Sentences with phrase «mainstream horror»

If he can breathe some life into the current state of mainstream horror, then he'd probably have the door opened for him to be able to do pretty much anything he wanted.

2015 hasn't been a stellar year for horror, especially mainstream horror.

Because there's a lot of brilliant, unrestrained, nasty kills that you don't see often in mainstream horror movies anymore.

If you are going into «It Comes at Night» anticipating the more mainstream horror film its marketing may have promised, know that writer - director Trey Edward Shults» sophomore feature (following last year's excellent family breakdown drama «Krisha») will not deliver on your expectations.

Derrickson is one of the best filmmakers working today in mainstream horror, even if I was greatly disappointed by his last film, Deliver Us from Evil.

My friends and I had some fun guessing as to what the original ending was, and while I'm pretty sure we nailed it, I can see where the studio, hoping this movie finds as wide an audience as possible through word of mouth, wanted the ending they did in order to appeal to the more mainstream horror fan.

An excellent mainstream horror chiller was once made called The Other... despite its good intentions, it ends with a killing so depressing that audiences were turned off.

It was treated like other mainstream horror movies, too; given a wide release in over 2,000 theaters, where even in February its fourth place opening (with the weekend's second highest per - theater average among wide releases) seemed pretty impressive.

And just as Last House on the Left and Night of the Living Dead helped popularise the genre in the 60s and 70s, indie hits still give studios fresh encouragement to produce mainstream horror.

As expected since the finding of footage is part of the plot, the popular found footage technique of contemporary mainstream horror takes up a good chunk of Demonic, with more traditional shooting methods being used for the investigation and interrogation scenes, as well as flashbacks to the group's initial arrival at Livingston.

For better or worse, director James Wan has become the most sought after mainstream horror movie director.

Doubling as a great showcase for its four leads (Krasinski and Blunt in particular), A Quiet Place reaches a comfortable middle ground between the thrill ride experience that many mainstream horror films offer and the contemplative atmosphere of an arthouse entry in the genre.

The reason is that Crimson Peak was viewed as a big - budget work of mainstream horror, starring names such as Tom Hiddleston and Jessica Chastain, while The Shape Of Water's cast reads like an awards - draped list of actor's actors: Hawkins, Stuhlbarg, Spencer, Shannon and Richard Jenkins.

Defintly crushes most the mainstream horror crap out there.

By its very existence it begs the question of whether this (or the upcoming Kevin Costner vehicle Dragonfly) would even have been considered if not for the success of the supposedly non-influential The Blair Witch Project: a mainstream horror film that flies in the face of conventional genre wisdom (at least since The Exorcist) in refraining from gore as steadfastly as it refuses to show its bogeyman.

The mainstream horror genre quickly developed around a codified set of tropes, character archetypes and specific rules that, fifty years later, are tiresome in their predictability.

There are several graphic moments of brutal violence — you will see things done to the human head that you don't often see in a mainstream horror film — but one of the most affecting moments of violence wisely happens off - screen and with little fanfare (such as swelling music) to accompany it.

In the mid-2000s, when torture porn was at its peak, Darren Lynn Bousman was responsible for helming Saw II, III and IV, so that he occupied the dead centre of mainstream horror.

The scares are sporadic but the payoff is worth it, with a vibe that feels more like great television than mainstream horror.

It's almost unbelievable that something this narratively arty is being released as a mainstream horror movie, but the filmmaking ranks as some of Aronofsky's most skillful.