Sentences with phrase «of as a horror film»

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This one will be hard to stomach if you actually watch it, but as one of the first ever «found - footage» horror movies, about a fictional documentary crew shooting a film in the Amazon, it has been hugely influential.

Groups of young friends who go to see some of the more death - focused horror films in vogue of late will routinely take bets on which stock character will face a grisly end soonest, as when viewing the Final Destination series» a film series that is, essentially, the apex of the set - piece disaster horror movie as orchestrated by MacGyver.

It has been hailed as one of the most important films in recent years, for its frightening use of mystery and horror elements to look at racism in America.

As he continued to collect stories, with a small team filming the interviews, the horror of what happened during the Holocaust also grew.

We have all heard of the concept used in horror films of aliens invading our bodies and minds, such as in movies like Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Marshall, son of the late actor E. G. Marshall, is changing that — and at the same time, he hopes, the tarantula's image as the bloodthirsty villain of grade B horror films.

«Kids» cartoon characters twice as likely to die as counterparts in films for adults: Content on a par with «rampant horrors» of popular films.»

The findings prompt the authors to describe children's cartoons as «rife with death and destruction,» with content akin to the «rampant horrors» of popular films for adults given restrictive age ratings.

The 1979 film «Parts: The Clonus Horror» and Kazuo Ishiguro's 2005 novel «Never Let Me Go» both examine the prospect of clone farms as factories for spare human parts.

But it's good to know that I'm not alone in my horror: Director Luke Gilford has skewered the extreme ends of «wellness» in his new short film Connected, starring Pam Anderson as Jackie, a lonely spinning instructor who wants to feel more, well, connected — so she joins a wellness cult and gets wifi shot into her brain so that Jane Fonda (no, really, she does a voiceover cameo) can tell her how «limitless» she is all the time.

A tragically beautiful horror film that works not only as a supernatural thriller but also as a commentary on the failure of man.

The both films were directed by Fernando Mendez, who also shot a few notable horror films such as «The Body Snatchers» (1957), «The Black Pit of Dr. M» (1959) and «The Living Coffin» (1959).

Generally his film work less successful than this TV work, which features the fantastic Salem's Lot adaptation as well as work on Masters of Horror.

Alas, while I'm in love with the look of the film, I don't find The Shining to be the masterpiece of horror cinema that it's remembered as.

He followed these films with collaborations with Stephen King as well as a number of other horror projects.

i write alot of my own movie scripts, and im developing my own sitcom as we speak.and im also writing a comedy and a horror film soon to be copyrighted and im starring in, directing and filming this winter.

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

It twists and turns multiple times throughout its short running time, borrowing heavily from a variety of films in the horror genre (and other genres as well), but under the sure direction and

A fixture of Universal's horror - film output, he is best remembered as the father of the little drowned girl in the original Frankenstein (1931).

It's a slightly trite bit of viewer hand - holding, as are most of the recollections that punctuate Louie's harrowing wartime horrors, but it sets the tone for a film less interested in blame than in illuminating commonalities.

Toby Jones stars as a sound engineer who travels to Rome in 1976 to work on the post-production sound mix of The Equestrian Vortex, a horror film about witchcraft set in an all - girl riding academy.

As with Eli Roth's Hostel films, the context should be clear to anyone aware of the role America plays in the developing world and the festering anti-American hostilities out there... or to anyone interested in the politics of horror and / or familiar with the genre conventions in this regard.

Wunder became «hooked» on the cinema in 1950 when his father took him to the premiere of George Pal's «DESTINATION MOON» Seminal films during Wunder's formative years as a critic were: The HORROR movies of the 1950's THE KILLING (1956) Dir: Kubrick VERTIGO (1958) Dir: Hitchcock ON THE BEACH (1959) Dir: Kramer MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962) Dir: Frankenheimer 2001 (1968) Dir: Kubrick Wunder graduated from college in 1963 as an Electrical Engineer and immediately got a union job as an associate film editor for MPO, then, the largest producer of commercial and industrial films in the US.

Although at times it suffers from cheesy dialogue, The Cabin in the Woods is easily on the best horror films of our time, poking fun at the cliches of horror, while being pretty scary, as at least one of your greatest fears appears, in one of the best films of 2012.

What the film does is reimagine other horror films as meta - narratives, except in those cases, the characters never discover the truth about the artifice of their world, as Marty does, just like another fool, Truman Burbank in Peter Weir's The Truman Show, a horror film in its own right.

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.

But, as frustrating and bewildering as Under The Skin is, it swims with moments of beauty and horror, and few films make you think so much.

The film isn't much of a horror as its not really scary at all so don't be thinking its gonna be a blood fest, there are some bloody moments but nothing extreme.

I mean, I love Rob Zombie as a filmmaker, and he has made one of the best horror films of the last ten years, The Devil's Rejects.

An intelligent and scary horror film that makes a more than welcome commentary on the horrors of war and gender oppression in Iran, using a lot of symbolism and keeping us in an increasing state of anxiety as it moves in a deliberate, slow - burning pace towards a terrifying climax.

I enjoyed the film as a horror / comedy, but I can't give it one of my TOP ratings simply because I was in the mood to get scared tonight - and there's nothing particularly scary about this film.

Being marketed as a generic, run - of - the - mill horror film is the worst thing that can happen to you from a critical standpoint, but from a commercial point of view, there

For me this happened big - time during William Friedkin's The Exorcist, when I realized that I was expected to believe the film's superstitious nonsense, that the movie was using its horrors as a sadistic club against sensitive people of faith, especially devout Catholics.

With an astoundingly funny vein of dark comedy running through the entire film, this film sets itself apart as a treatise of the horror genre, something that Scream accomplished a decade previously but Cabin in the Woods elevates to another level.

The film works as supernatural horror at the same time as you feel the chaos and fear in everyday life during the Iran - Iraq War as experienced by people like the rest of us and not by presidents and kings.

A year later, they decided to create this mess and basically using the template of Scream as guide on creating a new trend of hip and cool horror films.

[img] http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif [/ img] The Pact feels as if it's been constructed from an infinite number of inspirations stretching from classic ghost story horror cinema to the recent wave of found footage films but at the same time because of such great execution you could never actually call it generic.

For over a decade, sold out audiences have enjoyed Rocky Horror - like participation consisting of hilarious traditions such as screen - shouting, football playing, throwing spoons at the screen, rooting on the shockingly long establishing pans of San Francisco, and generally laughing hysterically at the film's clunky pseudo-Tennessee Williams dialogue, confused performances, and bizarre plot twists, like the mother - in - law character whose breast cancer ought to play like it matters a great deal, but really comes off as a non-sequitur.

However, Winchester falls flat as a boring horror film that lacks in just about every facet of filmmaking.

Either because they were being compared to some of the classics in the horror / comedy genre or, as the consensus on here states, there's not a good enough of either comedy or horror in the film.

As a huge horror fan, I thought I was in for a real treat with this film considering some of the fantastic reviews it's received.

Marketing this film as a horror film was a major misstep and will likely account for much of the negativity this film received.

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.

So much of the success of any given horror film relies on a few aesthetic elements: its atmosphere, its ability to play with light and the shadow, and, of course, location -LRB-... location, location — as real estate folks would add for effect).

In some - respects, this film also resembles Welles» «Mr. Arkadian», with a detective searching a man's past as the central - narrative — this was also copied by Alan Parker and his writers on «Angel Heart» (1986), another classic of horror.

Even though it relies on a gripping feel of intense paranoia, this is an overlong sci - fi / horror movie that suffers from certain problems in logic and kills its tension with long passages that make the pacing irregular, not even being smart enough as an allegory like the original film.

But as with Hillcoat's subsequent film The Road, neither the script nor the direction allow a genuine sense of horror to build, and it becomes more about the journey itself than the meaning behind it.

The movie is about a group of friends, apparently brothers and sisters as well, who are filming a horror movie about a zombie with jaundice or something like that.

The lack of a convoluted motivation felt that much more terrifying, a tactic also used in 2006's Them and 2016's Hush, maybe because the indiscriminate nature of the violence makes us all feel unsafe and maybe because, as many classic horror films have shown, the less we know, the more terrifying it can all seem.

Many of his mainstream film appearances have been in comedy potboilers unworthy of his talents: exceptions include De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (1974) in which Graham was both funny and ferocious as the Rocky Horror - ish «Beef,» and Louis Malle's Pretty Baby (1978), in which he was cast as Highpockets, Susan Sarandon's scuzzy, abusive boyfriend.