Sentences with phrase «lurid violence»

With its lurid violence and sexuality, the film shocked critics when it came out; it continues to elude many die - hard fans of the TV show today.

The movie's distinguishing feature is its inclination to lurid violence.

Indeed, seeing all three in quick succession can make it tricky to tell the films apart — a fact which made the relief of witnessing the lurid violence of Takashi Miike's vampire - gangster film Yakuza Apocalypse in the Quinzaine all the more welcome (Miike's work being the generic flipside to the national cinema developed by his compatriots).

On the other hand, its bouts of lurid violence and voyeuristic sex feel as if they've been dragged in from somewhere trashier, like the Taken films or something with Sylvester Stallone in it.Jennifer plays Dominika Egorova, formerly a star dancer at Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet who is forced to quit after a bone - crunching onstage collision.

Its bouts of lurid violence and voyeuristic sex feel as if they've been dragged in from somewhere trashier

Critic Consensus: Raw's lurid violence and sexuality live up to its title, but they're anchored with an immersive atmosphere and deep symbolism that linger long after the provocative visuals fade.

Rated R for strong lurid violence and sexual dialogue, some sexual situations, drug content and language.

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.

Ed Howard: In all of his films, Todd Haynes takes elements of gaudy tabloid culture and warps them to his own purposes, because he sees — in the lurid stories about sexuality and decadence and violence that we like to tell ourselves, in the celebrity gossip rags and TV news and hyped - up movies — deeper truths about identity, gender, politics, entertainment and sexuality.

Despite its lurid title, the film scored more on the threat of violence than its actual violent content, which was minimal.

Lurid and more than a little absurd, this wild road movie is a colourful combination of violence and humour.

Made in the wake of a spy movie boom, as the flamboyant James Bond fantasies gave way to disillusioned John Le Carre dramas and grim Cold War adventures like Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain and Topaz, The Kremlin Letter is adapted from a from a twisty best - seller by Noel Behn that (in Huston's words) «had all the makings of a success... all those qualities that were just coming into fashion in 1970: violence, lurid sex, drugs.»

This was no work - for - hire project but a production he initiated because he thought it «had all the makings of a success... all those qualities that were just coming into fashion in 1970: violence, lurid sex, drugs.»

Is there anything «strange» anymore about lurid attachments or explosive violence disrupting the placid surface of middle - class life, high or low?

As much as the 1946 adaptation of The Postman Always Rings Twice has earned its place as an important American Film Noir, so too Ossessione is essential to Italy's history of lurid, intoxicating giallo cinema.16 Ossessione provides a perfect bookend to Calamai's final performance as Marta in Dario Argento's Profondo Rosso (1975): in both films Calamai embodies a similar bug - eyed feminine insanity, both characters pushed to the edge of violence and despair at their seeming invisibility to the men in their lives, and to society in general.

Director Justin Kurzel seems less interested in the lurid details of Bunting's brutal violence than he is in the complicated and alarming nature of complicity.

Swerving between thrill - a-minute action and intense, drawn - out suspense, Revenge has all the subtlety of a bazooka to the face, but it's an arresting watch if you can stomach its most lurid moments of violence.

For this show, Fischl continued to paint surrealist tableaux where the quaintness of small - town America is tainted by lurid forms of sexuality and violence.

The punk rock thing was wide open and it liked lurid, vulgar material, see, so I could do a lot of gratuitous sex and violence.