The main focus is
on creating suspense.
Not exact matches
Critics Consensus: Abel Ferrara's 1995 horror /
suspense experiment blends urban vampire adventure with philosophical analysis to
create a smart, idiosyncratic, and undeniably odd take
on the genre.
Critic Consensus: Abel Ferrara's 1995 horror /
suspense experiment blends urban vampire adventure with philosophical analysis to
create a smart, idiosyncratic, and undeniably odd take
on the genre.
This film is a standout horror Slasher that relies more
on suspense and atmosphere to
create its horror than straight forward bloody kills.
The difference between «Salt» and most ludicrous trying - too - hard action movies is a matter of grace under pressure: a veteran director with a firm command (and respect for) the integrity of screen space; a stripped - down screenplay that gives you just enough exposition to
create suspense and keep you guessing about what's going
on (What's she doing?
Painting
on a bigger canvas than his previous works, Wingard
created an atmosphere that contains just the right amount of
suspense, humor, and terror.
Painting
on a bigger canvas than his previous works, Wingard
create an atmosphere that contains just the right amount of
suspense, humor, and terror.
Director Fede Alvarez
creates enormous
suspense in a claustrophobic setting where the horrors emerge naturally from the action, one building
on the next.
This is a suggestive emptiness: a car racing down an empty rural highway,
creating suspense; a sky that hangs ominously over a gas station, and then begins to fill with the fiery ribbons of a spy satellite breaking up in the atmosphere; people standing in empty fields and clearings in anticipation of the supernatural; the spotless white space of the test room of a secure government facility; the camera pivoting around NSA analyst Sevier (Adam Driver) as the massive hangars of an Army base flicker
on one after another, readying for pursuit.
When it comes to
creating tension, however, «Life» fires
on all cylinders — cinematographer Seamus McGarvey («Nocturnal Animals») makes great use of the claustrophobia - inducing interiors, and editors Mary Jo Markey («Star Wars: The Force Awakens») and Frances Parker («Game of Thrones») never rely
on cheap jump scares, instead tightening the vise of
suspense with subtlety and effectiveness.
Director Roar Uthaug («The Wave») piles
on the flashy CG set pieces, from a rickety plane dangling over the top of a waterfall to the various tricks and traps of the tomb, but they feel more like elements for a snazzy trailer than scenes that actually
create suspense or adrenaline.
pleads a nearby placard as serial killer Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre) closes in
on little Elsie Beckmann... In his harrowing masterwork M, Fritz Lang merges trenchant social commentary with chilling
suspense,
creating a panorama of private madness and public hysteria that to this day remains the blueprint for the psychological thriller.
The creeping paranoia and the excellent setups that make you suspect various players, until the true story starts to unfold,
creates an unsettling feeling of dread absent from American horror cinema which shifted quite a bit to gore and body horror for a good couple of decades until, probably, THE SIXTH SENSE... but even thereafter, what most filmmakers took from Shyamalan's film was not the buildup of dread, but rather the mystery box and the twist, diminishing the emphasis
on narrative and
suspense.
The creeping paranoia and the excellent setups that make you suspect various players until the true story starts to unfold
creates an unsettling feeling of dread, absent from American horror cinema which shifted quite a bit to gore and body horror for a good couple of decades until, probably, THE SIXTH SENSE... but even thereafter, what most filmmakers took from Shyamalan's film was not the buildup of dread, but rather the mystery box and the twist, weakening the emphasis
on narrative and
suspense.
I don't know if my brain picked up
on any of these «clues,» but they succeed in jarring the viewer,
creating a greater sense of paranoia and
suspense.
Think particularly about its role in
creating suspense and highlighting the impact of history
on the present
on both a personal and political level.
Heyborne
creates spot -
on voices for the varied cast and highlights the chuckle - aloud humor as well as the hold - your - breath
suspense.
I think it gives authenticity to the story, especially a work of historical fiction (in this case based
on a real story) and I feel the author was able to
create a certain amount of
suspense by slowly revealing things in a unique way.
The Girl
on the Train is an excellent example of unreliable narrators and controlling the release of information to
create suspense and plot twists.
Better press
on... The game feels like it's taken a page from the Alien franchise in how to
create claustrophobic
suspense and it did a fantastic job of making every step a cautious one.
The artist will also
create another
on - site painting in this gallery and will leave the audience one
suspense of the theme.
The
suspense created by the news continued to fuel intense price fluctuations, as bitcoin surged above $ 940
on 8th January before plunging to as little as $ 878.10 the following session.