Sentences with phrase «much of a horror movie»

Out of all his films he's written and directed, one only really stands out to me — The Devil's Rejects — and ironically isn't that much of a horror movie, but nevertheless an amazing sophomoric debut.

That is, when you're not watching through your fingers: The level of blood splatter, bodily mutilation, and exploding heads in this film is on the level of New French Extremity titles like Inside and High Tension, making Revenge as much of a horror movie as an action one.

Not exact matches

Since he is about my age, I grew up seeing that much of the stuff he incoporated into his novels was plagiarized right out of old B horror movies of the 1950's and early sixties!

Beings who will one day vanish from the earth in that ultimate subtraction of sensuality called death, we spend so much of our lives courting it: fomenting wars, watching with sickening horror movies in which maniacs slice and dice their victims, or hurrying to our own deaths in fast cars, cigarette smoking, or suicide.

I especially can't take it when horror sagas do this, because it gets extremely repetitive fast and the audience can pretty much read the script to without seeing the rest of the movie.

down to earth woman who looks for same in a man, love horror movies, tattoos, guess i cant think of much rite now... so ask me:)

Love watching movies but not really much of a horror type.

One of the many good things in this movie was the fact that not only the writers of horror movies do bad things to their victims but also and many times much worse to their evil monsters.

Although the problems appear to have had an impact on the final product, especially in the uneven tone of the comparatively smaller - scale finale and the unsatisfying epilogue, it's a bit of a pleasant surprise that the movie manages to hold together even through some turbulent patches to be worthwhile viewing for anyone not expecting much more than a grandiose, set - piece dominated horror - thriller.

Similar to Inception and Pulp Fiction (okay, maybe not so much the latter), this movie is horribly misunderstood by the common person, but to anyone who has a sense of meta - humour, good cinematography, writing, and great plot line this movie shines like lamp in a dark basement (See what I did there, I was implying that horror movies in general aren't that great... I was also referencing the movie).

The works of Max Brooks, who wrote 2003's satirical and subversively political, «The Zombie Survival Guide», and 2006's, «World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War», provided the kernels of inspiration for this mega-budgeted horror - action - thriller that mostly makes up its own narrative, independent of much of the book content (jettisoning the first - person account style and most of the events), to make it fit more with the ranks of current, eye - candy loaded popcorn movies than a thoughtful adaptation of the best - seller.

Outside of that, though, the movie offers fairly basic horror fare, though there's some pretty cool moments here and there, there aren't enough of them to sustain an entire film, that much was obvious.

This is a movie that has only become more effective with age and takes you back to a time where so much of suburbia was still naive to the outside world and horrors that can possibly exist in your neighborhood.

You know one of the biggest problems with horror movies is nowadays, and perhaps this has even gone farther than, say, the last 5 years, and that is the fact that some of these movies do not have enough interesting material in the script to fill out one hour of screen time, much less 90 minutes of it.

There's almost excessively little within Cabin Fever that won't seem all - too - familiar to horror fans, as scripters Randy Pearlstein and Roth have infused the narrative with just about every convention and cliche of the genre imaginable - and yet it's clear that the movie, in its early stages, fares much better than one might've anticipated.

It's nightmare inducing, not so much because of the monsters, but because it makes you feel so goddamn helpless, watching this poor family go through basically the worst possible day (mostly because they have dumb horror movie children) in a world that turns every sound they make against them.

It really developed a following on DVD over the years, so much so that there's still current talk of the utmost sign of horror movie success: a sequel.

And while a lot of Don't Breathe brings that same level of intensity, it's a much more restrained and calculated brand of horror that builds tension through silence — and because so much of the movie is quiet, everything else feels like a punch in the gut.

Horror seems so much more prone to remakes than other types of movies.

I love blood and gore in movies as much as the next horror fan, but I'm very tired of the so - called «torture porn» genre (which, somewhat ironically was kicked off by Saw).

If you like good horror movies that value performances and mood and character as much as they value scares, you should go out of your way to see it.

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.

Not a lot of people would do that nowadays...» Vertical Entertainment has released an official trailer for a post-apocalyptic survival thriller titled Here Alone, which is pretty much just another zombie horror survival movie continuing the zombie trend.

What started as a way of parodying the «Scream» films (themselves ostensibly a parody of the horror genre to begin with) has evolved into a franchise which takes shots at pretty much any movie it wants, from «Million Dollar Baby» to «Brokeback Mountain.»

It also helps if you've attended a few horror conventions, as the industry serves as the backdrop of the entire movie, making the Smothered world premiere screening this past Friday at the Mad Monster Party convention in Charlotte, North Carolina just that much more fitting.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I found Barry Levinson's much - maligned Sphere to be an intelligent, superior science fiction / horror movie, featuring excellent performances by the likes of Dustin Hoffman and Sharon Stone and taut, focused direction.

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.

Much of the hubbub about A Quiet Place, John Krasinski's sonically adventurous (and commercially successful) new horror movie, centers around the film's use of silence.

While most horror movies have horror and gore for the sake of a poorly put together story, Blau has a fully fleshed - out story that creates a much more well - rounded horror film.

Though affiliated with probably the most fulfilling horror movie of the recently - ended half - decade, Annabelle does not have much to show for it.

«So many horror movies start out with a nifty premise only to back themselves into a conceptual corner, but Grant and Kovac figure out a way to pay off their conceit, and leave us wondering how they did it... and how much of it was real in the first place» — Norm Wilner, NOW

The man makes movies swaddled in horror's clothing, but even in his two purest horror films (Mimic and The Devil's Backbone), he isn't as interested in the horror of horror as much as the awe of horror; his eye captures phantasmagoric wonder instead of terror.

Since, of course, The Lords of Salem is essentially a horror movie, it will ultimately go the way of genre and privilege the supernatural over the rational, but before that happens, much like the films that it so lovingly apes — Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby and The Tenant, William Friedkin's The Exorcist — it will flex and stretch its ambiguities to uncanny breaking point.

Poltergeist, The Amityville Horror, and The Exorcist are movies just off the top of my head that had pretty much a similar plot.

Though testosterone - charged, action movie fans will enjoy this the most, this cross-genre excursion should also please the science fiction crowd, as well as aficionados of horror, as its plot feels very much like a slasher film, though with much better technical specs and a more developed premise.

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).

For much of her life, Leslie Hatton was too scared to watch most horror movies.

Inspired as much by Jonathan Demme's 1991 «Silence of the Lambs» (from which it borrows its repulsively detailed inventory of a killer's lair) and by David Fincher's 1995 «Seven» (the bled - out color and atmosphere of decay) as by Tobe Hooper's original film, this movie seems painfully derivative just where Mr. Hooper's was technically crude but quite original: in its application of the psychology of horror.

The footage screened demonstrated the film is quick with the tonal shifts — black humor one minute, graphic horror the next — all in service of what Hill hopes is a movie that packs as much emotional weight as it does thrills.

Not much of a mystery, as the title gives up the supernatural goods, which takes whatever mystery the screenplay tries to employ and jettisons it in favor of tepid horror movie formula.

There probably is an audience out there for a movie like The Covenant, and that audience probably consists of younger viewers that enjoy campy teen horror films like The Lost Boys and The Craft, both films from which The Covenant seems to crib without much effort to hide.

We haven't heard much about this, but it looks like your standard haunted house plus one super angry ghost movie, with the increasingly common horror trope of idiot white tourists in a foreign country making a fool of themselves and provoking evil spirits.

The microwaved leftovers of the movie world, remakes have come to be synonymous with laziness and cynicism, and Gil Kenan's new version of Tobe Hooper's 1982 horror classic Poltergeist won't be doing much to change that.

The original film remains one of the most influential horror movies ever made, and the sequel is pretty much the Casablanca of zombie cinema.

All things considered, Winchester isn't so much terrible as it is a generic horror movie that wastes fascinating subject matter and is kept afloat by the performances of its leads, which outshine the film as a whole.

The Mummy Returns isn't so much an homage to the classic horror flicks of the 1930s so much as an attempt to play oneupsman to all of the summer blockbusters to have been released in the interim years after 1998, and in so doing, it exists only as mindless fodder for strict popcorn movie fanatics.

In a scene that looked to be straight out of a horror movie with a much larger budget, viewers were treated to an abundance of gore, creative zombie killings and gruesome deaths (both zombie and human) that pleased even the most veteran genre fans.

Coming - of - age stories and horror movies don't have much of a history at the awards.

Easily their equal is young Ashleigh Cummings as the long - suffering Vicki, who spends much of the film chained to a bed, but still does an impressive job of creating a three - dimensional character we grow to care about well beyond the trappings of a basic horror movie victim.

A psychological study and not a horror movie, Bug may lose much of its audience before it delivers the goods, but its brutal mental and physical outbursts will likely remain the most grueling screen scenes of 2007.