Sentences with phrase «create suspense with»

Tom Stoppard (SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, BRAZIL) provides the very smart screenplay, which is remarkable considering the level of detail required, while having to create suspense with what might be a dry subject otherwise.

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Create a little suspense with teasers of new products or previews before an official launch.
Director Andrew Kuehn has excerpted brief segments of terror and suspense in a wide variety of horror movies and strung them together with added commentary, as well as some enacted narrative, to create a compilation of cinematic, fright - inducing effects.
They inject their story with great moments of character and suspense but also have a terrific visual eye to create mood.
Critics Consensus: Abel Ferrara's 1995 horror / suspense experiment blends urban vampire adventure with philosophical analysis to create a smart, idiosyncratic, and undeniably odd take on the genre.
Critic Consensus: Abel Ferrara's 1995 horror / suspense experiment blends urban vampire adventure with philosophical analysis to create a smart, idiosyncratic, and undeniably odd take on the genre.
The film's plot creates unceasing amounts of sheer terror and breathtaking suspense as the ship and its crew face realistic and unknown dangers when it is continually threatened by the scientist's natural defenses while dealing with the antibodies and other factors.
However is a good scfi story with a semi-slow rythm that create some suspense but I wouldn't recommend it if you have seen a lot of Cameron movies.
A master craftsman notable for his almost Hitchcockian ability to create suspense and keep action moving at an exhilarating pace, director John McTiernan began his involved with theatrical arts early in life.
After honing his suspense - building skills in The Sixth Sense and Signs, Shyamalan has established his ability to create films with a twist.
Veteran cinematographer Robert Elswit, Paul Thomas Anderson's frequent collaborator who won an Oscar for «There Will Be Blood,» shoots Los Angeles in the wee hours with darkly gleaming menace, which is crucial to creating the film's mounting sense of suspense.
This is because there are pauses in the action used to build suspense and create tension so we aren't simply bombarded with explosions from beginning to end.
He mixes a brutal emotional core with a Hitchcockian suspense - thriller as its outer casing, creating something that is as fresh and wonderful as it is affecting and horrific.
Award - winning director Joe Wright creates a boldly original suspense thriller with HANNA, starring Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones, Atonement) in the title role.
The difference between «Salt» and most ludicrous trying - too - hard action movies is a matter of grace under pressure: a veteran director with a firm command (and respect for) the integrity of screen space; a stripped - down screenplay that gives you just enough exposition to create suspense and keep you guessing about what's going on (What's she doing?
The problem with this approach is that not one of the film's observations is new, and its technique — in which artificial suspense is created by cross-cutting multiple story arcs in an attempt to disguise that each one is predictable as a metronome — undermines the quality of its performances.
Wan, with veteran cinematographer Don Burgess, shows a mastery over the camera as a storytelling tool and creates evocative, bone - chilling suspense with just a simple pan or tilt.
This is a suggestive emptiness: a car racing down an empty rural highway, creating suspense; a sky that hangs ominously over a gas station, and then begins to fill with the fiery ribbons of a spy satellite breaking up in the atmosphere; people standing in empty fields and clearings in anticipation of the supernatural; the spotless white space of the test room of a secure government facility; the camera pivoting around NSA analyst Sevier (Adam Driver) as the massive hangars of an Army base flicker on one after another, readying for pursuit.
Midnight Special creates magic and suspense throughout with minimal use of visual effects — but when those effects are brought out in full — wow.
When it comes to creating tension, however, «Life» fires on all cylinders — cinematographer Seamus McGarvey («Nocturnal Animals») makes great use of the claustrophobia - inducing interiors, and editors Mary Jo Markey («Star Wars: The Force Awakens») and Frances Parker («Game of Thrones») never rely on cheap jump scares, instead tightening the vise of suspense with subtlety and effectiveness.
pleads a nearby placard as serial killer Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre) closes in on little Elsie Beckmann... In his harrowing masterwork M, Fritz Lang merges trenchant social commentary with chilling suspense, creating a panorama of private madness and public hysteria that to this day remains the blueprint for the psychological thriller.
Ditto for the finale, a completely ludicrous search and rescue plot that does more to turn an audience against Kim for recklessly endangering her life and the lives of the soldiers tasked with protecting her than it does to create suspense.
Fleischer leads us into this perverse noir world, but it only dallies with its noir atmosphere and instead turns into a straight mystery story — effectively filmed in a semi-documentary style that emphasizes police procedures over character studies or creating suspense over suspects.
Soderbergh and Blunt have created another heist movie with Logan Lucky but traded in the excitement and suspense for misogyny and a lackluster storyline.
Justin Lin (Annapolis, The Fast & the Furious: Tokyo Drift) directs in a terrific fashion, creating the right mixture of energy and intrigue, mixed with humor and suspense.
Each scene creates an entirely new pocket of suspense that, when combined with the film's unpredictable violent streak, holds the viewer's undivided attention for the film's entire 2 hours and 20 minutes.
Perfect for practicing setting descriptions and creating writing with suspense!
Publishing house Edgy Reads was created by New York Times bestselling suspense and thriller author CJ Lyons to share independently published titles with readers in print and digital formats.
These stories take many forms, from driving narrative to lyrical reverie, at times evoking mythic overtones, and this variety, along with an unflinching confrontation with the conditions and consequences of childhood abuse, creates its own form of suspense - in what direction will this book take us next?
Patterson knows how to create suspense, lots of character depth, and has that magical touch that makes us empathize with the hero's pains and misery.
Following his phenomenal debut novel, The Dante Club, Matthew Pearl has once again crossed pitch - perfect literary history with innovative mystery to create a beautifully detailed, ingeniously plotted tale of suspense.
As a writer, Kim enjoys creating stories with a diverse and multi-cultural line up, within the romance, romantic suspense, general thriller and crime genres.
I love memoir because it brings me so close to the writer's emotional experience, but Julie Metz's story goes even further by creating the kind of suspense usually associated with a detective novel.
Here he goes back in time to create that suspense, with a compelling female detective running from demons of her own as his heroine.»
However, she eventually put the memoir aside to return to fiction because she says, «I knew how to create a story and keep it moving along with suspense and surprises better than I knew how to report the countless ways that those years were hard and lonely for our family.»
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This fast - paced thriller keeps you guessing as you follow the clues with the appealing hero and heroine... In true Ms. Burton fashion, The Heart of a Killer weaves a sexy suspense with heart melting romance to create a stunning story.»
Naturally, these sort of controls should perfectly pair with The Climb to heighten the sense of thrill and suspense the game already creates in players.
Whether you are avoiding detection by authorities, in a city under martial law, or you are forging new alliances to ensure your mission, or just shutting down the power grid - gameplay has been developed with great attention to creating a world of jeopardy, emotion and suspense.
Using dramatic lighting influenced by her involvement in the theater, she paints with strong yellows and warms hues, which she combines with distorted and oddly angled images to create visions of eerie suspense, as in a depiction of a prone figure, whose face is unrevealed.
It entertained and provided action but was certainly moderately predictable, and cutting the ending short half a tick to create «suspense» doesn't really work with me.
Create quick mini-tours of listings with Instagram and Snapchat, building interest and suspense through your posts.
This way I take pressure off of myself if I don't actually get to do them... haha and it creates suspense, which what a better time to create suspense than with Halloween coming up.
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