Sentences with phrase «by slasher»

Kasper's compulsion to put herself on display extends not only to living sculptures but photography as well; theatrically staging compositions of her death inspired by slasher films and Weegee-esque murder scenes.

We've seen a swelling of combat - free first - person horror experiences, psychological terrors that tackle existential themes, and multiplayer horror influenced by slasher films.

Amanda, the actress here, is played by Malin Akerman, who is as convincing as the washed - up performer of a certain age as she is as Nancy, the youthful camp counselor who is murdered by the slasher as soon as she takes off her uniform.

Rothe boasts strong comic timing and a gift for physical comedy, a skill that transitions nicely to the demands of being repeatedly victimized by a slasher.

This Halloween knockoff is fairly forgettable, even by slasher flick standards, but it does feature some early work from character actors like Paul Gleason (The Breakfast Club) and James Rebhorn (Carlito's Way), plus it offers the silver screen debut of Mr. Tom Hanks, here playing (what else?)

Going by slasher rules, «Alien: Covenant» checks all of the boxes; the kills are gruesome, having sex gets you killed gruesomely, and if someone seems a little off - kilter, there's probably a reason for it.

It's coming from the same team that brought us Until Dawn, only it'll be less of a cinematic, story - driven tale inspired by the slasher film genre and more of an on - rails shooter built for virtual reality — specifically PlayStation VR.

last ps2 one I bought was great, last PS3 one I bought had been attacked by the slasher cutting out things everywhere that I don't really feel like buying another version.

Not exact matches

Anyhow, one summer in the early 80's my family and I watched a number of Christian slasher films put out by Russell Doughton including «Thief in the Night,» «A Distant Thunder,» «The Rapture,» and «Image of the Beast.»

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Some 370,000 disabled people - many of whom are unable to get dressed or use the toilet without help - will lose # 3,500 a year under plans cooked up by the Chancellor and welfare slasher Iain Duncan Smith.

David Blanchflower, Dartmouth College The day started with a press conference where Slasher Osborne, as I call him, backed down somewhat from his mantra of cutting to suggest that he would reverse the rise for poorer paid workers in National Insurance Contributions planned by Labour in 2011.

The prisoners are his six sons, the Angulo brothers, who endured a childhood leavened only by each other's company and the thousands of films — from classics to slasher flicks — they were permitted to watch and recreate.

Cutting Class like a few horror films of the 80's relies heavily on an overused idea, and by the films release in 1989, The slasher flicks were getting weaker.

Very heavily influenced by «Don't Look Now» and about as gory as any slasher film, «Alice, Sweet Alice» is one of the lost gems of seventies» horror.

Antal's main strength is his versatility, from an astonishingly durable slasher like Vacancy to Armored, an urban western / neo-noir revolving around a stolen armored car, to Predators, a sci - fi actioner about a group of human killers and soldiers that are hunted for sport by the titular aliens on a distant planet.

Pitiful mixture of ghost story and slasher at a sorority populated by random grisly visions and gross effects, when the only thing scary about this production is the wretched writing.

The Final Girls by Hope Madden Part of the satisfying lull of a slasher film is its predictability: idiotic characters behave lasciviously and are repaid for their indignities with the... read more →

Despite various B - movie trappings (the killer in a hooded rain slicker; an atmospheric slasher movie score), Odar and a strong ensemble cast (led by Sebastian Blomberg as the haunted lead detective) maintain a steady intensity and a strong focus on psychology rather than exploitation.

This Halloween, the seasonal offerings include some big - ticket gift sets, like «Chucky: The Complete Collection,» an anthology of all six films in the «Child's Play» series (Universal; Blu - ray, $ 84.98; DVD, $ 59.88; not rated), and «Friday the 13th: The Complete Collection,» which offers Blu - ray editions of 12 films in that slasher franchise, from the original 1980 «Friday the 13th» directed by Sean S. Cunningham to its 2009 remake - reboot directed by Marcus Nispel — in effect, closing the circle (Warner Home Video; $ 129.95; R).

The latest from rising mumblegore (a term we might have just invented, but we think should stick) star Adam Wingard («A Horrible Way To Die,» the framing segment of «V / H / S «-RRB-, and featuring «Step Up 3D» lead Sharni Vinson as the lead, with Joe Swanberg and Ti West among the cast, it's by all accounts a neat, funny subversion of the slasher movie that sees a group of «Funny Games «- style home - invaders hitting a house that turns out to have one person who's more than prepared to fight back.

Saw IV (R for profanity and pervasive torture and gruesome violence) Despite the apparent demise of the infamous Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) and his apprentice (Shawnee Smith), we find the slasher franchise revived for a fourth installment of grisly fare when a couple of FBI profilers (Scott Patterson and Athena Karkanis) are assigned to the depleted police precinct only to find themselves and the surviving SWAT team members (Lyriq Bent and Costas Mandylor) suddenly facing a sinister series of deadly traps perhaps set by the serial killer's ex-wife (Betsey Russell).

«These tens of thousands of encounters plus the appearances by the series» many other heroes makes for an essential experience for any Dragon Quest fan, even if you haven't played a hack - and - slasher in ages.

Leatherface was directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, the duo behind the slasher masterpiece Inside (À l'intérieur), as well as Livide and Among the Living.

This slasher film about four friends being made to pay for their mistakes was largely mocked by critics, but it still managed to become a pop - culture cornerstone.

The maze is inspired by the classic 1978 slasher film, «Halloween,» which co-written and directed by renowned horror filmmaker John Carpenter.

They mix with the characters - doomed counselors at a summer camp menaced by a masked slasher - and wonder if they are doomed as well.

The daddy of all slasher movies, its formula has been mercilessly preyed upon by countless 1980s slice - and - dice imitations («Friday the 13th», «A Nightmare on Elm Street» etc.), fondly dissected by 1990 postmodern spoofs («Scream», «Scary Movie»)-- and of course its franchise of (largely inferior) sequels shows that that the bogeyman is still very real, with «Halloween 9» due for release next year.

Can't you just picture the conversation that got «Silent Night, Deadly Night» made by TriStar in 1984, at the peak of the slasher craze?

Stage Fright (R for profanity, sexual references and graphic violence) High body - count horror flick set at a snobby drama camp terrorized by a bloodthirsty slasher who hates musical theater.

This socially aware scary movie takes you by surprise, setting the scene for a slasher flick that's a ticking timebomb.

Though a PG - 13 slasher film is like the equivalent of sex with clothes on, «Happy Death Day» gets around that hurdle by being less of a straight - up slasher and more of a darkly comedic murder - mystery that just so happens to involve a temporal loop and a knife - wielding masked killer.

Being dull as dishwater is only the first crime of Ulli Lommel's The Boogeyman (1980), a pass by a Fassbinder protégé at American slasher flicks of the late»70s (Halloween especially, but also The Amityville Horror, Carrie, and The Omen) that produces predictably pretentious results without the pang of brilliance accompanying many of the films of Lommel's betters.

What it does serve to do, though, is remind of how interesting a «Bollywood» was Italy during this period: recycling the American western and American slasher side - by - side, sometimes within the same film, yielded a product that was all its own.

Though it has a lot of fun playing with slasher tropes and cinema in general (showing the way Max and her friends are affected by elements like musical cues, monochromatic flashback sequences and slow motion within the fictional movie), the film isn't funny or scary enough, ultimately becoming a victim of its own satire due to its insistence on preserving the genre's traditionally bad acting and writing.

Cursed is a terrible waste of makeup - effects master Rick Baker's return to the game (he's the guy behind the groundbreaking work in An American Werewolf in London); a waste of the menstruation metaphor suggested by its title; and a waste of the reunion of the creative team behind the gory, smart, post-modern slasher flick Scream (Craven and writer Kevin Williamson).

by Walter Chaw Christopher Smith follows up his listless slasher - farce Severance with the handsome - looking Black Plague / witch - hunting flick Black Death — a well - played, well - conceived piece that's ultimately distinguished by a few sticky after - images, even as it doesn't quite get to where you hope it's going.

by Walter Chaw Although by the end it isn't nearly as interesting as it is clever, James Mangold's take on the slasher genre Identity is a tricky little beast that fits in peculiarly well with the recent trend of deconstructive horror films (such as The Ring and Soft for Digging).

I was half - hoping that, during their road trip, they'd find themselves in the middle of nowhere and the rest of the film would become a slasher film, and they're the victims to be dispatched one by one.

Final Verdict: Friday the 13th upgrades its sequel from a terrible slasher flick to a by - the - numbers slasher flick.

What bothers me most about the film is that it squanders a solid grasp on slasher - movie conventions and, perhaps more importantly, on early - Eighties slasher - movie aesthetics, by which I mean the naturalistic minimalism we encounter in the first three Friday the 13th films.

This gag was used to much better effect in Joe Dante's Gremlins 2: The New Batch (where it was similarly adapted for VHS viewers), not only because the monsters had a good reason to stop the film (they are gremlins and it is the nature of gremlins to muck up mechanical things, quite unlike mad slashers, who should just want to slash people), but also because Dante built on the joke by filtering it through his uniquely off - beat sensibility.

With as much taste as «Silent Night, Deadly Night,» this vulgar, gratuitous but nastily entertaining slasher pic proves nothing's sacred by «re-imagining» Bob Clark's 1974 stalk - and - slash trend - setter «Black Christmas» and being released on December 25th (which upset religious groups).

Still, in the slasher - film driven 1980s, Hellraiser at least offered something different, and despite all that it had going against it, it did have Barker's name, and a ringing endorsement by horror maestro Stephen King, who hyped up Barker as the «future of horror fiction.»

By the end of its 19 - week theatrical run, and an eventually re-release, Dimension Films» slasher raked in a disgusting $ 100 million (it also made an estimates $ 70 million internationally).

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.

It says a lot about the film's conscientiousness — hardly a word one normally applies to a slasher flick — that Mr. Harrison is acknowledged at the finale, struggling to stand up on knees reduced to jelly by confirmation that his little girl is dead; there's a reason the French chose to call this Tragic Christmas.

Although constantly at risk, Pandorum's protagonists are by no means the typical slasher film victims.

Most of your typical slasher films released these days are boring paint - by - numbers gore fests.

Most of the stuff I find myself creeped out by no matter how many times I see it (e.g., Cure, the Winkie's scene in Mulholland Drive) is just on the border of the irrational, but slasher movies — in which the narrative is almost always a process of elimination — are really easy to rationalize, which is probably why there's so much academic literature about them.