Sentences with phrase «horror suspense film»

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The list of horror, mystery, and suspense films

Director James Cameron's 1986 blockbuster follow - up to Ridley Scott's Oscar winning science - fiction / horror flick that became one of the biggest grossing films of 1979 asks a good question to a successful hit... How do you make a successful sequel to a film in which much of the suspense comes from learning about the mysterious monster?

Haneke films his actors in meticulously framed master shots, creating a kind of hushed neorealist medical - horror suspense.

It's an element of menace in keeping with the movie's otherworldly atmosphere; Holmer shoots these fits with suspense worthy of horror films, but she's not interested in shocks or viscera.

This film is a standout horror Slasher that relies more on suspense and atmosphere to create its horror than straight forward bloody kills.

Bassett uses lots of filtering and camera tricks to try and hide the budget of the film and it hurts the horror and ruins what little suspense is featured in the film.

Mr. Brooks is an amazing film that blends mind blowing suspense and horror that will leave you looking over your shoulders for weeks.

The film premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and will be available on the premium thriller, suspense and horror video streaming service.

Dramatic irony, showing the audience the killer before the character sees him, is a technique many older horror films used to create fear and suspense.

Garland has a real instinct for how to draw out suspense while also delivering a gut - punch climax that doesn't feel like a gimmick or a letdown; when he finally shows you the horror, it is truly horrific, and he turns the film's final 15 minutes into both a bizarre light - show and an oddly compelling, gruelingly physical duel.

clouzot deserves far more respect than he receives in the U.S., and this film simply adds to his legacy of astoundingly good suspense and horror films.

However, he seems quite befuddled as to what to do within the atmospheric horror genre, never really building solid suspense, and offering nothing more than to throw more unpleasant images at us whenever the film starts losing momentum, which is quite often.

A24 has revealed a new trailer for the suspense - horror indie film titled The Blackcoat's Daughter, from writer / director Oz Perkins, who also made the horror I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House from last year.

Yet, the film plays out with little sense of requisite suspense that made the first Psycho such a great film, and many of the scenes, including the murders, play out as if they were made for a psychological drama, rather than in a scary horror flick or tense, nail - biting thriller.

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.

There are some jump scares because for some unknown reason, no modern day horror film can leave them out but luckily more of the film relies on the atmosphere and concept to deliver the suspense.

The film is pretty powerful, once it seques into the heavy - duty horror content — escalating suspense, blood and gore, and a heightened sense of unrelieved terror.

Other highlights in this strand include: the World Premiere of Thierry Poiraud's DO N'T GROW UP, a stylish and inventive film about a group of teens on an unnamed island who wake up to find their youth facility eerily abandoned; the World Premiere of Jon Spira's affectionate documentary ELSTREE 1976 about the bit performers who appeared in George Lucas» box office behemoth Star Wars; GHOST THEATER, the latest film from director Hideo Nakata, the forerunner of J - horror; GREEN ROOM, Jeremy Saulnier's latest exercise in edge of the seat suspense, starring Patrick Stewart, Imogen Poots and Anton Yelchin; returning for the third year running, Sion Sono screens LOVE AND PEACE, his tale of punk rock and talking turtles; and the fantastically prolific Takashi Miike's riotous, unruly gangster vampire concoction YAKUZA APOCALYPSE.

Yet a handful of twists, garnered from some of the genre's best, bring an element of suspense to this otherwise typical teen horror film.

Not only does Neeson put in an outstanding performance, but the supporting cast was phenomenal, and the suspense rivaled most horror films.

GET OUT An unbelievable achievement from a first time director and a film which has inspired discussion around an important subject in the way that the best horror / suspense films always do, utilising subversion and subtlety instead of bombast and realism.

Today, it's clear Shyamalan has been paying close attention to the last fifteen years of horror and suspense, because with The Visit he's given us one of the best found - footage horror films I've seen in years.

In most horror films, and indeed in most suspense films of the Alfred Hitchcock tradition, the characters are at the mercy of the plot.

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.

The creeping paranoia and the excellent setups that make you suspect various players, until the true story starts to unfold, creates an unsettling feeling of dread absent from American horror cinema which shifted quite a bit to gore and body horror for a good couple of decades until, probably, THE SIXTH SENSE... but even thereafter, what most filmmakers took from Shyamalan's film was not the buildup of dread, but rather the mystery box and the twist, diminishing the emphasis on narrative and suspense.

We've seen many horror and suspense films with cults as the backdrop, either on - site at a commune or pulling strings in some shadowy or supernatural way, but there's never been one quite like The Endless from directing duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead.

Old - style filmmaking makes this movie scarier than other recent horror films, simply because director Wan (Saw / Insidious) takes the time to actually develop suspense.

The creeping paranoia and the excellent setups that make you suspect various players until the true story starts to unfold creates an unsettling feeling of dread, absent from American horror cinema which shifted quite a bit to gore and body horror for a good couple of decades until, probably, THE SIXTH SENSE... but even thereafter, what most filmmakers took from Shyamalan's film was not the buildup of dread, but rather the mystery box and the twist, weakening the emphasis on narrative and suspense.

This is a rare horror film that focuses more on suspense than cliches.

We've seen many horror and suspense films with cults as the...... Read more «Blake Crane reviews «The Endless» for Film Racket»

Kevin Smith has crafted what he calls a horror film, but what I found to be an engaging thriller with suspense, dark comedy, and quite possibly the best writing in the filmmaker's entire career.

I'm no sucker for horror films, but I can tell you that this one, straddling the gore / suspense divide and leaning to the former, is only a bit better than the genre's average output.

I must admit, I'm not a huge fan of horror films, mostly because I find many of them lacking in suspense and good stories, and Ginger Snaps isn't really an exception despite the fine qualities.

By most definitions, Jaws is more a suspense thriller than a horror film, but it gave us one of the most heart - stopping, breath - holding, unnerving musical ideas in the history of cinema.

Professional horror writers explore how great drama lies at the core of the most frightening films, and discuss the style and techniques used to invoke fear, suspense and thrills that linger long after the credits roll.

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Ligeti's piece has been featured in suspense and horror films such as Stanley Kubric's The Shining (1980) and Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island (2010).

Very much a self - portrait of Western culture delivered through the envisioned landscapes of it's imagined destruction, McWreath's film perpetually wavers in a state between horror and beauty, science and fantasy, suspense and relief.

He'll co-star with Christina Hendricks and Gosling's real - life love Eva Mendes in the film, which will weave «fantasy noir, horror and suspense into a modern - day fairytale» about «the surreal dreamscape of a vanishing city» and an underwater town.