Sentences with word «funhouse»

The exhibition serves as a kind of funhouse mirror reincarnation of those early works, retaining parts of their power and significance but also providing them with a new, highly contemporary existence.

Unlike either of those, Until Dawn: Rush of Blood will join Resident Evil 7 in being PlayStation VR's first foray into the horror genre that will strap you into a carnival-esque rollercoaster and send you hurtling through of funhouse of horrors.

That's exactly what NVIDIA VR Funhouse offers.

Smigel eventually had enough bits to launch a whole show as creator, executive producer, and voice actor of TV Funhouse on Comedy Central.

A giant PVD - coated stainless steel sculpture dominates Galerie Thaddeus Ropac's booth, warping passersby into funhouse versions of themselves.

For «Mistress America,» Gerwig and Baumbach again mine female friendships for both heart and humor, imagining Gerwig as Brooke, a dreamer so nutty that she initially scans as some kind of funhouse version of Frances, who captures the imagination of her soon - to - be-stepsister Tracy (Lola Kirke) as the duo run wild in the streets of New York City.

Dale Lewis's «Fat, Sugar, Salt» — his second solo show at Edel Assanti — depicts life in Brexit Britain as a distorted funhouse mirror: each new angle more grotesque and cruelly familiar than the last.

It's potentially gratifying to think of Trick» r Treat as a misogynistic throwback to the glory days of slick mainstream exploitation in the 1980s — like Funhouse, for instance — except that unlike, say, Charles E. Sellier Jr.'s masterpiece of schlock Silent Night, Deadly Night, the misogyny in Dougherty's film is based primarily on inexplicably poor object choice.

Or perhaps it's the App Store's intimidating number of apps — 300,000 and counting — that surround customers with funhouse mirrors and no clue about where to even start.

This is the exhibition as funhouse.

Its persistent and steadily building atmosphere of dread is equal parts unsettling and bleak, pretty much the opposite of the jump - scares funhouse vibe that dominates the genre.

She also cites the glow - in - the - dark displays at funhouses that she visited as a child as early influences.

«Distortive effects of short distance photographs on nasal appearance: The selfie effect: Researchers develop new mathematical model to explain how smartphones act as «portable funhouse mirrors».»

Refinery29 hosted an interactive funhouse of style, culture, and technology in New York City on Thursday (September 7), where a number of PYTs came out to play at this 3rd annual 29Rooms event.

The middling result, diverting while it lasts but too silly to recommend, is merely this week's funhouse action pic.

The real events of Amin's spectacular rise and fall in Uganda are distorted by the narrative of this movie in much the same way the events of one's life are distorted in one's dreams — or, more comically (and the best elements of this film are comic), the way a body is distorted by funhouse mirrors.

If the action gets somewhat repetitive, very young viewers are unlikely to mind, as Stassen and Degruson (a production designer on the «Turtle's Tale» films, here taking his first directing credit) throw in enough nifty funhouse effects to keep the title's promise.

That makes it one of the most elegantly constructed of Denis's eleven features — a grim noir story broken into its component parts, then reassembled into a haunted funhouse image of itself.

If that's not enough Kinect news, then The Virtual Air Guitar Company have also confirmed that work is underway on Kinect Funhouse, with a Spring 2018 release planned.

«The films that did standout were like when Tobe Hooper's Funhouse opened and there's an actual «creature» in it, that was cool.

The two - hour film is full of elaborations on its central conceit, all of which fit in a kind of funhouse logic.

Its governing premise is a lurid funhouse mirror of the gospels: Everything we think we know about Mary through Scripture is wrong, which means that everything that we think we know and that we believe about Christ is also wrong.

The Terry Rozier Experience is the scariest funhouse I've ever entered, and I'm not sure I ever want to go back.

The cluster is so massive that it magnifies the light from faraway galaxies behind it due to a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, where the curvature of space acts like a giant funhouse mirror to stretch and brighten distant objects.

It was one part funhouse, two parts «accident waiting to happen».

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Two years after a tragic accident, six girls are invited to a party inside an elaborate Halloween funhouse.

It's a rarity in any place, but more so in New York City — you might point to the instance of the Ramones of provincial 1970s Forest Hills, Queens, who were honestly naïve enough at first to think they were making a sound like the Bay City Rollers, or the teenaged Kuchar brothers of the Bronx, who shot their own Tinseltown epics through a distorted funhouse lens.

After landing the coveted «Discovery» award at this year's Toronto International Film Festival and being courted by distributors at a loss as to how, exactly, one goes about marketing a surreal, funhouse black comedy anymore, Aaron Woodley spoke to us by telephone fresh from an animating session on a new project while planning his sophomore feature, Blueberries.

Where the later films move away from the painstakingly literal translations of J.K Rowling's increasingly sprawling novels, these first two films are perfect replicas created with a kind of funhouse spectacle of the wonders of the magical world come to life.

It also found Griffin, with his astonishing arsenal of insane euphemisms (twat - sicle, mangina, she - nis, he - pussy, and so on) delivered rat - a-tat with his manic, immaculate comic timing, crafting in frenetic T.J. a character with a penchant for savouring water - logged food and capped teeth that predict Hilary Duff's recent funhouse makeover.

While the film has the same funhouse feel as «Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,» it carries far more emotional heft — thanks in large part to Wasikowska's soulful performance.

In addition to funhouse shocks that are among the best in new wave horror, What Lies Beneath offers Michelle Pfeiffer in the most haunted (pardon the pun) performance of her career.

THQ's open - world action funhouse seems to drop new content on a weekly basis, be it new outfits, vehicles, or story missions.

The latest disaster movie takes a digital trip through a morbid funhouse of collapsing buildings, casually watching people die while ardently focusing on the few one - dimensional characters meant to matter.

The goth culture's predilection for body mutilation carries through to its logical undead end in a Sadeian workshop of grue that distinguishes the standard underground industrial rave club sequence from also - ran into funhouse queasiness.

Teenagers will likely flock to «Happy Death Day,» Christopher Landon's funhouse thriller about a young woman who keeps reliving the day she dies, but anyone who's seen «Groundhog Day» — or is even marginally familiar with the tropes of slasher movies — may find its repetition as punishing to them as to its hapless protagonist.

He quickly made a name for himself on Dana Carvey's short - lived variety show as a writer, and as the voice of Gary for the TV Funhouse segment «The Ambiguously Gay Duo» on «SNL» before moving on to Comedy Central's «The Daily Show.»

The film's other motif of puppets manipulated by unseen hands (carnivorous machines, funhouse mannequins, children's toys, Trevor's «Howdy Doody» nickname) finds allegorical reduction in the perverse hangman's game that forms The Machinist's central means of symbol - dispensation, provoking a slow - advancing existential dread.

Actually, that's not quite right: Imagine instead a Heathers that gleefully goes all the way past the point of nihilism, and ends up in a warped funhouse mirror reflection of society that blends camp and satire in equal measure (with a heaping dose of gore liberally applied throughout).

The narrative attempts to tell a bizarre funhouse mirror version of a rags to riches story of a crazy director with no talent who becomes a celebrity in spite of himself by making a terrible movie badly, but Franco and his cadre of famous friends (his brother Dave, Alison Brie, Zac Efrton, Seth Rogen, and so on and so on) seem far too tickled making shot for shot remakes of scenes from The Room to latch onto anything beyond an extended SNL skit.

The second, entirely unrelated, what is the difference between a great movie and a terrible movie, and by extension this — are «bad movies we love» ever truly terrible or are they actually funhouse mirrors of greatness, very nearly the same but for the random comic distortions?