Sentences with phrase «horror film mother»

The actor and DJ on Jean - Michel Basquiat, horror film Mother!

Fresh from a glamorous turn at the Venice Film Festival, the Oscar - winning actress (26) is hot on the promotional trail for her psychological horror film Mother!

Not exact matches

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.

Its comparatively simple first act remains a good example of how to apply the horror elements of the Silent Hill games to film with a degree of elegance and wit, and for a solid 35 minutes, it's an atmospheric film about a mother whose deeply maternal desire to help her daughter inadvertently places her in danger, and the need for Radha Mitchell's Rose to find her daughter when she goes missing provides a cogent and palatable, if somewhat slight, emotional basis from which the proceeding action can spring.

Austrian filmmakers Veronika Franz (wife of auteur Ulrich Seidl) and Severin Fiala first present Goodnight Mommy as a mystery with a horror film premise — two nine - year - old twin brothers question their mother's identity after a facial surgery leaves most of her...

Other welcome nominations went to Cynthia Nixon and Christopher Abbott as mother and son in «James White,» indie horror hit «It Follows» for best first film and best director, Brie Larson for «Room,» and Bel Powley for «The Diary of A Teenage Girl.»

Those expecting a traditional horror film will be disappointed since Mother!

It can't be entirely coincidental that last year's breakout horror film, The Babadook, was centered around the frustrating and intimate relationship of a mother and her child and this year's best horror film — it's true, I'm putting it in writing — is very similarly themed.

When Max (Taissa Farmiga) and her friends reluctantly attend a anniversary screening of Camp Bloodbath, the infamous 80s horror film that starred Max's late mother (Malin Akerman), they are mysteriously sucked into the silver screen.

This alarming horror film, a brilliant debut for Australian director Jennifer Kent, is as hard to shake as its title character whether you take it as a straightforward monster film, a mental illness or grief allegory, or get hung up on its minefield of taboos (mothers who don't much like their children / over-medication of children / weapons in schools).

Austrian filmmakers Veronika Franz (wife of auteur Ulrich Seidl) and Severin Fiala first present Goodnight Mommy as a mystery with a horror film premise — two nine - year - old twin brothers question their mother's identity after a facial surgery leaves most of her face covered with bandages.

The film does leave us with a strong sense of mother - child love, which overrides most of the horrors.

From its first sequence, the film uses the horror genre's picaresque potential to explore the severe ups and downs of Sao Paolo: Clara, an African - Brazilian would - be nurse, interviews to nanny for a rich white woman who turns out to be a single mother - to - be, Ana.

The director is Nicolas Pesce, who debuted with 2016's most shattering horror film, The Eyes of My Mother.

An art film wearing a psycho - horror mask, mother!

Opening in September: Kirsten Dunst and Isla Fisher take a turn in the comic bridesmaid well in «Bachelorette» (Friday); Bradley Cooper is an author whose stolen work becomes a hit in «The Words» (Friday), a thriller co-starring Jeremy Irons and Dennis Quaid (see story on Page 17); Pixar adds another dimension to one of its most popular films in «Finding Nemo 3 - D» (Sept. 14); Milla Jovovich returns for one more zombie slaughter in «Resident Evil: Retribution» (Sept. 14); Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña are Los Angeles cops in «End of Watch» (Sept. 21), which aims for a realistic look at inner - city law enforcement; Elizabeth Shue and Jennifer Lawrence are mother and daughter, discovering a horror - tinged secret in «House at the End of the Street» (Sept. 21); Karl Urban plays «Dredd» (Sept. 21), a helmeted avenger who cleans up the futuristic Mega City as its judge, jury and (wait for it...) executioner; In the animated «Hotel Transylvania,» Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) struggles to cope with his daughter's new non-vampire love interest (Sept. 28).

If the horror anthology film has a weakness, the equivalent of a wooden stake or an overbearing (and decapitated) mother, it's that they are almost always, by their very nature, uneven.

If you want intelligent and visceral horror films like this too, make sure to see The EYES OF MY MOTHER.

Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film, The Shining, is a horror classic, which is no doubt why mother!

The Eyes of My Mother, directed by music - video prodigy Nicolas Pesce, who carves his name indelibly into the psyche with one of the most memorable horror films in recent memory; and Under the Shadow, from first - time feature film director and MIFF guest, Babak Anvari.

Another horror film hiding within the massive Sundance Film Festival program is The Eyes of My Mother director Nicolas Pesce «s psychological thriller, Piercing.

The Eyes of My Mother: I feel like a broken record in saying this, but I want more horror films like The EYES OF MY MMother: I feel like a broken record in saying this, but I want more horror films like The EYES OF MY MOTHERMOTHER.

MY FATHERS, MY MOTHER AND ME is a documentary more terrifying than most horror films.

Damon stars in two of the Lido's big films, Downsizing and Suburbicon, while Lawrence steps into horror movie territory with Darren Aronofsky's Mother!

-- Bob Turnbull [LOVED] The Crescent is pretty far away from being a conventional horror film, with the film being quite slow placed and akin to a mother / son drama.

High - profile and anticipated films slated to screen at the festival this year include romantic sci - fi fable The Shape of Water, mind - bending horror tale mother!

Inspired by decades of Japanese horror films, F.E.A.R injected a sense of genuine terror to the FPS genre, much of which was owed to a psychic ankle - biter named Alma who (spoiler) turned out to be the leading man's mother.

Nicolas Pesce delivered the major discovery of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival with his chilling black - and - white horror film «The Eyes of My Mother,» and now he's back two years later with a bigger budget, a starrier cast, and hopefully the same level of grisly intensity.

She is the perfect wife, a loving and attentive mother who wants her children to do their very best, so when one of her son's teachers recommends a psychiatrist simply because he enjoys horror films, that is enough to send her over the edge.

An extension of her short, this creepy horror film focuses on a widowed single mother named Amelia (played by Essie Davis, Kent's fellow student at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney) whose six - year - old son comes across a mysterious, macabre children's book.

Paramount Pictures unveiled another new clip of upcoming horror film, «mother!»

XYZ Films and Distant Corners Entertainment are teaming up to make Holidays, a horror anthology film that'll feature segments based on holidays such as Christmas, Easter, Valentine's Day, Halloween and Mother's Day.

Upcoming horror - thriller Wolf Mother, about two outlaws on the path to find abducted children by any means necessary, has released a bloody new trailer in preparation for the film's digital release next month, through JoBlo.com.

Other notable victors included Jordan Peele for the original screenplay to his hit horror / social - metaphor film «Get Out»; Allison Janney, who won best supporting actress for her portrayal of figure skater Tonya Harding's hardhearted mother in «I, Tonya»; and 89 - year - old James Ivory, who won for adapted screenplay for «Call Me By Your Name.»