question is a rich cinematic tradition and the backbone of so much
good psychological horror, so I'm excited to see what a filmmaker like Soderbergh can do with the concept — especially when he's mixing it up even further by filming the whole damn thing on a smartphone.
Stir of Echoes is
a good psychological horror film that keeps you guessing till the every end.
Not exact matches
It's a very
good meta game, and it's pretty much a
psychological horror game, and a damn of an effective one.
As far as
psychological horror goes, the films work
well, and that they realize Poe's stories were mainly internalized distortions of the world works to their advantage, even as they approach the material in vastly different ways.
10 Cloverfield Lane established the film's anthological style by acting as a
psychological horror film set in the same universe (it's the
best of the trilogy).
Synopsis: «A
psychological -
horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse, Castle Rock combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King's
best - loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland.
If you're worried about this film being touted as a «
psychological thriller» and not a full - blown
horror film,
well, boy oh boy, don't you worry.
David Cronenberg is
best known for
psychological horror films such as Videodrome and Dead Ringers, and although Maps to the Stars is ostensibly a bleak satire on movie folk, there's an underlying gothic mood that simmers nicely to the boil.
This however isn't a
horror story in space, á la Event Horizon, as the synopsis might make it appear — it could be
better described as a
psychological drama or perhaps even as a metaphysical love story.
Inventive, eerie and
well paced
psychological horror outing has more in common with The Shining than it knows, Session 9 spooks.
A
psychological thriller with a
horror bent, Still / Born trots through familiar territory, yet mostly succeeds at making its own way through a
well - worn genre landscape populated by superior fare.
The musical score combined with the familiar songs topped with amazingly subtle (and some not so subtle) effects makes this
best described as an artsy
horror film meshed with a crackling
psychological thriller held together by nightmarish melodrama.
And some may argue that Black Swan deserves inclusion in this select
Best Picture group — although this 2010 dance - dance - scarevolution is probably more accurately described as a
psychological horror film.
It's not the
best film in David Cronenberg's filmography but he was a master exponent of
horror, particularly
psychological or body
horror.
But the sense of
psychological robot
horror feels remedial in the wake of
better films.
Loved how the movie skated between a dramatic
psychological meditation and a flat - out
horror thriller... very, very
well done.
It's all a little too ironic to cause any permanent
psychological damage, but this is a treat for hard - core
horror fans and people who just want a
good scare.
-- Kurt Halfyard [
BEST] Though billed as a
psychological horror film, it strides confidently past the edges of «Rosemary's Baby» and «Gaslight» into whole other regions of insanity.
IFC Films picked up the
psychological horror film «The Babadook» and the latest from Jim Mickle and Nick Damici, «Cold in July,» while A24 snatched up the
horror - comedy «Life After Birth» as
well as Jenny Slate's «Obvious Child.»
A
better word for «weak» would be «hodgepodge,» as the
psychological thriller cum
horror «A Cure for Wellness» brings in elements from «Bride of Frankenstein,» «The Phantom of the Opera,» «Hostel 2,» and all the laughable sci - fi pictures of the 1950's wherein the scripts for dystopian civilizations seem often enough to end up with «Perhaps we scientists would be
better off if we did not interfere with nature.»
The Babadook is the
best horror film slash
psychological thriller I've seen in a long while.
He'd be able to mix
psychological horror with the necromorphs pretty damn
well.
It was a
good trailer, but hopefully they show something with the player facing
psychological horrors too.
This is a typical setup for a
psychological horror movie, and who
better at that kind of stuff than Eli Roth, who directs and co-wrote the script with Guillermo Amoedo and Nicolás Lopéz.
Vertical Entertainment has revealed an official US trailer for the release of the
psychological horror - thriller Rupture, from director Steven Shainberg (of the film Secretary over a decade ago, as
well as Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus).
If there's one thing that Resident Evil 7 showed us, it's that
horror games can work really
well in PSVR, and The Inpatient will be leaning in on elements of
psychological horror, including the use of three dimensional audio.
It's a tough watch, but for fans that love challenging
psychological horror films, you can» y do much
better than this.
A follow - up to his eerily unsettling 2009 debut The Loved Ones, a movie that took the John Hughes high school comedy and then gorily spun it on its ear, this
horror opus, shown at the Toronto International Film Festival way back in 2015, has been
well worth the wait, the
psychological underpinnings driving things so unnerving I shudder just thinking about them again now.
I have had two novels published by a small independent publisher, as
well as three poetry books by a separate independent poetry publisher, but it was my first novel, A Darker Moon, that prompted me to respond to your survey because, amongst other things, I consider it to be literary fiction (plus dark fiction and dark fantasy, plus
psychological horror, plus mythic magic realism — it's very much cross-genre, but underlying it all is the literary fiction aspect of the book).
Bad Apple «The author has a great sense of voice...
psychological horror at its
best.»
Did that make you feel that sticking to
psychological horror had been a
good call?
I'm sure that Death Stranding is meant to be
psychological horror, but even after a
good seven minute cinematic trailer from The Game Awards last night, it just looks like very
well produced incomprehensible nonsense.
Some critics, such as GameSpot, felt that it lost «the
psychological horror factor that the series is so
well - known for.»
«A short and not so sweet game that concludes around the five - hour mark, Little Nightmares ties elements of
psychological horror together with touching segments of childlike calm to make a
well - rounded game.
Part anime dating sim, part
psychological horror (more of the latter, really), DDLC racked up four People's Choice Awards:
Best PC Game,
Best Story, Most Innovative, and
Best Adventure Game.
We doubt Mikami is involved since he's likely tied up with Tango working on his own project, but the shift towards a more
psychological horror is the
best move possible.