Sentences with phrase «horror film genre»

The large screens mine the horror film genre to explore fantasies of occult powers in young children, while the small screen simultaneously shows documentary material from a pilgrimage to visit children who have had authenticated religious visions.

In this case, you can see Villafane has created zombies - from my favourite ever horror film genre.

Speaking of the partnership, Patrick Plourde, Vice President of Ubisoft Montreal, said: «Their expertise in the horror film genre is exciting for us.

«Their expertise in the horror film genre is exciting for us as a developer of interactive entertainment,» says Ubisoft Montreal VP

He is best known for his work in the horror film genre, particularly in the subgenre known as giallo, and for his influence on modern horror movies.

The horror film genre is so full of dumb teenagers making bad decisions one could all but populate a second planet (or country) with their low - grade stock.

JC: All this is true enough, except that The Shining belongs in a more global sense to the horror film genre.

Apt Pupil is a welcome attempt to reclaim the horror film genre from teen - driven slasher flick formulas!

An excellent blend of comedy and thriller The Cabin in the Woods has redefined the horror film genre.

Not exact matches

David Goldman tries to explain the growth in the American horror - film genre while making the assumption that horror is bad in and of itself, with which I disagree.

While it may seem counterintuitive, there probably isn't a film genre (excluding movies produced by Kirk Cameron, anyway) that more consistently or explicitly references Christian ideas and iconography than the horror genre.

This finding contradicts industry norms which see significantly fewer product placements in horror films compared to other genres.

When most people think about horror movies these days they think about the traditional slasher film or the recent (and grotesquely named) «torture porn» genre.

Trying to get away from the horror genre, he tried to make a few films with no success.

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A «creepypasta» is a short piece of horror Gothic fiction, which is largely known by the subgenre of Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death

Any horror movie fan can see that this film has been made with a gleeful love of the genre, flaws and all, and the final half - hour delivers one of the greatest visually spectacular finales I have seen all year (even compared to that of another Joss Whedon project, The Avengers).

It twists and turns multiple times throughout its short running time, borrowing heavily from a variety of films in the horror genre (and other genres as well), but under the sure direction and

It is very rare for a third film (especially in the horror genre) to surpass it's predecessors, and while «Insidious: Chapter 3» doesn't quite capture the brilliant atmosphere created in James Wan's original, it definitely is a step above his first sequel.

As with Eli Roth's Hostel films, the context should be clear to anyone aware of the role America plays in the developing world and the festering anti-American hostilities out there... or to anyone interested in the politics of horror and / or familiar with the genre conventions in this regard.

The scariest thing to be found in this pointless horror film is that its director, Rob Schmidt, has less prowess as a genre filmmaker in his third film than Eli Roth did in his first.

Horror film buffs may chafe at the selection criteria, the truncated clips, and other scholarly points — non-specialists will still get an overview of aspects of the genre.

As a horror film it works, but it is a «self referential» commentary on the genre itself.

Unlike many films dealing with the pending Apocalypse, which are often told in the horror genre with the visual horrors of the end of days, «Seeking a Friend for the End of the World» rightfully took a different perspective by focusing on people's natural reactions.

Backwoods would not be my first choice for a horror film festival, even for it's genre it is unbelievable and assumes it's audience will be too dumb to pick up on it.

Quite possibly one of my favorite horror films of all - time and not for the sheer scares or thrills, but for the dialogue and smart plot twists on the genre.

With an astoundingly funny vein of dark comedy running through the entire film, this film sets itself apart as a treatise of the horror genre, something that Scream accomplished a decade previously but Cabin in the Woods elevates to another level.

Following its premiere in Toronto's Platform strand, «Beast» should enjoy broad festival play thanks to its canny art - horror balance — it's a film as suitable for midnight berths as it is for less genre - inclined programs.

Nothing on Lionsgate's 2014 schedule of YA novel adaptations, horror, and other genre films suggests that the studio is going to start churning out critically praised films, but with another Hunger Games installment due this year, the studio should remain in the green financially, if not score-wise.

Either because they were being compared to some of the classics in the horror / comedy genre or, as the consensus on here states, there's not a good enough of either comedy or horror in the film.

The distinction between actors and special effects shrinks ever further in the video game - turned - horror film «Silent Hill: Revelation 3D,» which reduces its human players to plastic action figures in tired genre settings.

The original film celebrated the diverse inclinations of the horror genre, while also poking fun at it thanks to veteran director Craven helming the vehicle.

Once again the most prolific distributor of the year, IFC maintained a more - than - one - film - per - week pace throughout 2013, with releases in multiple genres coming through a variety of sub-brands, including the artier Sundance Selects and the horror - oriented IFC Midnight.

These guys aren't trying to elevate the genre... they just want to make a psychic wars horror film and blow up some heads.

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

It's as rudimentary as slasher films go, and although it may not be fair to make the comparison, that will no longer cut it after Get Out proved that the horror genre is capable of a lot more than mechanically depicting people getting stabbed to death.

With an eclectic mix of ground - breaking and genre - defining content including horror films, documentaries, Director's Nights and supernatural series, you'll be entertained, informed and terrified.

This film can definitely be seen as an introduction to a horror film for people who are new to the genre.

Attempts to do for «The Big Sleep» - type detective movie and film - noir genre what «Blair Witch» did for horror films.

Pieced together like a crime picture, but marked with the bloody thumbprint of the horror genre, the film tells of newly engaged couple Sam (Harriet Dyer) and Ian (Ian Meadows), who discover an abandoned tent and evidence of a multiple murder.

When films tend to recycle ideas under different titles, the genre as a whole suffers, and we have several films in the last few years that show the decline of great horror.

A genre - defying film blending horror, supernatural elements, comedy, and social realism.

William Girdler's Day of the Animals is an average nature gone wild horror film that is entertaining, but is far from the best in the genre.

WHY: Michael Dougherty's 2007 horror anthology «Trick «r Treat» is one of the most underrated films in the genre, so it's a little surprising that audiences have had to wait so long for his follow - up.

This is a rare horror film that was rumored to be shot in one single uninterrupted shot to be even more suspenseful and realistic compared to other films in this genre.

Writer - director Thom Eberhardt (Captain Ron, The Night Before), who had just come off of a similar survivalist horror tale, Sole Survivor, imbues his film with a tongue planted firmly in his cheek, and a genuine love for the various B - movie genres that gives the film the necessary sense of fun needed in order to not get bogged down in deadly seriousness that would have done the film in for sure.

Although it shares many similarities with the first film adaptation of the novel directed by Kon Ichikawa in 1959, Tsukamoto chose to bring some of his more traditional genre film experience to the project in order to create a more vivid portrait of the horror and obscenity of war.

Both films were made with very small budgets, both proved extremely profitable relative to those budgets, and both spawned new trends in the horror genre — gory «torture porn» / new - wave splatter films (Saw) and smaller - budgeted supernatural horror films (Paranormal Activity).

CRUST is a new indie horror film starring some of the genres favorite stars, and to be honest, not much is know about the project at...

THE CONJURING The director James Wan («Saw,» «Insidious») continues to scramble up the genre ladder with a classically paced horror film about a husband - and - wife team of paranormal investigators (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) who meet a particular challenge at a Connecticut farmhouse.