Sentences with phrase «classic genre flick»
As someone who has faithfully recreated a cult classic genre flick, we're also pretty sure he would respect the source material.
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In their previous screenplays, Wright and Pegg have very shrewdly thrown genre conventions on their collective ear; they clearly love horror movies and action flicks and buddy comedies, and they understand the structure of those films with such clarity that they can rewrite the rules, scramble up our expectations and wind up with a creation that's both an homage to and a subversion of past classics.
«Get Out» injects social satire into the slasher - flick genre; Peter Travers on why Jordan Peele's race - relations horror film is an instant classic.
Shutter Island, the director's first foray into a full - on horror flick, is an entertaining, stylish genre pastiche, soaked in classic B - movie elements.
The film is a direct sequel to Tobe Hooper's malevolent and masterful 1974 flick, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, picking up hours after the genre classic before a modern setting takes us on a journey of more mayhem with the chainsaw - wielding maniac, Leatherface (Read our review HERE).
A mash - up of high school satires like «Heathers» and vintage slasher flicks like «Carrie,» «Jennifer's Body» isn't quite the cult classic it could have become, but it has enough going for it to entertain fans of both genres.
An American Werewolf in London is one of those flicks oft - referenced by filmmakers when describing a perfect marriage of genres (and a classic soundtrack).
Though the film follows a pretty standard cops - and - robbers formula, it does so with such razor - sharp proficiency and well - drawn characters that it succeeds not only as a terrific genre flick but a modern American classic in the same vein as «No Country for Old Men.»
WHY: After taking the festival circuit by storm with their home invasion thriller, «You're Next,» the writer - director duo of Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett seemed poised to deliver another cult classic with this low - budget genre flick.
From the start Curtis pursued acting and appeared in a number of horror flick classics before breaking free from the genre.