Sentences with phrase «children in horror films»

I'm not sure there is anything creepier than children in horror films, there is just something about taking that innocence and turning them into something dark and sinister that doesn't sit well with...

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All the statistics about attendees indicate that horror films are still solid date movies» and, in an American society where an ever - increasing percentage of young men and women are staying unmarried longer and having children later, the appeal of thrills that entertain without forcing one to think too hard is expanded to a larger market.

«Rather than being innocuous and gentler alternatives to typical horror or drama films, children's animated films are, in fact, hotbeds of murder and mayhem» say the study leaders Dr Ian Colman and Dr James Kirkbride.

By the time one character reveals in a decrepit motel room that he is, in fact, «a child from the order» (or something), Revelation has completed its transformation from horror film to outright soap opera.

Even more impressive, however, is Fessenden's ability to mix the objective with the subjective in the narrative, presenting his horror film as a very literal expression of a child coming to terms with the ugliness of adulthood.

Although he worked in most realms of exploitation films, from «nudie - cuties» to juvenile delinquent films and even children's films, he is best known for creating the «splatter» sub-genre of horror movies.

The film starts off rather promisingly with an engaging performance from Fabian, but eventually degenerates in style and content to a pastiche of other horror films such as The Blair Witch Project, The Exorcist, Children of the Corn, and so on.

It can't be entirely coincidental that last year's breakout horror film, The Babadook, was centered around the frustrating and intimate relationship of a mother and her child and this year's best horror film — it's true, I'm putting it in writing — is very similarly themed.

This alarming horror film, a brilliant debut for Australian director Jennifer Kent, is as hard to shake as its title character whether you take it as a straightforward monster film, a mental illness or grief allegory, or get hung up on its minefield of taboos (mothers who don't much like their children / over-medication of children / weapons in schools).

In fact, Leigh Whannell is very open to returning to the Saw franchise somewhere down the road, once he gets a political horror comedy made, and a children's fantasy film off the ground first.

The spirit of a vicious child serial killer resurfaces in the nightmares of teens in modern - day and is responsible for their subsequent and shocking deaths in this tense, spooky thriller from who else, but Wes Craven (I'm actually not that familiar at all with his style, but since this is a horror film for the ages I figured I'd best get ahead and jump on the bandwagon as quick as possible to make up for lost time).

If Candyman is a sociological horror film, it's also a scatological one steeped in shit and piss and, by the end, courageous enough to martyr its martyrs (educated women and defenseless children) and re-imagine its avatar as something more current in modern conversation than a black man murdered for love.

BEST PICTURE: «Birdman» ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD FOR BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING: Richard Linklater — «Boyhood» BEST ACTOR: Michael Keaton — «Birdman» BEST ACTRESS: Rosamund Pike — «Gone Girl» BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Edward Norton — «Birdman» BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Patricia Arquette — «Boyhood» ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicholas Glocobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo — «Birdman» ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Gillian Robespierre — «Obvious Child» BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: «The Lego Movie» BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: «CitizenFour» BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: «Ida» (Poland) VINCE KOEHLER AWARD FOR BEST SCI - FI, FANTASY or HORROR FILM: «The Babadook»

Although Room resembles the real life case of Austrian abuser Josef Fritzl, who imprisoned his daughter in a basement and fathered seven children with her over a period of twenty - four years, it's not the claustrophobic horror film audiences might expect.

Actress EMILY BLUNT endured sleepless nights as a child after watching horror movie THE EXORCIST.The Brit stars in scary new film The Wolfman,...

The most killer toy ever is back, as Universal Studios officially announced today that the seventh film in the Child's Play horror franchise will begin production this Monday, titled Curse of Chucky, and an announcement video and details have been released.

He has said in interviews that the reason he made the film was for the family dynamic that reminded him of his own (he has two young children with wife and costar Blunt), rather than the horror elements.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

The horror film is about a post-apocalyptic world where blind monsters have culled humanity and survivors have to live without making a single sound.Things get complicated when the couple find out that they are expecting another child and must survive with the risk of a noisy newborn in a world where the slightest whisper can get you killed.

What also made The Exorcist so different to usual horror was that it placed the horror smack dab in the home, in the family, in an innocent child (played by Linda Blair who never really seemed to escape from this film's shadow).

Actress EMILY BLUNT endured sleepless nights as a child after watching horror movie THE EXORCIST.The Brit stars in scary new film The Wolfman, alongside Benicio Del Toro and Sir Anthony Hopkins, but admits she hasn't...

IFC Films picked up the psychological horror film «The Babadook» and the latest from Jim Mickle and Nick Damici, «Cold in July,» while A24 snatched up the horror - comedy «Life After Birth» as well as Jenny Slate's «Obvious Child.»

My list of didn't - see - yet shame includes: Eskil Vogt's Blind that everyone raved about, Brendan Gleeson's Calvary which Fox Searchlight picked up, German drama Wetlands, Jake Paltrow's sci - fi western Young Ones, Jim Mickle's Cold in July, bedtime horror The Babadook that some said is the best of the fest, Mark Duplass & Elisabeth Moss in The One I Love, Jenny Slate in Obvious Child, A.J. Edwards» Lincoln film The Better Angels, plus the highly praised closing night film They Came Together, not to mention the Audience Award winning doc Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory.

The film features an impressive cast that includes Wannell himself along with The Faculty star Elijah Wood returning to horror in a high school setting in the story of a virus that hits a small Illinois town and turns the young children into deadly little monsters little monsters.

Though at times it threatens to veer off into wistfulness, the film succeeds in dealing with the horrors of the Holocaust from a child's perspective because the story - telling is direct and forthright.

This is just par for the course in this unelevated children's game - based horror film.

An extension of her short, this creepy horror film focuses on a widowed single mother named Amelia (played by Essie Davis, Kent's fellow student at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney) whose six - year - old son comes across a mysterious, macabre children's book.

Along the way Kwan introduces a fascinating array of relatively unknown figures (I'm especially intrigued by Maxu Weibang, a «uniquely perverse» horror specialist who worked in the Shanghai studios in the 30s) and also provides absorbing commentary by and about, among others, Hong Kong action director Chang Cheh and his disciple John Woo; Hong Kong directors Wong Kar - wai and Allen Fong; Taiwanese directors Hou Hsiao - hsien, Edward Yang, Ang Lee, and Tsai Ming - liang (most of them speaking about their fathers or children and how these relationships inflect their films); older mainland directors such as Xie Jin; and actor Leslie Cheung (critiquing some of his own pictures).

The first trailer has arrived online for new TV show Damien, which is based on the classic 1976 horror film The Omen and stars Bradley James in the title role as the now - adult Antichrist; take a look after the official synopsis... The ten - episode «Damien» follows the adult life of Damien Thorn (James), the mysterious child -LSB-...]

A few other names to appear in the film include Lin Shaye (Insidious), and horror icon Brad Dourif (Child's Play, The Exorcist III).

Upcoming horror - thriller Wolf Mother, about two outlaws on the path to find abducted children by any means necessary, has released a bloody new trailer in preparation for the film's digital release next month, through JoBlo.com.

Starting as a child actress, her first major role was in Ghost Ship, a horror mystery that was filmed in Australia.

Not as commendable were the slick but forgettable Leatherface, the first disappointment by French filmmaking duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury; the Spierig Brothers» Jigsaw, part 8 of the exhausted Saw series; the dull Amityville: The Awakening by Franck Khalfoun, usually a respectable genre director, who does still add his share of clever touches (and meta moments, like when a group of teenagers watch the original Amityville Horror in the «real» Amityville haunted house, into which one's family has just moved); Open Water 3: Cage Dive, whose shark - franchise designation was tacked on as an afterthought, not that it helped to draw in audiences (in an anemic year for great whites, 47 Meters Down takes the prize for the best shark film); Jeepers Creepers 3, a super-limited release — surely in part because of director Victor Salva's history as a convicted child molester — which just a tiny bit later would probably have been shelved permanently in light of the slew of reprehensible - male - behavior outings in recent months.

In almost every instance I'd produce a horror film with audience stars that clearly show it being aimed at teenagers, and wind up with an audience full of adults and young children because the stars listed on character cards vastly outnumber those on the scripts.

Both actress Pamela Franklin (Legend of Hell House) and actor John Franklin (Children of the Corn) were known for starring in horror films.

The large screens mine the horror film genre to explore fantasies of occult powers in young children, while the small screen simultaneously shows documentary material from a pilgrimage to visit children who have had authenticated religious visions.

For the new series of canvases on view in his first exhibition with the gallery, Mr. Becker portrays characters from cartoons, children's television shows and sci - fi and horror films alongside words, written in a balloon - style font, that comment on the American political landscape.

Heidi (1992), based on the 1880 eponymous children's book of Joanna Spyri, for instance, is an hour - long film Kelley made collaboratively with artist Paul McCarthy using techniques borrowed from horror movies, in which rubber life - size figures of Heidi, her best friend Peter (a goat - herder), and her grandfather, clumsily bump into one another and engage in sexual acts.

Themes derived from advertising, science fiction, horror films, children's literature and toys, holiday rituals, cartoons, and comic strips are reflected in his work.