Sentences with phrase «made fright»

Not exact matches

So what is stage fright exactly, on a biological level, and how do the pros make public speaking look so easy?

They didn't tell me that I'd have to overcome stage fright because speaking's the only way to actually make money in this business.

This fails to take into account that whenever man has made a beginning of liberty he has taken fright, retreated, renounced his freedom, and sighed with relief at being able to put his destiny finally in the hands of someone else.

We'll be passing out candy on the porch, if the children can make it up the walkway without crying out of fright (and yes, sadly, that has actually happened).

We have little patience with the player who passes from fright when his partner makes a takeout double.

Over the past year, I've been getting increasingly bad stage fright and it has made each of my storytelling gigs a rather fraught experience.

The sight of eight long black legs crawling slowly over the floor can make some people scream and run — and women are four times as likely to take fright than men.

These may look a fright on a pair of trousers or a jacket, but emerald necklaces or chunky yellow and pink bangles would look far more fashionable without making your outfit too loud.

Here are our top five scary movies (rated for their fright levels) to make your Halloween date night a success.

Amy purports itself to be survival horror, but the only surviving you'll be doing is trying to make sense of the muddled gameplay mess laid before you as you're «scared» by the same gimmicky frights, like bursting gas pipes and falling portraits, over and over again.

Frankly, it could use a few more frights because it's predictable from stem to stern, right down to the manufactured scares, to the hapless victims making disastrous choices — e.g. leaving cellphones where they can easily be destroyed, not holding on tightly to a handgun that could have been very useful — to the killer who's so devishly difficult to kill.

It's not exactly a photo finish, but considering Fright Night didn't even break the top five, I'm sure Spy Kids 4 is happy to make the cut at all.

I know brand recognition supposedly equals profits (ahem, tell that to recent films like Fright Night and Conan the Barbarian), but maybe they could try to make something new using the general idea of an FBI agent infiltrating a criminal ring.

Asylums are the refuge of B - movies and others seeking easy frights, but like with everything it has done, Penny Dreadful found new ways to make it extra horrible.

If it wasn't quite the match of the fright fests that were being made over in Europe during this decade (Nosferatu, Haxan), it was certainly one of the most epic American undertakings this side of D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille, with the Paris Opera and surrounding streets beautifully recreated on the studio lot and populated with that literal cast of thousands.

But Gillespie, the journeyman who made Lars And The Real Girl and the Fright Night remake, directs I, Tonya like yet another entry in the endless cycle of Goodfellas clones, employing freeze frames, multiple narrators, and enough played - out, wall - to - wall pop cues (yes, «Spirit In The Sky» makes an appearance) to stock a jukebox.

Rock Paper Dead is the new horror film made by Tom Holland, director of the original Fright Night, Child's Play and Thinner.

Still, the scare factor is high, enough to make the you want to stick your head in the ground from fright — but then again, once you start watching, that's probably the last place you'd think to put it.

Only with the arrival of fright - wigged con artist Ernie McCracken (Murray, gleefully camp) do things look up, McCracken teaching him to make money hustling ten - pin, until he's abandoned to a bunch of rednecks who twig to him and slash off his bowling hand.

Beyond the Shimmer lie spoilers, but know that the film presents all the frights with a mesmerizing air that makes them more than just cheap thrills.

She has written screenplays in the past, including the 2011 «Fright Night» remake, and rather than necessarily seeing the books «Sharp Objects» and «Dietland» as one - off films, she saw the open - ended possibilities for making them into series.

Yes, it's really cool to see Smaug (Cumberbatch, Penguins of Madagascar) destroy Lake - town, but it's also so rife with CGI that it looks more like a well - made video game than an honest - to - goodness real - life tale of fright and might.

But then again, Farrell couldn't make last year's «Fright Night» or 2006's «Miami Vice» open big, so perhaps from a financial stanpoint, it's for the best.

A new two - hour version of the definitive 2016 documentary on the making of Fright Night, focusing on the first film, created exclusively for this release

Never too serious but never obnoxiously ludicrous and with Farrell donning the fangs, Fright Night makes being a vampire cool again and makes watching a movie about vampires fun again.

The plucky and well - acted, if not always shiver - inducing, «Lights Out» — from first - time feature director David F. Sandberg, building on his popular viral short, and fright impresario James Wan («The Conjuring 2»)-- works a clever gimmick that seems tailor - made for the visual particulars of movies: a terrorizing figure one can only detect when there's no illumination.

Abbott & Costello made the perfect foils for these supernatural antagonists, resulting in a potent combination of fright and funny; the comic timing of the duo is impeccable in this film, and most of the jokes and sight gags remain pretty timeless.

Clearly made by people who haven't seen more than the logline for Fright Night, it lacks any nutritive value for a making - of besides — although I learned that screenwriter Marti Noxon is the spitting image of actress Rhea Seehorn (a.k.a. the only redeeming facet of the awful «Whitney»).

Best Actress: Annette Bening — Kids Are All Right — stern, intelligent yet moving and likeable — it takes a real pro to accomplish that with such style and verve Nicole Kidman — Rabbit Hole — heartbreaking but resilient — a perfect balance between broken and fixed — it is so joyful to watch a character so succinctly communicated Lesley Manville — Another Year — heartbreaking with closeup after closeup of vulnerability and grasping hope — truly a fragile and pulsating performance Julianne Moore — Kids Are All Right — courageous and oh so human — sexy and vulnerable in an earthy way — her struggles with herself are the heart of the movie and she carries it magnificently and warmly Natalie Portman — Black Swan — the tour de force this year — the crazy, emotionally volatile core of a crazy, emotionally volatile film — some wonder if it might be «easer» to play such big emotions but the incredibly thin wire she has to traverse in such an extreme environment is daunting and she makes it work and gives us believability and solicits true sympathy in the middle of a fright fest — a truly accomplished achievement

Since low budget fright fests are the easiest way to make money in Hollywood, most take shortcuts that leave us feeling cheated.

The sort of problem Sontag has with Jameson is, of course, the very argument Bordwell has with anyone from Slavoj Žižek to Jacques Lacan, evident in a comment he makes on his blog (but not in the book) that echoes directly Sontag's: «Most of FRT [Zizek's The Fright of Real Tears] offers standard film criticism, providing impressionistic readings of various [Krzysztof] Kieslowski films in regard to recurring themes, visual motifs, dramatic structures, borrowed philosophical concepts, and the like.»

From the cinematography, make - up, and set - design, Fright Night feels like a classic vampire flick.

Fright Night: 30 Years of Screams Horror screenwriter Greg Beville (Blackstar Canyon) details the special effects and making of Fright Night 1985 and how the film's practical effects compare to horror films today.

This is a smart move: Funny makes everything better, even the frights.

A Quiet Place is where John Krasinski's hushed experiment in terror should be watched, not at multiplexes where silence is easily broken.Krasinski's movie wrings fright from silence so well that he accidentally makes a case for waiting...

Unlike the aforementioned thriller takeoffs, Hell Baby eschews making fun of the most recent fright fests — which will help the movie from looking dated in two years» time — in favor of taking shots at more traditional, clichéd horror - movie tropes.

«The Official «How to Make a Funny Vampire Movie» Guide» (8:04) dispenses rules Fright Night plays by, with a multitude of cast and crew members supplying sound bites on the film's design, violence, and use of lore.

If I had the time and money, I'd see every new movie in a theater — except Hollywood comedies and romances, which are usually neither, or found - footage fright flicks, which usually make me wish they'd truly lost the footage — even when the movie falls short of expectations.

As for you fright fans, you'd be better off renting the poorly distributed «Case 39,» with Renee Zellweger as a social worker battling Satan, whose many disguises make him (her?)

«The Den» is a powerful «cyber home invasion» film that taps into the same sense of vulnerability that made traditional home invasion fright flicks like «The Strangers,» «You're Next» and «Funny Games» so powerful.

A fright - wigged Spacek is notable in her one scene and the latter definitely makes for some (no pun intended) cool visuals.

FRIGHT NIGHT is easily one of the best supernatural action films of the past ten years, and it also makes you wonder why Tennant isn't in more Hollywood films after his scene - stealing turn as vampire hunter Vincent.

What makes the film far less than its imperfect predecessor is the obviousness of the frights, and the over-the-top obsessive use of Christian iconography.

It's never actually scary and has an unexpectedly slim amount of Z - day encounters, but makes up for frights with some dial - moving FX — including some killer zombie slayings — and smooth monster movie ideology.

The cast of Fox Searchlight's Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho continues to build as Toni Collette (Fright Night), Danny...

A few others that made my personal list which are nowhere here: Motel Hell, The People Under the Stairs, Wolfen, Ginger Snaps, Dead & Buried, Bride of Chucky, Deranged (1972), Misery, Cat People (1982), Fright Night (no, I still don't see what's supposed to be homophobic about the movie even though I would love to hear Ed's theories), the ever unfairly maligned Scream, the entirely fairly maligned Clownhouse, and I, Madman.

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Originally released for other consoles in 2016, Bloober Team's psychological scare - inducer has, at last, made it to Nintendo's system, finally giving Switch players the frights they so sorely deserve after games like Don't Knock Twice and Perception scared us off for all the wrong reasons.

Rotten: The director Scott Derrickson seems uncertain as to whether he is making an exploitation pic intended to give audiences a few fairground - style thrills and frights, or a William Friedkin - style meditation on the nature of evil.

A better reason for fright is the rapid progress made by the charter school reformers.