The spirit of a vicious child serial killer resurfaces in the nightmares of teens in modern - day and is responsible for their subsequent and shocking deaths in this tense, spooky thriller from who else, but Wes Craven (I'm actually not that familiar at all with his style, but since this is
a horror film for the ages I figured I'd best get ahead and jump on the bandwagon as quick as possible to make up for lost time).
Not exact matches
With those two
films showing potential weaknesses, there is room
for a surprise winner like Get Out, the
horror film about racism, or the coming - of -
age LGBTQ romance Call Me By Your Name, among others.
The findings prompt the authors to describe children's cartoons as «rife with death and destruction,» with content akin to the «rampant
horrors» of popular
films for adults given restrictive
age ratings.
At least I now know what my tolerance level will be like
for the eventual European coming - of -
age horror film set at a waxing station.
Tobe Hooper, probably best known
for helming one of the most renowned and influential
horror films of all time, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, has died of natural causes at the
age of 74.
Why «The Revenant» was hard
for me; Joanna Coates and Daniel Metz on «Amorous»; Scorsese's «The
Age of Innocence»;
Horror films are scarier than in the past; Teaching VR filmmaking.
For her next role, Cooke found herself moving away from
horror to explore a more intimate story, playing a cancer patient in the coming - of -
age film «Me & Earl & the Dying Girl.»
Britain fared better, with my favourite sci - fi
horror film in a long time, Glazer's Under the Skin, and my favourite entertainment
film of the year, the conventional, but charming Pride, while the flawed Mr. Turner impressively reflects the great painter's sun worship through Dick Pope's widescreen cinematography.Highlights of my year included being on the FIPRESCI jury at the Hong Kong IFF, where I admired Yang Hen's third feature, Na pian hu shui (Lake August), and a couple of first features among others, as well as attending the amazing HK
film market
for the first time, where I saw one of my three 2014 «
films for the
ages», Tsai's Journey to the West; and seeing a nitrate print of Hitchcock's Rebecca at the George Eastman House in Rochester (where they are doing a three - day all - nitrate festival in May, 2015!).
If you were lucky to have an irresponsible uncle or older sibling who allowed you to watch a
horror film at a young
age you'll probably remember the nightmares that followed and the spark that was lit
for spooky cinema.
The greatest surprise is that this
horror film works deeply as both a scary tale and a coming of
age journey
for characters on the cusp of adulthood.
Gordon's victory, which happened at
age 72 — «I can't tell you how encouraging a thing like this is,» she famously remarked from the podium — would set the stage
for what would become a curious Oscar phenomenon: actresses earning statuettes
for horror films.
Now, with their follow - up, Spring, the duo pull off the unthinkable once again in giving us a
horror film for the new
age, one that isn't satisfied with jarring jump scares or found - footage cliches.