Like most
modern horror flicks, characterizations are sketchy.
Nothing about the movie seemed like too much like
some modern horror flicks have done.
Critic Consensus: M Night Shayamalan's The Sixth Sense is a twisty ghost story with all the style of a classical Hollywood picture, but all the chills of
a modern horror flick.
Critics Consensus: M Night Shayamalan's The Sixth Sense is a twisty ghost story with all the style of a classical Hollywood picture, but all the chills of
a modern horror flick.
Aired by Fox just one other time after it premiered and later dropped from syndication, the superficially disturbing «Home» went on to become the show's best - selling episode on VHS; it was but a matter of time until some enterprising producer recognized the franchise potential in its heartland troglodytes — and it was even more inevitable that they should be paired with a WB cast - off for the first big - screen vehicle, since
no modern horror flick is complete without one.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
That doesn't, however, render this old
horror flick any less than engrossing, fascinatingly distant from
modern fare but also entirely entertaining in the narrative way intended.
The similarities or influences of
horror flicks past, only give it that classic feel and, I think, makes it sit on that shelf alongside its predecessors.That being said, it was all the better for it, this isn't just a
horror flick, this is a film with something to say about
modern society and the undercurrent of racism.
A social
horror with a lot on its mind, one that works as a purely popcorn exploitation
flick but is rife with deep - seated meaning, Get Out is a beefy conscience tickler that ticks all the boxes and then some and will deservedly remain in the best of
modern horror conversation for years to come.
Skype, Facebook and Chatroulette all make appearances in the film, but this glossy,
modern Inter-web sheen feels tacked on to what is essentially a lowest - common - denominator
horror flick.
His strange, sepulchral artworks evoke all the ghostliness of gothic novels or early
horror flicks, yet appear curiously
modern too