Sentences with phrase «of schlock horror»

If you are a fan of schlock horror like I am, you might want to check this one out.

A gory, old - fashioned slice of schlock horror that, by successfully paying homage to one of the greats, puts many of its contemporaries in the shade.

Not exact matches

The former dances the line between science fiction and horror in Nowheresville, Indiana and the latter tells a story of schlock and excess in the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles.

The ensemble is a disappointment, though some truly hardcore horror fans will like a few of the casing choices, such as B - movie scream queen Barbara Crampton (Body Double, Re-Animator) as the mother, schlock writer / director / actor Larry Fessenden (Habit, The Last Winter) as one of the first victims, and director Ti West (Drinking Buddies, Silver Bullets) as one of the significant others.

Over at ShockYa, for my latest Blu - ray / DVD column, I take a gander at Tim Burton and Henry Selick's The Nightmare Before Christmas, a bunch of horror flicks, a pair of documentaries on men that could scarcely be more different (New York Times society photographer Bill Cunningham and schlock - meister Herschell Gordon Lewis), and the film that inspired Austin Powers «machine - gun - breasted fembots.

The Amityville Horror is schlock horror adapted from a misguided book that is only interesting based on the presumption of its Horror is schlock horror adapted from a misguided book that is only interesting based on the presumption of its horror adapted from a misguided book that is only interesting based on the presumption of its truth.

The Conjuring has amassed an impressive amount of hype as a classy horror offering from schlock director James Wan, the new master of scare of the week films Saw, Dead Silence, and Insidious.

One could call The Bye Bye Man inoffensive and even occasionally hilarious in its awfulness, but the truth is that it wasn't fit for theaters; even the most indiscriminate of horror buffs deserve a little competence with their schlock.

A remake of the 1983 schlock horror The House on Sorority Row, this film is too bland to catch our imagination.

A horror movie in the giallo tradition, The Neon Demon is equal parts art film and B - movie schlock, with the dreamlike underpinnings of a fairytale.

Timothy Olyphant (The Crazies)-- Typical horror schlock elevated into the second best horror movie of 2010 (behind Let Me In) by three core performances that bring more to the material than the sort of movie ever typically receives.

Watchers isn't the worst example of low - budget schlock horror that was popular among teen films in the late 1980s, but that doesn't mean it remotely approaches the status of being good either.

We're talking about Hammer Films, the organization that brought us such cheesy, guilty pleasure,»50s era creepshow treats as Horror of Dracula and Revenge of Frankenstein, only to find itself increasingly less relevant as a horror film factory in an emerging era of schlock, gore and tortureHorror of Dracula and Revenge of Frankenstein, only to find itself increasingly less relevant as a horror film factory in an emerging era of schlock, gore and torturehorror film factory in an emerging era of schlock, gore and torture porn.

The Amityville Horror is a film so awful that it begs the question, «Which group is more asinine — families that stay in an overtly horrific haunted house as long as they can or movie studio execs that keep mining from the same empty shaft of ideas for ways to bombard us with abhorrent, unsavory schlock we've all seen dozens of times before?»

It's high concept that devolves into low - grade horror schlock, resulting in one of the most predictable and disappointing endings you'll ever see.

But Layers of Fear is the real deal, a high water mark (with a pricetag just a little bit too high) in sea of horror schlock.

0 also represents the strongest indicator, to me, that Resident Evil had abandoned its schlock B - movie horror charm in favor of a more fantastical and anime - lite approach.

Combining the influence of ancient pre-Columbian cultures and Mexican art with modern - day schlock horror and comic - strip grotesque, Yarber's work, at once disturbing and comedic, trashy and mythical, embodies an eternal contemporaneity.