Sentences with phrase «lurid thriller»

Consider that when the festival premiered in April 1981, in the screening room of Chicago Filmmakers at State and Hubbard, the most recent Hollywood movie to focus on gay life was William Friedkin's lurid thriller Cruising (1980).

His career has been remarkable, and he elevated Sicario from lurid thriller to work of art.

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

For me, Prisoners is part an engrossing family drama and part a chintzy, lurid thriller, jammed together in a way that lacks conciseness, focus, or ability to avoid collapsing under the sheer weight of the many cheap and cheesy plot contrivances that are far too out of their element to cap off a drama that builds up so well.

Not exact matches

It could have turned into a lurid spectacle but it's also an intelligently - made crime thriller with a strong performance from Vaughn and a script that grounds the violence in emotion and devotion.

Kemp launched into print modeling as well, appearing in a widely seen campaign for The Gap, then segued into acting with parts in Stephen Sommers» Victorian - era supernatural thriller Van Helsing (2004) and Renny Harlin's lurid psychological thriller Mindhunters (2005), opposite Val Kilmer and LL Cool J. Kemp deftly merged his ballroom finesse and his dramatic evocations with prominent billing in Jon M. Chu's dance - themed urban drama Step Up 2 the Streets (2008); he played Blake Collins, the proprietor of a dance school who finds his chief proclivity — an utter contempt for street dancing — upstaged by the arrival of a brash and talented young newcomer at his school.

The material could be a match for Sorrentino's sneaky thriller stylings, though perhaps a little more lurid.

The result is a counterfeit film without the element of surprise that also denies the viewer the lurid satisfaction of a true - crime thriller.

The keepcase itself includes an insert hawking lurid true - crime thrillers from the studio.

The macabre and lurid tales of Edgar Allan Poe are vividly brought to life - and death — in this stylish, gothic thriller starring John Cusack as the infamous author.

Its influences are the hard - boiled 1950s noirs of Robert Aldrich, Raoul Walsh and André de Toth, plus the grindhouse thrillers of the 1970s and»80s, which involved a nasty ratcheting - up of those earlier films» lurid pleasures.

For those not as invested, the film version does manage to be one of the better thrillers in recent years, with solid characterizations, a capable cast of actors, and, for those not averse to some of the film's harsher moments of sexual abuse and sadism, enough lurid developments in its story to make you squirm in your seat.

Liam Neeson, action star, is back once again with lurid, style - overload director Jaume Collet - Serra for a whole new ridiculous thriller.

Does it succeed as a lurid little thriller that cherry - picks elements of vastly superior fare such as «Repulsion,» «One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,» «Fight Club» and «Misery,» while carving its own twisted path?

It's a set of films that skirt around the trappings of an erotic thriller yet refuse to indulge in any of the lurid murderous plotting that usually goes along with it.

At the height of the Italian giallo boom in the early 1970s, scores of filmmakers turned their hand to crafting their own unique takes on these lurid murder - mystery thrillers.

Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively star in the mystery thriller A Simple Favor, which looks like it's the next lurid adaptation that will try to recapture the popularity of David Fincher's Gone Girl.

With a blackmailing rape DVD, L - word steaminess, a «Star Wars» - ish twist, and plenty of lurid Ingmar Bergman atmosphere, «The Girl Who Played with Fire» smolders as a propulsively gripping firecracker of a thriller that'll satiate the appetite of Lisbeth fans in any country.