Sentences with phrase «ground with the horror»

This film breaks no new ground with the horror genre but rather is content to flex its muscles in the tried and true tropes of its cinematic predecessors.

Not exact matches

Soft just war theory is characterized by seven key components: a strongly articulated horror of war; a strong presumption against war; a skepticism about government claims; the use of just war theory as a tool for citizen discernment and prophetic critique; a pattern of trusting the efficacy of international treaties, multilateral strategies and the perspectives of global peace and human rights groups and the international press; a quite stringent application of just war criteria; and a claim of common ground with Christian pacifists.

Horror movies — whether they feature ghosts with unfinished business or serial killers with a literal ax to grind — challenge us to confront sin in all its ugliness.

The horrors from the ground — with reports of chemical weapon use, cannibalism, massacres and accounts of sadistic torture — tells the story of a country that is spectacularly unravelling before our eyes.

I remember watching the buildings smoke, not quite understanding how a plane could be suspended up that high after flying into a building and then with horror as the buildings fell to the ground.

Grounded by the grainy recurring image of a cell rapidly dividing, «Annihilation» is itself a fluid exercise in genetic mutation: It begins with scenes from a marriage, then quickly evolves into a wilderness adventure, an environmental horror flick and a striking depiction of physical and psychological entropy (emphasis on the «trippy»).

With an eclectic mix of ground - breaking and genre - defining content including horror films, documentaries, Director's Nights and supernatural series, you'll be entertained, informed and terrified.

If, for some reason, decades» worth of horror movies on the subject have yet to convince you that going out into an isolated area with no cellphone service alone and unarmed is a recipe for brutal murder, Australian writer - director Damien Power's Killing Ground might be the deciding factor.

Continuing the tradition of brutal Australian horror films like «Wolf Creek,» «Killing Ground» is an effective indie creeper that unnerves the audience with its all - too - realistic violence.

Sprinkled with little personality bits here and there (Tallahassee's mad quest for an ever - elusive Twinkie, Columbus's crippling fear of clowns, etc.), Zombieland doesn't break any new ground in the horror genre so much as make for a strong dose of escapist fun for knowing fans of the films.

A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of recently dead, flesh - eating ghouls, Romero's claustrophobic vision of a late - 1960s America literally tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combined gruesome gore with acute social commentary, and quietly broke ground by casting a black actor (DUANE JONES) in its lead role.

«Killing Ground» is by no means a new concept, with Greg McLean kickstarting the horror in the Australian outback with «Wolf Creek», but that's by no fault of its own.

«Bringing John Carpenter's disturbing, cutting - edge vision to life as part of Halloween Horror Nights is the ideal complement to our maze lineup as we continue to break creative ground with outstanding horror icons that raise the intensity level of our experience.&Horror Nights is the ideal complement to our maze lineup as we continue to break creative ground with outstanding horror icons that raise the intensity level of our experience.&horror icons that raise the intensity level of our experience.»

Black Panther, which finds Killmonger plotting to arm black revolutionaries the world over (and, implicitly, to strike back at the kind of sanctioned terrorizers who put Oscar Grant in the ground), replaces the civil - rights metaphor of the X-Men comics with the real horrors inflicted on real people.

The horror - film tropes resurface only intermittently in their later films: a hand bursting out of the ground, recalling the final shot of Carrie, during the prison break in 1987's Raising Arizona (a shot also used in The Evil Dead); the wood chipper that in Fargo (1996) is put to the grisly use that Marty had intended for his incinerator; Anton Chigurh's slasher murders in No Country for Old Men (2007); and, most acutely of all, in Barton Fink (1991), a film about a writer's worst nightmare, writer's block, complete with sweating wallpaper, expanding plumes of blood, and a hellfire climax.

Nicolas Winding Refn breaks new ground entering the horror game with Neon Demon.

But it's also a movie stuck between modes, mixing that horror with the same pseudo-intellectual pondering that ground things to a halt last time.

Instead, the off button is flicked on the whole body horror aspect with such flagrant disregard for anything that had come before it that there is no hope of tonal consistency, no dream for quality as the movie runs itself into the ground.

This 80's horror thriller is about teen punks, on the run from the cops and hiding out in the woods, who end up facing off against the «local authority» — an unhinged park ranger with an axe to grind.

Best - case scenario: The trailer for The Ghost Dimension leans heavily on callbacks to earlier Paranormal Activity movies, which, combined with Blum's stated intent to «not... grind this horror franchise into the ground,» could mean an ending that wraps up all the series» mysteries and allows fans to walk away satisfied.

It flirts with horror but remains rooted in the physical frontier world and grounded in character, both of which Zahler sculpts with a richness of texture and detail that makes it live and breathe.

It's enough for some people to have an immediate knee - jerk reaction to him being involved in any film, let alone a remake of an oft - imitated, never - toped genre classic that found the perfect balance between grim humor and gruesome horror while breaking ground with its astonishing practical make - up and creature effects (the great Rick Baker won the first - ever Best Make - Up Oscar for his work on the film).

Hollow Man never gets off the ground, soon becoming boring, until finally falling completely apart with a final half hour of unpleasant images and ridiculous booga - booga horror clichés.

This year alone, they released six of the most inventive, quality offerings out there: two terrifying survival thrillers, Damien Power's devastating and brilliant Killing Ground and Sam Patton's lesser but still - worthy Desolation; Sean Byrne's masterful tale of artistic obsession and satanic possession The Devil's Candy (all three even harder to endure because the featured families in peril are so human and likable); A Dark Song, an unnerving occult thriller in which a woman hires a medium to help make contact with her dead daughter; and House on Willow Street, which, similar to last year's horror highlight Don't Breathe, sees a house robbery — led by a woman with a mission, played by modern scream - queen Sharni Vinson — go terrible wrong, but this time in a more supernatural way.

Having gone to ground after the poor box - office performance of the under - valued Rogue, director Greg McLean resurfaces with a sequel to the brutal horror classic that made his name.

We provide funding to train officials for improved enforcement of laws; help local partner groups on the ground with veterinary and shelter care for confiscated animals; raise global awareness of the suffering involved in illegal dog theft, transport and slaughter, including at China's annual Dog Meat Festival in Yulin; expose the horror of subterranean killing pits in Nagaland in India; and work with dog meat farmers in South Korea to transition them to more humane ways of making a living.

Only four short years after indie title Outlast redefined the little - known sub-genre of «abandoned asylum horror, but with dicks», Outlast 2 is getting ready to break new ground in the little - known sub-genre of «hillbilly...

Capcom have been making more of an effort to merge horror - survival, puzzle and action elements in their recent Resident Evil releases, but with them now deciding to focus more on releasing HD versions of the old games, it could be some time until we see another ground - breaking Resident Evil game.

Battlefield 1 and Valiant Hearts did a good job of showcasing the horror show that was the ground war with its soul crushing trench warfare and deadly mustard gas attacks.

The genre effectively split in half, with games like Haunting Ground, Fatal Frame 3 and newcomer Rule of Rose sticking to the «tried and tested» formula, whilst a whole new bread of Survival Horror games focused on action.

Grounded in feelings of malaise with the state of the world and invested in the creative exploration of vulnerability and fear, Bohl has created a series of fantasy illustrations entitled Kadath Fatal that draw inspiration from the imagery evoked in the literary genres of Cosmic Horror and Fantasy of Manners and the visual language of related graphic novels.

Some banks risk losing even more ground because they are relatively inefficient and are weighed down by supporting systems that date back several decades, often not even working with other systems within their own institution, a situation that would make fintechs recoil in horror.

If you're a big fan of horror movies blended with supernatural happenings in homes, you may also want to check out Poltergeist (1982), a home built on ancient burial ground, with spirits awakened by TV signals, then wreaking ghostly hijacks worse than opening and seeing your monthly cable bill.