Sentences with phrase «fright films»

As cultural signposts go, Poltergeist isn't a bad one, with me and most of my generation counting it among the first contemporary fright films we were allowed to see.

For one thing, starting perhaps with «The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,» horror and fright films started literally and figuratively, relentlessly and unapologetically, going for the jugular with audiences in ways I simply had no interest in.

The fright film wasn't directed by the Sixth Sense director, but put out under his Night Chronicles shingle.

But for families interested in a fright film, this one includes brief, but strong, profanities and the portrayal of partial nudity when Caroline climbs into the shower.

But perhaps most remarkable was the fact that it nabbed a Best Picture slot: Depending on how flexible you are in defining «horror,» Get Out is just the fifth (or sixth) fright film in the ceremony's history to ever receive that honor.

Snakes on a Plane may be a mediocre, lowbrow fright film, but Silent Hill is something much worse — a laughably pretentious one.

This particular episode of the radio - style talk show, available for free download from iTunes, originally followed a Utah public television broadcast of The Ape Man, a classic 1943 fright film.

Not exact matches

Another one of those average horror films lacking in imagination and fright, yet is somehow mindlessly watchable despite how boring everything is.

Fright House is actually two films in one.

It's essentially a things - that - go - bump - in - the - night - in - a-spooky-old-house film and it does deliver a few decent scares, although the frights diminish with time, as does the quality of Mirren's performance.

Nick Braun (Prom, TV's Poor Paul), Alison Brie (Scream 4, TV's Community), Brandon T. Jackson (Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, Tropic Thunder), Christopher Mintz - Plasse (Fright Night, Superbad) and Jay Pharoah (TV's Saturday Night Live, Lola Versus) are set to co-star in the film.

«Fright Night» 2011 stands on its own as a decent enough film that gives nods to the original.

I'd never actually seen the original Fright Night, so a couple of weeks ago I took the time to track down that 1985 film.

When it comes down to it, if you hold the 1985 film on a pedestal, you'll probably be offended that they even considered remaking Fright Night.

Officially licensed screen print for the 80s cult comedy horror film commissioned by and available to buy from the super-cool Fright Rags (www.fright-rags.com).

I know brand recognition supposedly equals profits (ahem, tell that to recent films like Fright Night and Conan the Barbarian), but maybe they could try to make something new using the general idea of an FBI agent infiltrating a criminal ring.

More recently, a few Hollywood productions have let him explore a more tongue - in - cheek side to his persona («Horrible Bosses» and «Fright Night» for example), but before that in American films, he was largely squeezed into straight - up hero or classic villain roles.

In this week's show, Joe and Chris talk about the recent spate of»80s film remakes — including two this week, «Fright Night» and «Conan the Barbarian.»

Tom Holland has directed some of the most iconic horror films of our age inChild's Play and Fright Night.

Crimson Peak reveals the first fright before the opening title, yet 15 minutes into the film this original screenplay feels more like a Jane Austin adaptation than a horror movie, and that isn't a complaint.

A highly stylized slasher film embellished with numerous creative touches and shot on a miniscule budget, Stage Fright served as an effective calling card and won much acclaim despite only moderate success in his home country.

Tom has also written and directed such great films such as «Child's Play» and «Fright Night».

MG: How do you feel that your films «Fright Night» and «Child's Play» are now being remade?

Personally, I've seen such diverse films as Hard Core Logo, The Innkeepers, A Lonely Place to Die, Speed Racer, Ghostbusters II, Fright Night, Manborg, Pontypool, and Mad Monkey Kung Fu.

Rock Paper Dead is the new horror film made by Tom Holland, director of the original Fright Night, Child's Play and Thinner.

The film is also to screen at other international film festivals which include Imagine: Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival, Skopje Film Festival, Macedonia, Dundee Horror Film Festival, Scotland, Fright Night Film Fest in Kentucky USA, which is the largest genre festival in mid America.

I think it's because they wanted / expected an effects - laden horror film with jump scares and couldn't handle it when they got a movie that relied on great storytelling and acting to deliver the frights.

MG: Most of the films you directed also came from your own scripts i.e. «Fright Night» and «Child's Play», did you find it easier to direct from your own scripts?

The schedule on Saturday August 13th includes advance screenings of Colin Farrell's latest film, Fright Night, along with The Change Up, the latest film from the writers of The Hangover, starring Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman.

The new Fright Night, which remakes and updates Tom Holland's enduring and entertaining 1985 film about a high school kid who finds that a vampire has moved into the house next door, is about vampires and feelings, but not vampires with feelings.

We only got to see a small bit of the film being shot, so after the break I'll let the cast and crew give you the lowdown on this new version of Fright Night, in their own words.

The non-horror elements of the film are uneven in general: The score, so effective in the fright scenes, suddenly evokes eye rolls when things start to get sentimental, and there's one scene of unintentional comedy where the film's retro»70s setting — another element downplayed in the first film but foregrounded here — collides with its demonic imagery in an honestly pretty silly way.

Unfortunately the film lacks genuine frights.

Australia is brutal and beautiful, and Roeg's film is nothing short of a captivating masterpiece that, like Ted Kotcheff's Wake In Fright the same year, suggests that Australia is never more fascinating than when viewed through the lens of a foreigner.

Beyond the Shimmer lie spoilers, but know that the film presents all the frights with a mesmerizing air that makes them more than just cheap thrills.

Directed by Joe Dante (Gremlins, The «Burbs), the film stars Anton Yelchin (Fright Night, Star Trek, Odd Thomas), Ashley Greene (Twilight), Alexandra Daddario (Leatherface) and Oliver Cooper (Project X), and is available on DVD August 4, 2015.

She has written screenplays in the past, including the 2011 «Fright Night» remake, and rather than necessarily seeing the books «Sharp Objects» and «Dietland» as one - off films, she saw the open - ended possibilities for making them into series.

Craig Gillespie (born September 1, 1967) is an Australian film director best known for directing the 2007 films Lars and the Real Girl and the upcoming Fright Night remake.

Our very own chieftain Paul Heath will bring you his interview in the coming days but after seeing the film over at San Diego Comic Con with cast and crew in attendance (click the following link for my review), we can assure YOU»RE NEXT is easily the finest fright flick of the year.

The fright runs deep in a symbolically rich new horror film from the director of The Myth Of The American Sleepover.

TT: The DP on the film I co-wrote and directed «Monster Mutt» is also the DP on «Fright Night 2».

A new two - hour version of the definitive 2016 documentary on the making of Fright Night, focusing on the first film, created exclusively for this release

More trouble has befallen the production of Seth Grahame - Smith's twist on the Jane Austen classic PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES with FRIGHT NIGHT helmer Craig Gillespie now the latest director to leave the film.

Whether you're a fan of the original Fright Night or have never seen a frame of it, the structure of the new film takes a bit of getting used to.

This special edition Fright Night release will be available to horror fans in the UK on April 10th, 2017, which boasts a 4K restoration of the film.

For his second feature after the gentle teen comedy The Myth of the American Sleepover, writer - director David Robert Mitchell has produced the most unexpected and downright unnerving fright flick in years, a film that riffs smartly on the classics while adding something ineffable of its own.

In 1998 in San Francisco, the film starts off in an acting class (headed by Melanie Griffiths of all people) and we see Greg Sestero (Dave Franco) an aspiring actor who's having stage fright.

Abbott & Costello made the perfect foils for these supernatural antagonists, resulting in a potent combination of fright and funny; the comic timing of the duo is impeccable in this film, and most of the jokes and sight gags remain pretty timeless.

Morgan has been in a wide array of genre films from The Devil Inside to The Last Witch Hunter, Hellboy II, Piranha 3D and even the Fright Night remake.

Yeah, there'd already been a bevy of run - after slasher films with beastly boogeyman - like brutes such as Bob Clark's Black Christmas (1974), and Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), but even those formidable spine - chillers weren't quite like this nimbly sophisticated fright flick.