Sentences with phrase «nightmarish film»

Citroën went on to make the monumental collaged cityscape that directly influenced Fritz Lang's nightmarish film Metropolis, and a late Kandinsky painting shows a grim, brown world encroaching on the light - filled Bauhaus utopia.

Not exact matches

Director Abel Ferrara applies his eccentric vision to the vampire genre with this cerebral «Art» film about graduate philosophy student Kathleen Conklin (Lili Taylor), who is bitten by an aggressive female vampire (Annabella Sciorra) and soon spirals into a nightmarish world of blood addiction and existential angst.

The film's nightmarish, appropriately trippy visuals (particularly in Renton's «cold turkey» montage), a memorable rock and dance - tinged soundtrack and Boyle's undeniable ability to maintaining the story's momentum and manic energy seals Trainspotting's position as a striking, emotional and affecting viewing experience.

What's most apparent, though, is Garland's masterful control of pace and mood and it's his attention to these elements that provide the film with genuinely nightmarish possibilities.

The film chronicles the manner in which Hope and her family handle the nightmarish situation, often with what Saget described as «irreverence and dark humor» (At one point, Hope's brother Alan — a comedy writer — quips that scleroderma sounds like «a deli entrée»).

Horror still reigns in Park City Extending a tradition that's already stretched from The Babadook and The Witch to Get Out, Sundance proved a dependable launching pad for standout horror: This year's Hereditary — a nightmarish supernatural grief drama starring an unhinged Toni Collette — was the one film that came closest to a consensus favorite (if by favorite, we mean a movie that thoroughly traumatized all audiences).

As with many of Joel Schumacher's (The Lost Boys, Batman Forever) films, the lighting is dark, with emphasis on steam and neon colors, giving the «real life» scenes a kind of haunting, nightmarish, even melancholy texture that works well when life and afterlife collide.

Exploring the concerned protagonist's attempts to cope with her own culpability in her offspring's activities, the film weaves a web of psychological suspense that leaves a nightmarish imprint on the watching audience.

Thanos's journey in the film leads us to some beautiful planets, nightmarish scenarios, and surprisingly brutal moments of violence.

Lathimos makes the film's 121 - minute running time feel like a nightmarish eternity of suffering with his slow pace, long takes, morbid humor, disturbing violence, and moral ambiguity.

The film signals this nightmarish quality literally from the start.

The film is equal parts psychological thriller, nightmarish arthouse horror and black comedy; it's the pulsing dread of Polanski's Rosemary's Baby meets Haneke's gallows humour and Kubrickian clinical formalism.

But the film's most powerful angle is its story of a young boy's rather nightmarish coming of age.

And with a mysterious knife - wielding killer on the loose, the film develops into a nightmarish tale of Gothic horror.

What begins as an enjoyable sci - fi drama about mankind's last hope quickly stumbles into a nightmarish thriller with heavy resonances of the underappreciated Paul W.S. Anderson film, «Event Horizon.»

Directed by Edgar «Spaced» Wright, co-written with Wright by Simon «Spaced» Pegg (who also stars as Shaun), and featuring other comic stars from «Spaced» (Nick Frost, Jessica Stevenson), as well as from «Black Books» (Dylan Moran, Tamsin Grieg) and even «the Office» (Lucy Davis), «Shaun of the Dead» is like a who's who of talent from the most cutting - edge British TV sit - coms of recent times, which is why it is much funnier than British comic films like «Bridget Jones» Diary», Johnny English and Love, Actually — and unlike those other films, «Shaun of the Dead» is nightmarish for all the right reasons.

James Franco will both direct and attempt to portray the off - kilter Wiseau in The Disaster Artist, a film about The Room's nightmarish production based on actor Greg Sestero's book.

Like many horror sequels attempt and fail to accomplish, The Conjuring 2 takes careful stock of the characters it introduced in the first film, in this case within a nightmarish prelude, building on existing relationship with modest drama and vivid consternation.

Dark City (New Line): Like «Blade Runner,» this nightmarish bit of science fiction debuted in theaters with a studio - mandated voice - over intended to help viewers make sense of the film.

btw, no camera should be that close to viola's mug unless they are filming a nightmarish horror flick.

Nevertheless, at least for the first hour or so, this war film from Peter Berg (Battleship, Hancock) is gripping in its tension, with a kind of harrowing set - up that rings of a certain authenticity that makes the peril the men face truly nightmarish.

The film was full of pulse - pounding moments, including a nightmarish opening sequence that made me squirm in my seat.

My personal favourite is the opening track entitled Heels with scores the opening sequence, creating just the right nightmarish atmosphere that gels perfectly with the films terrifying beginnings.

The dramatised contents of the novel contain what is sure to be the film's principal talking point: a nightmarish encounter on a remote stretch of Texas freeway during which Tony and his wife and daughter are forced off the road by some local thugs who have no intention of listening to reason.

Adorned with in gorgeous costumes, detailed makeup, and nightmarish settings, those films soared into the cinematic heavens.

Despite the limitations, 28 artists were able to create a series of stunning evocations of Lynne Ramsay's plain talking, straight hammering film, led by a powerhouse performance from Joaquin Phoenix as a lonely, hulking figure who roams a nightmarish world of urban and authoritarian decay.

Granted, it's a bit too long and deeply convoluted, but the 2006 film is also one of the most nightmarish and gorgeously shot horror films in recent history.

That would break the nightmarish spell this strange, beautiful film casts on the viewer.

This is another film that walks the extremely fine line between an amazing, colorful, creative world of imagination and nightmarish hellscape that damages you for life.

Director / writer Jeff Nichols, whose debut film Shotgun Stories also starred Shannon in an emotionally intense and conflicted role, takes us through Curtis» nightmarish visions but keeps his story and his ordeal rooted in the real world.

But even the cinematography seems eerily calm, especially when compared to the nightmarish events that dominate the film's final minutes.

The musical score combined with the familiar songs topped with amazingly subtle (and some not so subtle) effects makes this best described as an artsy horror film meshed with a crackling psychological thriller held together by nightmarish melodrama.

For De Palma, Obsession, Dressed to Kill, and Body Double are less the oft - accused rip - offs of previous Alfred Hitchcock films than rigorous reckonings with a burgeoning postmodern dilemma; not merely the «anxiety of influence,» to quote literary scholar Harold Bloom, but something more akin to outright agony, where questions of artistic lineage from the outside spool the proceedings within into a nightmarish phantasmagoria, the implications of which are still to be unraveled.

Even those able to swallow Roth's confused trolling will still have to stomach the way he somehow preserves the inherent racism of the movies he's referencing while also stripping them of their nightmarish, snuff - film power.

Apart from the fact that Natalie Portman is pretty much perfect in everything she does, and that this film is directed by Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler), Black Swan looks like it's going to be a beautiful and nightmarish blend of insanity, rivalry and a psychological, sexual thriller.

Returning to the A.V. Club office after almost two weeks in the trenches of Cannes, film editor A.A. Dowd sits down with staff writer Ignatiy Vishnevetsky to talk about the best (and, as luck would have it, last) film he saw at the world's most important film festival: You Were Never Really Here, a nightmarish noir...

Although the film depicts a nightmarish world, it's also very funny.

The film follows the story of a widower (Hinds) who is haunted by nightmarish visions.

Joffe, channeling Kubrick's The Shining with long nightmarish shots of hotel corridors and dark shadows behind doors, brings the film to life in these scenes, awakening Before I Go To Sleep (if you will forgive the pun) from its slumber.

Over seven films the story has grown increasingly gloomy but, despite the relentless anxiety, this chapter has an insistent pace, which is helpful since pretty nightmarish things are happening.

The film aptly wavers from nightmarish dream states to nightmarish states of wake, and the suspense constantly builds.

Director Alexandros Avranas films «Dark Crimes» in stark, hellish tones, accurately reflecting the nightmarish world of this story.

This unnerving compendium has made the transition from a successful international stage show (whose fanbase includes the director John Landis) to the big screen and draws inspiration from a rich history of horror, recalling the chilling and nightmarish quality of films including the Amicus anthologies and 1945 portmanteau, Dead of Night.

The interior scenes are suffocating with their near - obsessive period detail — patterned wallpaper, nightmarish carpeting and painfully bad wigs for Julie Walters as Peter's warm - hearted mum and Stephen Graham as his grumpy brother.Too many scenes in the kitchen in Liverpool threaten to sink the film into kitchen sink realism; Walters overdoes the loveable tolerant mum act.

ABATTOIR USA — Dir: Darren Lynn Bousman The murder of her family leads a real - estate reporter into a nightmarish mystery in this ghoulishly original film that haunts the netherworld between blood - soaked supernatural horror and hardboiled neo-Noir.

The title of Jordan Peele's film — which begins as social satire and evolves, in this scene, into nightmarish terror — references what audiences should be shouting at Chris by now.

Tag — One of approximately 30 films hyperactive Japanese director Sion Sono made in 2015, this one is about the lone survivor of a girls» school bus accident and the nightmarish fantasy world she finds herself lost in.

It gives the whole film a nightmarish quality that, along with Mitchum's unforgettable performance, makes Night of the Hunter among the best films of its era.

For Frears, who made his first resonant mark with a fantastic quartet of films — My Beautiful Laundrette, Walter and June, Prick Up Your Ears, and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid — in the mid -»80s, the return to his homeland presaged a return to his interest in England's bottom caste and immigrant class, first with the grim, slight Liam and now with the trancelike, nightmarish Dirty Pretty Things.

The film plays like a Tim Burton Travel Channel series... each stop more nightmarish than the previous.