Sentences with phrase «movie than a horror film»

The director sees it more of a kidnapping movie than a horror film, but this genre - bender is a worthy horror entry nonetheless.

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).

While it may seem counterintuitive, there probably isn't a film genre (excluding movies produced by Kirk Cameron, anyway) that more consistently or explicitly references Christian ideas and iconography than the horror genre.

I didn't expect much from this movie, in fact I expected to hate it, but Spiders is a much better movie than many other horror films that has been released this year.

«World War Z» isn't your typical zombie movie, but rather a globe - trotting socio - political thriller that treats the zombies more like a viral disease than something out of a horror film.

I went in this movie expecting a cheap slasher horror film, but I was having high expectations, because it has been announced in development since 2009, what I got was way too more in depth than I was barging for, this movie can't be reviewed without spoiling it, what I have to say is... SEE THE CABIN IN THE WOODS, it is different dark comedy with mystery and great visuals (hint) SEE THIS Mmovie expecting a cheap slasher horror film, but I was having high expectations, because it has been announced in development since 2009, what I got was way too more in depth than I was barging for, this movie can't be reviewed without spoiling it, what I have to say is... SEE THE CABIN IN THE WOODS, it is different dark comedy with mystery and great visuals (hint) SEE THIS Mmovie can't be reviewed without spoiling it, what I have to say is... SEE THE CABIN IN THE WOODS, it is different dark comedy with mystery and great visuals (hint) SEE THIS MOVIEMOVIE.

I've never been a fan, as a rule of horror movies, however, the trailer drew me to this one and i'm glad it did, the awful acting we usually get in horror movies wasn't there this time round, in fact, the whole cast were excellent, the special effects were really very good and the humorous, intelligent dialogue (another thing you don't usually get in horrors) was brilliant, loved the film, Chris Hemsworth, although with less to do in this than he does in Thor, was great in it too.

You can admire a movie like Steven Soderbergh's «Contagion» (2011), a realistic rendering of civil breakdown caused by a spreading pathogen, but the horror - film version of disaster in «World War Z» stretches the senses to take in more than you may expect.

If you like your movies slow, boring, and dumb than this «horror» film is for you.

Horror films need to be more than jump scares to be good, and this one is accompanied by a good moral of growth, facing your fears, and has a good amount of humor to make for a really good movie.

The original sci - fi, horror, macho action bonanza PREDATOR is one of my top films of all time, its gory as f*ck sequel PREDATOR 2 has grown on me with age (maybe because today's movies are more often than none sub par and castrated hence it glows in comparison).

The film went on to make more than $ 319 million worldwide and still remains the second highest grossing original horror movie of all time, second only to «The Exorcist.»

That's the central conceit behind Creep, a no - budget horror movie that delivers more scares than films with 10 times more money.

While It Comes At Night is without question a horror film, its horrors are more cerebral and internalized than your standard jump - scare laden scary movie.

Joe Dante's a great filmmaker, but I wish he had made his return to features with a movie better than Burying The Ex, a glib, EC Comics - influenced horror comedy that would probably work better as a short chapter in an anthology film.

Growing up in New York, Peele would spend his nights obsessively poring over the films of Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick and David Cronenberg, favoring horror titles among his collection of more than 300 VHS movies.

New Mutants is directed by Josh Boone and written by Boone and Knate Lee, and is positioned as more of a horror movie than a superhero movie, as evidenced by the film's initial trailer.

Crimson Peak reveals the first fright before the opening title, yet 15 minutes into the film this original screenplay feels more like a Jane Austin adaptation than a horror movie, and that isn't a complaint.

The film's subtle brand of cerebral terror cuts sharper and deeper than anything found in a more conventional horror movie.

Until suddenly he does, and the film shifts gears from a study of trauma into a more conventional (but still eerily effective) horror movie, with Josh (who looks more than a little like Glover in River's Edge) enthusiastically casting himself in the role of psycho killer, as if trying to live up to what he worries his best friend thinks he's become anyway.

For a thriller about cannibals, this Mexican film is more of an unsettlingly violent drama than an all - out horror movie.

«I sat down and would smoke a little weed and try to write a mind - bending horror film, my favourite genre and at some point I followed the truth and I realized there are people locked up for smoking less weed than I smoked writing the movie.»

Although, the version of this movie where the staff have realistic eyes embedded in metal bodies would tip the film even further into David - Cronenberg - body - horror than it already is.

Favorite horror film is The Terminator... I actually hated Terminator 2, because it was too much of a kids» movie... Rather than a horror, like the original.

Remaking hit Japanese horror movies (a la «The Ring») is Hollywood's latest plan to rake in big bucks without actually having to be creative or original — and while «The Grudge» is nothing more than a cultural twist on the standard - issue haunted house movie, I will give credit to director Takashi Shimizu (remaking his own film «Ju - On») for giving me goosebumps.

Wildly over-praised by audiences desperate for a scary horror movie, this film has little more than the germ of a solid idea followed by a series of predictable cliches.

Alien is revered as one of the greatest horror films of all time, as well as one of the greatest films set in space, so what happens when the director of the film that originated the franchise returns to it to provide us back - story about one of the biggest monster movie icons more than three decades after the fact?

While the film works as a weird, trippy, tongue in cheek horror film set at Disneyland, it's nothing more than a film school - made B - movie.

Taking inspiration from films like The Innocents and The Haunting, Del Toro has been pretty vocal about defining his latest project as a gothic romance, rather than a traditional horror movie.

Although it works better as a romantic comedy than as a horror movie, this film is cute and breezy with a likable cast that might help zombie fans overlook the glaring lack of gore.

-- Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers What better way to celebrate this year's 20th anniversary of the sixth film in the Halloween movie series than re-watching this often misunderstood and quite controversial entry into horror's most hallowed film franchise.

When you think of Happy Death Day as more of a coming - of - age teen film than an outright horror movie, the merits are more clear.

Mostly because Villeneuve and screenwriter Taylor Sheridan aren't selling more than a tautological action movie with the dread and body count of a horror film.

Old - style filmmaking makes this movie scarier than other recent horror films, simply because director Wan...

He directed the teen - witch movie «The Craft» back in the»90s, a better - than - it - needed to be horror film.

Old - style filmmaking makes this movie scarier than other recent horror films, simply because director Wan (Saw / Insidious) takes the time to actually develop suspense.

This makes the film feel less like a superhero movie than like the fantastical cinema of Guillermo Del Toro or Bong Joon - Ho, romantic horror extremists who fill their films with grotesque comedy beats and heartfelt sociopolitics.

From the get, director Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down) abandons all pretense of heightening his horror film with dramatic subtexts and characters with more than one dimension — this is midnight movie fare through and through.

Call it the Curse of the Super Bowl — and to movie - industry types, it's scarier than the sole wide theatrical release risking the time slot, the horror film Winchester, starring Helen Mirren and Jason Clarke.

I sat down and would smoke a little weed and try to write a mind - bending horror film, my favorite genre and at some point I followed the truth and I realized there are people locked up for smoking less weed than I smoked writing the movie.»

On that level, perhaps some may think Ginger Snaps to be a deeper movie than it really is, but on the surface narrative form, it still remains a rather standard horror film.

At times, she made the movie feel more like a film school lecture than a horror movie.

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.

Saw is one of those evolutionary horror films, rather than revolutionary, but it's the kind of movie that genre lovers will eat up with relish and proclaim as one of the best films of the year.

There are a lot of fun horror films, but what Kaluuya does here is more than just your standard scary movie fare.

And yet, with its layers of allusions and deep meaning, this apparent horror movie is no less intelligent or cerebral than the earlier film.

Get Out turns out to be more fun, and more provocative, than it is scary, at least in the traditional midnight - movie sense: The film works so well as a gauntlet of social horror that Peele almost didn't need the more traditional thriller elements he introduces in the third act, when a carefully calibrated build in just - because - you're - paranoid dread gives way to some disappointingly conventional survival games.

In retrospect, the film's chilly reception in North America might not be much of a mystery, as Hooper appeared to be telling his fans that there's more to life than guy's stuff, and that eventually a man must put away evasive self - absorptions — an assertion that beats as the heart underneath Lifeforce's amusing horror - movie antics.

BE: I know that some people have tried calling the movie a horror film, but it's really more comedy than anything.