Sentences with phrase «many modern horror movies»

This movie is a must watch for any modern horror movie fan.

He also gives us a true conclusion to the story, and not one last infantile shock that most modern horror movies always succumb to.

There's style in it, and that great silence concept — which reminds me of how light was treated in The Others, one of the best modern horror movies.

I would implore anyone who ever wrote it off as a soulless remake to dig a little deeper with a rewatch, because you might just be surprised at how great of a modern horror movie it truly is.

«It's a thrill to work with the movie studio that gave birth to the modern horror movie genre.

It could easily play as a monster movie or a modern horror movie, with the haunted tension of a supernatural story like The Orphanage mixed with the big, stately action of Pacific Rim.

Though the «sex equals death» rule isn't as prominent in modern horror movies that defy those decades - old tropes, «It Follows» is very much a retro homage to «70s and «80s genre classics, from the «Halloween» - esque synth score, to the striking similarities to «Nightmare on Elm Street,» both in Jay's perpetual helplessness and the film's dreamlike atmosphere.

To watch a modern horror movie is often to watch all the most interesting characters get killed while the boring, blank - slate protagonist goes on to save the day.

Starting with Gordon's segment, «Dreams, Darkness, and Damnation: An Interview with Stuart Gordon» (21 mins., written and directed by Perry Martin) shows the director to be articulate about Lovecraft's work and his own role as a modern horror movie director.

It's one of the most iconic props in modern horror movie history, but what was it, anyway, and where is it now?

The ensemble provides an all - important ingredient missing from both the tedious Twilight adaptations and modern horror movies in general: fun.

He is best known for his work in the horror film genre, particularly in the subgenre known as giallo, and for his influence on modern horror movies.

Scream should be here somewhere, with all of the meta, the symbolism, Matthew Lillard's great performance as a psychopath, and the fact that it's one of the best modern horror movies (though not as modern anymore).

As with so many modern horror movies, it is nice to see that Krasinski is learning from the greats while also attempting to modernize the genre for the 21st Century.

Think Deus Ex mechanics mixed with the gore of a modern horror movie and you have the principle of its early brawls - until things take an obscene turn with the more occult stuff later on.

Not exact matches

This movie was a great satire on modern horror.

The first of these movies remains one of the great sci - fi horror achievements of the modern cinema, but its sequel, «Aliens,» is that rare instance where a follow - up deviates from the formula and finds an effective rhythm in propelling the story

The tale of a CD ROM game that gives new definition to the term «interactive» is the subject of this horror movie, notable for its lack of the blood and guts that have characterized modern horror films.

This is definitely a modern day horror movie.

Featuring original series and movies, its unrivaled modern horror library unites Sony Pictures Television (SPT: US), Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF), the two top studios producing and distributing the genre, and Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA)(NASDAQ: CMCSK), the nation's leading provider of cable, entertainment and communications products and services.

Aquaman will also feature a strikingly different world from that of other superhero films - something that also extends to other upcoming superhero movies, such as Marvel Studios» Doctor Strange (which dabbles in supernatural horror) or even 20th Century Fox's Wolverine 3 (an R - Rated film with a modern - western vibe).

A blockbuster with heart, a horror movie with bite, a child's - eye view of poverty and a romance for modern times are among the year's best movies.

Nothing about the movie seemed like too much like some modern horror flicks have done.

The fact that it's Polanski directing this movie that derives much of its horror from the notion of a woman who does not have control over her body and the dark things being done to it certainly don't make the film un-problematic by modern standards.

Traumatic backstories are one of modern horror's most durable tropes, but Flanagan's strong interest in his characters has always put his movies a cut above the rest.

In «Horror 101: The Exclusive Seminar» (10:27), director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell separately discuss their philosophies for the film, putting new spins on the haunted house and possession genres and doing certain things differently from other modern movies.

It's a surprisingly refreshing approach for a modern horror film that helps us focus on the core of the movie — the bloodbath.

However, there are always a few surprises, a few movies that feel less inspired by Richard Linklater and more inspired by something unexpected, and such is the case with a pair of flicks from this year's fest that owe more to European horror from the «60s and «70s than anything from the modern independent scene.

Only two years old and already a modern horror classic, It Follows is the best John Carpenter movie made by someone else.

Shot on 35 mm and in technicolor, a pastiche of «60s Russ - Meyer-esque B horror movies, it challenges modern conceptions of gender roles.

Anyone with a passing familiarity with modern Austrian cinema outside of Michael Haneke «s work will not be surprised that arthouse horror «Goodnight Mommy» is produced by Ulrich Seidl, whose own «Paradise» trilogy, as well as 2015's terrific, underseen semi-doc «In The Basement,» share a certain chilly formalist distance with Fiala and Franz» movie.

Written by Max Landis (Chronicle, American Ultra), Victor Frankenstein isn't so much a re-imagining of Mary Shelley's iconic 1818 sci - fi / horror novel, «Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus»; rather, it's an origin story for the eponymous character, as seen from the perspective of Igor (who didn't originate in Shelley's source book, but rather in a subsequent movie adaptation).

Final Verdict: Most people steer away from 80s horror reboots, but Maniac could be the one example where the modern movie out - trumps the first.

Matthew's print encapsulates both the old - school movie poster feel of classic horror film art, while bringing some modern printing magic into the mix.

Cannibal Holocaust is repellant for a number of reasons, chief among which is being an early progenitor of the modern found - footage horror movie.

It's the latest effort from Blumhouse Productions, the horror movie factory that's cranked out such modern scary stories as the Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and The Purge franchises.

Patrick Hughes previously made the well - regarded horror thriller Red Hill, which I haven't seen yet, but between those positive notices and the notion that he would be helming the remake of one of the best action movies in years, I was intensely curious to see what he would make of the third installment in this modern series that is dominated by lead actor, co-writer, and director Sylvester Stallone.

So this is the big question, then: Are so many American men so oppressed by the «horrors» of modern life — high cholesterol, uppity wives, smartass children, cell phones, boring jobs, the general dead - eyed awfulness of suburbia — that they need a stupid movie like this one to tell them that if they don't like their lives they should do something about it?

At Modern Horrors, we are big fans of slasher movies.

People couldn't help but be won over by the utter ineptitude they were witnessing, and soon The Room had become something akin to a modern - day Rocky Horror Picture Show — the stuff of midnight movie legend, with a devoted group of fans initiating their friends into an ever - growing cult movement.

You're deciding what movie to see on a Saturday night and wonder: What if someone took the suburban spookiness of many a Steven Spielberg or J.J. Abrams movie and combined it with the captive - prisoner subgenre of the modern horror film.

Numerous 21st - century horror movies have worked hard to make modern technology scary, but it took an egghead French auteur to craft a genuinely unnerving sequence centered on texting.

The bar for modern horror has been set so low that by now any movie better than terrible seems worthy of praise.

Perhaps it's because, bucking the trend for horror movies, Primeval comes to DVD in its theatrical cut rather than a unrated extended presentation or perhaps it's because I reviewed Apocalypto last week, but this film didn't seem overly gory the way many of its modern kin do.

The episodes are slick, well - produced and continually disturbing in the way that most modern - day horror movies can only dream of being.

The movie is still riveting and suspenseful after multiple viewings, maybe because it's anchored in reality and so beautifully simple — the horror is played out within the realities of a modern marriage in late -»60s Manhattan and the «God is dead» movement.

Clint and Jared (along with returning guest Craig) polish off Horror Octorbor with their final double feature of a Universal classic monster movie and its modern counterpart!

This latest edition of Now Stream This has scoured streaming services to bring you back a variety of films: comedy, horror, drama, as well as modern - day movies and classics from Hollywood's yesterday.

The interior - design horror movie represented by this car was the result of a few injudicious choices in the Modern line, such as the Fineline Pure trim pieces.

From the earliest movie - inspired experiments, to the more modern, atmospheric thrillers, certain threads have run through the horror genre.