Sentences with phrase «change in the horror film»
Whether you have realized it or not, you have just paved the way for a dramatic change in the horror film.
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Enduring a grueling - and often cruel - shoot in the Texas heat, Hooper's film changed the horror landscape.
In this rapidly changing industry, genre film remains a strongly communal experience, as horror, sci fi, fantasy and cult films continue to flourish under the banner of event cinema.
John Carpenter, Debra Hill and Jamie Lee Curtis made Halloween a classic, but it was Curtis» closing scene in the film that changed the way audiences reacted to horror.
One scene in particular was very cleverly done and was a refreshing change from the brain donor behavior seen in most horror films.
It's cheap horror, the kind I would criticise if the film was meant to be scary, but in a detective flick like this, it is a nice change of pace.
Director David Robert Mitchell's follow - up to his breakout movie, the creepily elegant horror film «It Follows,» is something of a change of pace: When a young man (Garfield) befriends a mysterious neighbor at his Los Angeles apartment complex (Keough), and she disappears the next day, he sets off on a surreal search for her through a La - La Land populated, in the words of the film's publicity material, by «dog killers, aspiring actors, glitter - pop groups, nightlife personalities, «it» girls, memorabilia hoarders, masked seductresses, homeless gurus, reclusive songwriters, sex workers, wealthy socialites, topless neighbors and the shadowy billionaires floating above (and underneath) it all.»
Davies» films have always supplied strong female roles (think Gena Rowlands in «The Neon Bible,» Gillian Anderson in «The House of Mirth» and Rachel Weisz in «The Deep Blue Sea») and this story, which followed an ordinary farm girl in the 1910s with a dream of being a teacher, who begins to assert her independence in the face of cruelties dealt by people ranging from her abusive father (Peter Mullan) to the initially sweet young man (Kevin Guthrie) who falls in love with her marries her, only to come back from the horrors of World War I irrevocably changed.
Maybe the big idea here is that nothing has changed in Australia in all the time since Power saw whatever horror film give him a yen to make this movie.
The changing tide of film distribution has admittedly watered down the horror options for us (I've sat through some major clunkers recently), but it has also opened up our options for finding new films we might not have been able to find in a post video store world.
Having made his mark as a serious actor to be on the look out for, his film credits of note include playing the gay socialite Paul in the sex and drugs filled dark comedy The Rules of Attraction with James Van Der Beek, Life as a House with Kevin Kline, and Hayden Christensen, Changing Hearts with Faye Dunaway and Lauren Holly, and stars opposite Kristen Bell (TV's Veronica Mars) in the Weinstein Company's horror / thriller Pulse.
IT IS SOMEWHAT COMFORTING to know that in the past one hundred years of film, the major tropes and formulas of the horror genre have changed very little.