Sentences with phrase «horror genre better»

Tucker and Dale vs Evil did the dark comedy horror genre better.

You know both of them knew the horror genre well and wanted to do something fresh with the material.

Not exact matches

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

Others have pointed out how horror, more than any other genre, deals explicitly with issues of good and evil.

, which deconstructed horror tropes and told a profound story about racial appropriation, to the point where debates are still raging over which genre it best represents.

He grew up in the era and knows the horror genre really well.

One of the best slow burn horror flicks of recent memory — though there's another on this list — The Witch is a stand out genre flick.

Im a mother of 3 children i like to read and watch a good movie my favorite movie genre is horror my favorite tv show is sons of anarchy i love to read and listen to country music all day long i love watching footbal my..

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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

What's important is the fact that it defines a new genre, a better and more evolved look at horror!

Everybody praised Scream for the way it disassembled the horror genre, but Cabin does it SO much better.

Though it touches on a number of genres and encapsulates several themes, Black Swan is best viewed as a horror movie - a slow creep into insanity that's touching and terrifying in equal measure.

The music is superb, the Simon Boswell piano theme is well suited and also suits for the horror genre, I don't really find this as a standard black comedy thriller, it is something like it is ripped off from Coen Brother's Blood Simple, with more of less funny dialogue but I find this a perfect thriller and quite known for its time and still is today because of Channel 4 which is now a popular channel with many sub-channels.

My favorite genres are horror, sci - fi and action (better be R - rated!)

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.

This movie ruined the genre for me, by destroying my naive belief that the horror industry is getting better, and it will get better.

The movie is a mixed bag of highs and lows, some nice ideas, good laughs, good visuals and I adore the iconic gothic horror genre to death (see what I did... never mind).

Best - known to BMD readers will undoubtedly be Peter Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio, a reality - melting Italian - style horror freakout that made serious waves in genre circles.

There's almost excessively little within Cabin Fever that won't seem all - too - familiar to horror fans, as scripters Randy Pearlstein and Roth have infused the narrative with just about every convention and cliche of the genre imaginable - and yet it's clear that the movie, in its early stages, fares much better than one might've anticipated.

Yes, it's a major deviation from the survival horror genre and not a good one.

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.

It is genre crossing, focusing on horror but with comedy and also some sci - fi elements thrown in as well.

If you feel like the horror genre has been ho - hum lately, rest assured as The Conjuring is one of the best horror films that has come across the screen in the last decade.

Not only do they have one hell of a director in place, but they've got one who knows a thing or two about the horror genre and considering he'll be responsible for some of horror's most classic characters, I'd say that's a pretty good thing.

Taylor - Joy claims never to have even seen a scary movie before The Witch, but as I chat to her about my decreasing faith in Hollywood horror, she's surprisingly well aware of the formulaic approach to the genre that seems to have been adopted by so many.

As it is now, Crimson Peak is still the best horror film of the year, just not for the typical reasons associated with the genre.

Unfortunately, it appears as though this is one of those cases where the writers» previous filmography is a good indicator of what to expect here; namely, a whole lot of horror genre cliches and familiar setups that lack the precision or creativity, in terms of execution, to make them feel fresh or to create atmosphere.

I'm actually a big fan of the first two SCREAM films as they did a great job of deconstructing the American horror genre as well as scaring the pants off of me.

It's a playfully demented and dry evisceration of the tenuous hold that modern western civilization has on civility, walking a fine line between the best genre horror and the loftiest of intellectual indie cinema.

Not one to put all his eggs in one basket, Rich is happy to play games of all genres, but he particularly enjoys racing games and anything that's full of non-stop action, especially if it includes a good dose of humour, horror or crudeness!

Even after the man's first foray into the horror genre with the flawed but tonally ambitious Red State, I never would have expected the man best known for lewd discussions over pop - culture minutia to take note of The Human Centipede and more or less say, «Hey, let me try.»

More of a metaphysical adventure tale that delves into some moments of abject horror, Annihilation is a potent demonstration of Garland's range within the genre itself, as well as those who have provided him inspiration (if Ex Machina was haunted by the specter of Stanley Kubrick, Annihilation is possessed by Andrei Tarkovsky).

Horror might not be for everyone, but done right, and done well, as many movies this year have already demonstrated, it becomes a very powerful genre indeed.

well, considering that «sci - fi» is just a setting and not a genre, you're looking at either comedy, horror, drama, action, suspense... etc..

The (very few) good ones are amazing but the bad ones are soooo unbelievably crap and, unfortunately, the horror genre seems to have a massively higher percentage of bad films than good films.

Well, the 21st DICE Awards have come and gone, and despite all of the genre nominations, horror fans only had one...

Jordan Phipps is making big waves this year in the genre community, with a stellar performance in this year's festival favorite Close Calls and a lead role in the upcoming Halloween horror anthology 10/31, so we were thrilled to catch up with Jordan on the Orange Carpet for quick interview following our screening of Close Calls at the 2017 Halloween International Film Festival in Kill Devil Hills, NC, where she would go on to win the Best Actress award.

Originally seen as a big flop among the Stephen King adaptations, «Christine» is best viewed outside the prism of the horror genre.

The film garnered rave reviews for its layered psychodrama within a noir genre piece, as well as its complex, interwoven metaphors involving survivor trauma, denial in the face of unspeakable horror, and the instability of love.

Two years ago, South by Southwest gave the red - carpet treatment of Duncan Jones's entertaining time - travel thriller Source Code, but last year Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon's irritatingly snarky horror - genre deconstruction The Cabin in the Woods got the top honor, and now this year we have The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, which, in spite of a nasty concluding punchline, can't even claim the kind of cleverly subversive comic gusto The Cabin in the Woods has in abundance — for better and for worse.

Deadline is reporting that Cinelou Films and Good Deed Entertainment have enlisted genre filmmakers Mick Garris, Joe Dante, David Slade, Ryuhei Kitamura and Alejandro Brugues for the horror anthology Nightmare Cinema.

Etheria Film Night screens an annual showcase of the best new horror, science fiction, fantasy, action, dark comedy, and thriller films directed by women for an audience including producers, managers, show runners, distributors, and genre fans.

Word on the street is that Krazinski and (somewhat surprising to see) producer Michael Bay are already embarked upon their next joint venture and while their partnership may seem odd, if it works well enough to deliver something else of this quality and something that delivers a fresh slant on the horror genre, then for the first time in my life I say «go Bay, go!»

Simply put, for those of us who live and breathe the horror genre — the good, bad, and ridiculous of it all with honest and utmost respect and reverence — Smothered is a lovingly crafted lighthearted laugh at ourselves, and a celebration of all we hold most dear.

Edgar Wright's Shaun of The Dead (2004) is a good example of the comedy horror genre.

Even though this is an extremely well - made film, it's difficult to know who will enjoy it, as it's far too arty for horror genre fans and much too grisly for arthouse moviegoers.

Across the pond (the other pond), Kiyoshi Kurosawa leaves the J - Horror genre for which he's probably best known in the United States (see: Bright Future, Pulse, Cure) and injects his auteurist theme of the individual pulled by a massive, unknowable, malignant force into the bedlam into an intimate domestic drama.

It is further proof that the horror genre is actually really hard to do well.

Italian horror did not begin and end with giallo, but it certainly put the genre on the map and influenced the direction of Italian horror (as well as, among others, Spanish and French horror) for decades.