Sentences with phrase «find good horror films»

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I found that the film is fairly underrated and despite the fact that it's somewhat cliché, inspired and derivative of other, better horror films; The Hearse is a good enough film.

This is where you'll find the best mind - bending sci - fi, out of this world fantasy, and bloody good horror films all hours of the day... and night — in jaw - dropping High Definition and crisp Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.

Its comparatively simple first act remains a good example of how to apply the horror elements of the Silent Hill games to film with a degree of elegance and wit, and for a solid 35 minutes, it's an atmospheric film about a mother whose deeply maternal desire to help her daughter inadvertently places her in danger, and the need for Radha Mitchell's Rose to find her daughter when she goes missing provides a cogent and palatable, if somewhat slight, emotional basis from which the proceeding action can spring.

I also don't find it inordinately scary, but it is well created, especially in its use of sound to create tension, which is more than one could say about most jump - scare dominated horror films released in theaters today.

Additionally, in no particular order, there were vocal supporters of the Ralph Jones «incongruously great score to «Slumber Party Massacre ``; «Phantasm» «s heavily «Exorcist «- indebted score from Fred Myrow and Malcom Seagrave; Danny Elfman «s channelling of Bernard Herrmann for «Nightbreed ``; Wojciech Kilar «s bombastic, often recycled music for «Bram Stoker's Dracula ``; John Harrison's score for Romero's anthology film «Creepshow ``; Richard Band «s better - than - deserved compositions for the terrible «Troll ``; the great Lalo Schifrin «s score for the original «The Amityville Horror ``; a more recent example in Climax Golden Twins» music for Brad Anderson «s now cultish «Session 9 ``; Pino Donaggio's terrific work with de Palma's «Dressed to Kill ``; Gene Moore's classic church organ scares in «Carnival of Souls ``; and while we've featured Bava fils above, we could easily have found room for his father Mario Bava, probably with the funky original music by Libra for his final film «Shock.»

I must say, though, that I didn't find it all that extreme, since writer / director Julia Ducournau references so many other horror films (and does it so well).

Horror films in the winter usually do well, and I'm sure this one will find an audience - no matter how delayed it is.

Strange Invaders (Twilight Time, Blu - ray)-- Part offbeat horror film, part UFO conspiracy, and part tribute to 1950s alien invasion pictures, this good - natured comic sci - fi film stars Paul Le Mat as a college professor who goes in search of his ex-wife and finds a time - warped town that shouldn't exist populated by bug - eyed monsters that shoot lasers.

It's one of the best lead lead performances to be found in a horror film in recent memory.

While it's not exactly a horror movie — it's probably best described as a siege film — horror fans will find much to enjoy.

The first trailer and poster for director Barry Levinson's (Rain Man, Good Morning Vietnam) found footage horror film The Bay have landed online.

The writer and director of «Get Out» on Sunday, March 4, won an Oscar for his first film, taking a best original screenplay statue for the sociological thriller about a black man who meets his white girlfriend's family and finds a house of racial horrors.

Opening in September: Kirsten Dunst and Isla Fisher take a turn in the comic bridesmaid well in «Bachelorette» (Friday); Bradley Cooper is an author whose stolen work becomes a hit in «The Words» (Friday), a thriller co-starring Jeremy Irons and Dennis Quaid (see story on Page 17); Pixar adds another dimension to one of its most popular films in «Finding Nemo 3 - D» (Sept. 14); Milla Jovovich returns for one more zombie slaughter in «Resident Evil: Retribution» (Sept. 14); Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña are Los Angeles cops in «End of Watch» (Sept. 21), which aims for a realistic look at inner - city law enforcement; Elizabeth Shue and Jennifer Lawrence are mother and daughter, discovering a horror - tinged secret in «House at the End of the Street» (Sept. 21); Karl Urban plays «Dredd» (Sept. 21), a helmeted avenger who cleans up the futuristic Mega City as its judge, jury and (wait for it...) executioner; In the animated «Hotel Transylvania,» Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) struggles to cope with his daughter's new non-vampire love interest (Sept. 28).

Taste is subjective, but I will say, I find it amusing when others call it the «best horror film in years».

Like Miramax before it, A24 has also found success with sci - fi and horror genre films; Ex Machina and The Witch are the company's highest - grossing films thus far, and it has a few horror movies keyed up for this year as well.

Today, it's clear Shyamalan has been paying close attention to the last fifteen years of horror and suspense, because with The Visit he's given us one of the best found - footage horror films I've seen in years.

It's one of the better horror films to come out of Sundance in years and I'm hopeful it will find an audience in North America.

Jump scares are a bit of a trope in horror films now and I find its usually better when you don't see it coming, so It letting the audience know a scare is just around the corner slightly weakens it.

The film, which also scored Best Horror against the likes of Let Me In and Paranormal Activity 2 at our own awards ceremony, was a found footage gem that saw troubled evangelical preacher Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian) inviting a documentary crew along to his final exorcism to finally reveal that the practice is fake.

«The Conjuring» very much feels like a 1970s horror film, before slashers were haunting teenage dreams and well before found footage became the way to make a story feel real.

That aside, I didn't really find myself scared by the film, which apes heavily from better supernatural horror films.

It's hard to find a horror movie with overwhelmingly favorable critical marks, so congratulations for finding It Follows, one of 2015's best - reviewed films in any genre.

What positives I did find were that it is incredibly well shot that really displays the talent that the director Peter Strickland has; unfortunately his talents didn't extend much further than that because we end up with a boring horror film that never really goes anywhere.

Whatever the truth of this, Poltergeist had far more in common with the positive vision of bourgeois suburbia found in Spielberg's own Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) or E.T. — The Extra-Terrestrial (released within a week of Poltergeist) than with any unnerving Texploitation made by Hooper, and often seemed to be a feel - good family film merely masquerading as horror.

Kevin Smith has crafted what he calls a horror film, but what I found to be an engaging thriller with suspense, dark comedy, and quite possibly the best writing in the filmmaker's entire career.

WHY: It's not often that a horror movie finds success both critically and commercially, but «The Conjuring» is without a doubt one of the best horror films of the past 20 years, and that's coming from someone who doesn't much care for the genre.

I must admit, I'm not a huge fan of horror films, mostly because I find many of them lacking in suspense and good stories, and Ginger Snaps isn't really an exception despite the fine qualities.

As someone who likes a little more substance, meaning and cause to their films instead of just human flesh being mutilated, I find, on average, one good «horror film» each year and those films, like Sinister, The Gift, or The Last Exorcism, make you think instead of just showing you images and sounds to make you move.

With «It Comes At Night» jangling audiences» nerves in theaters, we're counting down the 20 best horror films of the current decade and telling you where you can find them.

It's enough for some people to have an immediate knee - jerk reaction to him being involved in any film, let alone a remake of an oft - imitated, never - toped genre classic that found the perfect balance between grim humor and gruesome horror while breaking ground with its astonishing practical make - up and creature effects (the great Rick Baker won the first - ever Best Make - Up Oscar for his work on the film).

I found better inspiration in other movies that are not directly linked with the games, like the films of Park Chan Wook and Terry Gilliam, series like American Horror Story, Twin Peaks or Paranoia Agent and of course in others that served as inspiration for the creators of the games like Jacob's Ladder, Lost Highway or Carrie.

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