Sentences with phrase «element of the supernatural»

Split is written and directed by Shyamalan, following up his return to low budget films The Visit this year, and is supposedly a «suspense thriller with elements of the supernatural».

In particular, del Toro and his co-screenwriter Matthew Robbins (Mimic) seem to have taken A.S. Byatt's 1993 book Angels & Insects — or its 1995 cinematic adaptation — reversed the genders of the main characters, and added elements of the supernatural.

In a year filled with films that successfully cohabited honest humanity with elements of the supernatural, animator Makoto Shinkai's metaphysical teenage mind - scrambler rises above the crowd.

According to a poll released in January by the Public Religion Research Institute, about half of all Americans believe that some element of the supernatural plays a role in sporting events.

A different director might have highlighted an element of supernatural threat in her presence — she is, after all, a barrier between Darwin and his wife — but Jon Amiel plays it mostly straight and psychological, with the only off - beat a waking dream sequence that's somewhat overblown.

That defamiliarizing effect is partially achieved by adding an element of the supernatural, a visitation from perhaps the greatest love of Reynolds's life.

Every element of the supernatural drama is unique, yet all fade into the background during character studies of the evil, conflicted and remorseful castaways.

Much of the backstory about the Sarah - Shiloh courtship comes from a novella I wrote about Sarah, which was a police story with elements of the supernatural that had a very grim ending.

It seems realistic at the same time that there is the element of supernatural.

In her Mystic Escapes series, she adores blending reality with the mythological because she believes there's an element of the supernatural in the unexplained miracles and happenings of everyday life... the magical things in our world that give us hope for something beyond our existence.