Sentences with phrase «less than the horror»

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I tend to see the horrors of manipulation as less striking than the signs of human ability to act independently anyway.

If the results are littered with people telling horror stories of losing their life savings or finishing the programs less knowledgeable than when they started... BEWARE!

Marketers promoting an R - rated horror film, for instance, are far less skittish about the content accompanying their ad than the marketer of baby shampoo.

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).

Indeed, its enduring importance may lie less in its empirical accuracy than in the summum malum it was taken to describe, the horror of conformism — the silent justification for that diamond - stud piercing or subtle tattoo or pony - tail by which today's businessman or professor tries to reassure himself that he is still a man born to be wild.

Our revulsion against the moral horrors of our age can incline us to reject anything less than complete and immediate reversal of Roe v. Wade and other repellent aspects of the current social order.

I heard a lot of horror stories, but somewhere along the way someone mentioned the book about potty training in a day [Toilet Training in Less Than a Day by Nathan Azrin and Richard M. Foxx].

Furthermore, I'd argue that having a healthy and neurologically normal child is less stressful on a marriage than trying to survive the horror of a dead or permanently disabled child.

While I don't put much stock in home birth horror stories as evidence that home birth is less safe than hospital (because I don't know how they compare to the number of hospital horror stories), I put even LESS stock in «I would have died if I hadn't been in the hospital» storless safe than hospital (because I don't know how they compare to the number of hospital horror stories), I put even LESS stock in «I would have died if I hadn't been in the hospital» storLESS stock in «I would have died if I hadn't been in the hospital» stories.

The banning of cannabis was spearheaded by bigoted covert racists, who regarded the immoral strategems of Jim Crow laws as less evil than what they imagined to be the greater horrors of tolerance.

Following in the direction of his extended arm for a few seconds, I realised with horror that I was right behind the Speaker's chair, with the green benches less than 20 feet away.

Less than a year after the horrors of securing a derisory 29 % in the general election, Labour is competitive again and is rightly optimistic for the first time in many years.

Useful ancillary skills will improve your odds of winning work, as will the ability to deal well with horror and to work under less - than - ideal conditions.

Ever heard of the horrors of not being able to tone up and see nice muscle growth if you don't have your protein in less than 30 minutes of finishing your workout?

I desperately coveted one but resisted the high street offerings after hearing horror stories of how merciless this style is on less - than - flat stomachs.

At night we had a pizza and watched a horror movie, because... Halloween is in less than a week!

Generally his film work less successful than this TV work, which features the fantastic Salem's Lot adaptation as well as work on Masters of Horror.

After my less - than - amazing sit down with a piece of Hollywood crap last week, my horror bones craved something with a little more kick to it.

The fact is that horror stories sell so the papers and television reports will only ever tell you that the kind of women who try to meet men online are unsuccessful and less than attractive women who have no other choice than to hide behind a veil of misconception.

It's a slightly trite bit of viewer hand - holding, as are most of the recollections that punctuate Louie's harrowing wartime horrors, but it sets the tone for a film less interested in blame than in illuminating commonalities.

The scariest thing to be found in this pointless horror film is that its director, Rob Schmidt, has less prowess as a genre filmmaker in his third film than Eli Roth did in his first.

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.

This apocalyptic horror thriller is a movie that will appeal less to fans of the genre than to technophobic grumps who reckon mobile phones turn people into mindless zombies.

Price's descriptions of these new beasties trigger accompanying vignettes far less entertaining than the framing story, which is rife with horror movie in - jokes, cheesy rubber monster masks, and music by pop - reggae band UB40 -LRB-!).

The horrors of the world she inhabits, too, are far meatier and less flippant than something like Atomic Blonde but with multiple sexual assault scenes, extreme torture, violence and gore it's not exactly a bunch of laughs.

Entertainment One earned less money in 2013 despite releasing more films than in 2012, possibly because those films weren't all that good; only one, horror thriller We Are What We Are, managed to collect positive reviews.

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.

You know one of the biggest problems with horror movies is nowadays, and perhaps this has even gone farther than, say, the last 5 years, and that is the fact that some of these movies do not have enough interesting material in the script to fill out one hour of screen time, much less 90 minutes of it.

Slightly less believable are the specifics that get the group to play a game in a clearly haunted hill - top building, an awful decision that's never justified as anything other than «something that would happen in a horror movie».

The final result is a hopelessly uneven endeavor that's good for a few laughs but little else, with the film's almost total absence of palpable scares cementing its place as a less - than - stellar horror offering.

While largely avoiding the Twilights and Divergents of the world, he's made interesting career decisions, weaving horror and indie films throughout his comedy roles, and largely using social media in a much more subversive and less thirsty way than some of his peers.

Smart and dumb, scary and silly, and never less than entertaining, Scream one of the best horror comedies of the modern era.

Here, the surprise is that the winners of past Games are gathered on an island where they fight less each other than a succession of horrors crafted by the game devisers.

Preference of the first or second half of the movie depends on what kind of a horror fan you are, though neither is less effective than the other.

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.

Though not as stupid as some horror films, it is less exciting and fun than most modern films of any genre.

This is less dark looking than his films usually are and it has this lovely way of mixing horror thriller and comic moments, sometimes in the same scene.

When Gina (Michelle Williams) and her husband, Ryan (James Le Gros), sit down with a taciturn neighbor, Albert (Rene Auberjonois), in order to strike a deal with him for a pile of unused sandstone, Gina's silently exasperated struggle not to be made to feel small in polite, sitting - room conversation seems like nothing less than a reasonable update to the horrors borne by the wives and daughters who blazed the westward trail.

«I sat down and would smoke a little weed and try to write a mind - bending horror film, my favourite genre and at some point I followed the truth and I realized there are people locked up for smoking less weed than I smoked writing the movie.»

Tokyo Sonata, at first glance, plays less like the work of Kurosawa than like that of Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao - hsien, but as the story of downsized executive Ryuhei (Teruyuki Kagawa) unfolds, following roughly the same blueprint as Laurent Cantet's Time Out as Ryuhei conceals his unemployment from his wife and two sons, it comes clear that Kurosawa's brilliant, refined take on mass hysteria in his horror films has been translated intact.

Archetypally, she's less horror heroine than monster: misunderstood, resented, and feared for her uniqueness despite predominantly innocent qualities.

The found - footage horror flick The Visit — a film that's only a little less self - reflexive than Split — gave the one - time Hollywood golden boy a chance to start over after a couple of misguided forays into the world of effects - driven fantasy blockbusters.

The psychologically twisted occult horror tale Starry Eyes is less than a month away from its release, where we'll finally be able see for ourselves what all the hype is about.

While Warwick Davis is one of our absolute favorites, and one can't help but be impressed that he has held on for so long to this steadfast addition to the horror franchise collective, Davis» Irish accent leaves one less than impressed.

While this film could benefit from a remake with todays technology it seems less thought has gone into it than many horror fans would have liked.

Its pleasures are familiar and its frightening bits less frightening than before, but Insidious: Chapter 3 still does right by a series that's served as proof that, in horror, less can be more.

However, there are always a few surprises, a few movies that feel less inspired by Richard Linklater and more inspired by something unexpected, and such is the case with a pair of flicks from this year's fest that owe more to European horror from the «60s and «70s than anything from the modern independent scene.

The horror film, which cost less than $ 5 million to make, grossed $ 4.1 million.

It's like a mix of The Exorcist, The Amityville Horror, Poltergeist and Child's Play, and less than the sum of its parts.

While perhaps not as celebrated in the mainstream, Joe Dante's The Howling (1981) arguably does something far more profound (and, perhaps ironically for a horror film, less exploitiative) with the material than its celebrated predecessor.