Sentences with phrase «lurid comic»

by Walter Chaw I think there's probably profit in taking the tactic that Tobe Hooper's The Mangler is his shot at the lurid comic book genre and, more specifically, the weird self - abnegating prosthetics opera of Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy.

This coming - of - age story centers on two 1970s parochial - school students who express their frustrations by drawing a lurid comic book, but get into trouble when their discontents spill into the real world.

Mastered from recently restored elements, the fullscreen image is gorgeous, its saturated, lurid comic - book colours as vibrant as faux - life.

Not exact matches

And Starlet, a drama about female friendship that happened to be set against the backdrop of the San Fernando Valley porn industry, set itself apart by refusing to milk its potentially lurid milieu for titillation, comic relief, or sentimental moralizing.

Helmer Craig Gillespie's sweetly off - kilter film plays like a Coen brothers riff on Garrison Keillor's «Lake Woebegone» tales, defying its lurid premise with a gentle comic drama grounded in reality.

Based on an underground comic book, this lurid thriller is long on nasty shocks but short on spontaneity, intelligence, and good acting.

The exotic vistas pop off the page with the lurid colors of a comic book.

The cue to the film's visual style comes in a sequence dedicated to Peter's design of his costume, a proudly cheesy sketch - pad montage that locates the picture as a comic book panel come to life in full lurid glory.