Sentences with phrase «horror cliches»

The phrase "horror clichés" refers to overused or predictable elements often found in horror stories, movies, or games. These are ideas or tropes that have been seen so many times that they may no longer have the same impact or scare factor as originally intended. Full definition
The movie - within - a-movie framework and snarky riffs on horror cliches in «Final Girls» have drawn comparisons to «The Cabin in the Woods.»
The story itself uses the parody of horror cliches to its advantage to create a plot that is classic suspense / thriller inspired alongside comedic elements that don't interrupt the plot but rather compliment it.
Critic Consensus: Though it features a few scares and some creepy atmosphere, The Haunting in Connecticut ultimately relies too much on familiar horror cliches to achieve its goals.
It treads a lot of well - worn horror cliches without really doing anything to stand out, and it tries to take you on an emotional journey without giving you a reason to care.
So many horror cliches that it plays up well and that is the point of this project.
I loved jabs at horror cliches and how it didn't feel like a parody.
Truth or Dare lacks the conviction to do anything remotely interesting with its premise, instead falling back on one tired horror cliche after the next.
Despite a few horror cliches that pop up every now and then (hey, let's split up!)
Director Tyler MacIntyre combines all the classic horror cliches with the modern desire for instant online gratification.
The mirror scare, the closet scare, the happy music scare, most of these and other horror cliches get little attention in this film, which instead finds new ways to squeeze our a few screams from its viewers.
The film tries to achieve this larger scale and falls fast into working with typical boring horror cliches.
The characters within Lazarus are fine, more too - well - defined horror cliches, and are notably bolstered by a quartet of compelling actors including Mark Duplass, Olivia Wilde, Evan Peters and Danny Glover all giving the DOA material a faint jolt of life.
The film has all the standard horror cliches; false scares, naked women, and gore (although not until the second half).
The first game hit on all the basic horror cliches, while veering into action game territory near the end, but TEW 2 has much more dynamic, well - crafted spaces to explore and be disemboweled in.
Sadly, the film isn't as smart as the original and often settles for generic horror cliches.
Take every single Survival Horror cliche and bundle them up into a little ball with graphics that look worse than the Wii and what do you get?Sega's Rise of Nightmares for the Xbox 360 coming this Fall for use with... Read More»
This clutch of horror cliches, applied to a possessed house in 1970s London, may make you jump while rolling your eyes
Critics Consensus: Though it features a few scares and some creepy atmosphere, The Haunting in Connecticut ultimately relies too much on familiar horror cliches to achieve its goals.
Graphically it's not the strongest looking game and some of the character models look like left overs from Silent Hill 4: The Room and the level design isn't the strongest and just plays on Horror cliches.
Craven creates his savviest and most frightening movie since the original «A Nightmare on Elm Street» by spoofing the horror cliches and simultaneously reinventing them to scare you all over again.
Sure there are some horror cliches left and right, but they work and the story does too in developing a background for Elise's character and how her career came to be.
The story evolves into something quite interesting, but its beginnings are very much a horror cliche.
The fact that the only real light you can rely on through the game is your torch may seem like a horror cliche, but it works even better in Project Zero due to the level design.
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