Sentences with phrase «fright flick»

Director and co-writer Christopher Smith (Creep) seems better suited to a straightforward fright flick than a yuks - and - yikes hybrid.

Since Trick» r Treat - his directorial debut - Doughtery has helmed the well - received Christmas fright flick Krampus, and is also behind 2019 blockbuster Godzilla: King of the Monsters, a sequel to Godzilla (2014).

Borrowing heavily from the slasher genre yet deserving immense credit in crafting, along with Wingard's direction, a wholly refreshing fright flick.

Since Trick «r Treat — his directorial debut — Doughtery has helmed the well - received Christmas fright flick Krampus, and is also behind 2019 blockbuster Godzilla: King of the Monsters, a sequel to Godzilla (2014).

That's more than enough to tickle fright flick devotees, but it didn't leave me more than moderately compelled.

What begins with a very well done fright flick falls apart like so many of these things do and what had been a fun movie becomes a pointless bore and chore for the last half an hour.

It's an old school fright flick with rich characters and meaningful emotions.

We've only just posted the first chilling poster for 20th Century Fox's found - footage fright flick DEVIL»S DUE and now we can bring you the...

Unfriended, a fiendishly clever new fright flick, may be the most ingenious addition to the genre since the original Paranormal Activity.

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.

Some of the biggest entries in this craze included remakes of Japanese fright flick The Grudge, the Korean detective chiller Mirrors, the Thai creeper Shutter, and the Hong Kong horror hit The Eye.

Now, both his «Evil Dead» remake as well as this movie, the home invasion fright flick «Don't Breathe,» are flawed to one degree or another, but he has quite a feel for how to torture his audiences in a good way.

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.

If anything, here's hoping that any stigma attached to appearing in a gory fright flick has been obliterated by IT's monstrous box office.

Like The Exorcist, it's a supernatural fright flick that provokes serious discussion.

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.

Goosebumps won't raise the arm hairs much, or your pulse rates even a beat, but it's an amiable fright flick released shortly before Halloween that should be fun enough to appeal to lovers of rip - roaring juvenile adventures meant to entertain both young and old.

If you are too, then feel free to rejoice with this fancily ferocious fright flick.

We were dubious when this remake of the classic suburban fright flick was announced — it looked like just another cheap Hollywood cash - in.

And when studios do throw money into a fright flick (e.g., Universal's Van Helsing, bankrolled at $ 160 million), the results can be dismal.

It's the kind of jangly fright flick that appears to be about bad things happening to good people, but actually turns out to be...

Discriminating horror fans should also note that it's the most exhilarating fright flick to hit theatres since last year's The Descent.

The first two movies haven't exactly set the world on fire, but if you like your fright flicks slick, stylish and packed with jumps, this should tick all the right boxes.

Like The Blair Witch Project, that most influential (and effective) of found - footage fright flicks, the Paranormal Activity films tend to sharply divide genre fans.

Fans of director James Wan and frequent acting / writing partner Leigh Whannell's increasingly popular fright flicks will be itching for another spookfest following the recent...

If I had the time and money, I'd see every new movie in a theater — except Hollywood comedies and romances, which are usually neither, or found - footage fright flicks, which usually make me wish they'd truly lost the footage — even when the movie falls short of expectations.

«The Den» is a powerful «cyber home invasion» film that taps into the same sense of vulnerability that made traditional home invasion fright flicks like «The Strangers,» «You're Next» and «Funny Games» so powerful.

Fed up with the generic Barbie and Ken - style actors that were getting sliced up wholesale in 1980s fright flicks, he fills his zombie movie with a group of snarling punk rockers («What do you think this is, a fucking costume?»

More astounding than all the fright flicks about shambling, gauze - wrapped menaces wound together.

Not exact matches

Hardy perfectly rations the in - jokes and suspense, building to a gooey and unnerving crescendo that recalls the heyday of the fright - flick.

Fright - Rags has just released a ton of awesome new merchandise featuring George A. Romero's classic horror zombie flick Dawn of the Dead, Hellraiser «s Pinhead, and the Evil Dead franchise's Necronomicon.

Stage Fright (R for profanity, sexual references and graphic violence) High body - count horror flick set at a snobby drama camp terrorized by a bloodthirsty slasher who hates musical theater.

Director Gil Kenan has a solid track record — his 2006 debut «Monster House» remains a sorely underrated slice of»80s throwback kiddie horror — and producer Sam Raimi's fright - flick credentials are, of course, unimpeachable.

But unlike 99 percent of such flicks, it doesn't insult the intelligence or depend on cheap jump - frights to sustain its substantial tension.

Severin Films» boner for Ozploitation flicks has led to some pretty sweet home video releases, including Nightmares (aka Stage Fright) and Australia After Dark.

Severin Films» boner for Ozploitation flicks has led to some pretty sweet home video releases, including Nightmares (aka Stage Fright) and...

From the cinematography, make - up, and set - design, Fright Night feels like a classic vampire flick.

Charley Brewster (Ragsdale, Romy and Michele: In the Beginning) is a typical suburban teenager with a special interest in old - time horror flicks, the kind seen on the local creepfest TV showcase, «Fright Night», hosted by the self - proclaimed king of vampire hunting films, Peter Vincent (McDowall, Planet of the Apes).

Pompeii wants to be a disaster flick but does a terrible job projecting the bone - chilling fright that should come with impending disaster.

The approach keeps Fright Night from being broody and renders it more of a mystery and an adventure than a slasher or splatter flick.

Instead, it's a fairly tame genre flick that is sorely lacking in atmosphere or frights of any kind save for a few cheap jump scares early on.

And Fright Night is at it's best when it's a love letter to those old Christopher Lee Dracula flicks.

Sure the storyline might read like stock fright fare but, trust me, Insidious 3 is one of those expertly - edited horror flicks that repeatedly shocks you when least expected.

Coming out this Friday, August 19th, Dreamworks» Fright Night 3D is a Craig Gillespie - directed remake of the hit 1985 vampire flick...