Sentences with phrase «more psychological terror»

Saw creator James Wan directs in fine fashion, relying less on gimmicks that have been part of his prior films, though there are still a handful of standard cheap scares that do seem out of place in this more psychological terror - driven story.

In «Howard», elements from each of the previous two tracks combine but there's an added element now, after some misleading initial warmth comes a real sense of fear, a distant female vocal adding to the effect; then there's the calm before the storm in «A Bright Red Flash» before the storm itself arrives in «At the Door», powerful and door - rattling brass and percussion opening things up before more psychological terror comes from the strings.

Not exact matches

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

Roman Polanski's recent film Death and the Maiden is a psychological thriller made all the more frightening by the knowledge that it is based upon the political tactic of terror employed by many dictatorships in South America.

Horror movies are relying less on cheap scares and gore and more on psychological terror.

This is what makes his first and only feature, Martha Marcy May Marlene, such a brilliant exercise in psychological terror, and despite the fact that it's neither a horror film nor much of a thriller, it generates a more foreboding sense of dread than a majority of the most recent entries in either of those genres.

This frightening psychological thriller may be writer / director Aronofsky's most fully realized work to date, combining the intense terrors of his stylistic and shocking Requiem For A Dream with his more intimate, empathetic approach in The Wrestler.

And while the first few episodes play more like psychological dramas than tales of terror, it soon steers a course through more supernatural stories and classic horrors.

Kesler said he finds the psychological aspects of terror more interesting than the action of horror games today.

In some ways yes, although it's far less violent, relying more on spooks and psychological terror than ridiculous - looking tentacle monsters.

Silent Hill 2 succeeds in creating an atmosphere of pure terror by focusing more on the psychological and thematic elements of horror rather than simply battling against big scary monsters.