Sentences with phrase «grotesque horrors»

There are a lot of creepy looking monsters in this game, but the DLC comes with a few grotesque horrors that look like they were pulled from Bloodborne.

With grotesque horrors abound, this launch trailer promises a game filled with the spawn of nightmares.

The first Troma film in years to get a theatrical run is an aggressively absurd, outrageously gory and comically grotesque horror farce: part Poltergeist, part Alien, part Dead Alive, all zombie chicken musical, with more excruciating puns that you thought was humanly possible.

Pusher, a tabletop game created as a political art protest against the human rights abuses in the Philippines, uses a childlike aesthetic and fun gameplay to highlight the grotesque horror of the murders of anybody branded as a «pusher» or drug dealer by a repressive government.

Embrace the twisted world with marvelous voiceovers recorded by Erik Braa and comic - style graphics that together create a grotesque horror setting.

The game features dynamic gameplay and mixes it with grotesque horror - themed graphics, disturbing music and creepy voiceovers.

Shadows of the Damned combines visceral action with dark, grotesque horror to create a mind - shattering adventure that has to been seen to be believed.

Harsh and rough with heightened expressive power in material and theme, de Jong's figures embody a grotesque horror and macabre humor reminiscent of the work of the 20th century European artists Georges Grosz and James Ensor.

In an unfolding of comedy and sheer grotesque horror, the protagonist's tale mimics a civilisation's attempt to pinpoint the dawn of man.

De Jong's figures embody a grotesque horror and macabre humor that is reminiscent of the work of the 20th century European artists Georges Grosz and James Ensor.

Not exact matches

Surprisingly gory in a horror - movie fashion and chock - a-block with more grotesques than a Southern Gothic, Hot Fuzz takes its time getting to where it's going — it's a carefully - written, meticulously - planned piece that ties up all of its set - ups with clever knots, saving the majority of its action for the last half of its full two hours.

The world that Garland has created here, constantly defamiliarised by impossible mutations, is a surreal place, natural seeming yet painted and sculpted with grotesque Dalí-esque flourishes and the odd flash of body horror.

Sadako vs Kayako is written and directed by veteran Japanese horror filmmaker Kôji Shiraishi, of the films Ju - Rei: The Uncanny, Dead Girl Walking, Noroi: The Curse, Ghost Zombie, Grotesque, Occult, Teketeke 1 & 2, Shirome, Chô Akunin, Cult, Foe 1 & 2, and A Record of Sweet Murderer previously.

The film is handsomely mounted and Lewin uses an interesting cinematic device to great effect: he cuts to full color when the new portrait is first unveiled and when the aged, diseased image of Dorian is revealed after his descent into depravity, which provides a visual shock to the black and white drama and enhances to horror of the grotesque mutation of the painting.

Apart from one incredibly over-the-top sequence, Meyers» roots don't show, and he has an average sense of suspense, which is saying something after enduring a slate of new horror directors intent on the grotesque.

As in Raimi's splatter films, the horror in Blood Simple, however grotesque, never takes itself too seriously.

His hilariously grotesque Masters of Horror entry Jenifer essays the idea that what we see is not always what is there — that veil of uncertainty, discomfort, and denial that shrouds the director's best films, most memorably in Deep Red and Tenebre.

We love it for its globe - spanning cast of should - know - better Shakespearian talent; for its mixed bag of ideas (most originating in Herbert's book, others, like the gratuitous heart plugs, from Lynch's own warped mind); for its twisted wedding of ornate Euro - pudding epic, grotesque experimental horror flick and action blockbuster; for the stunning cinematography, immersive sets and beautiful costumes — and yes, even Sting's black nappy.

In a Shockya interview he discussed his «appreciation and love for the grotesque in the genre» citing the Universal horror films of the 30s and Karl Fruend pictures as an influence.

Thankfully, it's still plenty grotesque, too, offsetting the gooey romanticism with a different kind of gooeyness — a dash of both kink and gore, refreshing for those who prefer the filmmaker's more disreputable horror fare to his prestige productions.

The Dantean grotesques invading Langdon's head and complete lack of plot coherence also hinted at the chance that maybe, just maybe, Howard would pull off the greatest conspiracy of all and turn a lavish studio tentpole into an unhinged Italian horror send - up.

It's much darker than its big - screen predecessor from 1989, Batman, and this blend of horror and action will probably thrill fans of Raimi's campy filmmaking of the grotesque, while turning off those looking for regular superhero fare.

Released 30 years ago, Sam Raimi's blood - drenched horror - comedy is as grotesque and hilarious as ever.

This makes the film feel less like a superhero movie than like the fantastical cinema of Guillermo Del Toro or Bong Joon - Ho, romantic horror extremists who fill their films with grotesque comedy beats and heartfelt sociopolitics.

«Smart, grotesque and never - endingly weird, this is a very different, extremely welcome kind of horror game that left me wanting more than its brief five hours provides,» said IGN back in 2017.

It's Got: An impressive Ryan Reynolds doing his best Jack Torrance impression minus the grotesque gurning (no mean feat); the great Philip Baker Hall having his inestimable talents somewhat wasted in the rôle of local priest and would - be exorcist Father Calloway; Lisa (Rachel Nichols) the babysitter from hell - although not literally, unlike several other of the films characters; and a brisk economy that more ponderous, minute - heavy horror films of recent times would do well to emulate.

Alternately beautiful and grotesque, it's bound to please horror fans and cineastes alike.

Their love of horror is clear to see throughout their careers, in the grotesque townspeople of Royston Vasey and the former patients of Ravenhill Hospital, through to many of the characters that reside inside the various No. 9's.

The shifts in tone, going from a romantic drama into something that is almost horror from the likes of Eli Roth and Pier Paolo Pasolini, in terms of torture and the grotesque.

Title: Cat Eyed Boy Genre: Horror Author: Kazuo Umezu Synopsis: A chilling concoction of dark vignettes dripping with the macabre, the grotesque and the absurd.

We've been asked about the degree of horror within the horror: «Is splatterpunk allowed or is that too grotesque?»

A person's face on a horror cover is often frightened or grotesque.

Horror fans have had to endure a lot in the past few years: «Resident Evil,» «Dead Space» and «Alone in the Dark,» once bastions of the genre, have become little more than action games with grotesque enemies.

Little Nightmares, though, offers the saddest child of 2017, as grotesque people regularly attempt to eat your character on a horror show of a boat while your character slowly starves to death.

Coming from the days of being eaten alive by the shambling corpse of another man, Capcom has never been afraid to explore the utterly grotesque when it comes to their horror titles.

The world itself looks to be the real treat however, that is if your idea of treats is grotesque cosmic horrors and twisted hybrids of flesh and machine.

The focus on action was certainly a jarring shift for longtime fans, but the element of horror was still present, from the gloomy atmosphere and grotesque creatures, to the constant feeling of being overwhelmed by large numbers of far more aggressive foes.

The player must solve puzzles, which range from simple lever pulling to more grotesque displays of body horror — each made even more unsettling by its banality.

Influenced by cyberpunk, science fiction, horror, the grotesque and black humor.

Expressionists like Edvard Munch sought to convey the grotesque and horror in everyday life, often with hyper - stylized brushwork and horrific images like his painting «The Scream.»

More recently Cindy Sherman has constructed scenes and photographs showing herself as characters from the grotesque and horror imagination, surrounded by discarded food, human body parts and rubbish.

His art connects with a centuries - old Gothic lineage of horror, agony, and the grotesque originating in classical art inspired by religious fervor and the narratives of Christianity, and continuing through to contemporary art.

Neo-Expressionism's blend of grotesque and provocative subject matter, combined with the media - saturated palette of Pop Art, makes a style particularly ill - suited for rendering an image of raw horror.

Substance abuse and surface abuse seem to solidify in these examples of domestic body horror, both erotic and grotesque, perverse and affirmative.

Combining the influence of ancient pre-Columbian cultures and Mexican art with modern - day schlock horror and comic - strip grotesque, Yarber's work, at once disturbing and comedic, trashy and mythical, embodies an eternal contemporaneity.

Lit from below, the mask with its grotesque and exaggerated expression has a menacing gaze reminiscent of early horror and expressionist cinema.

At Art in America Constance Mallinson reported that the initial impression was of a grisly house of horrors or a makeup shop for an alien movie, but then a wider range of references emerged — Gothic grotesques, Buddhist demon iconography, Goya's Caprichos, a repertoire of Surrealist and Expressionist facial distortions, and even animated characters like Shrek and the Incredible Hulk.

The exhibition focuses on some of the dominant themes prevalent throughout Sherman's work, such as artifice and fiction; cinema and performance; horror and the grotesque; myth and fairy tale; and gender and class identity.

The exhibition Cindy Sherman — Untitled Horrors has been composed to emphasise the disturbing, grotesque and disquieting sides of Sherman's pictures.

Her series of holographic plates, however, interrupts this new artistic exploration in order to revisit past themes of childhood trauma and psychosexual obsessions, while also building upon them with the medium's unique ability to incite horror and reveal the grotesque in the perfunctory.