Sentences with phrase «like psychological horror»

Elizabeth Olsen's turn as a recovering cult member plays like a psychological horror film — the latest genre, from sci - fi to action, that arthouse flicks have raided

AMY is a lot more like psychological horror games like Silent Hill than run - and - gun action titles.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

, Side Effects, or the climaxes of heist flicks like Ocean's Eleven and Logan Lucky) is a natural fit for psychological horror.

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.

This looks like it is reminiscent of Shutter Island and a few other psychological horror thrillers, all with Aronofsky's unique touches and incredibly powerful performances.

The theatrical trailer and TV spots for The Missing made the film look like a psychological thriller and perhaps even a supernatural horror movie.

question is a rich cinematic tradition and the backbone of so much good psychological horror, so I'm excited to see what a filmmaker like Soderbergh can do with the concept — especially when he's mixing it up even further by filming the whole damn thing on a smartphone.

I really liked Black Swan — I didn't see it as horror - ish, but more about neurosis and the psychological effects of intense pressure and competition.

Some might describe it as tonally schizophrenic or less than the sum of its calculated parts, perhaps feeling a bit tricked by being lured into a psychological horror film whose full - blown depravity takes a while to develop, like a Polaroid.

Known more for sexually charged films like Lolita and Indecent Proposal, director Adrian Lyne's psychological horror film doesn't quite play out like a traditional horror film, nor does it play like a standard psychological thriller either.

Gus Van Sant considers a day in the life of a high school very much like Columbine, using an objective narrative and visual style that records the horror of a massacre but doesn't let us off the hook with potted psychological motivations.

Aussie Jennifer Kent's supremely confident feature debut already feels like a horror classic, restoring the genre to its psychological prestige while turning the monstrous - mommy gimmick on its head.

Rarely have the words «psychological», «horror» and «neo-noir» slotted together so neatly, although admittedly it initially seems like a pretty hellish cocktail.

And while the first few episodes play more like psychological dramas than tales of terror, it soon steers a course through more supernatural stories and classic horrors.

For those who like the new thinking - man's breed of horror films, full of atmospheric chills and psychological goosebumps, The Eye should arrest your attention for the duration.

Release: Friday, February 26, 2016 (limited)[Netflix] Written by: Perry Blackshear Directed by: Perry Blackshear They Look Like People is the debut feature from Perry Blackshear, a quietly unassuming hybrid of horror and psychological thriller elements built on a shoestring budget.

Fans of gothic horror and psychological thrillers will sense the presence of Horace Walpole, Mary Shelley, and even Poe, hovering over this book like guardian angels of darkness.

«Psychological thrillers interested me because I've enjoyed writing some horror in the past, and I found myself transfixed by books like Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train.

Now don't mis - understand me, co-op I guess could be done in any genre / game but outside of shooters it doesn't automatically make sense, Alan Wake is a psychological action thriller, set in an open world game where YOU play as a writer who's trying to discover the mystery of what seems to be your latest horror story which you can't even remember for some reason is now coming to life, in a small isolated town; oh and your wife has vanished too = Alan Wake himself IS the story, co-op in this case would be redundant for a story driven type game like Alan Wake since at its core its all about YOU deciding where to go an «unlocking» the plot for YOURSELF.

Like in the original graphic adventure trilogy, the Gothic Horror genre and its unique atmosphere of madness and psychological distress remains at the heart of Black Mirror.

I'm sure that Death Stranding is meant to be psychological horror, but even after a good seven minute cinematic trailer from The Game Awards last night, it just looks like very well produced incomprehensible nonsense.

About Black Mirror Like in the original graphic adventure trilogy, the Gothic Horror genre and its unique atmosphere of madness and psychological distress remains at the heart of Black Mirror.

Red Barrels latest entry into the psychological horror genre feels like a step in the right direction for the award - winning indie developer.

Almost everything has been improved, here, yet it still feels like a classic survival horror game, one infused with enough psychological horror to keep it feeling fresh.

Silent Hill was my first introduction to the horror genre, When I started playing it, I saw the intro and what I saw was nothing indicative of a horror game, or neither an action game, it looked more like a sad psychological drama game, It got me wondering what did I get myself into, then I started playing it and when I got to the alleyway part and got killed by the children zombies, I immediately turned off my Play Station, I was horrified, but somehow the game kept calling me to play, I decided to keep playing, it got to a point where I couldn't play at night, I had to turn any background music down simply because it was just too much for my 12 - year - old head, but at the same time I was having fun on a level I never imagined I could before.

A mix of horror and psychological thriller, this game hopes to build off a story that was not as amazing as many horror fans would have liked but has potential to be great.

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Hey stranger, I thought you might like to know that Funcom's psychological horror game The Park is available now on Steam...

A thrilling psychological horror that feels like a mix between Amnesia: The Dark Descent and The Twilight Zone.