Sentences with phrase «in psychological horror»

Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, it's solidly rooted in the psychological horror genre, requiring intuition and observation rather than reflexes to untangle a complex and exciting mystery.

Rather than a shooter, this game is firmly placed in the psychological horror genre.

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«The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker puts the psychology in psychological horror — each character has layers of twisted story to uncover and the player can choose to help them and steer them towards their happiest ending, or hurt them and lead them somewhere much darker.»

Its incredibly imaginative and highly unsettling characters and environments make it the ideal fit for our event where the property can continue its reign of terror and fully immerse guests in its psychological horror,» said John Murdy, Creative Director for Universal Studios Hollywood.

The Babadook had a great visual style and was a refreshing film in the psychological horror genre.

In the psychological horror film It Comes at Night, Director Trey Edward Shults thrusts viewers into a situation without explanation, but enough facts become clear as the story moves on.

BRIE Brie Larson has accepted an offer to star in the psychological horror drama as «Ma», about a woman who's trapped in her father's basement for years with her son.

You won't be scared in the traditional horror movie sense, but you will be terrified in the psychological horror sense.

In this psychological horror movie, an art student begins to seriously question his sanity after a terrifying nightmare recurs over a long period of time.

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.

Not exact matches

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

In reality, then, the real horror of waterboarding is almost entirely psychological.

In trying to reach a truly actual depiction of the horror of the subject, the painters imparted a sense of despair, or expectation of terror, which became a common psychological coin.

In a bizarre article - which for some reasons makes repeated reference to Eddie Izzard's transvestism - Johnson wrote that «the European Union did indeed have a weird prototype in Hitler's wartime Reich» adding that: «In fact, you can only really understand the psychological background of today's experiment in economic and political integration if you understand the horror of what Hitler did in the war.&raquIn a bizarre article - which for some reasons makes repeated reference to Eddie Izzard's transvestism - Johnson wrote that «the European Union did indeed have a weird prototype in Hitler's wartime Reich» adding that: «In fact, you can only really understand the psychological background of today's experiment in economic and political integration if you understand the horror of what Hitler did in the war.&raquin Hitler's wartime Reich» adding that: «In fact, you can only really understand the psychological background of today's experiment in economic and political integration if you understand the horror of what Hitler did in the war.&raquIn fact, you can only really understand the psychological background of today's experiment in economic and political integration if you understand the horror of what Hitler did in the war.&raquin economic and political integration if you understand the horror of what Hitler did in the war.&raquin the war.»

Death and the Maiden is a streamlined razor - ride of a movie: taut, riveting, and a psychological horror show that will leave nail - marks in your palms for days afterwards.

Grounded by the grainy recurring image of a cell rapidly dividing, «Annihilation» is itself a fluid exercise in genetic mutation: It begins with scenes from a marriage, then quickly evolves into a wilderness adventure, an environmental horror flick and a striking depiction of physical and psychological entropy (emphasis on the «trippy»).

Loosely inspired by a shocking true story, this chilling psychological horror story follows a bickering couple on vacation in the Caribbean who are accidentally abandoned during a diving expedition and forced to fend for themselves in the ocean as they are surrounded by sharks - while the tour operators back at the harbor take 24 hours to realize that they have left a pair of customers stranded.

It skilfully walks the line of tense, psychological horror and creepy, boo - scares for an experience that you won't forget for a while - in fact, we've dreamt about it.

As far as psychological horror goes, the films work well, and that they realize Poe's stories were mainly internalized distortions of the world works to their advantage, even as they approach the material in vastly different ways.

What starts as a fascinating tale of a psychological horror game, soon changes into a repetitive experience that feels like it drags on even in its short length of less than two hours.

So we did sort of dial it slightly towards more psychological drama and horror than the monster movie homage that was in the original movie.

Konami's Silent Hill franchise first debuted on the Playstation in 1999, and established the series» brand of psychological horror.

After reinventing himself with The Wrestler, Darren Aronofsky merged his new Dardennes - influenced style with psychological horror in Black Swan.

Like a W magazine photo spread conceived by Baudelaire and art - directed in electric colours by giallo maestro Dario Argento, the opening of The Neon Demon offers a foretaste of the plasticated grand guignolerie that by the end of Nicholas Winding Refn's meretricious psychological horror movie has yielded both a feast and a bloodbath — in the precise senses of those words.

We have a brand new clip for writer / director Julius Ramsay's psychological Gothic horror thriller Midnighters, which brings some violence to the screen in this Hitchcockian web of deceit and madness.

[Watch the trailer for true story - inspired The Disappointments Room right HERE] Disturbia director D.J. Caruso returns to the horror genre with a haunted house film that was inspired by true events in The Disappointments Room, a psychological thriller that they are saying is in the same vein as The Shining.

Easier to make a buck by marketing it as a horror film «from the director of William Friedkin» than a new level of psychological torment in cinema.

Even as it detours into generic horror tropes in the final act, the film is bolstered by a complex portrayal from Powley and a screenplay that smartly sidesteps fish - out - of - water clichés and instead focuses on Anna's psychological demons.

It's equal parts horror, comedy and psychological thriller with a story that twists and turns in surprising, marvelous ways.

10 Cloverfield Lane established the film's anthological style by acting as a psychological horror film set in the same universe (it's the best of the trilogy).

This scary picture, a remake of a 2003 Korean horror film by British brothers Charles and Thomas Guard, is three movies in one: a psychological thriller, a murder mystery and a zombie flick.

A psychological horror film brings an Ancient Greek play to life as a successful surgeon and his family are caught up in a disturbing tale of revenge and retribution

The psychological horror definitely plays a much bigger part in Outlast 2 than in the first game, and with that comes much less jump scare moments and more moments focused on messing with the player's mind, which I appreciated.

In January, M.Night Shyamalan released Split, a psychological thriller - horror, starring James McAvoy as a man with 23 different personalities.

Eli Roth's latest, Knock Knock, marks the director's first - ever premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, and according to the director, it also «marks a turning point» in his career, shifting from the gore that's defined his horror work to a more psychological sort of thriller.

The audience award went to Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz's Goodnight Mommy (Ich seh, Ich seh), a psychological horror that was the most conventional piece of filmmaking in a difficult international competition.

Up - and - coming filmmaker Trey Edward Shults follows his acclaimed debut film Krisha with It Comes At Night, a psychological horror thriller centering on a teenage boy (Kelvin Harrison, Jr.) as he faces mounting terrors — both external and internal — in the aftermath of an unnamed apocalypse.

Synopsis: «A psychological - horror series set in the Stephen King multiverse, Castle Rock combines the mythological scale and intimate character storytelling of King's best - loved works, weaving an epic saga of darkness and light, played out on a few square miles of Maine woodland.

In this promising English debut from Park, we have taboos explored through the style of classic psychological horror, in a story that owes more than just a tip of the cap to Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a DoubIn this promising English debut from Park, we have taboos explored through the style of classic psychological horror, in a story that owes more than just a tip of the cap to Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubin a story that owes more than just a tip of the cap to Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt.

The «It Comes at Night» breakout star came by Backstage HQ in Brooklyn to discuss the new psychological horror flick from Trey Edward Shults, offer audition advice, and more.

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.

Don't be fooled by the trailer — it's less of a horror movie and more of a slow - burn psychological thriller, a brilliant study in how unchecked fear and paranoia can boil over suddenly.

You may notice something like thirty - five minutes passing without so much as a genuine chill, but that legwork is essential to putting you in the right psychological mindset to appreciate the horror soon to be delivered.

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.

This is not your typical Hollywood movie — a feature marginally in the horror genre with emphasis on psychological terror.

This however isn't a horror story in space, á la Event Horizon, as the synopsis might make it appear — it could be better described as a psychological drama or perhaps even as a metaphysical love story.

Darren Aronofsky admits his «ego» is in all of his films.The 48 - year - old filmmaker's new movie is the psychological horror «mother!»

Inventive, eerie and well paced psychological horror outing has more in common with The Shining than it knows, Session 9 spooks.

His film is a suspenseful, black and white psychological horror in the vein of M.R. James» ghost stories and their atmospheric BBC adaptations.