Sentences with phrase «in films like scream»

Not exact matches

It's a quiet thud of a film, which embraces, with grace and precision, the nastiness of growing up with desire stuck in one's throat like a muffled scream.

Like the original film, the «Pink Panther» is a large and invaluable diamond, here owned by soccer megastar Yves Gluant (Statham, Transporter 2), who is killed by a poison dart in front of thousands of screaming fans at his final game.

Nick Braun (Prom, TV's Poor Paul), Alison Brie (Scream 4, TV's Community), Brandon T. Jackson (Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, Tropic Thunder), Christopher Mintz - Plasse (Fright Night, Superbad) and Jay Pharoah (TV's Saturday Night Live, Lola Versus) are set to co-star in the film.

Gellar was on a role back then starring in other teen - targeted films like I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2 (Buffy would NOT have run up those damn stairs!)

Best known for his horror films like Cursed and Scream 3, Wes Craven also directed Meryl Streep in the movie Music of the Heart, the story of a single mom who teaches violin lessons in a Harlem school.

But then Samantha starts hallucinating (in cheeseball nightmares that play like Harlin forgot he was no longer filming «A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master») and screaming at her injured daughter about how she should grow accustomed to «life as pain.»

He directed the funniest film in the Marvel franchise, Iron Man 3, and the criminally underrated crime comedy The Nice Guys, so a big - budget R - rated sci - fi horror like The Predator doesn't scream «next career step», but here we are.

It's a level of obviousness matched by the film in moments like one in the middle of the game where Efraim screams «fuck the American taxpayer!»

Those concerned that they'd fumble on the third film, like so many other series (Scream, The Godfather, the original Star Wars trilogy, Blade, The Terminator, X-Men, Spider - Man etc etc), can rest assured that The World's End is just as fast paced, witty and steeped in genre as the first two.

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.

A screaming Lambert is drenched in blood — a genuine shock reaction from Cartwright who feinted during filming, suffering a head injury in the process — the twisted retrospective irony being that she is a transwoman who is unable to menstruate; her body, like Kane's, unexpectedly and involuntarily altered.

down with a near - painful lack of subtlety, to the point where the film feels like it's screaming in your face with a megaphone, «GET IT?»

Linnea Quigley is known best for her scream queen roles in films like Trash from «The Return of the Living Dead» and «Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers».

This was followed soon after by the lead in horror - comedy «Tormented» — like Connolly, she proved a winning scream queen, although the film came and went quickly.

These days, it's more and more difficult to watch a film like Kicking and Screaming and expect to wallow in the same sort of post-college responsibility - free haze as you hope to have inspiration find you instead of the other way around.

Like Andy Cohen crossed with Dame Edna, Stanley Tucci is a scream as Caesar Flickerman, the telecast's fairy godfather of an emcee, who essentially solves the film's expository problems while pointing a cheeky, meta finger at not just the in - text audience, but us too.

This lack of verdict and incomplete closure would become an unfailing slasher staple, as evidenced in films like Friday the 13th (1980), Candyman (1992), Scream (1996), and It Follows (2014), to name a few.

Like many films that have come before and spoken to a generation that yearns to be seen for their individualism, this film screams for millennials in a way no other could.

The annoying thing about the film is that whenever we get a chill - inducing moment like a shadow in the background or a figure passing by a mirror, it is immediately followed up by a cheap parlor trick involving a sonic blast of music and an ear - piercing scream.

And the heck of it is that it feels like the filmmakers were trying too hard to appease adults as well, sliding sly but pretty crude humor into the film that just does nt really belong in the opening moments of the film, when Rodney is being built, there is a part leftover, the mother asks about it, the father checks to make sure they wanted a boy, then he tells his new son it will only hurt for a second and then theres a scream.

As the tortures inflicted upon the characters in the film - within - the - film intensify, Francesco's behaviour also gets worse as do his strategies for getting the women to scream the way he would like them to.

And like Scream, what was once a satirical streak soon begins to embrace the convention by the end of the film, which will either work or not, depending on whether you enjoy the typically cheesy, would - never - happen - in - real - life happy endings that rom - coms traditionally provide.

«From her debut in «The Doom Generation'through films like «Jawbreaker,» «Scream» and «Planet Terror,» Rose McGowan has been a major indie film icon that epitomizes the phrase «stubbornly independent,»» Tallgrass Program Director Nick Pope said in a statement.

The first rule of a frightening film, as outlined in meta masterpieces like «The Cabin in the Woods» and «Scream,» is that in order to be punished, our protagonists must first transgress.

(For the record, I nearly always identify with the «victim» when watching horror films, and I think most of the audience does, too — teenaged girls, especially, flock to movies like the Scream series or I Know What You Did Last Summer for three reasons: they like to see strong actresses in the lead roles, they enjoy watching the cute young guys cast opposite the girls, and finally, they want to be scared.)

The sound in the film is really poor and seems like the cast is screaming right into their microphones.

Screams of terror, practical effects and a chilling score all wrapped up in an indie film that looks a lot like something John Carpenter would have created -LSB-...]

Typically, a screaming blowhard whose name rhymes with «dump» is getting the attention, trying to put fear in our hearts, when what we really need is more messages that a film like this has.

Lucky fans in the UK are spoilt for choice these days with some of the best horror films being released by the likes of Arrow Video, 88 Films, Scream...

Occasionally the film cuts to a blurred image of what appears to be Pullman shaking his head and screaming, to me looking like Pullman in the electric chair, apparently referencing Ambrose Bierce's famous short story An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge in which a convict about to be hanged imagines an entire last minute escape and flight home in the microseconds before his death.

The lesson is thus: how much you like a certain film is most often determined the first time you see it — and this judgment can be easily clouded due to certain factors (such as who you see it with, what kind of mood you're in, whether a screaming baby is whizzing in your ear from three rows back, etc).

Until Dawn is a successful homage to the tried and true formula of the stereotypical slasher film genre, mirroring the likes of the iconic Scream series, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and the recent classic, Cabin in the Woods.