Sentences with phrase «macabre horror»

Limbo is a great example of a developer mixing familiar gameplay mechanics with macabre horror elements to make something that looks familiar, but feels different.

Macabre Horror Stories That Will Taunt Your Dreams: The True Tales... Get Your FREE BONUSES When You Grab This Book!Scotland as a country has more than its fair share of ghost stories.

There are moments of macabre horror here, and interesting nods to Capote's In Cold Blood, as well as America's satanic abuse scare and the Robin Hood Hills case.

«Tim Burton's Corpse Bride» is not the macabre horror story the title suggests, but a sweet and visually lovely tale of love lost.

Not exact matches

My heart dropped further when I thought about the growing macabre club of families in Las Vegas and Orlando and Charleston and Newtown, who have to relive their own day of horror every time another mass killing occurs.

And Gourevitch may be right in contending that, good intentions notwithstanding, it turns the horror of the Holocaust into a macabre entertainment.

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).

In a perfect demonstration that horror and trauma are the stuff of real, everyday life and not the macabre vision of fantasists, Cries and Whispers marked Bergman's recovery as one of Europe's greatest film directors.

Very well done; classic horror fans will love all the VP references, and Burton's style of mixing the childlike and the macabre is already fully developed here.

I've been enjoying a lot of the Trailblazing Women programming myself but since we're in the middle of Schocktober, I thought I'd set aside some time to highlight some of my favorite horror films and thrillers directed by women who have left their macabre mark on a genre that many mistakenly assume is not very female friendly.

Belial, everyone's favorite beast - in - a-basket, is back in this sensational third film in the wildly macabre BASKET CASE horror series.

Here are a series of recent horror movie stories that should satisfy your cravings for the macabre:

Soul Hackers delivers a first - person, dungeon - crawling RPG experience set in a future where technology and otherworldly forces meet in a macabre fusion of cyberpunk futurism and gothic horror.

The Gallows DVD Review by Kam Williams Horror Flick Features 2nd Generation of Grisly Goings - on at Haunted High School Back in 1993, a student accidentally died onstage during the opening night performance of «The Gallows,» a macabre play being staged at Beatrice High.

A delightful framing device in which garishly illustrated panels from the mag burst into life sets the macabre tone for this exercise in fun and reverential horror.

Self - reflexive and dosed with macabre humor, this offbeat exercise in just - around - the - corner horror grounds the largely exhausted found - footage approach in classical storytelling and visual values, resulting in a refreshing (and memorably strange) genre piece, premised almost entirely on a child's willingness to accept grown - up weirdness as long as it ensures stability.

That alone is enough for many to rush out and rent this gorehound import, but there's more: this is terrific, a dryly hilarious horror comedy with a macabre sense of splatter humor a la Evil Dead 2 (complete with zombie hunters armed with chainsaws and other deep woods implements of destruction) but minus the self - conscious wisecracking of the genre.

Soul Hackers is a first - person, dungeon - crawling RPG experience set in a future where technology and otherworldly forces meet in a macabre fusion of cyberpunk and gothic horror.

That Hooper takes us down a different road than the usual trashy, macabre and grisly horror flick, doesn't make it a special film worth seeking out.

She sends Henry Farrell's macabre psychological horror novel «Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?»

King himself identified a hierarchy of horror, in his book Danse Macabre, that ranged from disgust, which is a base revulsion, to terror, which is a more elevated, purer form of fear.

The movie's heart doesn't reveal itself until the climax, and at that point, it dives headlong into a macabre and twisted mixture of Gothic horror and romance.

Despite our penchant for the murderous and the macabre, Horror and Cult fans are some of the kindest, friendliest people you'll ever meet.

An extension of her short, this creepy horror film focuses on a widowed single mother named Amelia (played by Essie Davis, Kent's fellow student at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney) whose six - year - old son comes across a mysterious, macabre children's book.

The surreal visuals are stunning, and whilst never believable, the macabre beauty of the deadly horrors is enough to keep one entertained.

David Cronenberg is the Canadian master of horror, the macabre and the merely strange.

While both films share Argento's signature dark flourishes, intense soundtracks, love of macabre yet extremely beautiful horror set pieces, and above all a driving fascination with the relationship between art and truth, on a broadly visual level

Still, I'd suggest Christopher Smith's 2006 horror - comedy Severence, which not only had gory kills of annoying office workers, but also brandished a sharp and macabre wit.

The robbers» disguises are all pretty creepy — from the «Skeletor with dreadlocks» masks to the horror movie nun outfits — and lend a sense of the macabre to the jobs and an ever - present sense of death.

But there's a macabre secret behind the invention of the horror genre: it's all thanks to Maddy Ulm's personal experience as an undead.

Take a walk on the dark side with Dark Horse Digital, which has marked down all their comics by horror writer Steve Niles, including Breath of Bones, Criminal Macabre, and Last Train to Deadsville.

While more well - known as a horror writer and pioneer of the tales that became the Hellraiser franchise, The Thief of Always shows that Barker can pen a book that speaks to young adults just as powerfully as his horror novels speak to lovers of the macabre.

Title: Cat Eyed Boy Genre: Horror Author: Kazuo Umezu Synopsis: A chilling concoction of dark vignettes dripping with the macabre, the grotesque and the absurd.

FRAGMENTS OF HORROR (rated «T +» for Older Teens) contains a unique collection of delightfully macabre tales from the master of horror HORROR (rated «T +» for Older Teens) contains a unique collection of delightfully macabre tales from the master of horror horror manga.

Shifting from teen emotions triggered by high - school bullying, sexual attraction, and musical passion to deeply disturbing revelations of a macabre fascination with putrefying flesh, Joey is crafted by reader Heyborne as a complex character whose naturally youthful voice taps a core of utterly audible horror.

Chuck Palahniuk's appreciation for the macabre is in all the horror.

Game description: Explore the macabre past of an old mansion in the 1930's and solve puzzles of light and shadows in this fully black & white survival horror!

With spine - tingling sounds, pixelated baddies, and macabre - galore, Cowardly Creations» 2015 release of Uncanny Valley on Steam was a throwback to 1990s horror survival.

Reliant on shadows, sounds and a rarely seen macabre monster, Isolation ignores the extreme and exploitative gore that's come to define the horror genre.

Inspired by the tropes of horror cinema and classic gaming experiences like Dungeon Keeper, MachiaVillain lets you build the macabre mansion of your dreadful dreams from harmless house up to nightmarish palace of panic.

With its macabre atmosphere, brilliant puzzles and genuine survival horror element the original proves that sometimes the old ways are the best ways.

In addition to being a successful horror author in his own right, Morris has written novels featuring Doctor Who and Captain Jack Harkness, so he should have no problem merging his more macabre sensibilities with characters not of his own making.

Explore the macabre past of an old mansion and solve puzzles of light and shadows in this fully black and white survival horror.

So writes Stephen King in his non-fiction book on horror, Danse Macabre.

Title: Pathologic Classic HD Version Tested: PC Available On: PC Developer: General Arcade Publishers: Gambitious Digital Entertainment Genre: Open World Psychological Horror / FP Macabre Adventure - Mystery Official Site: http://www.gambitious.com/games/pathologic-classic-hd Release Date: October 29, 2015 Where to Buy: GOG, Steam Pathologic Classic HD is a remastered version of the cult classic psychological horror game Pathologic which was released... ReaHorror / FP Macabre Adventure - Mystery Official Site: http://www.gambitious.com/games/pathologic-classic-hd Release Date: October 29, 2015 Where to Buy: GOG, Steam Pathologic Classic HD is a remastered version of the cult classic psychological horror game Pathologic which was released... Reahorror game Pathologic which was released... Read more

In Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, we've seen the Sabotage, Continuum, and Absolution DLC Packs, which have each added a brand - new zombies adventure based on the macabre world of twisted horror director Willard Wyler, along with 12 additional maps for multiplayer.

Explore the macabre past of an old mansion in the 1930's and solve puzzles of light and shadows in this fully black & white survival horror.

It's mostly comprised of electronic tunes, but with the addition of some goth and macabre sounds in order to make the game fit in with the Tesla (electronic) and Lovecraft (horror) aspects of the game.

Ed Kienholz's fiberglass figures brought upon us the horrors of aging and the macabre.

Through multiple examples of assemblage, painting and lithography, Dark Visions: Mid-Century Macabre illustrates the ways in which artists have portrayed humankind's struggle to come to terms with death and life's evils — whether through catharsis, psychosis, or a portrayal of horrors.