Sentences with phrase «haunted house genre»

James Tynion's new Thrillbent series «The House in the Wall» debuts today with a 21st century take on the haunted house genre.

CEO Peter Schlessel says, «With «Insidious,» James and Leigh are redefining the haunted house genre.

James Wan's latest foray into the haunted house genre leads him straight into The Conjuring which is «based on a true story» about the Perron family who were terrorized by demonic entities in which ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren were called upon to investigate.

Winchester is in keeping with the brothers» recent work in that it's a standard haunted house genre movie that fails to leave a strong impression, good or bad.

You know what the haunted house genre has been missing all these years?

From director Drew Goddard and producer / writer Joss Whedon comes this terrifying twist on the haunted house genre.

Such production design - heavy haunted house features as The Shining, The Haunting, and The Innocents have also been cited as a heavy influence on Crimson Peak by del Toro; of late, though, the filmmaker seems to have begun playing down the idea that he's making a haunted house genre throwback, and more than Crimson Peak is a Gothic romance first, set piece - oriented ghost story second.

For the most part, Insidious sticks closely to the haunted house genre of horror (a sort of revival of classics like Poltergeist and The Amityville Horror).

Not exact matches

I thought haunted house movies were gone and forgotten, but here's «The Haunting», sort of a revival of the genre.

[Watch the trailer for true story - inspired The Disappointments Room right HERE] Disturbia director D.J. Caruso returns to the horror genre with a haunted house film that was inspired by true events in The Disappointments Room, a psychological thriller that they are saying is in the same vein as The Shining.

«Insidious» is an affectionate visit to the Haunted House Movie, a genre that seems classic in contrast to Queasy - Cam gorefests.

There isn't a great deal of variety within modern horror: much of the genre can be divided into haunted houses and crazed killers.

In «Horror 101: The Exclusive Seminar» (10:27), director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell separately discuss their philosophies for the film, putting new spins on the haunted house and possession genres and doing certain things differently from other modern movies.

Guillermo del Toro returns to his horror genre roots with a haunted house pic and an amazing cast including Jessica Chastain, Charlie Hunnam, Tom Hiddleston and Mia Wasikowska.

It's a much - beloved genre: haunted house flicks?

These days Wilson is more known for his creepy haunted house horror movies INSIDIOUS and THE CONJURING, but it would be refershing to see him step away from the genre for once.

Aronofsky puts to work the tools of the horror genre (the haunted house - isolated in a forest, bumps in the night, body horror, unwelcome strangers, horror as a manifestation of marital problems) to construct a Trojan Horse from which springs a complex thesis about the commodity and vanity of celebrity, mass societal behaviour, procreation, religion and more.

Call it a haunted house / high school romp / demon killer / surreal fairy tale: a stylized candy - colored bomb of a ghost story more jaw - droppingly unreal than scary, an experimental piece of pop - art genre filmmaking with a cartoonish flair to its art direction, special effects and graphic expressionism.

Last night at a trailer Q&A Wan mentioned that this film is almost in a different genre than the first, where the subtext here is domestic drama rather than a haunted house.

This haunted house film has all the usual elements of the horror genre, but also serves up some disturbing visual images and themes.

It's a gorgeous looking film far beyond anything we've seen out of the genre in a very long time, and with Guillermo del Toro behind it all, I'd say we should be rightfully excited for his epic haunted house of horrors.

Language: English Genre: Drama / Musical MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Joel Schumacher Actors: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson Plot: At the most popular opera house in Paris, a masked man haunts the aspiring star.

Last — and by universal fan - boy acclaim — best was James Wan's super-scary reinvention of the haunted - house genre, Insidious.

Film Review by Kam Williams Marlon Wayans Spoofs Romance Genre in Shocking Parody of Salacious S&M Adventure Ever since Scary Movie (2000), Marlon Wayans has carved out quite a career for himself writing and starring in a string of silly spoofs that includes Scary Movie 2 (2001), Dance Flick (2009), A Haunted House (2013), and A Haunted House 2 (2014).

Though the movie's supernatural elements aren't as prominent as the marketing campaign would lead you to believe, «Crimson Peak» is a sumptuously designed genre flick that delivers a different kind of horror from the typical ghosts - and - ghouls haunted house story.

Not as commendable were the slick but forgettable Leatherface, the first disappointment by French filmmaking duo Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury; the Spierig Brothers» Jigsaw, part 8 of the exhausted Saw series; the dull Amityville: The Awakening by Franck Khalfoun, usually a respectable genre director, who does still add his share of clever touches (and meta moments, like when a group of teenagers watch the original Amityville Horror in the «real» Amityville haunted house, into which one's family has just moved); Open Water 3: Cage Dive, whose shark - franchise designation was tacked on as an afterthought, not that it helped to draw in audiences (in an anemic year for great whites, 47 Meters Down takes the prize for the best shark film); Jeepers Creepers 3, a super-limited release — surely in part because of director Victor Salva's history as a convicted child molester — which just a tiny bit later would probably have been shelved permanently in light of the slew of reprehensible - male - behavior outings in recent months.

If your book looks like the kid's menu at the Haunted House Restaurant, it will not be noticed by serious readers of your genre.

As a master of literary fiction in the American Gothic tradition, Jackson always subverted the trappings of genre, using the classic tropes of the haunted house and the mysterious villagers to illustrate deep cultural and personal anxieties.

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The horror genre isn't dead but, like a paranormal investigator in a haunted house movie, you've got to know where to look and what to look for.

Platforms PC / Xbox One / Playstation 4 / Wii U / Playstation 3 Developer Golden Ruby Games Publisher Ripstone Genre Action Platformer Platform Played Xbox One The concept of Extreme Exorcism is an incredibly simple one, exorcise ghosts in a haunted house while using one of several ghost hunters.

Before horror cinema became obsessed with low - budget, haunted house, night - vision camcorder borefests and the gorno genre fetishised the violence with series like Paranormal Activity or Saw respectively, horror films were generally based around hapless teens fleeing supernatural forces or maniacs with machetes.

One of my «Top 5» Atari 2600 games was Haunted House, the first documented nod into the «survival horror» genre.