Sentences with phrase «horror homage»

Elsewhere, the acting prizes went to Toby Jones for his turn as a sound engineer in the period horror homage Berberian Sound Studio and Andrea Riseborough for her performance as a reluctant IRA informer in the thriller Shadow Dancer.

That latter bit is what makes the biggest horror homage of this movie even more grand than it is.

Okay, so Joss Whedon can write and / or direct TV shows, animated classics, horror homages, superhero blockbusters, you name it.

We wouldn't have series like Stranger Things or horror homages like It Follows or The Void if all these titles hadn't come before.

By George Wolf Okay, so Joss Whedon can write and / or direct TV shows, animated classics, horror homages, superhero blockbusters, you name it.

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NEW YORK (AP)-- George Romero, whose classic «Night of the Living Dead» and other horror films turned zombie movies into social commentaries and who saw his flesh - devouring undead spawn countless imitators, remakes and homages, has died.

While maybe not massively groundbreaking, or as visually compelling as those paintings that are famous for being an homage to victims of everyday horrors reported in the media (Goya's The Third of May 1808 springs to mind), the exhibition is in keeping with the museum's focus on the impact of war on the lives of ordinary people, and a welcome accompaniment to the excellent experience on offer at the museum.

Best Little Secrets Are Kept pays homage to the fairer gender with punchy glam - rock guitars, winking double entendres and Hill's swaggering Rocky Horror Picture Show - style vocals.

Cabin in the Woods is a uniquely crafted dark horror comedy that is writer Josh Whedon's homage to classic slasher flicks.

A gory, old - fashioned slice of schlock horror that, by successfully paying homage to one of the greats, puts many of its contemporaries in the shade.

Comedy, sci - fi, horror, romance, adventure, action, drama, and thriller, it covers quite a lot of territory in a short amount of time, and does so with its own sense of style that makes it different from any other film, even if it is an homage film at its core.

But intertextuality forms the backbone of this body of work, with each refresh paying homage to a new wave of classical horror tropes via cinematography, music and familiar dialogue from the vaults of Hollywood horror — much to the delight of genre boffins everywhere.

Naturally, remaking such a revered film is bound to lead to criticism, and the director has acknowledged that in an interview with The Guardian, describing his take as a homage to the horror masterpiece, rather than a commercially - driven decision.

So we did sort of dial it slightly towards more psychological drama and horror than the monster movie homage that was in the original movie.

We do, you do, and that's probably why homage horror is so satisfying.

The makers of Zombieland would rather tell a straightforward story infused with humor and homage for those who truly appreciate the zombie - horror genre rather than go for broad appeal snarkiness.

Cabin Fever (2002), Eli Roth's knowing homage to the gory glory days of 1970s American horror cinema, drops five college kids in a rustic backwoods cabin, stirs in wild - eyed hillbilly caricatures, and then sneaks the real horror — a skin - rotting virus — under their radar.

The film is supposedly an homage to Japanese horror as it follows a group of Americans visiting Japan who decide to stay overnight at a haunted temple.

Cinephiles will also notice homages to some directorial greats - such as Kubrickian and Hitchcockian technique for creating intense and effective moments of horror and suspense, respectively.

In their previous screenplays, Wright and Pegg have very shrewdly thrown genre conventions on their collective ear; they clearly love horror movies and action flicks and buddy comedies, and they understand the structure of those films with such clarity that they can rewrite the rules, scramble up our expectations and wind up with a creation that's both an homage to and a subversion of past classics.

* Wes Craven paid homage to the famous opening scene of Walton's original in the Kevin Williamson - written, self - reflexive horror flick Scream.

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.

Dead Drop Studios created the Outbreak games as an homage to the survival horror genre.

(and more horizontal homage to obvious antecedents by countrymen Kurosawa, Kobayashi, and Chushingura), initially seems a surprise choice for someone who's made his name (80 + times in the last twenty years) with transgressive, flamboyantly outré Yakuza and horror pictures.

Within a very few years, artists like John Carpenter, John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, Rob Bottin, Rick Baker, Sam Raimi, Brian DePalma, Bob Clark, Dan O'Bannon, Sean S. Cunningham, Wes Craven, Tobe Hooper, Stan Winston, Larry Cohen, and on and on and so on, were working in and reinvigorating the horror genre — many under the tutelage of Roger Corman, still others the initial products of formal film school training, almost all the consequence of a particular movie geekism that would lead inevitably to the first rumblings of jokiness and self - referentiality - as - homage that reached its simultaneous pinnacle and nadir with Craven's Scream.

by Walter Chaw 13 Assassins, Takashi Miike's costume - period retro - cross-cultural updating of Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (and more horizontal homage to obvious antecedents by countrymen Kurosawa, Kobayashi, and Chushingura), initially seems a surprise choice for someone who's made his name (80 + times in the last twenty years) with transgressive, flamboyantly outré Yakuza and horror pictures.

Those who love horror films like Friday the 13th, Sleepaway Camp, Evil Dead, and various other 80s cult classics will love how this film plays as an homage to them.

But, as Burton films are wont to, this one loses its way with one misguided sequence that allows the director to pay extended homage to the vintage horror and sci - fi B - movies that have so clearly inspired him.

Though this isn't a horror film, it clearly comes from the same place as Scream and its ilk, only without the cleverness and rampant referentiality (the best we get here is a pretty random and weird homage to The Exorcist).

Crimson Peak is the Mexican filmmaker's latest, a 1901 - set gothic horror tale with a wicked sense of humor that pays homage to super-cool stuff like Hammer Films, Edgar Allen Poe, and Alfred Hitchcock.

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George is a restaurateur, but his father's death prompted him to make and dedicate to him the horror movie he always dreamed of, «Scarecrowd» (The villain, Tony Maio, is also an homage to his father's name, Tonino).

Building on Raimi's blood - soaked vision, Alvarez was able to craft an Evil Dead that paid homage to the original while still presenting a different — more serious, perhaps, but no less exaggerated — take on the «ultimate experience in grueling horror.»

The Conjuring is an homage to the horror films of the 1970s that had the slow burn leading up to an insane edge of your seat finale.

The first film felt like a fun little movie to pay homage to some classic horror movies, and seeing the success, it felt like Wirkola put in everything he had to make sure that this movie stood on its own and it sure a fuck does.

Though the «sex equals death» rule isn't as prominent in modern horror movies that defy those decades - old tropes, «It Follows» is very much a retro homage to «70s and «80s genre classics, from the «Halloween» - esque synth score, to the striking similarities to «Nightmare on Elm Street,» both in Jay's perpetual helplessness and the film's dreamlike atmosphere.

Crimson Peak is an homage to the classic Hammer horrors of the»50s and»60s — heck, Edith's last name is Cushing, a not - so - subtle nod to Hammer Film legend (and, later, Star Wars villain) Peter Cushing — and as such it's meant to be rather broad and arch.

specifically for Creepshow, which is itself an homage to the horror - themed comic books published by EC Comics in the 1950's.

«Temple is a great current homage to J - Horror classics, while remaining unique and scary as hell,» said Needle.

From here on out, the film is a gleefully bloody homage to B - grade horror films of the past as the Gecko brothers and their hostages, with the aid of bar patrons Frost (Fred Williamson, doing a fun sendup of his image as a blaxploitation action icon) and Sex Machine (Tom Savini) fight for their lives.

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This year's best picture Oscar, after all, went for the first time to a science - fiction film of sorts, Guillermo del Toro's adoring monster - movie homage The Shape of Water — beating, among others, Get Out, Jordan Peele's wickedly playful collision of old - school horror with brisk, bracing racial politics.

Brian Herzlinger, who's choice was the 80s camp classic Killer Clowns From Outer Space, states: «Here's the thing about Killer Klowns from Outer Space — the whole thing is an homage to»50s horror movies, specifically The Blob....

The first (and probably the best) horror film from master Mario Bava works as both an homage to the Universal monster classics and an early harbinger of the graphic violence that would eventually become a large part of Italian horror cinema.

The feature directorial debut of Brett Anstey, Australian import Damned by Dawn represents a stab at homage to the classic Hammer Horror films of yore.

It's worth noting, too, that Cronenberg's decision to shoe - horn in moments of body horror, presumably in homage to his much more talented father, fall entirely and almost comically flat, while the pervasive lack of momentum ensures that Antiviral fizzles out to an astonishing degree long before it reaches its half - baked climax.

The Mummy Returns isn't so much an homage to the classic horror flicks of the 1930s so much as an attempt to play oneupsman to all of the summer blockbusters to have been released in the interim years after 1998, and in so doing, it exists only as mindless fodder for strict popcorn movie fanatics.

First - time writer - director Roth, co-writing with fellow novice Randy Pearlstein, is clearly a gore - happy horror junkie, paying respectful homage to «The Evil Dead,» «Night of the Living Dead,» «The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,» and even «The Last House on the Left.»

A homage of sorts to 70s Italian horror, it stars Toby Jones as Gilderoy, a mild - mannered...

George Romero, whose classic «Night of the Living Dead» and other horror films turned zombie movies into social commentaries and who saw his flesh - devouring undead spawn countless imitators, remakes and homages, dies Sunday, July 16, 2017.