Parents should know that
this is a horror film with theme of racism and exploitation, extended peril and violence including gun, choking, and bloody, graphic, and explicit medical images and sounds, characters injured and killed, suicide, references to sad loss of a parent, some strong language including racist epithets, sexual references and a non-explicit situation, and smoking.
It Follows
is a horror film with a deviously simple conceit: There's a thing, and it will follow its target until it catches and kills the person.
Not exact matches
With those two
films showing potential weaknesses, there
is room for a surprise winner like Get Out, the
horror film about racism, or the coming - of - age LGBTQ romance Call Me By Your Name, among others.
In the Best Picture race, the biggest hits
were the World War II flick «Dunkirk,» which last year grossed around $ 188 million in U.S.ticket sales, good for 14th place on the box office charts, and Jordan Peele's
horror film «Get Out,» which tucked in just below «Dunkirk»
with $ 176 million in domestic sales.
David Goldman tries to explain the growth in the American
horror -
film genre while making the assumption that
horror is bad in and of itself,
with which I disagree.
Horror films are ideal fodder for an increasingly bottom line «focused Hollywood: The
films are populated
with cheap, minor - league acting talent, they
are extremely inexpensive to produce and
film, and they offer the consumer something that
is both reliable and comforting.
Whatever the case, I've realised that connecting mainstream witchcraft
with conscious worship of the devil
is fuelled more by
horror films than reality.
I
'm not sure there
is anything creepier than children in
horror films, there
is just something about taking that innocence and turning them into something dark and sinister that doesn't sit well
with...
The grunge elements
were still there, mixed
with a heavy dose of Western, so that the collection looked like the remains of a Ralph Lauren collection at the end of a Western - themed
horror film.
Nowadays we
are so desensitized
with films like Hatchet and A Serbian Film that it
is difficult to scare even the most hardcore of
horror fans.
Alas, while I
'm in love
with the look of the
film, I don't find The Shining to
be the masterpiece of
horror cinema that it
's remembered as.
Despite all the cliches, it
's a pretty hilarious
film filled
with good humor, mixed
with gloomy atmosphere, making fun and at the same time adhering to the cliches of the Universal
horror classic.
It
was quite typical B - movies, not conceding the early Mexican
horror films with their peculiar atmosphere and, if not that original, but, nevertheless, fascinating plots.
I have hazel eyes and I like going out to movies,
Horror films are my favorite, or just hanging out
with friends.
Any
horror movie fan can see that this
film has
been made
with a gleeful love of the genre, flaws and all, and the final half - hour delivers one of the greatest visually spectacular finales I have seen all year (even compared to that of another Joss Whedon project, The Avengers).
A late -
film bit of business featuring Trintignant catching and freeing a pigeon flying loose in the apartment has
been criticized for its heavy - handedness, but the problem
with this expertly directed scene has more to do
with whether such a gesture feels tonally earned after so much
horror.
As
with Eli Roth's Hostel
films, the context should
be clear to anyone aware of the role America plays in the developing world and the festering anti-American hostilities out there... or to anyone interested in the politics of
horror and / or familiar
with the genre conventions in this regard.
As
with most
horror films, the cast
is lead by two extremely good looking people, Ryan Merriman and Haylie Duff, who both give unexpected performances.
One of the greatest and funniest
horror films ever made, it has a great story and a powerful scenes
with great visuals and exquisite acting, I
am a big
horror fan, this one
is good, it
is really good, although I
was barging for something smaller and simpler, but it turned out to
be way too different than expected!
It truly
is a satirical
horror film, it
's just too bad that it didn't work out
with Valve.
I went in this movie expecting a cheap slasher
horror film, but I
was having high expectations, because it has
been announced in development since 2009, what I got
was way too more in depth than I
was barging for, this movie can't
be reviewed without spoiling it, what I have to say
is... SEE THE CABIN IN THE WOODS, it
is different dark comedy
with mystery and great visuals (hint) SEE THIS MOVIE.
I've never
been a fan, as a rule of
horror movies, however, the trailer drew me to this one and i
'm glad it did, the awful acting we usually get in
horror movies wasn't there this time round, in fact, the whole cast
were excellent, the special effects
were really very good and the humorous, intelligent dialogue (another thing you don't usually get in
horrors)
was brilliant, loved the
film, Chris Hemsworth, although
with less to do in this than he does in Thor,
was great in it too.
But, as frustrating and bewildering as Under The Skin
is, it swims
with moments of beauty and
horror, and few
films make you think so much.
Wasn't too sure what to expect
with this
being based on a children's fable yet
filmed as a serious
horror / thriller flick, to my pleasant surprise it
was quite enjoyable and had a nice gothic almost German expressionist type feel to it that you might expect from directors such as Burton or Gilli
was quite enjoyable and had a nice gothic almost German expressionist type feel to it that you might expect from directors such as Burton or Gilliam.
With a typical horror film start, the original finds its way to the top as it is filled with surprises and plot twi
With a typical
horror film start, the original finds its way to the top as it
is filled
with surprises and plot twi
with surprises and plot twists.
Unlike many
films dealing
with the pending Apocalypse, which
are often told in the
horror genre
with the visual
horrors of the end of days, «Seeking a Friend for the End of the World» rightfully took a different perspective by focusing on people's natural reactions.
Played ominous from the outset there
are some scares here, although
with a nearly equal amount of «the dumb characters doing dumb things» schtick that plagues
horror films like the Ebola virus gone rabid.
A
film with a generic
horror movie name
is everything but.
One of the greatest and funniest
horror films ever made, it has a great story and a powerful scenes
with great visuals and exquisite acting, I
am a big
horror fan, this one
is good, it
is really good, although I
was barging for something
What #
Horror never quite figures out
is if it
's trying to
be an allegory for the dangers of social media, an actual
horror film, or a lesson on why pre teen girls
are **** Those themes never mix
with each other in a cohesive way and instead battle each other throughout the whole movie.
Hollow Man though
is a good
film for what it
is as it blends Sci Fi elements
with horror and thrills into one
film.
Nothing on Lionsgate's 2014 schedule of YA novel adaptations,
horror, and other genre
films suggests that the studio
is going to start churning out critically praised
films, but
with another Hunger Games installment due this year, the studio should remain in the green financially, if not score-wise.
The way they appear and vanish
is almost supernatural, and it deliberately mimics the way
horror movies toy
with their audiences; there
's a bit in the first
film where Speedman
is desperately rifling through his car and a finger menacingly makes its way into the frame to tap him on the shoulder, barely a half step away from having someone actually jump out and yell, «Boo!»
The performances of the cast make this
film something truly special, and though it
's not a perfect
film, Fallen
is still a top - notch psychological
horror film with plenty to offer.
X Files: Fight The Future
is a terrific Sci Fi
Horror film with a fairly good story and decent enough acting to keep one entertained.
Annihilation follows the familiar form of science fiction
horror found in
films from Alien to The Cloverfield Paradox,
with a cast of characters in isolation, slowly
being picked off by a force they don't understand.
As a huge
horror fan, I thought I
was in for a real treat
with this
film considering some of the fantastic reviews it
's received.
The Fallen
is a great mix of crime
film, and supernatural
horror with a psychological twist.
In some - respects, this
film also resembles Welles» «Mr. Arkadian»,
with a detective searching a man's past as the central - narrative — this
was also copied by Alan Parker and his writers on «Angel Heart» (1986), another classic of
horror.
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.
The movie
is about a group of friends, apparently brothers and sisters as well, who
are filming a
horror movie about a zombie
with jaundice or something like that.
Coming off the success of the
horror film It Follows, writer - director David Robert Mitchell shifts into noir
with his latest feature, but the results appear to
be much less favorable.
With an eclectic mix of ground - breaking and genre - defining content including
horror films, documentaries, Director's Nights and supernatural series, you'll
be entertained, informed and terrified.
Combining newsreel footage
with re-enactment's, the
film captures the
horror of the hostages — Americans Terry Anderson, Thomas Sutherland, Frank Reed; British citizens John McCarthy, Terry Waite; and Irish teacher Brian Keenan — as they
are held by the Muslim fundamentalist group, the Hezbollah.
Though it does have its moments and a nice, creepy atmosphere, it seems more like a movie made for TV,
with cheap production values, a lot of annoying clichés and a derivative plot that brings to mind a thousand better
horror films that you could
be watching instead.
This
is what makes the
film better than other low budget
horror's because of Johnson's brilliant makeup wizardry and freaky imagination
with his monsters.
Juiced up
with clever kills, a throwback soundtrack, and a unique new setting, Roberts»
film also makes the case that
horror franchises aren't dead yet, they just need some new blood.
In - jokes for
horror -
film fans abound (the dog
is named Jason, the monster in the Friday the 13th series; a cafe
is the Craven Inn - Wes Craven directed the first Nightmare on Elm Street), and it
's possible that those fans will
be satisfied
with the expensive, surreal special effects unleashed by director Renny Harlin.
Director Johannes Roberts begins the
film with a synth - infused version of Kim Wilde
's «Kids in America» and retro title styling, letting the audience know what decade of
horror we
're in for, even if the characters
are blissfully unaware of what
's coming.
The
film doesn't shy away from the
horrors of slavery, yet the grim material
is balanced
with a deliciously dark sense of humour - just check out the scene
with a band of white - sheeted vigilantes, acting as a precursor to the KKK, which
is one of the funniest scenes Tarantino has ever written.