Sentences with phrase «budgeted supernatural horror films»
Both films were made with very small budgets, both proved extremely profitable relative to those budgets, and both spawned new trends in the horror genre — gory «torture porn» / new - wave splatter films (Saw) and smaller - budgeted supernatural horror films (Paranormal Activity).
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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.
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.
Before horror cinema became obsessed with low - budget, haunted house, night - vision camcorder borefests and the gorno genre fetishised the violence with series like Paranormal Activity or Saw respectively, horror films were generally based around hapless teens fleeing supernatural forces or maniacs with machetes.