,» Ollie (Chris Dinh) glibly says to Blair (Katie Savoy) moments before their sickening realization that they are trapped inside a serial killer's dungeon fitted with Temple of Doom - style moving walls.

The low - budget slasher film Ruthie starred in has tons of (intentional) goofs.

And let's not forget the low - budget slasher Happy Death Day, which pulled in an impressive $ 26.5 million at the domestic opening weekend box office.

Overall, this is a sloppy sequel to a good little low - budget Slasher.

Some are being called «impossible,» while others sound like they belong in the storyline of the next low budget slasher flick.

Last year, Disney embarked on a bloody restructuring resembling a low - budget slasher flick; Miramax lost most of its staff in October, and Battsek announced his departure at the end of that month.

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).

It wasn't until he read the original R - rated, slasher / horror version of the script from B - Horror icon Michael McDowell that he became interested in making another big - budget movie.

The plot of this low budget 1989 slasher flick is... well... it's Halloween with a few absurd additions.

A highly stylized slasher film embellished with numerous creative touches and shot on a miniscule budget, Stage Fright served as an effective calling card and won much acclaim despite only moderate success in his home country.

Made on a reported budget of just $ 4.8 million, the Christopher Landon - directed original slasher flick has officially joined post-boom slashers such as Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Freddy vs. Jason and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) in the prestigious $ 100 million club.

Where many of its nastier, bloodier copycats have long since been carved and diced from our memory, John Carpenter's low - budget, genre - defining excursion into the slasher film's virgin territories is still very much alive and freshly frightening today.

According to the LA Times, the iconic 1978 slasher flick was shot on a budget of $ 300,000 over 20 days in southern California.

Based on fact, this indie low - budget movie about a Texas serial killer influenced a host of less factual slasher movies later on.

Anyway, despite being just another slasher movie with a very silly name, by Hollywood's definition it was a success (ie it turned a profit) and so a sequel, with a bigger budget and worse script, was inevitable.

A longtime friend of Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell, Spiegel co-penned «Evil Dead II» with the former and wrote and directed the 1999 direct - to - video «From Dusk Till Dawn» sequel as well as the low - budget ’89 supermarket - slasher «Intruder».

, not to mention a host of low - budget films falling into the slasher sub-genre (sequels to Friday the 13th and Halloween, The Prowler, The Burning, et al) that came to define the decade in horror.

Often cited as the first «true» slasher film, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was produced on a low budget by director Tobe Hooper, who was inspired by real - life serial killer Ed Gein to create a chainsaw - wielding mass murderer named Leatherface.

Adding a slick contempo sheen to the Texas Chain Saw Massacre template (thereby ignoring the grimy, low - budget look that made that 1974 classic so disturbing), this finds two college - age siblings (well - played by Gina Philips and Justin Long), stranded in the middle of Nowhere, USA, stopping to investigate when they spot a menacing figure dropping bodies down a pipe (their reasons for not calling the police are witless even beyond the low - ebb demands of the slasher genre).