Sentences with phrase «by subgenre»

A «creepypasta» is a short piece of horror Gothic fiction, which is largely known by the subgenre of Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death

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Grunge; Stylistic origins: Alternative rock; hardcore punk; heavy metal; punk rock; hard rock; noise rock; Cultural origins: Mid-1980s, Seattle, Washington Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction or science fantasy that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th - century industrial steam
There are literally thousands of free online dating games out there, but we've made it easy on you by narrowing down the 40 best and dividing them into 8 Dating sims, or relationship simulation role - playing games (RS - RPG), are a video game subgenre of simulation games, usually Japanese, with romantic elements.
Make girls beg to sleep with you after short - circuiting their emotional and logical mind into a million reasons why they should... And you can do this by Dating sims, or relationship simulation role - playing games (RS - RPG), are a video game subgenre of simulation games, usually Japanese, with romantic elements.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters is a Golf sports simulation video game, part of the series Tiger Woods PGA Tour developed by EA Tiburon with Koolhaus Dating sims, or relationship simulation role - playing games (RS - RPG), are a video game subgenre of simulation games, usually Japanese, with romantic elements.
The first otome game is generally acknowledged to be Angelique, released in 1994 by Koei in Japan for the Super Famicom, and created by an all Dating sims, or relationship simulation role - playing games (RS - RPG), are a video game subgenre of simulation games, usually Japanese, with romantic elements.
Unleashing a literal boulder on the tired swank of the British crime subgenre, Jonathan Glazer builds his debut feature not on flashy con jobs marked by the coolness with which they're executed, but the anxiety with which these jobs and the people associated with them bear down and haunt weak and insecure ex-criminals.
A glib yet intelligent spoof, it joins the ranks of Our Man Flint (1965), Aghaye Hallou (1970), Mad Mission 3: Our Man from Bond Street (1984), and other international pictures that glibly satirize the subgenre made infamous to Americans by Bond; like Mad Mission 3, it even packs in an OSS 117 (Jean Dujardin) with a startling resemblance to Sean Connery.
While this is a film that pays tribute to some classic films, it also manages to stand on its own by adding some new wrinkles to a worn - out subgenre of horror.
At the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerima.
«21 Jump Street «It shouldn't have worked — yet another tired reinvention of a preexisting property (in this case a beloved but marginal eighties television series), gussied up with of - the - moment stars and a more comedic bent (something found, time and time again, in the television - series - adaptation subgenre — see also: «The Addams Family,» «The Brady Bunch,» and «Charlie's Angels «-RRB-, shepherded by a pair of directors making the shaky transition from animation to the much woollier world of live action.
I was never a very big fan of this one, despite my love for the subgenre, but it holds a special place in history, and has thusly been given a gorgeous transfer and bonus - laden treatment by the heroes of Scream Factory, the best Blu - ray house in history for horror fans.
Another entry in the popular documentary subgenre about performers and performances (exemplified by «Searching for Sugar Man» last year), this again focuses on a figure of modest fame (1990s female punk pioneer Kathleen Hanna and her band Bikini Kill).
As that appellation suggests, this is an aquatic thriller, joining the horror subgenre that began with and is still best represented by Jaws.
EXPECTATIONS: Park has shown his vitality by tackling different subgenres before, such as with his narratives on vengeance, or even vampires (Thirst).
Another entry into the profitable Brit subgenre of OAPs - find - a-new-lease-of-life, Simon Hunter's film is marred by contrivance and predictability but gets by on a feel for life's missed opportunities, a good heart and a strong central performance by Hancock as a woman finally realising her taste for adventure.
A clunky throwback to the days of the paranoia thrillers and doom - and - gloom cautionary sci - fi flicks of the yesteryear, Eagle Eye suffocates in its own ineptitude by taking the worst elements of both subgenres.
Steeped in the exploitation film subgenre of neo-grindhouse, Good Time will be produced by Elara Pictures» Sebastian Bear - McClard (currently batting 1000 with his first cred being Heaven Knows What).
In the tradition of Shaun of the Dead, T&DVE lovingly sends up a familiar subgenre with insightful, self - referential humor, upending expectations by taking the point of view of the presumably villainous hicks.
for the Sandler bunch, the fact that it was a throwback to the old Hawks / Sturges brand of farcical morality play (a subgenre that has been more or less dead for decades outside of the occasional stab at it by the Coens (Intolerable Cruelty) or I ♥ Huckabees «s director David O Russell).
But Will Ferrell has never been one to go for the obvious joke, and his latest, directed by Saturday Night Live alumnus Matt Piedmont, targets a subgenre that much of its audience will not even be aware exists: Spanish - language telenovelas.
Still, the hardcore horror nuts may be turned off by the lack of violence and gore typically shrouding the zombie subgenre...»
The Omen T he ultimate film in the «demon seed» subgenre, has the son of Satan being adopted by an American ambassador to Britain, played by a greying Gregory Peck.
The woman - suffering - from - amnesia picture was almost a subgenre, a facet of women - in - jeopardy dramas that addressed the vulnerability of female protagonists in a threatening world dominated by dubious males.
Per the standards long established in the road trip buddy comedy (a subgenre also embodied by films like Midnight Run and Tommy Boy), the mismatched men of course endure high - spirited adventure and outrageous obstacles en route to their destination.
«The Collection» may have been inspired by the 1967 thriller «Wait Until Dark,» as the publicity materials claim, but it hardly strays from the torture subgenre of the «Saw» franchise.
Coralie Fargeat's debut feature strives to reframe the rape - revenge subgenre but misses the mark by a considerable margin.
Romantic talkathons form a rich subgenre, with Richard Linklater's Before trilogy, Andrew Haigh's Weekend, Chris Rock's Top Five, movies by Woody Allen and Eric Rohmer and episodes of series like Netflix's Love and Master of None some fine examples that spring to mind.
FrightFest has seen several attempts by Italian directors to revive their nation's giallo subgenre, but the broad pastiche of Dario Argento's Giallo and Federico Zampaglione's Tulpa merely elicited derisive guffaws from audiences knowing enough to see the turkeys beneath all the crystal plumage.
If last summer's «The Conjuring» offered possession stories their classiest entry in decades, Mike Flanagan «s «Oculus» lends elegance to haunted object movies, a subgenre distinguished by such dubious classics as «Death Bed: The Bed That Eats.»
In his introduction, AGFA's Joe Ziemba gave background on the film, putting it in context of both the sexploitation subgenre and Ed Wood's life, by then marked by extreme alcoholism.
A while back, at the height of the quagmire in Iraq, it was the so - called «torture porn» subgenre of horror, kicked off by «Saw» and brought to its gruesome, bloody pinnacle with Eli Roth's «Hostel» series.
Ostensibly a horror film of the «girls trapped in a basement by a madman» subgenre, like last year's 10 Cloverfield Lane, it somehow ends up being a rape - revenge superhero movie, like a DC Comics version of Elle.
The extremely specific subgenre of magical - realist adventures about kids who cope with familial trauma by retreating into fantasy worlds full of monsters — see also: 2009's Where The Wild Things Are, 2016's A Monster Calls — gets a new entry in I Kill Giants, the debut feature from Danish filmmaker Anders Walter.
By the time Halloween II came out in 1981, the success of John Carpenter's 1978 original had already unleashed a slew of imitators in the odious «slasher» subgenre, and critics were primed to take it out on the sequel.
Due, in part, to the outsized proliferation (and templatization) of a particularly disaster - friendly subgenre of science fiction — the superhero movie — mainstream cinema is saturated with images of VFX - bloated destruction wreaked by all manner of creatures: demigods, aliens, pirates, mummies, mutants, advanced apes, sentient cars, and humans.
Statistical intertitles and series of Tweets by tourists and celebrities only further serve to remind us that this is a documentary of the humanitarian PSA subgenre.
I love the subgenre of memoirs about food, so I've loved Comfort Me with Apples, by Ruth Reichl, and Home Cooking and More Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin — collections of very homey essays about dinner and cooking.
It was a well - defined Science Fiction subgenre that the reader could find by browsing through the listings.
To help readers find the books they like, Amazon provides a host of book categories and subcategories, distinguished by genres and subgenres, each with its own bestseller list.
Book news was sparse this week, but maybe you'll be surprised by which genres and subgenres sold well in 2015 and which declined.
By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, commonly known as GULLIVER»S TRAVELS (1726, amended 1735), is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the «travellers» tales» literary subgenrBy Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, commonly known as GULLIVER»S TRAVELS (1726, amended 1735), is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the «travellers» tales» literary subgenrby Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the «travellers» tales» literary subgenre.
Yesterday my new book came out and is called Time Patrol and I asked my business partner, «by the way, do these books have another subgenre on Amazon of «time travel», because this is actually another best seller list!»
All Things Urban Fantasy, Para Your Normal and Galaxy Express (Science Fiction Romance) cover subgenres that aren't necessarily even thought of by more traditional reviewing sources.
By «its kind,» I'm referring the hyper - stylized, combat - oriented subgenre that is populated by franchises such as God of War and Devil May CrBy «its kind,» I'm referring the hyper - stylized, combat - oriented subgenre that is populated by franchises such as God of War and Devil May Crby franchises such as God of War and Devil May Cry.
I wrote on Polygon that Big Mouth's approach to the coming - of - age subgenre managed to reinvigorate the subject «by shaping puberty as an unrelenting gargoyle.»
The game continues the tradition of hack - and - slash side - scrollers (or belt - scrollers, as this subgenre is sometimes known) established by cult favorites like Guardian Heroes, while updating the feature set for modern times with HD visuals and smoother gameplay.
Miyazaki was asked what he thought about how Demon's Souls and Dark Souls have created their own subgenre and how other titles appear heavily influenced by Souls series to the point where the games» basic mechanics seem to appear in other games.
Typified by the Jagged Alliance series and the first three X-Com games, this subgenre is largely PC - based (notwithstanding the odd console port) and driven by Western developers.
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