Sentences with phrase «horror film works»

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.

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

Sometimes horror films work best when your imagination is required to see what is behind that door — and not some fancy visual effect by ILM and Tippet Studios.

Some of the best horror films work because they tap into the primitive, mastering an understanding that what truly scares us can be so simple and basic.

Not exact matches

At the time, O'Connell was working on a poster for a science - fiction and horror film festival featuring John Carpenter's 1988 cult classic «They Live» about aliens living incognito among humans.

Adolf Hitler and other such types may be the inspiration for horror films, but I believe there is something much more benign at work, too.

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

A tragically beautiful horror film that works not only as a supernatural thriller but also as a commentary on the failure of man.

Generally his film work less successful than this TV work, which features the fantastic Salem's Lot adaptation as well as work on Masters of Horror.

For someone to have such a strict upbringing and to go on to work for 40 years making horror films is just inspiring.

If anyone can write a good horror story, its Mr. King but, unfortunately, most of his adapted work don't transition well into film.

And while the film is at times scarily atmospheric — a hunt in the cramped sewers under Baltimore, a horse chase through a foggy wood — it too often abandons the stony, old - timey horror that should be its main motif, because despite all the nonsense it works, in favor of slow - motion bullets and a super villain-esque masked crusader who is capable of impossible feats of speed and marksmanship.

It has a great screenplay and it actually works with tons of horror film stereotypes which make it even better.

Toby Jones stars as a sound engineer who travels to Rome in 1976 to work on the post-production sound mix of The Equestrian Vortex, a horror film about witchcraft set in an all - girl riding academy.

It truly is a satirical horror film, it's just too bad that it didn't work out with Valve.

Among his recent big - screen credits are Joel Schumacher's horror TOWN CREEK (2009) and the Woody Allen film WHATEVER WORKS (2009).

It was so refreshing not to see the film under so much CGI like a lot of recent Horror films, and there was a nice amount of stunt work involved!

I don't know, just the way her body language and how she acted actually really worked and added something to the film that improved it much more than just your basic horror film.

The film works as supernatural horror at the same time as you feel the chaos and fear in everyday life during the Iran - Iraq War as experienced by people like the rest of us and not by presidents and kings.

Even if this isn't his best work, Lord of Illusions is a good horror film definitely worth checking out if you love Barker's work.

Garland, well supported by the imaginative production design Mark Digby and the work of five special effects companies, has directed a worthy film of adventure, horror and existential reflection.

The hard - working actress has made a career of choosing diverse and challenging projects both in film and television, starting with her acting debut in the movie JOE, which she soon followed with the 1975 cult classic THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.

As far as psychological horror goes, the films work well, and that they realize Poe's stories were mainly internalized distortions of the world works to their advantage, even as they approach the material in vastly different ways.

The film doesn't get as much love from Variety, whose Justin Chang sees «some modestly campy pleasures» without «the delirious trash - horror verve of De Palma's best work,» and the The Playlist agrees, noting, «What Passion is lacking is, ironically, some passion.»

MG: «Insidious» is easily one of the best horror scores in recent years; how do you approach a score when you are working with the film?

The film, which clearly shows David Cronenberg's love for body horror running through the family, revolves around a man (Caleb Landry - Jones) working for a company who inject paying customers with the same viruses as famous celebrities.

It turns out that the film's conclusion, which left the door for further horror wide open, was a promise as Don't Breathe 2 is currently in the works.

Carrie is a film adaptation of Stephen King's work, which got turned into a cult horror classic in 1976 and was directed by Brain De Palma.

Additionally, in no particular order, there were vocal supporters of the Ralph Jones «incongruously great score to «Slumber Party Massacre ``; «Phantasm» «s heavily «Exorcist «- indebted score from Fred Myrow and Malcom Seagrave; Danny Elfman «s channelling of Bernard Herrmann for «Nightbreed ``; Wojciech Kilar «s bombastic, often recycled music for «Bram Stoker's Dracula ``; John Harrison's score for Romero's anthology film «Creepshow ``; Richard Band «s better - than - deserved compositions for the terrible «Troll ``; the great Lalo Schifrin «s score for the original «The Amityville Horror ``; a more recent example in Climax Golden Twins» music for Brad Anderson «s now cultish «Session 9 ``; Pino Donaggio's terrific work with de Palma's «Dressed to Kill ``; Gene Moore's classic church organ scares in «Carnival of Souls ``; and while we've featured Bava fils above, we could easily have found room for his father Mario Bava, probably with the funky original music by Libra for his final film «Shock.»

Joe Dante's a great filmmaker, but I wish he had made his return to features with a movie better than Burying The Ex, a glib, EC Comics - influenced horror comedy that would probably work better as a short chapter in an anthology film.

Take a look at a clip of Rob Zombie on the set of his next horror film 31, discussing his work with talents Malcolm McDowell and...

Other horror films this season have ranged from arty to schlocky, but the scales tip to the latter — and that seems to be what the majority of horror fans like; they consider films such as Clive Barker's «Lord of Illusions» and even a work such as «Species» as essentially «party movies.»

PITCH BLACK This half - baked sci - fi horror film is filled with so much jerky, washed - out, highlighted, blurred and toned camera work that it's a relief when the computer - generated monsters finally check in.

It's not even that the film shifts wildly in tone as much as the fact that none of those tones work at all: the horror parts aren't scary and, surprisingly for Smith, the comedy bits aren't funny.

Journalist Mark R. Hasan (KQEK.com) interviews esteemed horror composer Marco Betrami regarding his latest work, World War Z (2013), scoring action films, collaborator Buck Sanders, and former mentor Jerry Goldsmith.

Okay, so to be fair... he invented the genre, changed the way horror films are made, blah blah blah — I'm not going to reiterate what's already been said a thousand times about Romero's body of work.

Although he worked in most realms of exploitation films, from «nudie - cuties» to juvenile delinquent films and even children's films, he is best known for creating the «splatter» sub-genre of horror movies.

For example, prior to digital distribution, horror films from filmmakers working in countries like Japan, Spain, and Italy were traded on VHS and DVDs by American fans of the genre, including movies that never saw an official theatrical release in the United States.

AVC: One of the interesting things about horror as a genre is that it's possible to work on a micro-budget and still make an effective film.

Although a third act reveal serves to explain away the supernatural element of the threat, there's always this nagging sense that Spectral might work a lot better if Mathieu or the multiple credited writers had sought to play up the horror element that comes with the territory the film flirts with.

Larry Fessenden's Wendigo is the third in the New York filmmaker's trilogy of intimate horror films and his most emotionally affecting by far — judging by the quality of his other work, that's a statement dangerously approaching hyperbole.

(Reuters)-- Sitting in a palm - tree lined cemetery in Hollywood promoting her latest film, «Bates Motel» actress Olivia Cooke says the impact of working in the horror genre has left her emotions on edge.

Of course, horror films continue to be satirized, including the «Saw» films, «The Grudge,» and «The Village,» but the sci - fi action of «War of the Worlds» is worked into the proceedings as well.

From horror and comedy to works that defy genre classification, these films will keep you wide awake, even at the most arduous hour.

A profoundly unsettling work from the great American director Todd Haynes, Safe functions on multiple levels: as a prescient commentary on self - help culture, as a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, as a drama about class and social estrangement, and as a horror film about what you can not see.

A fascinating and divisive psychological horror film receives a top - notch transfer from Arrow Academy, allowing audiences to reevaluate one of Robert Altman's lesser - known works.

While Buchanan's logic with regard to the summer tent pole is sound, there's one glaring omission from his article: the outstanding box - office performances of The Purge and The Conjuring, two original works, both horror films.

A bit off a cheat, but Danny Boyle's 2002 alt - horror film and its 2007 follow - up work very much as a whole when it comes to maximum emotional impact.

Borrowing from Takashi Miike's Audition (seminal J Horror film) source material, Nicolas Pesce had time to dress, finesse his highly anticipated sophomore film and boy did he deliver with what comes across as a Cronenberg's Crash like love story featured in hotel room spaces rather than car wreckage and works as an homage to a plethora of influential filmmakers including De Palma and the Giallo set.

An unholy hybrid between a teen gang film and a «torture porn» horror movie, this film by Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores (who work under the name «The Butcher Brothers») throws in plenty of Grand Guignol - style bloodletting to very little effect.