Sentences with phrase «horrors of real life»

You use the genre element of cannibalism to address the horrors of real life.

More than the horrors of beasts it's the horrors of real life and the aftermath.

Not exact matches

Crocodiles and rattlesnakes and pythons are at this moment vessels of life as real as we are; their loathsome existence fills every minute of every day that drags its length along; and whenever they or other wild beasts clutch their living prey, the deadly horror which an agitated melancholiac feels is the literally right reaction on the situation.

It's a real life horror story of when baby poops, and the diaper poop is all over baby's back (and sometimes their legs and the belly).

In 1991 The Silence of the Lambs turned the course of horror movies away from fantastic boogeymen like Jason Vorhees and Freddy Krueger, and back to real - life serial killers.

Critics Consensus: Truth or Dare's slick presentation isn't enough to make this mediocre horror outing much more frightening than an average round of the real - life game.

Critic Consensus: Truth or Dare's slick presentation isn't enough to make this mediocre horror outing much more frightening than an average round of the real - life game.

In a perfect demonstration that horror and trauma are the stuff of real, everyday life and not the macabre vision of fantasists, Cries and Whispers marked Bergman's recovery as one of Europe's greatest film directors.

The filmmakers invite the audience to get close enough to feel the pain without having to relive the depths of the real - life horror.

Unlike the workaholic Karloff, Orlock wants to retire from films, noting that his movies seem inconsequential in light of the real - life horrors occurring every day.

The latter film stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (the real - life couple who looked into the Amityville Horror case), who get called to a remote Rhode Island farmhouse to help a family terrorized by the spirit of a long - dead witch.

Story details are limited, but we know the Blumhouse Productions horror sequel will follow Shannyn Sossamon (A Knight's Tale, The End of Love, One Missed Call) as a protective mother (Shannyn Sossamon of «Wayward Pines») and her 9 - year - old twin sons (real - life twin brothers Robert and Dartanian Sloan) find themselves in a rural house marked for death as the evil spirit of Bughuul continues to spread with frightening intensity.

And while women's rights advocates such as Betty Friedan took exception to the lurid premise of female victims being skinned alive (based on the real - life crimes of Ed Gein, who also was an inspiration for «Psycho»), a closer viewing will reveal it is probably one of the most feminist - forward - thinking horror movies ever made.

THE ZODIAC KILLER — Presented by AGFA and SOMETHING WEIRD United States, 1971 World Premiere, 85 min Director — Tom Hanson AGFA and Something Weird present a brand new 4K transfer of this sanity - defying, tabloid - horror vortex that was produced with one goal in mind: to capture the real - life Zodiac Killer.

Renny Harlin's found footage horror tale «The Dyatlov Pass Incident» has scored a new title and North American release date though IFC Midnight.Now called «Devil's Pass,» the film takes elements from the real life mysterious disappearance of nine experienced...

I know Dick Warlock made cinematic history when he played Michael Myers, the Shape of ultimate cinematic terror, but even more than that, he is the embodiment of old school Hollywood, when the most amazing special effect of all was the fearless, life threatening performance of a living, breathing stuntman, the real life badass survivor of truly classic horror.

If the fiendishly clever horror sleeper Unfriended is about anything more than its own ingenious construction — the way it seems to credibly unfold, in real time and with great realism, within the frame lines of a laptop computer — it's about how the internet has allowed people to indulge their worst impulses with anonymity and impunity, behaving ways on the web that they never would in «real» life.

«I am a devoted fan of Universal Studios» «Halloween Horror Nights,» and I am honored to partner with them to create a real - life version of my gothic romance, «Crimson Peak,»» del Toro said.

Resonates with the fluorescent horror of real - life high school, something few movies about this generation have managed to successfully capture.

Horror fan will have something to look forward to with The Conjuring 2 giving us the next terrifying account of the supernatural, straight from the files of real life paranormal investigators Ed & Lorraine Warren.

«The Conjuring,» starring Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as real - life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, reminded audiences of the power of a good ghost story and proved director James Wan to be a legitimate master of horror.

It's incredible that Doss survived those horrors without the aid of a weapon, and director Mel Gibson notes during the accompanying documentary that Doss did some other things in real life that aren't in the movie because audiences would have assumed they were fabricated to puff up the story.

These are typical horror movie villains and even if you believe all of those are real things, your life experiences with them are hopefully and likely limited.

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The second, Robert Greene's Kate Plays Christine, is a fascinating, more unconventional docu - fiction hybrid that's as much about the events leading up to Chubbuck's suicide and the sensationalism that draws the populace's attention to such real - life horrors as it is, per our own Chuck Bowen, «the element of performance that's integral to documentaries.»

takes a hard - hitting look at the conspiracy of silence surrounding the real - life horror of killer tomatoes; «Do They Accept Traveler's Checks in Babusuland» (the original 8 mm short that inspired «Attack of the Killer Tomatoes»); original theatrical trailer; radio spots; collectible poster.

Although Room resembles the real life case of Austrian abuser Josef Fritzl, who imprisoned his daughter in a basement and fathered seven children with her over a period of twenty - four years, it's not the claustrophobic horror film audiences might expect.

Craig S Zahler, director of acclaimed western horror Bone Tomahawk, steps into action movie territory with Brawl in Cell Block 99, starring Vince Vaughn; while Exorcist director William Friedkin turns his attention to the story of a real - life exorcism with his documentary The Devil and the Father Amorth.

Trace and I are huge fans of the slasher that follows two budding teenage sociopaths who use their online show about real - life tragedies to send their small midwestern town into a frenzy, cementing their legacy as modern horror legends.

He was a lover of art, a doting father, and a man that seemed content with his typecasting in the Horror genre, despite being a loveable, kind, and giving soul in real life (a far cry from some of the wicked men he portrayed on screen).

He also stars, alongside real - life wife Emily Blunt (Edge of Tomorrow), and the two bring palpable dramatic weight to the unfolding horror, their offscreen bond allowing for raw, unfiltered chemistry.

It is for this reason that no sub-genre of horror is more genuinely terrifying than the home invasion film, which preys upon the very real fear of the safest place in your world being flip - turned into a living nightmare.

When: January 8th Why: Believe it or not, «The Forest» isn't a remake of a Japanese horror flick, but rather an original story whose makers somehow thought it would be a good idea to cast mostly white actors in a movie about a real - life problem in Japan.

The Vatican Tapes (PG - 13 for disturbing violence and sexual references) Fact - based horror flick inspired by a real - life tale of demonic possession where a Catholic priest (Michael Pena) was summoned to exorcise a 27 year - old woman (Olivia Dudley) wrestling with a satanic force.

The real horror of Fargo is that many of the characters have thoughtlessly bought into the «sunny» veneer of American culture and the empty promise of «the American Dream», but at the same time they seem unable to reconcile those impossible visions of optimism with the persistent troubles that plague their lives — often caused by their own lack of self - awareness.

Unfamiliar with the story and real life individuals, Spielberg, and the writers, Joel & Ethan Coen and Matt Charman, don't enter the grit and horror of two countries at a feud, literally on the brink of a real devastating war.

Dir William Friedkin (Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair, Jason Miller, Max von Sydow) By the»70s, horror had divided into two camps: on one hand, there were the «real life» terrors of Psycho and Night of the Living Dead, films that brought horror into the realm of the everyday, making it all the more shocking.

Yelchin makes the character so convincing because in real life he was clearly one of us, a horror fan.

Aside from being an exceptionally well - crafted (and therefore effective) haunted - house tale, the fun thing about James Wan's 2013 horror hit The Conjuring was its connection to the real - life exploits of famed New England ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren.

Son of Saul's tight framing and lack of script contrivance turned the unimaginable horror of the concentration camp into lived subjective experience while Nocturnal Animals gave us a stylish rumination on the difference between revenge in real life and in art with sly nods to Lynch and Hitchcock along the way.

Layers of real life and movie history combine cleverly in this postmodern horror film, which just might be too knowing for its own good.

What keeps those tropes from being rote is that Peele uses the modes of horror to make viewers feel what daily life is like for real black men and women.

The issue is human trafficking, and as a way of apparently atoning for the movie's tendency to brush aside the consequences of that real - life horror, writer / director Deon Taylor provides us with some numbers just before the end credits roll.

And if we're judging it by the golden horror standard of «does this make me scared about shit in my real life,» well then it's good enough.

And some of us chose to play horror games, because after you have some of these experiences, real life feels like a cakewalk.

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This week the team ramble the rolling hills of Dorset with Thomas Vinterberg's sumptuous adaptation of Far From the Madding Crowd; log on and freak out to online horror Unfriended; watch the real - life prison murder of We Are Monster play out in grisly style; and stagger through OAPs in love rom - com Elsa & Fred.

Though it was not tipped to be a real - life horror in its marketing ahead of its release, the Orchard is looking to pair the doc with a director's - cut version of The Exorcist in select double features, which should bring out fans.

One of the very best Stephen King adaptations doesn't deal with the supernatural, but rather with real - life horrors.

The movie, in an effort to provide a small inkling of the real - life horror, depicts many bloodied corpses.