Sentences with phrase «of social horror»

Get Out turns out to be more fun, and more provocative, than it is scary, at least in the traditional midnight - movie sense: The film works so well as a gauntlet of social horror that Peele almost didn't need the more traditional thriller elements he introduces in the third act, when a carefully calibrated build in just - because - you're - paranoid dread gives way to some disappointingly conventional survival games.

Like the women who dominate, shape and haunt the films from such masters of melodrama as Douglas Sirk and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, von Trier pushes his female characters to the brink of social horror, where they have been subjected to rape, violence and public humiliation.

Not exact matches

Davis got the idea for Crypt after noticing both the rise in social - media content and the lack of short - form horror.

NEW YORK (AP)-- George Romero, whose classic «Night of the Living Dead» and other horror films turned zombie movies into social commentaries and who saw his flesh - devouring undead spawn countless imitators, remakes and homages, has died.

Everyone and their neighbor has seen The Social Network or knows of a horror story about a startup idea being co-opted by a venture capitalist or a big somebody with deeper pockets.

He joined the social networking site earlier this year, updating followers on his guitar practice and posting a picture of himself doing the Time Warp from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but he also attempted to engage his critics, with mixed success.

Their idea of a unified Europe was influenced positively by Catholic Social Teaching and the traditions of Latin Christendom, and negatively by the horrors of the world wars and the German - French rivalry that had led to them.

This social biography is the story of broken lives in terms of spirit, body, coqunity and history — the heritages of oppression and exploitation of the Yi dynasty rule, the destructive power of brutal colonialism, the horror of the atomic bomb.

«The American and Soviet peoples share a common humanity, a common aversion to war, a common horror of nuclear weapons, and a common hope for their economic and social well - being» (p. 17), the bishops affirm.

But has there ever been a more wicked policy, with more disastrous social consequences, than the «one - child policy» China began to implement in the early 1980s — a state - decreed population - control measure that resulted in, among other horrors, untold tens of millions of coerced abortions?

The ideas of Schechter and Kaplan gained considerable social traction following the horrors of the Holocaust and the Jewish migration to America after the Second World War.

If we had more compassion on those on the margins - those who wrestle with the demons of mental illness and social exile, who may be pondering violent acts at this very moment - can we prevent this horror from happening again?

Jordan Peele's horror - themed social satire Get Out and Christopher Nolan's WWII epic Dunkirk combined for 12 Oscar nominations, and now, they're heading back to theaters so you can see what all of the buzz is about.

There is no social program in these paintings; there is only a very personal, «autobiographical» expression of horror.

How many evils and horrors in our social and historical life can be accounted for simply as the result of attempts by powerful individuals to conquer or cover up their own private disgrace?

Informed by contemporary experience of the apparent eclipse of mystery, by the sorrow and oppression in much social existence, by the horrors of genocide, and by the modern threat of meaninglessness to the individual's existence, we now seem to be noticing more explicitly than ever before the image of God's self - emptying, or kenosis, that has always been present in Christian tradition.

Part of the reason why the horror genre continues to be successful, is because it provides a safe way to explore deeper social anxieties, without having to face them head on.

The past few years have brought in bumper crops of B + horror from around the world: fun, unnecessarily thoughtful, poignant, often featuring implicit social commentary, about 90 minutes long and available for streaming.

Jordan Peele's social thriller about the literal horrors of bodily racism is still one of 2017's most unforgettable films.

Our revulsion against the moral horrors of our age can incline us to reject anything less than complete and immediate reversal of Roe v. Wade and other repellent aspects of the current social order.

And — shock, horror — call social services, but I wasn't sure that a healthy, living baby was the be all and end all of my experience.

A Bronx social worker has written a play about the horrors of domestic violence, based, in part, on her own abusive marriage.

«Whereas, the movement further resolved to be inspired and motivated by the ideals of social democracy, with great emphasis on: the triumph of social justice; the nobility of human dignity; the harmony of fairness and equality; the power of working together in solidarity; the excellence of good governance, driven by good leadership; the wisdom of reforms and transformation far beyond mere growth; the horror of poverty, demanding eradication; the dignity of prosperity; the imperative of democracy and the security of peace with justice

On March 25, 1990, in the wee hours of the morning, Delmo Flores arrived at the corner of Southern Boulevard and East Tremont Avenue, and watched in horror as a fire consumed the Happy Land social club, where he had planned on spending the rest of the night.

He describes «genuine horror at the overweening power of central government and its treatment of citizens either as supplicants... or lab rats in some vast social experiment, designed to improve mankind».

IN THE 1970s, sociologist David Bloor suggested — to reactions of perhaps equal horror and delight — that science is an inherently social activity.

To get some clarity on this new horror, I called developmental social scientist A.J. Schwichtenberg of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind..

The horrors of the Holocaust led researchers to study the effects of social influence, conformity, and obedience.

Social Anxiety is a horror and I live all of this in an everyday life.

What made Romero more than a horror director was his focus on horror as a means of social commentary.

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Social media platforms now have sections about Tinder Horror Stories and Online Dating Nightmares, where users post screenshots of people who have made awkward sexual advances towards them.

Social media and bullying are scary enough to be the perfect backdrop of a challenging horror film.

What #Horror never quite figures out is if it's trying to be an allegory for the dangers of social media, an actual horror film, or a lesson on why pre teen girls are **** Those themes never mix with each other in a cohesive way and instead battle each other throughout the whole movie.

Anvari's war - time horror invokes memories of Del Torro's Pans Labyrinth while offering its own brand of mythic terror and allegorical social critique.

Brian's a decent bloke but when he messes up, he does so stupendously with all the horror of social and moral gaffes reflected in the eyes of the freshman.

There's not enough insight to the social phenomenon presented onscreen, but that doesn't make the utterly human horror of this thriller any less unsettling.

George A. Romero mixed horror and social satire perfectly, crafting something that stands the test of time a half century later.

After I realized how this movie massages nuanced social commentary (about fetishization of the african american body, caucasian self - image, etc.) into a film «genre» that does not neatly fit into any particular category (it's neither thriller, nor horror, nor comedy, but a taste of all three), I was absolutely impressed.

This edition of Now Stream This brings you a highly underrated and very recent Todd Haynes movie, a new Netflix horror flick, a gloriously over-the-top action movie, a cynical noir loaded with snappy dialogue, the first Hannibal Lecter film, a romantic horror movie, a Steven Spielberg adventure, a cringe - inducing social media comedy, and some good old fashioned body horror.

While largely avoiding the Twilights and Divergents of the world, he's made interesting career decisions, weaving horror and indie films throughout his comedy roles, and largely using social media in a much more subversive and less thirsty way than some of his peers.

A deceptively simple tale of a group of strangers trapped in a farmhouse who find themselves fending off a horde of recently dead, flesh - eating ghouls, Romero's claustrophobic vision of a late - 1960s America literally tearing itself apart rewrote the rules of the horror genre, combined gruesome gore with acute social commentary, and quietly broke ground by casting a black actor (DUANE JONES) in its lead role.

In other hands, a zombie movie is just a zombie movie, but Land of the Dead, a horror film laced with rife with social commentary, political satire, and black humor, is not just a return to the genre he practically single - handedly created (or at least definitively redefined), but a return to form.

The horror movie / social satire, which plays with the very real fears that come with being a young black man in today's America, is a confident, assured work crammed full of wit, clever twists and surprising depth.

Jordan Peele of Comedy Central's «Key & Peele» made a true cinematic rarity — a horror movie that is funny and scary while delivering some pointed social commentary.

It feels so different, and is in ways an art house horror about children's social anxiety, among other reasons I would certainly recommend it as a simple piece of Hollywood entertainment mixed with elements of a classic ghost story.

If you're intrigued at the notion of a horror movie that tackles social issues — say, the issue of how society lets down victims of child abuse — congratulations!

Although filming for the Halloween sequel began several weeks ago, fans of the horror movie franchise were given another jolt of excitement today when scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis took to social media and posted a photo from the set.

The premise involves a shapeshifting monster that stalks its targets until they have sex, passing on the curse to someone else, and though a generation ago, this would seem like a fairly clear - cut AIDS metaphor, Mitchell (The Myth Of The American Sleepover) makes it at once more complicated (for instance, after killing a target, the titular It begins stalking the previous one again) and more primal, a locus for all kinds of sexual and social fears that horror movies tend to express more clearly than any other genrOf The American Sleepover) makes it at once more complicated (for instance, after killing a target, the titular It begins stalking the previous one again) and more primal, a locus for all kinds of sexual and social fears that horror movies tend to express more clearly than any other genrof sexual and social fears that horror movies tend to express more clearly than any other genre.

Jordan Peele's social satire horror «Get Out» and James Ivory's adaptation of the coming - of - age novel «Call Me By Your Name» have won the top honors from the Writers Guild of America.