Sentences with phrase «of psychological terror»

Taking a page out of Twin Peaks, The X-Files, and Stephen King, Alan Wake pays homage to classic kitsch horror, while also serving up its own blend of psychological terror.

Then a tragic accident throws the couples into a nightmare and a reign of psychological terror begins.

Not since James Cameron's underrated 1989 gem The Abyss has a failed marriage become a microcosm of psychological terror in which each character's capacity for good and evil is tested.

After a 4 a.m. knock at the door and a haunting voice, Kristen McKay (Liv Tyler, The Leftovers) and James Hoyt (Scott Speedman, Underworld) find that their remote getaway becomes a night of psychological terror as three masked strangers invade.

«After a 4 a.m. knock at the door and a haunting voice, Kristen McKay (Liv Tyler) and James Hoyt (Scott Speedman) find that their remote getaway becomes a night of psychological terror as three masked strangers invade.

Not exact matches

But the diagnosis of PTSD didn't get its start with the warfare of terror; it came to light after the terror of war — being added to the third edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1980, after it was clear that many Vietnam War veterans were suffering from a constellation of psychological troubles.

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).

The CIA manual Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare, which encouraged the contras to assassinate «government officials and sympathizers,» may have been produced in order to encourage the contras to shift from the phase of warfare conducted through generalized terror into a new phase of targeted terror against civilians who were committed to the revolutionary process.

In trying to reach a truly actual depiction of the horror of the subject, the painters imparted a sense of despair, or expectation of terror, which became a common psychological coin.

The worst of the terror was exorcised, and Luther was pointed towards solutions, but the fundamental psychological tensions and the spiritual struggle were not brought to an end, nor the theological problems solved.

Night terrors aren't signals of a psychological problem or a traumatic past experience, and — importantly — parents did not cause them.

The study raises awareness of the effects that tragic events such as terror attacks and mass shootings have not only those directly affected but also on those with PTSD and other preexisting psychological conditions.

«When we imagine our emotions as we approach death, we think mostly of sadness and terror,» says psychological scientist Kurt Gray of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The British prison movie Starred Up has the excitement of a nonstop psychological cage fight, but its goal is enlightenment, not terror or cheap thrills.

Roman Polanski's recent film Death and the Maiden is a psychological thriller made all the more frightening by the knowledge that it is based upon the political tactic of terror employed by many dictatorships in South America.

While the 1963 film used sound and psychological suggestion to promote a feeling of terror, the newer version quickly abandons this in favor of an all - out CGI - effects-fest that, instead of being scary, look pretty cheesy and silly instead.

In «Howard», elements from each of the previous two tracks combine but there's an added element now, after some misleading initial warmth comes a real sense of fear, a distant female vocal adding to the effect; then there's the calm before the storm in «A Bright Red Flash» before the storm itself arrives in «At the Door», powerful and door - rattling brass and percussion opening things up before more psychological terror comes from the strings.

Saw creator James Wan directs in fine fashion, relying less on gimmicks that have been part of his prior films, though there are still a handful of standard cheap scares that do seem out of place in this more psychological terror - driven story.

Featuring Howard Shore's hair - raising debut film score, this deeply personal take on the trials of parenthood and the trauma of divorce — which Cronenberg described as his version of Kramer vs. Kramer — establishes the mix of body horror and psychological terror that would soon become the director's trademark.

Up - and - coming filmmaker Trey Edward Shults follows his acclaimed debut film Krisha with It Comes At Night, a psychological horror thriller centering on a teenage boy (Kelvin Harrison, Jr.) as he faces mounting terrors — both external and internal — in the aftermath of an unnamed apocalypse.

«American Sniper» wants to have it both ways — as a war - on - terror fantasy and poignant PTSD drama — but while it doesn't shy away from the physical and psychological horrors of battle, the movie is so heavy on pro-military propaganda that it doesn't realize its dramatic potential until it's too late.

Certainly, his latest film exhibits many of his most characteristic features: an early static shot of a concert audience once again emphasises spectatorship as a primary concern; we meet, as so often, a bourgeois family about to experience severe suffering; Emmanuelle Riva follows Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Binoche and Naomi Watts in giving an extraordinary performance in response to psychological terror; and violence, with its attendant guilt, comes as a shocking intrusion into this world.

looks to delve back into the psychological terror that was at the heart of Aronofsky 2010 hit, Black Swan.

Dream House (PG - 13 for violence, terror, sexuality and brief profanity) Psychological thriller about a married couple (Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz) whose relocation from NYC to a quaint New England town leaves their family the target of the same sadistic killer who had brutally murdered the previous owners of their new home.

When a neighborhood terror won't leave his family alone, feeble everyman Jorge must weigh the social and psychological consequences of taking matters into his own hands.

It features a few briefly sketched but still sympathetic characters who we feel a tinge of grief when they're snuffed, but the film's obvious and frivolous attempts to turn the original's psychological terror into a series of well - executed but hollow set pieces for mass consumption is unfortunate.

Notable for the revitalization of the teen slasher film and the genesis of the found footage craze, the «90s horror films became a metaphor for the psychological and physical terrors that we inflict on our fellow humans (especially the vulnerable ones).

The Strangers: After a 4 a.m. knock at the door and a haunting voice, Kristen (Liv Tyler) and James» (Scott Speedman) remote getaway becomes a psychological night of terror as three masked strangers invade.

But Zombie betrays this from frame one, instead offering a psychological breakdown that explains Michael Myers» insanity and in so doing eliminates virtually all of the mystique and terror that once elevated this movie monster from alliteratively - named villain to the once and future «The Shape.»

Its incredibly imaginative and highly unsettling characters and environments make it the ideal fit for our event where the property can continue its reign of terror and fully immerse guests in its psychological horror,» said John Murdy, Creative Director for Universal Studios Hollywood.

This is what makes his first and only feature, Martha Marcy May Marlene, such a brilliant exercise in psychological terror, and despite the fact that it's neither a horror film nor much of a thriller, it generates a more foreboding sense of dread than a majority of the most recent entries in either of those genres.

This frightening psychological thriller may be writer / director Aronofsky's most fully realized work to date, combining the intense terrors of his stylistic and shocking Requiem For A Dream with his more intimate, empathetic approach in The Wrestler.

And while the first few episodes play more like psychological dramas than tales of terror, it soon steers a course through more supernatural stories and classic horrors.

Kesler said he finds the psychological aspects of terror more interesting than the action of horror games today.

I fell in love with the darkness and the psychological terror of this film.

There are no gallons of fake blood or cheap jump - scares, but instead you get just enough blood to whet your whistle and an overabundance of psychological horror and terror to make sure you sleep with the lights on tonight.

A tale of madness, suspense, love, and terror from a startling and true - life psychological condition so close to home it will stun even his most seasoned readers: autophobia — fear of oneself.

In this unforgettable novel he weaves a tale of madness, suspense, love, and terror from a startling and true - life psychological condition so close to home it will stun even his most seasoned readers: autophobia — fear of oneself.

It is obvious the author is an expert in the field of abduction and the psychological terrors suffered by victims.

Black magic, Communist Bulgaria, ghosts, Provence and psychological terror make this memoir one of the scariest tales of the year.

Psychologist - detective Dr. Alex Delaware finds terror in the heart of paradise in this relentlessly sinister novel by America's premier writer of psychological suspense, the author of ten successive New York Times bestsellers.

It is human nature to want to push the boundaries of fear, and it is refreshing to see psychological terror returning to video games.

The Evil Within is a brand new horror franchise with psychological terror instead of zombies.

We've seen a swelling of combat - free first - person horror experiences, psychological terrors that tackle existential themes, and multiplayer horror influenced by slasher films.

In fact, the hallmarks of that particular Konami horror series (with its focus on psychological terror that traditional zombie chases) and the brief way it was recreated in Hideo Kojima's cult darling PT are all over the footage Capcom showed off on the Sony stage.

Silent Hill 2 succeeds in creating an atmosphere of pure terror by focusing more on the psychological and thematic elements of horror rather than simply battling against big scary monsters.

Including Pilar Albarracin, Karen Finley, Pearl C. Hsiung, Glenn Kaino, Mike Kelley, Martin Kersels, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Rodney McMillian, and Robin Rhode, these artists reference subjects such as war and terror, social and racial tension, urban and environmental disaster, psychological break - down, and criminal behavior in a range of mixed media and video installations.

The French / American artist Louise Bourgeois has also used the «cage» as a psychological metaphor for the terrors dormant in the family home — in Cell (Choisy)(1990 — 93), the first of her series of large cages, she placed a model of her childhood home in a metal chain - link cage with a threatening guillotine suspended above the entrance.

To achieve this Enright insists onpreliminary consultations with the potential victims: to gain a sense of their psychological fears and to work out the basic ingredients that will produce maximum terror.

In 1936, upon hearing the news of García Lorca's assassination amidst the terror of the Spanish Civil War, Matta penned a film script composed of 162 intense, rapid scenes ripe with imagery of death, chaos, and psychological hysterics.