Sentences with phrase «film as a horror film»

Marketing this film as a horror film was a major misstep and will likely account for much of the negativity this film received.

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This one will be hard to stomach if you actually watch it, but as one of the first ever «found - footage» horror movies, about a fictional documentary crew shooting a film in the Amazon, it has been hugely influential.

Avnet (whose father, Jon, is a veteran Hollywood director and producer as well as the studio's co-CEO) told Fortune the studio wanted to maintain the film's authenticity — they wanted viewers to think the horror film playing out in real - time might really be happening — so they avoided marketing the movie and, in fact, they did not even run the idea by Snapchat before proceeding.

This classic German silent film from the 1920s (which some regard as the first horror movie) follows an insane doctor who uses a sleepwalker to commit murders.

Otherwise they might end up as a short horror film on the Internet.

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.

It has been hailed as one of the most important films in recent years, for its frightening use of mystery and horror elements to look at racism in America.

As he continued to collect stories, with a small team filming the interviews, the horror of what happened during the Holocaust also grew.

While best known for appearing in such horror films as The Pit and the Pendulum and The Last Man on Earth, the late actor Vincent Price was also a world - class gourmet.

We have all heard of the concept used in horror films of aliens invading our bodies and minds, such as in movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

As 2017 comes to a close, I've been looking back at the year in the way the last person alive in a horror film occasionally checks over their shoulder while running at full pelt to see if the crazed killer is still behind them.

«He has previously described the Prime Minister as a dead woman walking who is on death row, and compared the Prime Minister to the living dead in a second - rate horror film.

Marshall, son of the late actor E. G. Marshall, is changing that — and at the same time, he hopes, the tarantula's image as the bloodthirsty villain of grade B horror films.

«Kids» cartoon characters twice as likely to die as counterparts in films for adults: Content on a par with «rampant horrors» of popular films.»

The findings prompt the authors to describe children's cartoons as «rife with death and destruction,» with content akin to the «rampant horrors» of popular films for adults given restrictive age ratings.

The 1979 film «Parts: The Clonus Horror» and Kazuo Ishiguro's 2005 novel «Never Let Me Go» both examine the prospect of clone farms as factories for spare human parts.

But it's good to know that I'm not alone in my horror: Director Luke Gilford has skewered the extreme ends of «wellness» in his new short film Connected, starring Pam Anderson as Jackie, a lonely spinning instructor who wants to feel more, well, connected — so she joins a wellness cult and gets wifi shot into her brain so that Jane Fonda (no, really, she does a voiceover cameo) can tell her how «limitless» she is all the time.

A tragically beautiful horror film that works not only as a supernatural thriller but also as a commentary on the failure of man.

The both films were directed by Fernando Mendez, who also shot a few notable horror films such as «The Body Snatchers» (1957), «The Black Pit of Dr. M» (1959) and «The Living Coffin» (1959).

Generally his film work less successful than this TV work, which features the fantastic Salem's Lot adaptation as well as work on Masters of Horror.

Alas, while I'm in love with the look of the film, I don't find The Shining to be the masterpiece of horror cinema that it's remembered as.

Because we watch horror films, some people see us as these dark twisted people that go and worship satan, and murder cats.

He followed these films with collaborations with Stephen King as well as a number of other horror projects.

i write alot of my own movie scripts, and im developing my own sitcom as we speak.and im also writing a comedy and a horror film soon to be copyrighted and im starring in, directing and filming this winter.

That isn't a short horror film or, as Buzzfeed describes, a «suicide PSA» above.

As a low - budget horror comedy outing, Severance is an impressive film that is original and lots of fun from start to finish.

It twists and turns multiple times throughout its short running time, borrowing heavily from a variety of films in the horror genre (and other genres as well), but under the sure direction and

The film lurches into conventional horror - thriller territory as it progresses, though there are interesting moments...

A fixture of Universal's horror - film output, he is best remembered as the father of the little drowned girl in the original Frankenstein (1931).

It's a slightly trite bit of viewer hand - holding, as are most of the recollections that punctuate Louie's harrowing wartime horrors, but it sets the tone for a film less interested in blame than in illuminating commonalities.

As a horror film, The Hearse does entertain, but it uses a derivative formula and what could have been a great horror film is simply a good one.

Toby Jones stars as a sound engineer who travels to Rome in 1976 to work on the post-production sound mix of The Equestrian Vortex, a horror film about witchcraft set in an all - girl riding academy.

Since the 1979 thriller served as the blueprint for the modern horror film, Laurie is long - held by aficionados to be the gold standard, as final girls go.

As with Eli Roth's Hostel films, the context should be clear to anyone aware of the role America plays in the developing world and the festering anti-American hostilities out there... or to anyone interested in the politics of horror and / or familiar with the genre conventions in this regard.

Wunder became «hooked» on the cinema in 1950 when his father took him to the premiere of George Pal's «DESTINATION MOON» Seminal films during Wunder's formative years as a critic were: The HORROR movies of the 1950's THE KILLING (1956) Dir: Kubrick VERTIGO (1958) Dir: Hitchcock ON THE BEACH (1959) Dir: Kramer MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962) Dir: Frankenheimer 2001 (1968) Dir: Kubrick Wunder graduated from college in 1963 as an Electrical Engineer and immediately got a union job as an associate film editor for MPO, then, the largest producer of commercial and industrial films in the US.

Although at times it suffers from cheesy dialogue, The Cabin in the Woods is easily on the best horror films of our time, poking fun at the cliches of horror, while being pretty scary, as at least one of your greatest fears appears, in one of the best films of 2012.

The film starts to pick up after it begins borrowing liberally from The Omen, even more liberally than the film's two predecessors which, as freak - accident horror films, are by definition Omen clones.

The scariest thing to be found in this pointless horror film is that its director, Rob Schmidt, has less prowess as a genre filmmaker in his third film than Eli Roth did in his first.

As with most horror films, the cast is lead by two extremely good looking people, Ryan Merriman and Haylie Duff, who both give unexpected performances.

What the film does is reimagine other horror films as meta - narratives, except in those cases, the characters never discover the truth about the artifice of their world, as Marty does, just like another fool, Truman Burbank in Peter Weir's The Truman Show, a horror film in its own right.

I've never been a fan, as a rule of horror movies, however, the trailer drew me to this one and i'm glad it did, the awful acting we usually get in horror movies wasn't there this time round, in fact, the whole cast were excellent, the special effects were really very good and the humorous, intelligent dialogue (another thing you don't usually get in horrors) was brilliant, loved the film, Chris Hemsworth, although with less to do in this than he does in Thor, was great in it too.

As a horror film it works, but it is a «self referential» commentary on the genre itself.

But, as frustrating and bewildering as Under The Skin is, it swims with moments of beauty and horror, and few films make you think so much.

The film isn't much of a horror as its not really scary at all so don't be thinking its gonna be a blood fest, there are some bloody moments but nothing extreme.

I mean, I love Rob Zombie as a filmmaker, and he has made one of the best horror films of the last ten years, The Devil's Rejects.

Wasn't too sure what to expect with this being based on a children's fable yet filmed as a serious horror / thriller flick, to my pleasant surprise it was quite enjoyable and had a nice gothic almost German expressionist type feel to it that you might expect from directors such as Burton or Gilliam.

An intelligent and scary horror film that makes a more than welcome commentary on the horrors of war and gender oppression in Iran, using a lot of symbolism and keeping us in an increasing state of anxiety as it moves in a deliberate, slow - burning pace towards a terrifying climax.

With a typical horror film start, the original finds its way to the top as it is filled with surprises and plot twists.

Never has a recent horror film been so purely exhilarating, funny and ultimately entertaining as this.

As someone who does not really like horror films I was pleasantly surprised by this film.