Sentences with phrase «character in a horror movie»

While it's always going to be less frustrating when characters in horror movies behave like intelligent, attack mode - ready superhumans and can turn the tables on their terrorizers, Kinsey and her family all react as realistically as one would and with believable fallibility when thrown into a horrific situation they weren't ready for, and it's worthy of applause when some of them find it in themselves to fight back.

Fifteen years ago, a horror movie called Scream arrived and changed the way characters in horror movies talk about their situation.

And frankly, I got a little judgmental about the actions of the Scooby Gang and the characters in the horror movies.

Not exact matches

Groups of young friends who go to see some of the more death - focused horror films in vogue of late will routinely take bets on which stock character will face a grisly end soonest, as when viewing the Final Destination series» a film series that is, essentially, the apex of the set - piece disaster horror movie as orchestrated by MacGyver.

In the end, this is again a very good horror comedy which needs to focus less on the main characters (lets face it, they are cliches and the interest of this whole movie is to the idea behind it) and more on the variety of monsters that were created for this film.

When I first saw the trailer for this movie I thought it was good to be another awful horror film, but the twist led by the characters played by Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins makes this one of the most inventive horror films I've seen in a while.

All directors make the same movies of obsession, there is sex drama and rage but this is not a not a horror movie it's perry's next drama movie, which sucks Perry Black a-fies everything in his movies he adds humor quotes to characters line and it's not funny.

Though often consigned by Hollywood's typecasting system to workaday villain roles, Kenneth Tobey has not be forgotten by filmmakers who grew up watching his horror - flick endeavors of the 1950s; he has been afforded key cameo roles in such latter - day shockers as Strange Invaders (1983) and Gremlins 2: The New Batch, and in 1985 he reprised his Thing From Another World character in The Attack of the B - Movie Monsters.

It has some clichés here and there that could have been avoided and the characters sometimes don't seem to be the brightest people in this sort of situation, but still this atmospheric horror movie works quite well, especially in a second half that can be really unnerving.

The concept of manipulated characters in a forbidding, controlled space is as old as the earliest horror movies, but rarely has that space been as fascinating to look at as it is here.

A few unexpected minor pleasures: the time - travel flick Predestination, an adaptation of a Robert A. Heinlein short story that's one of those rare sci - fi movies that feels like it was made by people who read sci - fi; the horror Western Bone Tomahawk, which feels, in the best way, like someone filmed a first draft script and didn't cut anything, all its little quirks of character kept intact, narrative expediency be damned; and In The Heart Of The Sea, the cornball sea adventure of which I enjoyed every minutin the best way, like someone filmed a first draft script and didn't cut anything, all its little quirks of character kept intact, narrative expediency be damned; and In The Heart Of The Sea, the cornball sea adventure of which I enjoyed every minutIn The Heart Of The Sea, the cornball sea adventure of which I enjoyed every minute.

«Game of Thrones» star Charlotte Hope will play Sister Victoria, a nun haunted by a demonic presence, in New Line's The Nun, the latest spinoff from James Wan's horror universe based on characters from The Conjuring movies, says THR.

There are many reasons why The Thing is considered a top - tier horror movie, but the fact that any one of the stellar character actors featured in the film could actually be the titular shape - shifting alien creature is definitely one of them.

But Allen did perfect the survivalist formula that propelled many disaster movies (and countless horror movies since), in which an assortment of characters band together under the leadership of one shrewd and decisive individual to escape from an enclosed space before time runs out.

While some of the side characters could have used some work, the main characters were likable and sensible (A rare quality in a horror movie).

Not bad at all.this film keeps you guessing in ways you never do a lot in horror films.Rob Zombie directs theses actors like I've never seen a horror director do before.this movie is truly amazing, people are calling it «terrible» I call it «good» it's the kind of horror film that actually deals with characters and not just pointless blood and guts.I felt like all these characters really did go through something, and this movie is truly just about them overcoming it.I don't consider this a horror film, I consider this a drama / horror film, cause that is what it is, and I love it.this mvie isn't just about a killer killing people, it actually deals with the people he's after anf even deals with himself at times, which I truly loved.Rob Zombie has proved to me again that he could direct.perfect seq...

The movie, which will be released in theaters tomorrow, also gripping leaves audiences questioning who it strong - willed characters are, and how their circumstances connect with the hit monster horror film, «Cloverfield.»

Owen Wilson, who I don't even remember being in this, gets a lot more to do than I remembered, complete with not just the misfortune of being the «horny guy» in a horror movie, but a functioning character arc that adds some middle act intrigue to the whole affair.

Traumatic backstories are one of modern horror's most durable tropes, but Flanagan's strong interest in his characters has always put his movies a cut above the rest.

«The Grudge» suffers from a lack of character development and several minor gaffes in its own internal logic, as well as the kind of often nonsensical horror - movie plot calculation that leaves shamelessly obvious openings for endless sequels.

But when the theater suddenly catches fire and Max cuts through the projector screen in order to escape, the group is mysteriously sucked into the cult horror classic where they must team up with the movie's fictional characters in order to battle its machete - wielding killer.

The result is a horror movie without horror and an adolescent bully comeuppance intrigue (see it best in Carrie) that has as its centre a character so Crispin Glover (so «one big cockroach right on his anus» Jingle Dell Crispin Glover) that it defeats sympathy and sense.

In other words, she's not the kind of character that survives very long in a horror moviIn other words, she's not the kind of character that survives very long in a horror moviin a horror movie.

Shults is in pre-production on his follow - up, It Comes at Night, a horror movie written in reaction to the death of his biological father, who was also a primary influence for the character of Krisha.

The meta - level layering and critical dialogue about horror movies in this sequence (characters with little to no development, predictable scare setups, and shocking turns that don't make much sense) are calls for variation that Kevin Williamson's script leave largely unanswered once the plot proper kicks into gear.

The recent batch of horror is left to a passing mention of «torture porn» (by a character in one of the movies within this one (or perhaps the movie within that one)-RRB-, while remakes and rebooted franchises earn a bit more of Williamson's chagrin.

It is nice to see a horror movie pay more than lip service to the character and that is partially down to Sophia Lillis going above and beyond in the child actor category.

I felt really strongly that what we have here is so beautiful and the way that the character develops, the way it's paid off, and not only that, the horror of trying to manufacture something that — I don't even know what it would have been, but something for the end of this movie that leaves it in a place where the transition is easier, the idea of, «Oh God, how would you fake something like that, and how would it not be terrible?»

It plays with standard horror movie characters, styles, and clichés but completely one ups them by taking it to the next level and doing something so completely original in the second half of the movie.

And while the cast is wall - to - wall great, what's notable (for genre fans, anyway) is that the title character is played by none other than Anya Taylor - Joy, who broke out in this year's hit horror movie The Witch — only now it looks like she's the one doing the tormenting.

Yet when you throw in iconic horror character Michael Myers, the theme song to the Halloween movies and the first of a four - part storyline for Extinction, Onslaught is a little more than your run - of - the - mill CoD DLC.

Surprisingly, of all of the King adaptations, that 1986 film — which featured young characters on a journey to find a dead body — feels the most similar to this one despite the fact that this movie belongs in the horror genre.

Losing a leg — in most horror movies, this would spell doom for a character.

Written by Max Landis (Chronicle, American Ultra), Victor Frankenstein isn't so much a re-imagining of Mary Shelley's iconic 1818 sci - fi / horror novel, «Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus»; rather, it's an origin story for the eponymous character, as seen from the perspective of Igor (who didn't originate in Shelley's source book, but rather in a subsequent movie adaptation).

«What the movie is about is not funny,» Peele insisted back in November about his biting commentary on racism, white privilege and horror movies» tendency to kill off their black supporting characters first.

The 50 - year - old actor will play lead character Doctor Joseph Coupland in the horror / thriller movie to...

While THE CONJURING is obviously working some kind of magic on a large percentage of viewers I personally found this utterly predictable throwback to «70s horror cinema so clichéd, schmaltzy, devoid of compelling characters, lacking in atmosphere and flat out boring that I almost walked out of the theater midway through the movie.

This element, in addition to taking the story to horror, science fiction and fantasy, opens the movie to a direct metaphor of the characters» external and internal conflicts, and to a real representation of what the characters reject and long for.

Despite «Disorder» can not be classified as a horror movie, the mansion where Jessie lives becomes a character of its own, just as in many films pertaining to that genre.

Like characters in one of those zombie movies where no one says «zombie,» the crew of the Cloverfield space station — a big metal psilocybin mushroom orbiting near - future Earth — doesn't know what it's in for, having left our planet without ever having seen a single sci - fi horror movie: not Alien, not Event Horizon, and...

It also features some rather generic characters doing all the frustrating things that people in horror movies have done for decades.

Meanwhile, Olivia Wilde starts off doing something in the vein of her House M.D. character, but eventually steals the show by portraying a genuinely creepy and frightening horror movie villain.

Winstead recently wrapped on forthcoming film «All About Nina» and last year she starred in horror movie»10 Cloverfield Lane» opposite John Goodman, whose character Howard Stambler holds her alter - ego Michelle captive in an underground bunker.

Like characters in one of those zombie movies where no one says «zombie,» the crew of the Cloverfield space station — a big metal psilocybin mushroom orbiting near - future Earth — doesn't know what it's in for, having left our planet without ever having seen a single sci - fi horror movie: not Alien, not Event Horizon, and definitely nothing about science gone wrong.

«Their Finest» is small - scale, as WWII movies go, but that gives you time to appreciate its characters (including Bill Nighy as a demanding aging actor with hidden softness) and the moments it captures related to the everyday horrors of war — the inconvenience / tragedy of crew members not showing up on set because they were killed in the Blitz, for example.

Not stopping there, Fox aims to keep pushing boundaries for their series and the genre as a whole with three separate X-Men releases in 2018, the first of which being The New Mutants which introduces an all - new roster of characters from Marvel Comics and puts them in a horror movie!

Giamatti talked about how wild it was to be a part of such a historically terrifying story, that he describes as «a horror movie, in itself,» and said that he played one of the wealthiest slave traders in America, at that time, how difficult it was to do some of what his characters does to these people, and how amazing it was to work with the director, who wanted to create a world it which these actions were completely normal.

Among other things, the actress discussed how the horror thriller «Fear,» and the horror genre in general, influenced her decision to take on the role of Sylvia; how forming close working relationships with both Johnston and Bota while filming helped develop her character; and how she has already been receiving positive feedback from fans who have seen the movie.

It's a movie that you have to see to believe, and even if it never really ends up being the hilarious action - horror film you expect it to be from the description, it does surprise by being true to the characters and situations in a way that merits respectability where it could have easily gone for exploitation.

See, in most horror movies, we the audience know exactly when the characters are marching to their doom.