Sentences with phrase «horror movie tropes»

Director / co-screenwriter Jeff Wadlow (of the loathsome Kick - Ass 2) does a decent job of not playing into horror movie tropes.

Speaking optimistically, the movie looks to be a careful post-modern dissection of a slasher flick, complete with unseen powers stage - managing horror movie tropes from behind the scenes.

• Split: The comeback of Philadelphia's M. Night Shyamalan continues with this outrageously entertaining thriller which, despite recycling some familiar horror movie tropes, manages to feel fresh and exciting.

It commits various horror movie tropes like open doors, knock over books, and tamper with lights.

Laughs come from simple gags in the film, as well as really clever stings at horror movie tropes.

It's no fun to rip a genre flick by Canadian maverick Bruce McDonald, who makes movies with real zeal and, as recently as 2008, riffed smartly on horror movie tropes in his quasi-zombie drama Pontypool.

But every time this movie threatens to explore its superficial existential questions, it veers into traditional horror movie tropes.

The characters here are smart, subverting normal horror movie tropes, sometimes with a wink to the audience.

It's interesting to ponder, but it never evolves into anything meaningful and it's buried under a lot of heavy exposition, robotic dialogue, and horror movie tropes.

What they encounter, is a bunch of red herrings, glazed over plot points and horror movie tropes.

The horror movie tropes function as a metaphor for the kind of racism that cloaks itself in platitudes of tolerance, the kind that hides in the shadows until something forces it out into the light.

As someone who has grown up with the horror movie tropes, it was a lot of fun to play with those themes and the characters» awareness of them.