Sentences with phrase «budgeted horror movies»

Insidious was one of the early signs that Blumhouse's strategy of turning modestly budgeted horror movies into box office hits would be viable going forward.

Look at Jeepers Creepers, the song was made in 1938 and decades later it gets used in a low - budget horror movie.

When I first saw the trailer for Get Out, I thought it was going to be another stupid low - budget horror movie.

That's the central conceit behind Creep, a no - budget horror movie that delivers more scares than films with 10 times more money.

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.

I thought that I was in for a low - budget horror movie when I entered the theatre at the 2005 Melbourne International Film Festival but Wolf Creek was anything but.

A second track has writers Nathaniel Thompson from Mondo Digital and Ryan Turek, now a development exec at Blumhouse Productions, bringing a sophisticated fan's perspective to the BD, talking about what it was like for budding horror buffs to discover low - budget horror movies on the shelves of Blockbuster Video stores around the country or during broadcasts of USA Network's «Up All Night» program blocks back in the 1980s.

He doesn't rely on an intrusive music score or shock tactics (as you'd maybe expect from a director who cut his teeth on a low - budget horror movie) but wisely pairs events down and allows the tension and suspense to build assuredly around natural characters, performances and events.

Originally posted April 16, 2012 THE CABIN IN THE WOODS Director: Drew Goddard Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Jesse Williams, Kristin Connolly, Richard Jenkins, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Bradley Whitford, Amy Acker, Sigourney Weaver Like any low budget horror movie, The Cabin in the Woods follows five college aged students as they head to a deserted cabin in the woods for a little rest and relaxation.

Until the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, no one in Hollywood had heard of Anya Taylor - Joy, a wide - eyed teenager from Miami, Florida starring in the low - budget horror movie The Witch.

And the cast is diverse and unique enough to give you something you don't always get in a low - budget horror movie.

Zombie master George Romero directed this tale of a film crew who are shooting a low - budget horror movie when a zombie outbreak occurs.

Baker protégé Rob Bottin's work on that film was arguably equal to that of his mentor (who left Bottin in charge of The Howling «s effects after he exited the project for the bigger - budget American Werewolf), and yet the Academy couldn't even be bothered to nominate him (or, perhaps more likely, its members simply couldn't bring themselves to watch a low - budget horror movie not put out by a major studio).

GODSEND (Grade: C --RRB-: What is Robert De Niro doing in this low - budget horror movie playing a renegade fertility scientist who persuades a grieving couple to illegally clone their deceased 8 - year - old boy?

Shyamalan now appears to be attempting a «return to his roots» with a low - budget horror movie.

Seriously bizarre and laughably awful, this low - budget horror movie throws in just about every shopworn idea under the sun, excepting anything that might be considered scary, alluring, or entertaining.

I love a good low budget horror movie that feels a bit realistic.

Well the buzz around Oren Peli's low budget horror movie Paranormal Activity seems to be turning it into a pretty interesting success story.

The next project that garnered her recognition was, oddly enough, the title role in a low budget horror movie called All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, that didn't even get a theatrical release in the U.S..

Cooke helped power the low - budget horror movie «Ouija» to a $ 58 million worldwide gross to date.

-- What ridiculous budget horror movies do you all love?

Since the original low - budget horror movie debuted in 2002, Anderson has written and produced every Resident Evil film and directed four of them.

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 horror version of the script from B - Horror icon Michael McDowell that he became interested in making another big - budget Horror icon Michael McDowell that he became interested in making another big - budget movie.

This low budget but highly - effective horror film is exactly the kind of movie that legendary Hollywood D - movie producer Roger Corman would have knocked out in the»70s: plenty of writhing female limbs, no surprises.

From the Universal classics of the 30s (Dracula, Frankenstein) to the Val Lewton B movies of the 40s (Cat People, I Walked With a Zombie) to the low - budget shockers of the 60s and 70s (Night of the Living Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), many of the most original and frightening horror movies have been made on the cheap.

Roger Corman's movies would demonstrate the sheer trashy power of horror, and Hitchcock tapped into this B - picture aesthetic with his own low - budget masterpiece, Psycho, which popularised the psychological horror film, taking the genre away from its supernatural roots — although William Friedkin's masterpiece, The Exorcist, took it right back there again.

Movie reviews for Horror, Scifi, B, Low Budget, forgotten gems and classics.

You have to give credit to the cast and crew for creating an effectively gothic atmosphere in this low - budget British horror movie.

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.

After a couple of back - to - back big - budget flops, Shyamalan decided to effectively reset his career with The Visit, his take on the found - footage horror movie.

For many first - time directors [see: Sam Raimi, John Carpenter], horror is attractive because fans are willing to buy into low - budget movies if they're suitably original and / or smart, and / or fun.

One day, we will get a big budget disaster movie that successfully molds great action and a compelling story with the carnage and the horror, and that will be a great day.

Scarlett Johansson did a wonderful job of voicing Samantha, and was mesmerisingly good as a flesh - eating alien in Jonathan Glazer's eerily atmospheric low - budget British horror movie Under the Skin, one of my stand - out films of 2014.

The movie is a worthy addition to this low - budget, horror sub-genre inaugurated by The Blair Witch Project in 1999.

When: October 21st (limited) Why: Although it's technically been available on Video On Demand for a few weeks now, Kevin Smith's low - budget attempt at making a horror movie is getting a limited theatrical run towards the end of October in conjunction with its home video release.

Every single ounce of the film's budget is splashed colorfully (but modestly) on the screen, Krasinski and Co. adding even more fuel to the raging appeal of highbrow horror movies, for both studios and audiences alike.

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.

Blumhouse Productions, the predominantly horror movie studio which sometimes whiffs and other times knocks grand slams with its horror movies (but always does so on a budget designed to maximize profit) is the home of Happy Death Day.

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.

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.

I'm into all types of movies — I'm trying to make a horror film (next), and there's some indie movies that'd cost about $ 5 to make that I'd like to do — but this was a chance for someone to write a check for a big - budget comedy, and to be able to do something as balls - out as this one... y ’ know, I'm gonna take advantage of that!»

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.

Low - budget horror fare like Blumhouse's Truth Or Dare, for example: Starring Pretty Little Liars» Lucy Hale and Teen Wolf's Tyler Posey, the film looks like an appealingly unserious blend of the Final Destination and Ouija movies with a dash of It Follows, as a gang of teenagers starts dying one by one in diabolically clever ways after playing «a seemingly harmless game of truth or dare.»

That low - budget titan was a defining hit for Jason Blum and Blumhouse Productions, horror specialists with a knack for steering movies with slim budgets into profitable successes by nurturing talent and canny marketing.

Horror movies are cheap to make, and as long as they provide some decent scares, they usually double or triple their budget at the Box Office.

Patrick Brice's found - footage movie is a no - budget answer to a certain brand of horror, but saying more would give away its sinister turns.

In a scene that looked to be straight out of a horror movie with a much larger budget, viewers were treated to an abundance of gore, creative zombie killings and gruesome deaths (both zombie and human) that pleased even the most veteran genre fans.

Eighteen years after the soul - crushing realities of self - funded film production were exposed in Chris Smith's landmark documentary American Movie, director Gary Doust puts a warm but no less anxiety - inducing Australian spin on the tribulations faced by the next - to - no - budget auteur in Horror Movie: A Low Budget Nighbudget auteur in Horror Movie: A Low Budget NighBudget Nightmare.

Everything about it screams «niche,» from the budget ($ 4.5 million, which is what its studio, Universal, spent to make approximately two - and - a-half minutes of The Fate of the Furious), to the first - time director - writer, Jordan Peele, a cable - TV star whose show ended and who was looking to branch out, to the complete lack of movie stars (although now, Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams are nicely on their way), to the genre: horror cut with more than a dash of comedy and of pointed sociopolitical commentary.