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For instance, even the humanisation of the villain is less compelling than Fritz Lang's portrayal of Peter Lorre's character in M, though an attempt to make him seem ordinary is more evident here than in other serial killer movies like Dahmer (2002).

Not exact matches

I hold out greater hope for Kirk... maybe like an action movie with killer tomatoes....

In other words, if fighting superbugs is like a horror movie, the approach can tell if the call is coming from inside the house, or if the killer is lurking outside and about to barge through the door.

It is pretty intense, but not scary like a movie with serial killers.

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.

A return to the cinema of adorable mental illness - something that, like the killer in a slasher movie, always seems to lurch back to life just when you think it's safely dead...

It's brimming with imaginative grace notes — a horse that curtsies when it's introduced; a francophile who doesn't know any French — and freewheeling performances, not to mention a killer soundtrack that, like the movie itself, blends retro with modern.

by Walter Chaw The more cynical among us would note that the title might also refer to the time that movies exactly like Taking Lives have stolen from hapless audiences, but the fact of it is that if not for our mortal curiosity, we might have missed genuinely good mad - dog killer flicks like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Manhunter, The Untold Story, and killer flicks like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Manhunter, The Untold Story, and Killer, Manhunter, The Untold Story, and Se7en.

Charles Burnett: If you look back in the day, like Killer of Sheep, is one of those seminal American movies... One of the great American movies that you can look down the line and see how traces itself to Barry Jenkins.

The prison chaplin warns Sister Helen Prejean she should not expect the impending execution of a convicted killer to be like «a James Cagney movie.»

«Behind the Mask» is a clever mockumentary from the era when the genre was booming about a serial killer who models himself after movie icons like Jason, Freddy, and Michael Myers.

At least the movie gets a solid performance out of Asano, a well - known face in American and Japanese cinema for his work in films like the Thor franchise and Ichi the Killer.

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.

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...

jcvd did his job, the movie is a killer of all, what more did u expected, if u fill its a flop, jst be actors then & show us what u got coz its like u critisize what my man produced, he did it his own way, i thought every one has a way of doin his / her own things, we do nt have the same imagination or creativity.my man will ass kick u guys.

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The only people to die are the killers, unlike in a movie like «Inside» which bring in new victims to kill throughout.

This week the nerds discuss recent movie trailers like: Pixar's Brave — starring Emma Thompson, Billy Connolly, Craig Ferguson and Robbie Coltrane Killer Elite — starring Clive Owen, Jason Statham and Robert De Niro Apollo 18 — In theaters September 2 Flypaper — Starring Patrick Dempsey, Ashley Judd, Mekhi Phifer, Tim Blake Nelson and Jeffrey Tambor Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star — starring Nick Swardson, Christina Ricci, Stephen Dorff and Don Johnson Moneyball — Starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill and Phillip Seymour Hoffman

And that day may come, as it has for fellow Skins actor Nicholas Hoult, who went on to roles in big budget movies like X-Men: First Class, Jack the Giant Killer, and the upcoming Mad Max reboot.

For me and, I think, most viewers, other horror movie villains like psychotic killers and deadly animals are simply no match for the faceless unknown that feels like a more plausible and insurmountable threat.

Yet Kick - Ass isn't a satire so much as a shrine — a celebration of not simply what we love when we go to the movies, but also what the movies inspire us to be on drowsy Saturday afternoons, drunk on Mexican stand - offs, cops and killers acting like brothers, and physics that bend just enough to allow our heroes to run on walls, dodging bullets in their dark sunglasses.

The movie wasn't even on my radar until about a week ago, and though it sounds like a cheesy direct - to - video movie in just about every way, early reaction has been extremely positive, pegging «John Wick» as an entertaining B - movie fueled by some killer action sequences and a great performance by Keanu Reeves.

Basically it looks like a throwback to what I like to call the «serial killer playing cat and mouse games» genre, which includes movies like Speed, Seven and Die Hard with a Vengeance.

I was maybe thinking what Harry was - that it seems like their last idea of how to get their retired killer character back into killing, after the other movies took all of the other ideas.

You've got your Volcano and Dante's Peak, you've got Deep Impact and Armageddon, and for those of you who don't see Disaster Movies as the be-all end - all of the cinematic form you've got Capote and Infamous... in which that southern writer was tossed at New York Society like a killer meteorite from outer space.

Regardless that this is a prequel so we know that Leatherface is going to survive and therefore lacks any suspense at all, as a movie Leatherface is all over the place with references to what comes later shoehorned in — like the blink - and - you'll - miss - it appearance of Grandpa in the opening scenes and the character of Hartman (the unscrupulous Mayor in Texas Chainsaw 3D was called Hartman, in case you'd forgotten)-- and details that just don't make sense, such as Drayton being portrayed as a psychopathic killer but yet in Tobe Hooper's original movie he «takes no pleasure in killing», and three people climbing into a cow's carcass to hide from the police which looks as dumb as it sounds.

When: January 13th Why: It's pretty funny that a movie about counterfeiting should turn out to be an imitation itself (the Icelandic film on which its based featured the U.S. version's director, Baltasar Kormákur, in the lead role), but despite the fact that its clichéd plot seems to have been ripped off from a number of generic action thrillers just like it, «Contraband» has one thing that a lot of those films didn't — a killer ensemble cast.

cop Steve Burns (Al Pacino) is asked before going undercover in William Friedkin's dirty - scary thriller about a serial murderer preying on gay men in late - Seventies New York — in which everyone looks like Al Pacino, all the victims as well as the killer, which is why he's recruited: he's bait (and the movie keeps hinting — fuck — he might also be the killer).

I wonder if the popularity of Naked Killer as a camp classic isn't inspired in some part by the belief that when Chinese people make terrible pictures, they aren't so much garbage as wacky and quaint; in the interests of cultural equality, however, I'd like to state for the record that bad movies are bad in any language, and Naked Killer, for all its hints at subtext, is just bad.

For McConaughey, it continues an extreme career makeover that started in 2012 with movies like «Magic Mike,» «Bernie» and «Killer Joe.»

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Sometimes, the British action star chooses the perfect action movie, like «Crank» or «Transporter», but other times, his choice of film could turn into a major flop, like «Killer Elite» or «The Italian Job».

There's so much to recommend «Out of Sight,» from it's snappy score that so reminded me of movies like «Three Days of the Condor» and «Killer Elite,» and the handsome cinematography of Elliot Davis.

The movie has a terrific cast: Nagase as a perfect deadpan pilgrim, Taylor and Stevens as natural born killers who like to communicate with woolen hand puppets, «Children of Nature» star Gisli Halldorsson as Hirata's last guide and Japanese B - movie master Seijun Suzuki as Hirata's traditionalist grandfather.

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The opening scene, in which Sadie (Brianna Hildebrand) and McKayla (Alexandra Shipp) try to catch the killer's attention with the bait of a teenage make - out session in a car, plays like a horror movie.

As horror and scifi fans well know, John Carpenter isn't just the director of genre classics like Halloween and Escape from New York — he's also a killer musician who has created some of the most memorable movie scores ever.

A glossy emphasis on design and lifestyle (those killer bespoke and tailored suits, for one thing) permeates the new throwback international espionage movies like Matthew Vaughn's Kingsman: The Secret Service and Guy Ritchie's The Man from U.N.C.L.E..

There's a potentially engaging jurisdictional triangle at the heart of his story, but it's largely obscured by what amounts to mediocre amalgam of a basic, post-CSI procedural and a serial killer B movie, in which a devilish antagonist does things like phone the police to taunt them as he's snuffing his latest victim.

No one will take this film - about 10 hardened killers brought to a remote island to slaughter one another for an audience on the Internet - for a great work of art, but there's a place for this kind of B movie and for performers like wrestler Steve Austin, a big slab of an American trying to fight his way out of hell.

In those previous movies, however — especially Killer Joe — the craziness was part of a larger story, whereas in August: Osage County, it sometimes feels like that's all there is.

(Why, for instance, do some moviegoers sometimes find themselves half - admiring movie killers like Jef Costello, the lonely contract killer with the sharply honed senses in Jean - Pierre Melville's Le Samourai (1967); or Jules and Vincent, the two talkative hit men in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994)?

After the blaxploitation movies ran out of steam, she moved back to Denver to be near her family, but continued to work in two or three pictures a year - some of them good roles like the cop - killer in «Fort Apache, the Bronx» (1981), some of them throwaways like «Mars Attacks!»

Next came the movie's look («The chador, it's so dark and geometric — the movie just had to be black and white») and a killer soundtrack featuring underground Iranian bands like Radio Tehran and Kiosk.

The worst part was hearing the killer explain their motives like a Bond movie villain.

It's one thing to shift to avoid an obvious box office killer like a superhero movie, but the January - December move this year is less a show of faith and more about accommodating reshoots.

Part serial - killer thriller, part old - school anti-Soviet propaganda, «Child 44» plays like a curious relic of an earlier Cold War mindset, when Western audiences took comfort that they were living on the right side of the Iron Curtain and relied on movies...

Or make that: we seldom manage to outguess movies that play fair (like Sixth Sense, The Crying Game, the original 1960s Planet of the Apes) instead of cheat — usually the «brain in the vat» type of story such as Fight Club, Vanilla Sky and Identity — that thing about the serial killer at the abandoned motel during a rainy night starring John Cusack.

There were pop culture reverences made that shocked me, like the lead character talking about the movie Rise of the Killer Tomatoes and Tom and Jerry.

The first game that I saw was Mini Ninjas which is a traditional arcade game for all ages that has a few killer twists, ensuring that this is truly a 21st century gaming title Mini Ninjas Paying homage to those classic Japanese martial arts movies of yesteryear, gamers play Hiro, a 114 cm tall Ninja who has been given the task, just like the other Mini Ninjas to save the world.