Sentences with phrase «horror than action»

It's unsettling to watch her brave some truly disturbing situations — at times, Tomb Raider is more survival horror than action adventure — but she deals with it because death is the only alternative, culminating in her gratifying evolution from a green explorer to a seasoned survivor.

Not exact matches

But action flicks typically end on a note of triumph or at least gritty perseverance, rather than the humiliated acceptance with which even relatively hopeful horror films often close.

While she's still more than happy to blast anybody in a round of Destiny, Stella's added a mix of horror games Resident Evil, other action games like Overwatch, Bloodborne, and Nier, and especially Just Dance to her streams.

More an action blockbuster than a horror squelcher, it contains spectacular crowd scenes that have an Hieronymus Bosch quality, but the film lacks strong meat — of the emotional and bloody zombie - cannibal sort.

The works of Max Brooks, who wrote 2003's satirical and subversively political, «The Zombie Survival Guide», and 2006's, «World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War», provided the kernels of inspiration for this mega-budgeted horror - action - thriller that mostly makes up its own narrative, independent of much of the book content (jettisoning the first - person account style and most of the events), to make it fit more with the ranks of current, eye - candy loaded popcorn movies than a thoughtful adaptation of the best - seller.

This time, the campaign mode is mostly based on co-op and action, rather than a horror experience.

The gameplay with the GamePad is great and works great, but as it has many ghosts, the gameplay seems a lot more action than horror.

REC 4 won't win any points for being scary or terribly original, as this is more of an action thriller than horror, but it is mostly successful due to the fact that it drops the slapstick comedy of REC 3 and goes for a more serious tone, and the setting make this stand out in the zombie genre.

This gruesome French horror flick (2016) functions more as a mystery than as an action film, with an endless drip drip drip of revelation that gradually exposes a terrifying world behind the everyday.

The original sci - fi, horror, macho action bonanza PREDATOR is one of my top films of all time, its gory as f*ck sequel PREDATOR 2 has grown on me with age (maybe because today's movies are more often than none sub par and castrated hence it glows in comparison).

After the first trailer teased bigger dino action than ever before, this flashy new Super Bowl spot gives us a more horror - based look at the summer sequel.

Surprisingly gory in a horror - movie fashion and chock - a-block with more grotesques than a Southern Gothic, Hot Fuzz takes its time getting to where it's going — it's a carefully - written, meticulously - planned piece that ties up all of its set - ups with clever knots, saving the majority of its action for the last half of its full two hours.

You're Next — A group of killers thinks they've got easy prey when they decide to attack the Davison family's wedding anniversary, but they get more than they bargained for in this horror / comedy / action film.

Instead of following the templates of previous Resi games, number four underwent a serious redesign — at the hands of Mikami — to become more action game than horror.

The emphasis here is clearly on action, rather than horror.

Following a smidge of genuinely unnerving body - horror courtesy of Teller's infinitely extendable arms, the second half is nothing more than a sub-Avengers roundelay of superhero tics: dumb catchphrases, brain - grinding exposition and lifeless action scenes, the talented cast totally overwhelmed by lackluster CGI special effects.

Of course, this is a «spiritual successor» rather than a new installment, thanks to Konami's vice grip on the series» copyright, but one glance at the side - scrolling RPG action, full of overwrought anime horror and laser - tight combat, makes clear that Bloodstained is obsessively recreating the glory days of Game Boy Advance vampire hunting.

Shot (with one exception) in black and white by Florian Ballhaus (son of Michael), the film is set to a score that is more industrial sound than music; yet, it is the combination of the clinically clean black - and - white cinematography, the disturbing score, and the narrative's single - minded focus on the protagonist's actions (there is no moment when the film seeks to psychologise him) by which the film manages to simultaneously solicit, on the one hand, our fascination with and, increasingly, horror about the events depicted — even long after Herold has proven how scarily easy it is for him to order mass murder (and, whenever necessary, to set an example by killing himself)-- and, on the other hand, to ensure that we keep some intellectual distance from the diegetic events.

Moving away from the horror elements of The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day is an all - out war of car chases, fight scenes, shoot outs, nuclear explosions and a phenomenal, if gratuitous set piece where the Terminator blows up numerous police cars with a machine gun for no other reason than the script required an action beat.

The action horror reunion tour sold well at launch but lost momentum more quickly than expected, the publisher said in its most recent financial statement.

However, the film doesn't care about any of that and neither do I. It's not much more than a series of horror set pieces with occasionally clever effects and very clever action beats, that's all it wants to be and goddamn if it doesn't do that well.

Yes, spending half a movie with battered Romans fleeing for their life, almost as if they are starring in a horror movie than an action, is quite entertaining, but because Neil Marshall keeps the pace almost always at maximum speed, there is little time to actually reflect on what is going on.

Previous Resident Evil entries such as Resident Evil 5 or Resident Evil 6 were criticized for being more like typical action games than traditional survival horror games.

It gives the idea of consumerism run wild the short shrift that it deserves (and the cynicism that an intervening quarter - century demands), touching on the original's explanation of the zombies» affinity for the shopping mall and the human heroes» delight at their newfound material wealth before becoming a bracing action film that, like Marcus Nispel's reworking of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the source of which didn't need updating as much as Dawn arguably did), is more firmly entrenched in the James Cameron Aliens tradition than the Seventies institution of disconcerting personal horror film.

While it was the latest YA novel adaptation at a time when they seemed to be arriving on a regularly scheduled basis, having a film so stripped down and primal made it more worthwhile as an action - horror hybrid than a world - building first chapter of a more extensive series.

What really stands out about «Maggie» is its cast, as the ex-governor continues his return to acting with something different for him: a low - budget horror drama that's more of a character study than an action picture.

The Guest is more action than horror, but the edge is still there.

And more than ever, horror films represent a safe bet compared to expensive action flicks, so many of which flopped this summer in what has become a feast - or - famine business.

AMY is a lot more like psychological horror games like Silent Hill than run - and - gun action titles.

Resident Evil Revelations 2, like its popular predecessor, emphasize the series» roots of traditional horror rather than focusing on over-the-top action, producer Michiteru Okabe said in an interview at Tokyo Game Show.

This actually doesn't look so bad, more of a drama than a horror, but it looks to get into some werewolf action by the end.

Pitching closer towards action than horror to some extent, the film played more towards my tastes in that aspect.

«Book of Memories is a big departure for the series, focusing on co-operative multiplayer action rather than traditional psychological horror,» notes Hulett, explaining, «Fans needn't worry; limited resources, dark atmosphere, scare rooms — those all return, but in a package specifically designed for the PlayStation Vita.»

Interestingly, the trailer seems to be selling the action / horror aspects more than the romance.

My expectations were higher than this after the frightening prologue and the intriguing and haunting first act, though, but the script (by Fresnadillo, Rowan Joffe, Jesús Olmo, and E.L. Lavigne) confines its premise into a fairly standard action - horror amalgamation.

Mostly because Villeneuve and screenwriter Taylor Sheridan aren't selling more than a tautological action movie with the dread and body count of a horror film.

Looking more like a Venice Beach artist than a brooding purveyor of brutal horror and head - hacking action, Nispel has a gregarious personality seemingly at odds with his knack for wringing catharsis out of grim places.

It's much darker than its big - screen predecessor from 1989, Batman, and this blend of horror and action will probably thrill fans of Raimi's campy filmmaking of the grotesque, while turning off those looking for regular superhero fare.

His film career so far includes the better - than - you - remember DC Comics action / horror «Constantine» and the Will Smith «I Am Legend,» which has a solid hour before falling apart.

In Before Dawn I thought the generic horror / action beats let down the more impressive dramatic sequences, whereas in Bait I felt it worked better as a thriller than anything else.

Well, that depends on your cinematic appetite, but perhaps more than any other month this summer, July offers something for everybody — you've got comedy, horror, action, and big - budget sequels... but why are we telling you this now?

That doesn't make any more sense than including films which are more drama than horror, more thriller than horror, and more action than horror.

On the plus side, casting Eckhart could be interesting, and with much of the action occurring on a psychic level, the film creates an even stranger alternative reality than do most supernatural horrors.

Kesler said he finds the psychological aspects of terror more interesting than the action of horror games today.

I don't see why a romance shouldn't make a male reader's heart also go doki doki from the fun escapism of it all, any more than a woman enjoys action and horror novels.

It's disappointing that nowadays the series is more action than horror.

That means over-the-shoulder gunplay, paired with emphasis on action rather than survival horror.

others are more into «action» game than horror!

I feel like it has more to do with crappy microtransactions, forcing co-op to see all of the levels, and now is an action game instead of leaning more towards horror that was basically laid out by EA initiatives more than anything.

Horror fans have had to endure a lot in the past few years: «Resident Evil,» «Dead Space» and «Alone in the Dark,» once bastions of the genre, have become little more than action games with grotesque enemies.