Sentences with phrase «making horror films»

Despite all these great directors working in the genre, I'm not sure the stigma of making horror films ever really went away.

Give first - rate comedian Jordan Peele extremely high marks for being able to enter into the world of making horror films via jump - out - of - your - chair scares and not gross - you - out slasher scenes.

It's unclear at this point if Australian director Jennifer Kent wants to continue making horror films, but judging by her terrifying and moving debut feature, The Babadook, it's obvious that horror needs her.

For someone to have such a strict upbringing and to go on to work for 40 years making horror films is just inspiring.

Romero maintained that he wouldn't make horror films if he couldn't fill them with political statements.

Dylan Bank wasn't just interested in making a horror film, he wanted to say something more with his project though what that «something» is remains illusive.

«The reason I made it a horror film is that it's my favorite genre,» Peele told Deadline's Mike Fleming Jr. this month at Deadline's annual The Contenders event at the DGA Theater.

The success of Anarchy depends on the realism factor; if audiences can not empathize with the characters on screen, the film loses the critical realistic element that makes a horror film worth watching.

(«I don't make horror films,» the guy insists, as screams emanate from the speakers.)

Like an ornery weatherman stuck living the same day over and over again, ticket - buyers trudged again to their local theater and, for the third time this year, made a horror film from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions the No. 1 movie in America.

KW: Have you ever made a horror film?

Strangely, a sudden urge was planted in me to make a horror film about vicious beauty,» Refn original told Variety about the origins of the movie.

Strangely, a sudden urge was planted in me to make a horror film about vicious beauty,» Colour us intrigued.

As haunted and aimless as «Claire de Lune» (played at the picture's closing recital), Tokyo Sonata is Kurosawa allowed at last to make a horror film that reveals that, for him, true horror is being content to accept salvation in the life of a sheep.

It lacks much of the contents that make a horror film thrilling for genre fans.

Sinister (Solid Rock Fist Up)-- Ethan Hawke makes his horror film debut in this twisted tale about a true crime writer so desperate for another hit he moves his family into the home of a grisly murder.

Verbinski, who is also producing through his Blind Wink Productions, last made a horror film (The Ring) in 2002.

I'm into all types of movies — I'm trying to make a horror film (next), and there's some indie movies that'd cost about $ 5 to make that I'd like to do — but this was a chance for someone to write a check for a big - budget comedy, and to be able to do something as balls - out as this one... y ’ know, I'm gonna take advantage of that!»

Teenage angst and sexual frustration are equally important to the doubtlessly endeavored antagonist in It Follows making a horror film that's largely inspired by the genre's past and yet not quite like anything else before it.»

It's possible to be funny and make a horror film that deconstructs itself — I'm thinking not of The Monster Squad, probably The Cabin in the Woods» closest spiritual analogue (and even as I say that, I feel bad — while Fred Dekker is an idiot, he's our idiot), but of genuine genre masterpieces like John Landis's An American Werewolf in London, Sam Raimi's Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn, and Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead.

Insidious - A scary and well - made horror film is rare enough to forgive a slightly weak finale and still rank this highly.

He's more interested in making a horror film rather than a psychological thriller.

Nicolas Winding Refn's last two Cannes movies have been the very good «Drive» and the very bad «Only God Forgives,» making this horror film with Elle Fanning and Keanu Reeves a fascinating risk.

Sometimes simply narrowing in on the human element makes a horror film more widely accessible, introducing new fans to our genre.

The funny thing is that Friedkin didn't set out to make a horror film.

Marking her solo directorial debut, Katheryn Bigelow didn't initially set out to make a horror film.

But McPherson isn't really interested in making a horror film; he's merely using the genre's tropes as part of an adult romance about accepting tragedy and moving on.

James Wan is a very interesting choice, he definitely knows how to make a horror film.

If everyone was actually terrified the whole time, no one would want to make horror films.

Strangely, a sudden urge was planted in me to make a horror film about vicious beauty,» said Refn about the origins of the movie.

We Are Still Here (Ted Geoghegan, 2015) Haunted house flick with a mature cast and a similarly mature approach to making a horror film, which will ensure that this film and the career of its director will endure.

Not exact matches

The Weinstein Co's sale documents need to make clear the bankrupt film studio will defend Lionsgate Entertainment Corp in intellectual property disputes stemming from two horror movies, Lionsgate said on Thursday in court papers.

David Goldman tries to explain the growth in the American horror - film genre while making the assumption that horror is bad in and of itself, with which I disagree.

Though Chaplin later said that, had he known the actual horrors of the German concentration camps, he could not have made the film, the truth and hope of the film were no less important or authentic.

Recent and upcoming releases include the romance - horror hybrid Spring; the hotly - anticipated The Look Of Silence, Oppenheimer's companion piece to The Act Of Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe, filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animals.

I tell you all of this not so that you can understand horror films better, but because it makes a great analogy for a spinal cord injury.

If you haven't tried one yourself, you've surely seen them all over Instagram: those white or animal - printed masks that make the wearer look like the villain in a horror film.

John Krasinski directs a spooky stunt of a horror film about alien beasties who will only attack you if you make a sound.

So, when we were in New Orleans you better believe we made our way over to where American Horror Story: Coven was filmed!

Trying to get away from the horror genre, he tried to make a few films with no success.

Despite all the cliches, it's a pretty hilarious film filled with good humor, mixed with gloomy atmosphere, making fun and at the same time adhering to the cliches of the Universal horror classic.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is, without a doubt, one of the best horror films ever made.

The idea is to make you feel like a character trapped in a horror film.

The cost of making quality horror films has never been high, so a more modest box office is acceptable if you're still pulling in ten bucks for every dollar spent.

John Krasinski directs a spooky stunt of a horror film about alien beasties who will only attack you if you make a sound.

Another film that went on to have it's own franchise pushed the boundaries of horror, made on a shoestring budget and executed in the most simplest of terms was Saw.

While it makes the film a touch more bearable, it doesn't do much for the horror.

One of the few last successful horror franchises in modern history would have to be the Paranormal Activity flicks where it goes to show, that a film that makes noises in another room can scare the living hell out of millions of people.

Let's compare dating mistakes to the mistakes characters make in horror films.

Any horror movie fan can see that this film has been made with a gleeful love of the genre, flaws and all, and the final half - hour delivers one of the greatest visually spectacular finales I have seen all year (even compared to that of another Joss Whedon project, The Avengers).