Sentences with phrase «film than a horror film»

The director, Christophe Gans, uses graphics and special effects and computers and grainy, scratchy film stock and surrealistic images and makes «Silent Hill» look more like an experimental art film than a horror film — except for the horror, of course.

Not exact matches

Marketers promoting an R - rated horror film, for instance, are far less skittish about the content accompanying their ad than the marketer of baby shampoo.

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

Whatever the case, I've realised that connecting mainstream witchcraft with conscious worship of the devil is fuelled more by horror films than reality.

But action flicks typically end on a note of triumph or at least gritty perseverance, rather than the humiliated acceptance with which even relatively hopeful horror films often close.

While it may seem counterintuitive, there probably isn't a film genre (excluding movies produced by Kirk Cameron, anyway) that more consistently or explicitly references Christian ideas and iconography than the horror genre.

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...

The monster in this horror - film scenario is a coconut crab, the world's largest terrestrial invertebrate, which has a leg span wider than a meter and can weigh more than four kilograms.

Mothra Field, Pacific Ocean Named after the infamous giant - insect monster of Japanese horror films, the Mothra Field is even more astonishing than its cinematic namesake.

«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.

Scientists Bad: A survey of more than 1,000 horror films shown in Britain between 1931 and 1984 found that scientists or their creations were the villains in 41 percent of the films and that scientific or psychiatric research had produced 39 percent of the threats.

I can't think of a better snack for a scary Halloween horror film than these Crunchy Pumpkin Chickpeas.

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.

If you're both horror film buffs (or even if you're not), nothing will bring you closer together than watching a few scary films.

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.

I didn't expect much from this movie, in fact I expected to hate it, but Spiders is a much better movie than many other horror films that has been released this year.

This film plays out like more of a drama / horror rather than a straight up horror flick and I really admired that change of pace.

«World War Z» isn't your typical zombie movie, but rather a globe - trotting socio - political thriller that treats the zombies more like a viral disease than something out of a horror film.

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.

One of the greatest and funniest horror films ever made, it has a great story and a powerful scenes with great visuals and exquisite acting, I am a big horror fan, this one is good, it is really good, although I was barging for something smaller and simpler, but it turned out to be way too different than expected!

I went in this movie expecting a cheap slasher horror film, but I was having high expectations, because it has been announced in development since 2009, what I got was way too more in depth than I was barging for, this movie can't be reviewed without spoiling it, what I have to say is... SEE THE CABIN IN THE WOODS, it is different dark comedy with mystery and great visuals (hint) SEE THIS MOVIE.

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.

There should be a little more horror than a couple of shots in the first hour and then a few poorly filmed kill scenes at the end.

But after the first third — the film is more than 3 hours long — Schindler begins to recognize the horrors that are going on around him and feels compelled to do something about it.

More an action blockbuster than a horror squelcher, it contains spectacular crowd scenes that have an Hieronymus Bosch quality, but the film lacks strong meat — of the emotional and bloody zombie - cannibal sort.

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.

More often than not, when a film that is a wartime drama gets released, it usually focuses on the battlefield, and the horrors of war.

I don't know, just the way her body language and how she acted actually really worked and added something to the film that improved it much more than just your basic horror film.

You can admire a movie like Steven Soderbergh's «Contagion» (2011), a realistic rendering of civil breakdown caused by a spreading pathogen, but the horror - film version of disaster in «World War Z» stretches the senses to take in more than you may expect.

If you like your movies slow, boring, and dumb than this «horror» film is for you.

Obviously I'm conflicted here, because it does some things better than Craven's, yet it fails to achieve the same sort of impact and misses the point when it comes to putting the horror in «horror film».

It is an artfully crafted exercise in high - octane style, bolstered by a stronger cast than most horror films could ever hope to assemble, but it's a bitter, sleazy little pill that leaves an ugly aftertaste.

Unlike many of the horror films of the time that relied heavily on gore and torture for cheap scares, «The Strangers» reverted back to authentic dread and played upon the audience's comfort levels — there's nothing more terrifying than being unsafe in your own home.

What better way to try and play co-operatively than holding off waves of the most recognisable sci - fi horror monsters in film?

But as with Hillcoat's subsequent film The Road, neither the script nor the direction allow a genuine sense of horror to build, and it becomes more about the journey itself than the meaning behind it.

Once again the most prolific distributor of the year, IFC maintained a more - than - one - film - per - week pace throughout 2013, with releases in multiple genres coming through a variety of sub-brands, including the artier Sundance Selects and the horror - oriented IFC Midnight.

It's as rudimentary as slasher films go, and although it may not be fair to make the comparison, that will no longer cut it after Get Out proved that the horror genre is capable of a lot more than mechanically depicting people getting stabbed to death.

Horror films need to be more than jump scares to be good, and this one is accompanied by a good moral of growth, facing your fears, and has a good amount of humor to make for a really good movie.

Entertainment One earned less money in 2013 despite releasing more films than in 2012, possibly because those films weren't all that good; only one, horror thriller We Are What We Are, managed to collect positive reviews.

This is an underrated horror film, and it deserves a better rep than it has received.

This is what makes the film better than other low budget horror's because of Johnson's brilliant makeup wizardry and freaky imagination with his monsters.

His script is more ambitious than that of the average horror film, with a plot structured across different timelines, creating excruciating tension in the process.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) that do indeed provoke some inquiry towards the subject of dying and the boundaries of morality - but this film does none of that, Haneke's objective here is no different than in Funny Games: he simple wants to use the shock value to prove that we are captivated to a sickening extent by watching horror unfold before us.

This film is a standout horror Slasher that relies more on suspense and atmosphere to create its horror than straight forward bloody kills.

This gruesome French horror flick (2016) functions more as a mystery than as an action film, with an endless drip drip drip of revelation that gradually exposes a terrifying world behind the everyday.

The original sci - fi, horror, macho action bonanza PREDATOR is one of my top films of all time, its gory as f*ck sequel PREDATOR 2 has grown on me with age (maybe because today's movies are more often than none sub par and castrated hence it glows in comparison).

This is a film about a horrific act of violence that eventually results in more bloodshed and gruesomely realistic, Cronenbergian body horror than anything I've seen in a long time.

The final result is a hopelessly uneven endeavor that's good for a few laughs but little else, with the film's almost total absence of palpable scares cementing its place as a less - than - stellar horror offering.

The film went on to make more than $ 319 million worldwide and still remains the second highest grossing original horror movie of all time, second only to «The Exorcist.»