Sentences with phrase «horror fantasy film»

Icon Film Distribution (IFD) and FrightFest, the UK's leading horror fantasy film festival, have entered into an exclusive partnership that will see IFD releasing FrightFest curated films under the banner «FrightFest Presents».

Icon Film Distribution and FrightFest, the UK's leading horror fantasy film festival, have announced the first films which will be released under the curated banner «FrightFest Presents».

Not exact matches

This same fantasy is mirrored in «A Quiet Place»: The only moment of relief in the whole «silent horror film» is when Evelyn and Lee are wired in together, swaying gently to their own music and silencing the world outside their earbuds.

Like the hilarious but unironically fashioned book The Zombie Survival Guide (2003), here's a zombie tale for the 9/11 era, when fantasies of urban chaos and duct - tape - sealed apartment windows are no longer relegated to horror films; these paranoid scenarios became regular fare on CNN.

This peculiar low - budget children's musical fantasy was directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis, who was best known for horror films like Blood Feast.

Alex Garland beautifully subverts cliches of both fantasy and horror genres, making a film that gets under the skin to properly freak us out

This is where you'll find the best mind - bending sci - fi, out of this world fantasy, and bloody good horror films all hours of the day... and night — in jaw - dropping High Definition and crisp Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.

I think it would be a great idea to have more diversity of content in this site (an early review of Beloved was a pleasant surprise some weeks ago) but right now the balance is definitely in favor of sci - fi, fantasy, horror, action, and some crime films created for a demographic probably best described as «geek».

McTiernan went on to make over 200 television commercials before making his feature film debut by directing the fantasy horror movie Nomads (1985).

Even horror - fantasy elements are mixed in, as if the very common occurrences within the film are the result of witchcraft or meddling supernatural forces, further diluting an already farfetched film to the breaking point of absurdity.

One of the most cinematically compelling recent films in any genre, the enigmatic horror story by director Konstantinos Koutsoliotas, The Winter, depicts the porous boundary in the human imagination between fantasy and reality, past and pre...

WHY: It's not every day you see a film that leaves you absolutely speechless, but Guillermo del Toro's fantasy - horror flick, «Pan's Labyrinth,» is so visually stunning that it's impossible to look away, even during the moments of visceral violence.

Filtering a piquantly feminist perspective on Iranian gender relations through a mesh of genre influences including low - rent horror, film noir and even spaghetti western, here's a fantasy underworld with entirely its own woozy, sinister flavour.

In this rapidly changing industry, genre film remains a strongly communal experience, as horror, sci fi, fantasy and cult films continue to flourish under the banner of event cinema.

One of the most cinematically compelling recent films in any genre, the enigmatic horror story by director Konstantinos Koutsoliotas, The Winter, depicts the porous boundary in the human imagination between fantasy and reality, past and pre... more

A protégé of Dario Argento who matured to develop a unique style of his own while at once carrying the tradition of such Italian horror icons as Mario Bava and Riccardo Freda, Michele Soavi almost single - handedly kept the slumping Italian horror / fantasy tradition afloat in the 1990s with his strikingly original philosophical zombie film Dellamorte, Dellamore (1994).

Val Lewton also produced a series of atmospheric supernatural horror films in the 1940s, including the cult horror classic Cat People (1942) and its fantasy follow - up Curse of the Cat People (1944).

Guillermo del Toro, who directed the fantasy drama, announced at San Diego Comic - Con on Saturday that the film will be made into a maze at Southern California's most extreme horror experience.

Growing up in the isolated suburbs of Vancouver Island during the 80s, he obsessed over the minutiae of heavy metal, fantasy art, and science fiction horror films, which he still does to this day.

Etheria Film Night screens an annual showcase of the best new horror, science fiction, fantasy, action, dark comedy, and thriller films directed by women for an audience including producers, managers, show runners, distributors, and genre fans.

Although only a small portion of the festival's content is in the scifi / fantasy / horror / science arena, there are still a lot of films worth pointing...

In fact, Leigh Whannell is very open to returning to the Saw franchise somewhere down the road, once he gets a political horror comedy made, and a children's fantasy film off the ground first.

DAILY DEAD — Revealed at Las Vegas» CinemaCon are release date changes for upcoming films of the horror, sci - fi, and fantasy varieties, as Universal has pushed back the releases of Pacific Rim 2, The Mummy, and Warcraft.

In other words, I'll do my best to say it's a Yakuza - gangster - horror - fantasy film.

The found - footage horror flick The Visit — a film that's only a little less self - reflexive than Split — gave the one - time Hollywood golden boy a chance to start over after a couple of misguided forays into the world of effects - driven fantasy blockbusters.

Fantastic Planet, the Sydney horror, sci - fi and fantasy film festival, will kick off on the 22nd of March for eleven days of mind - bending, gut - wrenching action.

Mexican director Guillermo del Toro has built a reputation on his imagination: films like «Pan's Labyrinth» and «Hellboy II» are crammed with eyeless demons and flesh - eating fairies, tangling fantasy and horror in intoxicating fashion.

BEST PICTURE: «Birdman» ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD FOR BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING: Richard Linklater — «Boyhood» BEST ACTOR: Michael Keaton — «Birdman» BEST ACTRESS: Rosamund Pike — «Gone Girl» BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Edward Norton — «Birdman» BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Patricia Arquette — «Boyhood» ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicholas Glocobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo — «Birdman» ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Gillian Robespierre — «Obvious Child» BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: «The Lego Movie» BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: «CitizenFour» BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: «Ida» (Poland) VINCE KOEHLER AWARD FOR BEST SCI - FI, FANTASY or HORROR FILM: «The Babadook»

Stay at home and rent a superior action / fantasy / horror film.

The legendary horror master John Carpenter, who is scoring Blumhouse's new Halloween film, will also do the score for Pablo Aragüés» upcoming Spanish fantasy thriller flick 1,200...

Twilight killed the vampire film and The Mummy went from classic horror to CGI fantasy.

That trio consists of a pair of 1972 horror films, The Devil and The Third Part of the Night, and the 1988 sci - fi / fantasy On the Silver Globe.

Despite its October release date, «A Monster Calls» from visionary Spanish film director J.A. Bayona doesn't look like your standard horror - fantasy release.

The original script by «Mortal Kombat» creator John Tobias and the first movie's producer, Lawrence Kasanoff (along with Joshua Wexler), was ditched in favor of a barebones one by b - movie horror scribe Brent V. Friedman and TV writer Bryce Zabel, who mostly ignore the video game's style in order to make the film a standalone horror - action fantasy.

Overall, the weekend is running about 15 percent behind Super Bowl weekend last year, when the sci - fi fantasy «Chronicle» opened to $ 22 million and the Daniel Radcliffe horror film «Woman in Black» debuted to nearly $ 21 million.

Doug Jones (born May 24, 1960) is an American film and television actor best known to science fiction, fantasy, and horror fans for his various roles playing non-human characters, often in heavy makeup, in films and television series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

Ever since I stumbled across his 1997 debut film Cube, which still stands up (despite its lesser sequels) as a very novel approach to cerebral horror or dark fantasy or violent sci - fi... -LRB-...)

Looking back there has been many popular video games that have been adapted to the big screen, including Nintendo's classic Super Mario Bros (1993's Super Mario Bros.), Capcom's survival horror Resident Evil (2002 - 2016's Resident Evil series), Blizzard's fantasy strategy Warcraft (2016's Warcraft or Warcraft: The Beginning in international territories), Core Design / Square Enix's action adventure platforming Tomb Raider (2001 - 2018's Tomb Raider films series), Ubisoft's time - traveling action adventures Assassin's Creed (2016's Assassin's Creed), Square Enix's immersive JRPG Final Fantasy (2001, 2005, and 2016's Final Fantasy movies), and many others.

WHY SEE IT: An interesting and creative premise for a film that is clearly a labor of love — kind of an indie comedy take on CUBE and LABYRINTH, with a touch of ALICE IN WONDERLAND and Terry Gilliam insanity thrown in for good measure — DAVE MADE A MAZE is an amusing diversion for fans of budget filmmaking who can appreciate a smirk - inducing comedy with a light touch of horror and fantasy.

From Russia with gore Horror and fantasy films have been a constant anathema when it comes to Russian cinema and the sheer suggestion that something involving impending peril could be considered as entertainment continues to be frowned upon there.

Guillermo del Toro's best film in a decade, The Shape of Water is wonderful fantasy - horror - romance film that provides a new variation on one of my favourite tropes: the misunderstood monster.

From some cynical angle, I suppose the film could be seen as a cruel and distracting fantasy, one that ignores or minimizes the inescapable horror of those years.

The intent was obviously to mimic the «Underworld» films, and it shares a lot of the same DNA as the horror / fantasy series, from its gothic visual cues, to the creature effects, to Bill Nighy as the big bad.

The festival focuses on genre films such as horror, science fiction, fantasy, action, Asian, and cult.

It's joined by Guillermo del Toro's love fantasy The Shape of Water, Jordan Peele's prescient horror film Get Out, Greta Gerwig's coming - of - age dramedyLady Bird and the French - language ACT UP drama BPM (Beats Per Minute).

Find out by taking a look at the collection of space fantasies, fishy fantasies, and horror films now available for you to enjoy from the comfort of your very own home!

J.J. Abrams insists that Bad Robot's upcoming WWII horror / fantasy film Overlord is not secretly the fourth Cloverfield movie.

Not the American action movie maker but the creator of The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth, Spanish horror films of dark fantasy where the supernatural and the otherwordly are beautiful and horrible and terrifying but largely benign.

Fantastic Fest is the largest genre film festival in the U.S., specializing in horror, fantasy, sci - fi, action and just plain fantastic movies from all around the world.

Conor McPherson's supernatural drama The Eclipse has picked up the prestigious Méliès d'Argent Award for Best European Motion Picture at the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival in Spain, one of the world's most prominent fantasy and horror film festivals.