Sentences with phrase «in horror films like»

The artist's ceramic and craft works at times suggest the human form via abstract means; they seem to depict the kind of deranged medical torture environments made famous in horror films like the Saw franchise.

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We have all heard of the concept used in horror films of aliens invading our bodies and minds, such as in movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

One particularly brutal leader last month stated: «Like the living dead in a second - rate horror film, the premiership of Theresa May staggers on oblivious.»

While the phenomenon sounds like the stuff of horror films, it is common practice for these «butterflies of the ocean,» a new University of Queensland - led study published today in PLOS One has found.

If you haven't tried one yourself, you've surely seen them all over Instagram: those white or animal - printed masks that make the wearer look like the villain in a horror film.

The idea is to make you feel like a character trapped in a horror film.

Iam currently in college... I do not like horror films.

From the title, description, and most of the footage you've probably seen, The Cabin in the Woods looks like the same awful, recycled horror film you've seen over and over.

If you think that the Cabin in the Woods is just like any other typical slasher / horror film, then you are completely wrong.

What the film does is reimagine other horror films as meta - narratives, except in those cases, the characters never discover the truth about the artifice of their world, as Marty does, just like another fool, Truman Burbank in Peter Weir's The Truman Show, a horror film in its own right.

Some employees of an international arms dealer go out into the Hungarian wildeness for a weekend company retreat, only to find themselves menaced by a group of militants who don't like having them around their territory in this modestly budgeted dark comedy / horror film from Christopher Smith, who also directed Black Death (with Sean Bean).

Glazer puts all this into scenes that play out like a classier version of a science - fiction / horror film — one of those cheesy ones about a monster in human form.

You can admire a movie like Steven Soderbergh's «Contagion» (2011), a realistic rendering of civil breakdown caused by a spreading pathogen, but the horror - film version of disaster in «World War Z» stretches the senses to take in more than you may expect.

The film works as supernatural horror at the same time as you feel the chaos and fear in everyday life during the Iran - Iraq War as experienced by people like the rest of us and not by presidents and kings.

For over a decade, sold out audiences have enjoyed Rocky Horror - like participation consisting of hilarious traditions such as screen - shouting, football playing, throwing spoons at the screen, rooting on the shockingly long establishing pans of San Francisco, and generally laughing hysterically at the film's clunky pseudo-Tennessee Williams dialogue, confused performances, and bizarre plot twists, like the mother - in - law character whose breast cancer ought to play like it matters a great deal, but really comes off as a non-sequitur.

Cutting Class like a few horror films of the 80's relies heavily on an overused idea, and by the films release in 1989, The slasher flicks were getting weaker.

Even though it relies on a gripping feel of intense paranoia, this is an overlong sci - fi / horror movie that suffers from certain problems in logic and kills its tension with long passages that make the pacing irregular, not even being smart enough as an allegory like the original film.

Helming solid horror flicks like Hush and Ouija: Origin of Evil, I knew that this film was in good hands, even though I truthfully didn't know much about it when going in.

Her feature - length debut, 2013's «It Felt Like Love,» focused on the bumpy trajectory of an introverted teenage woman exploring her urges with dangerous results; with the markedly similar «Beach Rats,» Hittman brings the same tropes to the plight of a young man in a film that has the precision of a great short story and the uneasiness of body horror.

Its terribly exploitative in using the decrepitude of death to scare the viewer and shatter his resolve - the same way lesser horror films use tactics like gore and startling noise after lulling the viewer to boredom.

It's a point of pride with any horror film, or any thriller verging on horror: Used correctly, a perfectly innocent song suddenly sounds like the scariest bleep in the world.

If you feel like the horror genre has been ho - hum lately, rest assured as The Conjuring is one of the best horror films that has come across the screen in the last decade.

Beyond the Black Rainbow (d. Panos Cosmatos) When the dust settles and the smoke clears, I do wonder if guys like Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and Pascal Laugier won't finally get their due as the spearhead of a horror revolution, the two of them landing with new films in the same year that Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon received a round of applause for their genre - hating The Cabin in the Woods.

The film is set in 1971 and it feels like director James Wan set out to make the film have the same tone and aura of those horror movies from that era.

The Insidious franchise — like most horror series — began missing a step about two films in.

A few unexpected minor pleasures: the time - travel flick Predestination, an adaptation of a Robert A. Heinlein short story that's one of those rare sci - fi movies that feels like it was made by people who read sci - fi; the horror Western Bone Tomahawk, which feels, in the best way, like someone filmed a first draft script and didn't cut anything, all its little quirks of character kept intact, narrative expediency be damned; and In The Heart Of The Sea, the cornball sea adventure of which I enjoyed every minutin the best way, like someone filmed a first draft script and didn't cut anything, all its little quirks of character kept intact, narrative expediency be damned; and In The Heart Of The Sea, the cornball sea adventure of which I enjoyed every minutIn The Heart Of The Sea, the cornball sea adventure of which I enjoyed every minute.

if I was Canadian, and interested in horror films, I might defend the film — its definitely creepy, but also you have a film here where the protagonist has zero character definition and much of the very deliberate color grading and lighting makes the film look like it has gaping continuity errors.

I'm not entirely certain why this inspired - by - a-true-story (as chronicled in Andrea Perron's book, «House of Darkness, House of Light») shocker is rated R, except perhaps that the MPAA might have though the film too psychologically intense for kids, but, to me, it's no more intense that PG - 13 horror flicks like The Ring and The Grudge.

In many ways this recalls something like Adrian Lyne's exceptional 1990 post-Vietnam PTSD horror film Jacob's Ladder, but minus the cerebral depths (some dalliances with Camus, no less) and haunting emotional performances.

The result is a taut, unrelenting and frequently hilarious horror - satire that's scored a rare 100 % positive rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, as well as raves from hip - hop luminaries like Chance the Rapper, who recently hosted a private screening of the film in Hollywood.

It doesn't sound like a great idea to Maddie, whose reaction — shocked horror — is the most genuine thing in the film.

The Endless is a horror / sci - fi film like nothing the cinematic world has seen thus far and only serves to prove Benson & Moorhead as some of the strongest voices in the world of indie cinema.

While most horror films of today struggle to out - shock one another, thankfully there are still auteurs like director, Brian O'Malley (Let Us Prey), who delight in a slower, more gracefully paced approach to eeriness.

Until suddenly he does, and the film shifts gears from a study of trauma into a more conventional (but still eerily effective) horror movie, with Josh (who looks more than a little like Glover in River's Edge) enthusiastically casting himself in the role of psycho killer, as if trying to live up to what he worries his best friend thinks he's become anyway.

For example, prior to digital distribution, horror films from filmmakers working in countries like Japan, Spain, and Italy were traded on VHS and DVDs by American fans of the genre, including movies that never saw an official theatrical release in the United States.

Not bad at all.this film keeps you guessing in ways you never do a lot in horror films.Rob Zombie directs theses actors like I've never seen a horror director do before.this movie is truly amazing, people are calling it «terrible» I call it «good» it's the kind of horror film that actually deals with characters and not just pointless blood and guts.I felt like all these characters really did go through something, and this movie is truly just about them overcoming it.I don't consider this a horror film, I consider this a drama / horror film, cause that is what it is, and I love it.this mvie isn't just about a killer killing people, it actually deals with the people he's after anf even deals with himself at times, which I truly loved.Rob Zombie has proved to me again that he could direct.perfect seq...

Liv Tyler is in top form (nobody cries quite like her), and I only just realised that she's managed to avoid horror films throughout her career until now.

It's not quite as awful as Lynch's last effort, the horror - comedy «Knights of Badassdom,» but while the idea of watching a scantily - clad Hayek fight her way through yakuza henchman and prostitutes - turned - assassins may sound like a ton of fun, «Everly» is never able to match its B - movie aspirations, instead forced to flounder in the gutter like the filthy, exploitative grindhouse film that it is.

Or, fuck - the last 25 years, since 1988 \'s The Blob was the same sort of example as we \'ve seen the last 10 years in \ «horror \» re-establish (and I suppose with films like The Haunting \» 99, never completely went away).

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.

Most of the horror on display in Shults» film comes in the form of dreams that, while haunting and evocative, are more like asides than part of the narrative.

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.

This film is meant for those who like horror in serious doses.

When it's quiet, I get a rush because I start wondering what's about to happen, like in a horror film.

Like an ornery weatherman stuck living the same day over and over again, ticket - buyers trudged again to their local theater and, for the third time this year, made a horror film from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions the No. 1 movie in America.

Fragoso: Mud, in contrast to a film like Take Shelter — which sort of revels in the psychological horrors of Michael Shannon's character — is a bit of a lighter film.

Borrowing from Takashi Miike's Audition (seminal J Horror film) source material, Nicolas Pesce had time to dress, finesse his highly anticipated sophomore film and boy did he deliver with what comes across as a Cronenberg's Crash like love story featured in hotel room spaces rather than car wreckage and works as an homage to a plethora of influential filmmakers including De Palma and the Giallo set.

This alarming horror film, a brilliant debut for Australian director Jennifer Kent, is as hard to shake as its title character whether you take it as a straightforward monster film, a mental illness or grief allegory, or get hung up on its minefield of taboos (mothers who don't much like their children / over-medication of children / weapons in schools).

The latest offering from Blum and co. is the movie Jessabelle, which - judging from the trailer above - looks like a composite of so many horror films that have come before, presented in a darkly lavish cinematic style.

The film looks like something interesting that horror fans will need to see, so don't forget to check it out at the end of the month in theaters.