Sentences with phrase «of a low budget horror»

Not exact matches

After producing mostly budget horror flicks, the studio released a low - rent version of War of the Worlds to coincide with Steven Spielberg's 2005 big studio adaptation.

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).

Now, if you will, imagine yourself on the set of a low budget independently funded horror film and this is your first scene.

As a low - budget horror comedy outing, Severance is an impressive film that is original and lots of fun from start to finish.

A British low budget horror / gore / comedy which is probably suppose to be along the same kind of lines as «American Werewolf» and «Zombie Strippers» but alas it falls way short.

I thoroughly enjoyed this film and it's a fine piece of low - budget horror cinema that is guaranteed to be a memorable viewing experience.

This low budget but highly - effective horror film is exactly the kind of movie that legendary Hollywood D - movie producer Roger Corman would have knocked out in the»70s: plenty of writhing female limbs, no surprises.

Truth: Blumhouse Productions is the boutique horror studio whose high - volume, low - budget business model has fostered a culture of creative risk that actually pays off, and has given rise to films as vital as Whiplash and Get Out.

Red Christmas is solely for those horror fans who enjoy cheap, CHEAP thrills and low budget fodder (and hopefully a ton of spiked eggnog).

This is what makes the film better than other low budget horror's because of Johnson's brilliant makeup wizardry and freaky imagination with his monsters.

and «The Incredible Shrinking Man,» and Donna Arkoff Roth, whose father (Samuel Z. Arkoff) ran American International Pictures, once a cornucopia of low - budget horror epics.

This low - budget horror film produced by Roger Corman and directed by Coppola before he went on the become a famous filmmaker has evident shades of Psycho but is not even frightening, with a lame, uneven plot in which nothing much really happens.

There was no way to tell from the debut of Coppola, then 24, a low - budget horror flick produced by Roger Corman, that in a decade he would become the most influential director.

From the Universal classics of the 30s (Dracula, Frankenstein) to the Val Lewton B movies of the 40s (Cat People, I Walked With a Zombie) to the low - budget shockers of the 60s and 70s (Night of the Living Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), many of the most original and frightening horror movies have been made on the cheap.

Roger Corman's movies would demonstrate the sheer trashy power of horror, and Hitchcock tapped into this B - picture aesthetic with his own low - budget masterpiece, Psycho, which popularised the psychological horror film, taking the genre away from its supernatural roots — although William Friedkin's masterpiece, The Exorcist, took it right back there again.

Found - footage horror thriller Unfriended was a welcome surprise back in 2015, when its commitment to a simple but ingenious premise — everything that happens in the film does so on the laptop screen of doomed teenager Shelley Hennig — managed to overcome a lot of the typical low - budget horror movie flaws.

This low - budget combination of heist thriller and horror saga might have an intriguing concept, but lacks the narrative dexterity that a successful genre mashup requires.

John Carpenter's solo directorial debut reworks Howard Hawks» Rio Bravo as a low budget gang flick by way of a horror film.

Baghead Jay and Mark Duplass, the celebrated and derided members of the low - budget film movement known as mumblecore, marry their talky relationship fare («The Puffy Chair») with a horror story.

Joe Begos» Almost Human is the latest in the long lineage of forgettable low - budget indie fare, a hilariously slight blend of sci - fi and horror that appears drained of ideas a third of the way through (never mind the already stretched 80 minute runtime).

Teenager Max (Taissa Farmiga, «Anna») happens to be the daughter of the late scream queen Amanda Cartwright (Malin Akerman, «Rock of Ages»), who's best remembered for her role in the seminal low - budget 1980's horror film «Camp Bloodbath.»

Low - budget horror fans will find little to complain about in the straightforward first half - hour, which stacks up an entertaining series of episodic mishaps — an overpowered Pec Deck machine pushes a guy's ribs out through his torso; ceramic tiles fly off the walls of a fully - occupied women's locker room as steam blasts out of the shower heads; and, in the quickest and most brutal tableau, an unfortunate patron gets a Friday the 13th - style arrow through the back of the neck.

Producer Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions has made a career out of taking low - to - moderately budgeted horror films like Paranormal Activity, Sinister and Oculus and turning them into profitable box office offerings - often with promise of sequel and / or franchise opportunities.

When Paramount picked up Oren Peli's low budget horror flick Paranormal Activity a couple of years back, they had initially intended to simply remake it with a bigger budget.

A second track has writers Nathaniel Thompson from Mondo Digital and Ryan Turek, now a development exec at Blumhouse Productions, bringing a sophisticated fan's perspective to the BD, talking about what it was like for budding horror buffs to discover low - budget horror movies on the shelves of Blockbuster Video stores around the country or during broadcasts of USA Network's «Up All Night» program blocks back in the 1980s.

Most horror films are merely exercises in ritualized surprise, but a low - budget film titled «The Blair Witch Project» shook up Sundance Film Festival audiences with its gathering sense of menace.

Other films meriting mention include Robert Altman «s final picture, «A Prairie Home Companion ``; Mel Gibson «s Aztec - thriller, «Apocalypto ``; Tom Tykwer «s kinetic (perhaps too kinetic) «Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ``; John Cameron Mitchell «s low - budget erotica,» Shortbus ``; Richard Linklater's live - action rotoscoped Philip K. Dick adaptation «A Scanner Darkly ``; Spike Lee «s biggest commercial hit, the entertaining heist film, «Inside Man ``; Michael Mann «s flawed, but interesting «Miami Vice ``; Bryan Singer «s unfairly maligned «Superman Returns; «Nicole Holofcener «s wryly observational «Friends with Money,» the over-estimated, but enlivening horror «The Descent,» and «13 Tzameti.»

With a cast of only five main characters, director Vincenzo Petrarolo is able to develop them better than in typical low - budget horror flicks.

In 2015, he began an upswing with the fun mockumentary horror film «The Visit,» made on a low budget with the reigning champ of small profitable thrillers, producer Jason Blum.

Scarlett Johansson did a wonderful job of voicing Samantha, and was mesmerisingly good as a flesh - eating alien in Jonathan Glazer's eerily atmospheric low - budget British horror movie Under the Skin, one of my stand - out films of 2014.

Until the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, no one in Hollywood had heard of Anya Taylor - Joy, a wide - eyed teenager from Miami, Florida starring in the low - budget horror movie The Witch.

Last week, we let you know that Ethan Hawke had signed on to star in a low - budget, found footage horror film from director Scott Derrickson (The Exorcism of Emily Rose).

Blumhouse has become one of the most profitable film studios out there, regularly releasing low - budget horror films that dominate the box office.

What really stands out about «Maggie» is its cast, as the ex-governor continues his return to acting with something different for him: a low - budget horror drama that's more of a character study than an action picture.

When: October 21st (limited) Why: Although it's technically been available on Video On Demand for a few weeks now, Kevin Smith's low - budget attempt at making a horror movie is getting a limited theatrical run towards the end of October in conjunction with its home video release.

In a year made of horror films that have delivered more unintentional laughter than genuine scares, As Above, So Below fits the bill as exactly the kind of low - budget, lower - quality flick you'd see released on the big screen for the Labor Day weekend.

A Quiet Place's No. 1, $ 50 million opening weekend is impressive for a low - budget original horror concept of the type generally shunted off to a studio subsidiary or subsumed into a known franchise.

No one familiar with George Romero's primal low - budget horror flick Night of the Living Dead (1968) could forget that line.

In the midst of the Viacom - CBS merger melee, Paramount Pictures is turning itself around and can celebrate the fact that their low budget horror thriller A Quiet Place has bested Universal / Blumhouse's Get Out at the domestic box office, $ 176.5 M to $ 176M.

Zombie master George Romero directed this tale of a film crew who are shooting a low - budget horror movie when a zombie outbreak occurs.

This picture was made with the goal of looking cheap and satirizing the horror and sci - fi genres, the media, corporate sponsorships, and the low budget film industry.

Some authors have pointed to a distinct house style in the 1930s (see Thomas Schatz and Paul Grainge), when MGM's Leo the Lion symbolized the opulence and grandeur of musicals (The Brodway Melody of 1938) and epics (Mutiny on the Bounty); Warner Bros. distributed «gritty,» social dramas and gangster films; Universal produced low - budget horror films (Dracula); and Paramount's distinctly «European» flavor, employing emigree directors such as Josef von Sternberg and Ernst Lubitsch.

After debuting with The Roostand Trigger Man, both low - budget DIY art - horror films that gained rave reviews on the indie festival circuit but were never afforded a wide release, he was entrusted with the large (ish) budget of Cabin Fever 2.

Paramount Pictures is looking to replicate the success of A Quiet Place with another low - budget horror - thriller, with the studio fast - tracking Crawl from director Alexandre Aja (Piranha 3D, Horns) and producers Sam Raimi (Evil Dead, Spider - Man) and Craig Flores (Fathers and Daughters, 300: Rise of an Empire).

Q: With this movie, you went into a different mode of filmmaking, partnering with Jason Blum who's a master of the low budget, atmospheric horror thriller.

Making its world premiere at Fantastic Fest on September 22, The Void marked a departure in style for two members of Astron - 6, Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski, a group known for lower budget horror comedies.

For one, it saw the release of Night of the Living Dead, George Romero's low - budget, immensely influential zombie thriller, which essentially birthed an entire subgenre of horror films.

If the John Carpenter era of low - budget horror has truly come and gone, and we must resort to reimagining past successes, all I ask is that the filmmakers tasked to do so put their minds together to rediscover that spark of life that made the originals so memorably exciting.

Baker protégé Rob Bottin's work on that film was arguably equal to that of his mentor (who left Bottin in charge of The Howling «s effects after he exited the project for the bigger - budget American Werewolf), and yet the Academy couldn't even be bothered to nominate him (or, perhaps more likely, its members simply couldn't bring themselves to watch a low - budget horror movie not put out by a major studio).

Low - budget horror fare like Blumhouse's Truth Or Dare, for example: Starring Pretty Little Liars» Lucy Hale and Teen Wolf's Tyler Posey, the film looks like an appealingly unserious blend of the Final Destination and Ouija movies with a dash of It Follows, as a gang of teenagers starts dying one by one in diabolically clever ways after playing «a seemingly harmless game of truth or dare.»