Sentences with phrase «horror films act»

Whether it's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Night of the Living Dead, Rosemary's Baby, or Videodrome, the best horror films act as subversive social commentaries, dealing with humanity's fears and offering a communal catharsis.

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Horror films are ideal fodder for an increasingly bottom line «focused Hollywood: The films are populated with cheap, minor - league acting talent, they are extremely inexpensive to produce and film, and they offer the consumer something that is both reliable and comforting.

Recent and upcoming releases include the romance - horror hybrid Spring; the hotly - anticipated The Look Of Silence, Oppenheimer's companion piece to The Act Of Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe, filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animals.

After five years of Jeannie, Hagman took a few film and TV - movie parts, co-starred with Donna Mills on the 1971 sitcom The Good Life, co-starred with Lauren Bacall in the TV rendition of the Broadway musical Applesauce, acted and directed in the low - grade horror spoof Beware!

One moment will have smart phone animations barraging the screen, the next scene will have some random act of bullying, and then the movie remembers it's supposed to be a horror film and for two seconds, you see the girls being filmed by someone.

Hollow Man is an effective Sci Fi horror film that has an intricate story and good acting.

Characters act in ways that defy motivation or logic, lacking credulity way beyond the usual horror film tropes.

One of the greatest and funniest horror films ever made, it has a great story and a powerful scenes with great visuals and exquisite acting, I am a big horror fan, this one is good, it is really good, although I was barging for something smaller and simpler, but it turned out to be way too different than expected!

I've never been a fan, as a rule of horror movies, however, the trailer drew me to this one and i'm glad it did, the awful acting we usually get in horror movies wasn't there this time round, in fact, the whole cast were excellent, the special effects were really very good and the humorous, intelligent dialogue (another thing you don't usually get in horrors) was brilliant, loved the film, Chris Hemsworth, although with less to do in this than he does in Thor, was great in it too.

One of the greatest and funniest horror films ever made, it has a great story and a powerful scenes with great visuals and exquisite acting, I am a big horror fan, this one is good, it is really good, although I was barging for something

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.

His acting break came playing the role of Liam in the 2006 horror film TURISTAS.

X Files: Fight The Future is a terrific Sci Fi Horror film with a fairly good story and decent enough acting to keep one entertained.

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.

The film doesn't shy away from the horrors of slavery, yet the grim material is balanced with a deliciously dark sense of humour - just check out the scene with a band of white - sheeted vigilantes, acting as a precursor to the KKK, which is one of the funniest scenes Tarantino has ever written.

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.

A Perfect Getaway acts as a throwback to the B movie horror films of yesteryear but does so in a way void of both reason and logic.

With a combination of good acting, effective thrills, decent enough effects, Brainscan is a good, underrated sci fi horror film.

The acting here isn't the best, but good enough for a horror film of it's type, and never becomes too cheesy.

William Girdler was able to make a good horror film with Day of the Animals, though the acting suffers, the plot is what keeps you involved from the first frame onwards.

This is a film about a horrific act of violence that eventually results in more bloodshed and gruesomely realistic, Cronenbergian body horror than anything I've seen in a long time.

Survival is the implicit goal of characters in horror films, but a certain subset of these films are able to turn the act of survival into an existential quest, a powerful statement of defiance against the vagaries of the unknown.

She also wrote and stars in the film as a pregnant woman who acts upon her murderous impulses in a wonderful mix of comedy and horror.

Even as it detours into generic horror tropes in the final act, the film is bolstered by a complex portrayal from Powley and a screenplay that smartly sidesteps fish - out - of - water clichés and instead focuses on Anna's psychological demons.

The first act is painfully slow and unlike the director's later film ALUCARDA, the film doesn't kick off with bizarre visuals and horror elements.

A fun, inventive, and jumpy found - footage horror film that has it's share of thrills, especially in the final act.

10 Cloverfield Lane established the film's anthological style by acting as a psychological horror film set in the same universe (it's the best of the trilogy).

Remake of the classic haunted house horror film of the same name is an awful mess of a film that is uninspired and poorly acted.

Fans of well - acted period dramas and good gothic mysteries should consider tuning in but the film will be of particular interest to anyone curious about the origins of modern British horror cinema.

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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.

I think it's because they wanted / expected an effects - laden horror film with jump scares and couldn't handle it when they got a movie that relied on great storytelling and acting to deliver the frights.

Talking with «People» magazine about his role in the new horror film «Happy Birthday,» the singer reveals he's been bitten by the acting bug.

Kidder acted in dozens of films throughout her career, including a starring role as Kathy Lutz in the 1979 supernatural horror film, The Amityville Hhorror film, The Amityville HorrorHorror.

Goodnight Mommy escalates into the torture film variety in the last act, making the film difficult to stomach when it switches from psychological suspense to physical horror.

Aesthetically, The Void raises the bar for Astron - 6, both in cinematography and practical effects; however, the acting isn't similarly elevated, making it ultimately only halfway successful as a serious horror film.

But behind the gathering storm is the sense of humanity being lost, a tragedy in three acts, the vanishing connection tethering two men to society; perhaps it plays like a horror film because it's almost like a vampire picture without vampires.

I would like to make another comedy film next, as I just finished (acting in, and producing,) a horror movie («Tell Me Your Name»).

So I think this movie is a message movie — stay away from hash and it can finally be said, put a black person in a horror film and they'll act just as dumb as white people.

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Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil (dir: Eli Craig, U.S.) is not so much a horror comedy as a comedy where most of the characters are convinced they're in a horror film and act accordingly.

Because of Depp's detached performance and a rushed third act that seems cruelly indifferent to the horror of the murders, the gruesome ending does not feel like the shocking reveal the film was building up to, but rather like a gratuitous and unpleasant fuck you.

As writer / director Christopher MacBride shifts focus in its third act to a truly frightening riff on found - footage horror movies, the film deftly comments on the filmmaking process and the unreliable narrator phenomena.

In a youth film culture that has embraced increasingly violent and sadistic horror films, especially those that linger on acts of inhuman brutality and excruciatingly endured mutilations (quite accurately dubbed «torture porn»), what's not to like about a film about a silent butcher who bludgeons the passengers of a late - night subway ride, preps the carcasses like slaughtered cattle and hangs them like sides of beef?

As it turns out, Fox has neither the acting chops nor the movie star charisma to elevate the disorganized tornado of horror movie clichés and leaden one - liners whirling around her, and with no real base to support the film, Jennifer's Body quickly careens into an incoherent exercise in high production values glossing over an utter lack of imagination.

Sarah Snook is Marian Marriott, Sarah's perhaps obsessively loyal niece and secretary, whose son Henry (Finn Scicluna - O'Prey) acts as the spooky, singing British tyke we can expect in any period horror film these days.

Couple this with the spectacular voice acting from none other than Peter Weller, and you are part of this psychological thriller / horror film.

It's also that rare modern horror film that has fairly strong acting in it.

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).

In its tone, acting, location work, music and inexorably mounting suspense, this is an exemplary horror film, apart from the detail that they're not usually subtitled «A Christmas Tale» and tell about wild Santas.