Sentences with phrase «horror characters of»

There's a reason why Ash has become one of the greatest horror characters of all time, and the reason can be found in Evil Dead II.

One of the most striking horror characters of the last twenty years is no doubt the evil Pyramid Head from the Silent...

Not exact matches

It also includes one of horror's greatest characters, Pinhead.

The horror genre in all its forms gives audiences an experience that is shocking yet conventional, tense yet forgettable, and with characters and stories that are interchangeable and instantly recognizable even if the viewers have never seen any of a director's other work.

Groups of young friends who go to see some of the more death - focused horror films in vogue of late will routinely take bets on which stock character will face a grisly end soonest, as when viewing the Final Destination series» a film series that is, essentially, the apex of the set - piece disaster horror movie as orchestrated by MacGyver.

Yet conjointly with this terror, the present as mere unrelieved preservation of the past assumes the character of a horror of the past, rejection of it, revolt:

This is the only way evil maintains its absolute character of horror and irruption.

Where it seems fitting, the characters should reflect recognition and acceptance of the world situation in their thoughts and actions, although in dealing with war, our writers should minimize the «horror» aspects....

Some of the specific stimuli of my sober reflections have been the histories of the fiendishly diverse injustices, cruelties, tyrannies and butcheries human beings have inflicted on one another — in particular the long, appalling story of Jewish suffering at the hands of Christian Europe with its insane climax under the Nazis; Camus's searing reflections on our blood - soaked century; accounts of the horrors of plagues and epidemics at whose complete mercy human beings for so long existed; and insights of depth psychology into the character and influence of the unconscious, childhood and repression in our behavior.

Horror of horrors — Even if we killed ourselves he would probably be chasing us around in the afterlife like those characters in the former television show «Sleepy Hollow».

Steph Curry is apparently a big fan of Halloween, so much so, that he participated in his own dress - up - as - your - favorite - horror - character to work day.

But I also wonder if horror is good at telling stories about women because horror, almost by definition, focuses on the vulnerability of its characters.

I have tons of great memories of visiting Disneyland starting when I was five (when, much to my parents horror, I apparently spent most of my time pointing at costumed characters and other features and declaring them fake) and up through when I left for college.

When their DNA was tested most of those characters - found to their surprise and, in some cases, horror, that they were ancestors came from a variety of places outside the UK.

«Kids» cartoon characters twice as likely to die as counterparts in films for adults: Content on a par with «rampant horrors» of popular films.»

When the main characters of a Kevin Smith (aka Silent Bob) horror - comedy film are yogis.

Today's tutorial was inspired by a classic horror movie character the Bride of Dracula.

This character is a wonderful horror movie hereon, but her character lacks depth so I was tormented as to how to revitalize my Bride of Frankenstein for my Halloween makeup tutorial.

Bride Of Frankenstein Halloween Makeup Tutorial, was inspired by the second movie maybe about this classical horror movie character.

While it underperformed at the box office it has gained a cult status in the likes of Rocky Horror Picture Show with midnight screenings throughout the year and country and people dressing up as characters from the musical.

Its stylish directing, vicious violence and effects, and focus on the character and choice as the basis of horror have been done time and time again, and never to the level that

Unlike such horror icons of the past as Boris Karloff and Vincent Price, however, Englund was not able to shed his famous character's image when he wanted to move on to other roles.

In the end, this is again a very good horror comedy which needs to focus less on the main characters (lets face it, they are cliches and the interest of this whole movie is to the idea behind it) and more on the variety of monsters that were created for this film.

Screenwriters Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard take the quintessential horror film ensemble of characters, and ridiculous scenarios and then inject a dose logical rationale, keeping it thoroughly entertaining.

What the film does is reimagine other horror films as meta - narratives, except in those cases, the characters never discover the truth about the artifice of their world, as Marty does, just like another fool, Truman Burbank in Peter Weir's The Truman Show, a horror film in its own right.

When I first saw the trailer for this movie I thought it was good to be another awful horror film, but the twist led by the characters played by Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins makes this one of the most inventive horror films I've seen in a while.

Do horror characters make choices because of the requirements of the genre, or because of their own decisions?

Critic Consensus: Consistently thrilling, with solid character development and enough gore to please grindhouse fans, this season of The Walking Dead continues to demonstrate why it's one of the best horror shows on television.

The two lead characters are effective and you root for them to live, which is the opposite of most horror movies, and the visual effects aren't bad either.

Played ominous from the outset there are some scares here, although with a nearly equal amount of «the dumb characters doing dumb things» schtick that plagues horror films like the Ebola virus gone rabid.

After a frustrating experience with AMC's The Walking Dead television adaptation, I was surprised to see that Telltale was able to capture the gruesome dark horror of Kirkman's comic, with some amazing new characters and stories.

His character arc is a fairly recognizable awakening of alarm and horror at the great abuses of power in the name of security.

But the movie's biggest mistake is indulging conventional horror - movie reality, where characters live or die according to their fortitude and our sense of the world's rightness is conservatively reaffirmed.

For over a decade, sold out audiences have enjoyed Rocky Horror - like participation consisting of hilarious traditions such as screen - shouting, football playing, throwing spoons at the screen, rooting on the shockingly long establishing pans of San Francisco, and generally laughing hysterically at the film's clunky pseudo-Tennessee Williams dialogue, confused performances, and bizarre plot twists, like the mother - in - law character whose breast cancer ought to play like it matters a great deal, but really comes off as a non-sequitur.

Annihilation follows the familiar form of science fiction horror found in films from Alien to The Cloverfield Paradox, with a cast of characters in isolation, slowly being picked off by a force they don't understand.

All directors make the same movies of obsession, there is sex drama and rage but this is not a not a horror movie it's perry's next drama movie, which sucks Perry Black a-fies everything in his movies he adds humor quotes to characters line and it's not funny.

The Marine campaign for me is the most intense survival horror game yet (mainly because the Xenomorph is such a memorable character)- in terms of providing dread and checking every corner as you make your way slowly in the dark, it is unsurpassed (Dead Space is a very close 2nd).

Uprising is long, has yawn - inducing action scenes, terrible dialogue, a contrived plot that makes ZERO sense, and commits that most hated crime of horror movie sequels - returning beloved characters from the original only to kill them or turn them into forgettable villains.

All of Chucky's sequels are kinda of bad written, it have it's moments, but what saves is the character of Chucky and Andy, and later Tiffany and Glen, toughter with the black comedy and horror scenes.

I will admit I had some trepidation when I first heard they were making another season of Stranger Things, and this is exactly why: it doesn't make sense that this same town keeps getting attacked over and over by horrors from beyond, plus now all the mystery of the first season is drained away and it is nearly impossible to create believable drama for the characters that can compare with

Though often consigned by Hollywood's typecasting system to workaday villain roles, Kenneth Tobey has not be forgotten by filmmakers who grew up watching his horror - flick endeavors of the 1950s; he has been afforded key cameo roles in such latter - day shockers as Strange Invaders (1983) and Gremlins 2: The New Batch, and in 1985 he reprised his Thing From Another World character in The Attack of the B - Movie Monsters.

While it's always going to be less frustrating when characters in horror movies behave like intelligent, attack mode - ready superhumans and can turn the tables on their terrorizers, Kinsey and her family all react as realistically as one would and with believable fallibility when thrown into a horrific situation they weren't ready for, and it's worthy of applause when some of them find it in themselves to fight back.

It has some clichés here and there that could have been avoided and the characters sometimes don't seem to be the brightest people in this sort of situation, but still this atmospheric horror movie works quite well, especially in a second half that can be really unnerving.

The film slides into its situation in a clever, fresh way, and the balance of wit and horror is well maintained throughout, though Sayles's decision to divide up the protagonist's chores among four main characters costs him something in the intensity of audience identification.

Most of the horror is psychological, going on inside the lead characters insecure head.

Director Johannes Roberts begins the film with a synth - infused version of Kim Wilde's «Kids in America» and retro title styling, letting the audience know what decade of horror we're in for, even if the characters are blissfully unaware of what's coming.

Some of the horror is handled well, with one or two creepy moments and the director might come into his own at some point, but it's mainly just jumpy moments (lame) and besides the characters are so daft you can't get into it.

The concept of manipulated characters in a forbidding, controlled space is as old as the earliest horror movies, but rarely has that space been as fascinating to look at as it is here.

If you are looking for believable characters, good acting and dialogue, lots of bloody, horror - style vampire action, and a nice looking smooth 3D engine, you'll want to look elsewhere.

But without the (old) Disney genius for emotional structure and character design, the results are rather flat — the film concentrates on Disney horror and trauma without the relief of Disney charm.