Sentences with phrase «on horror films»

Although it didn't make it onto my Best of the Fest list, one film that I had a great time at during Sundance was Tucker & Dale vs Evil, a comedic spin on horror films, where the hillbillies living in their vacation cabin are the peaceful ones, and it's the college kids who wrongly accuse them of being killers.

Beltrami's career began with the soundtrack of the thriller Death Match in 1994, and he gained renown for his work on horror films such as Mimic (1997), The Woman in Black (2012), and all four films in the Scream series (1995 — 2011).

Derrickson is a director who built his name on horror films, and while Del Toro actually only directed the second Blade film, he matched the tone of the first film, while improving on the style for the sequel.

Jordan Peele's «Get Out» is, again, a work of savvy craft that pulls an unsuspecting (white) viewer into a Sunken Place that other moviegoers know all too well; the movie works as a horror film, as a goof on horror films, as a working street - map of African - American anxieties, and, for a white liberal audience, as an endlessly reflective hall of mirrors that urges a hard, necessary look at oneself.

In the last few years I've been coming around on horror films and this one seems right in that sweet spot that all the Derickson's and Wan's are hitting for me right now.

The filmmaker and actor didn't grow up on horror films, but his newest feature offered up a scary twist to his career.

As you might expect, our focus was on horror films in particular, but a few non-genre films managed to sneak their way in there.

This sequel does willingly give itself make to Meta, and with gusto, bringing in an entirely new cast to replace the archetypes of the original and jumpstarting the original's breadth of knowledge on horror films.

That's another take on a horror film that's pretty common.

He has published numerous articles on horror film and is co-editor of To See the Saw Movies: Essays on Torture Porn and Post-9 / 11 Horror (McFarland, 2013).

Filmmaker Jennifer Kent was honored with the Breakthrough Artist award for her work on the horror film «The Babadook,» which also won four awards at Austin's Fantastic Fest earlier this year.

Don't Breathe by Hope Madden Filmmaker Fede Alvarez announced his presence on the horror film scene with authority.

Are there moments, when working on a horror film like this, that you've got to try and prevent yourself from bursting into laughter or accidentally smiling.

Not exact matches

At the time, O'Connell was working on a poster for a science - fiction and horror film festival featuring John Carpenter's 1988 cult classic «They Live» about aliens living incognito among humans.

Otherwise they might end up as a short horror film on the Internet.

The Weinstein Co's sale documents need to make clear the bankrupt film studio will defend Lionsgate Entertainment Corp in intellectual property disputes stemming from two horror movies, Lionsgate said on Thursday in court papers.

In the Best Picture race, the biggest hits were the World War II flick «Dunkirk,» which last year grossed around $ 188 million in U.S.ticket sales, good for 14th place on the box office charts, and Jordan Peele's horror film «Get Out,» which tucked in just below «Dunkirk» with $ 176 million in domestic sales.

I haven't read much of his horror but loved the short stories that became Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me on film.

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.

If we're watching Hockey Night in Canada and a commercial for a horror film comes on (seriously, HNIC, why do you do this?

She's starred in horror films (Saw V, The Unborn, Venom), taken on raunchy roles and dressed in a way some have labelled inappropriate.

But action flicks typically end on a note of triumph or at least gritty perseverance, rather than the humiliated acceptance with which even relatively hopeful horror films often close.

There are a handful of recent horror films that do focus on men suffering and surrendering.

Recent and upcoming releases include the romance - horror hybrid Spring; the hotly - anticipated The Look Of Silence, Oppenheimer's companion piece to The Act Of Killing; The Connection, a 70's - set true crime epic and European flipside to William Friedkin's The French Connection starring Oscar ® winning Best Actor Jean Dujardin (The Artist); The Keeping Room, from director Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), based on Julia Hart's acclaimed Black List screenplay, starring Brit Marling, Hailee Steinfeld and Sam Worthington; the multiple Cannes award winning The Tribe, filmed entirely in Ukrainian Sign Language with a cast of deaf, non-professional actors; and a remastered re-release, in conjunction with Olive Films, of the 1981 disasterpiece Roar, the most dangerous film ever made, starring Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and a cast of 150 untrained lions, tigers and exotic animals.

While best known for appearing in such horror films as The Pit and the Pendulum and The Last Man on Earth, the late actor Vincent Price was also a world - class gourmet.

The horror film Veronica debuted on Netflix this month, and people are not ok.

One particularly brutal leader last month stated: «Like the living dead in a second - rate horror film, the premiership of Theresa May staggers on oblivious.»

«He has previously described the Prime Minister as a dead woman walking who is on death row, and compared the Prime Minister to the living dead in a second - rate horror film.

Like the hilarious but unironically fashioned book The Zombie Survival Guide (2003), here's a zombie tale for the 9/11 era, when fantasies of urban chaos and duct - tape - sealed apartment windows are no longer relegated to horror films; these paranoid scenarios became regular fare on CNN.

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

Phil Dorcas, ELNA president, says that every year some attendees insist on viewing the 1965 cult horror film Incubus, which features continuous Esperanto dialogue — and William Shatner.

Initially, critics were baffled when they attempted to interpret the film on a literal level and measure it against other typical disaster / horror films of its kind.

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

I've seen plenty of so - bad - they're - good horror movies, but few are on the level of New Moon Rising, a film that I am genuinely unable to describe.

Now, if you will, imagine yourself on the set of a low budget independently funded horror film and this is your first scene.

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.

Series Overview These films are based on the book The Hellbound Heart by British horror writer Clive Barker.

For someone to have such a strict upbringing and to go on to work for 40 years making horror films is just inspiring.

It routinely ends up on just about everyone's top horror film list.

Director Frank Acosta poised to start principal filming on new Sci - Fi horror film June 3, 2016, at 7:15 p.m. El Paso, TX.

You can also rent each of your favorite horror films and watch them back to back cuddling up on the couch.

«Quiet on the set» took on new meaning in John Krasinski's horror film, which used a less - is - more approach to its unusual sound design.

Another film that went on to have it's own franchise pushed the boundaries of horror, made on a shoestring budget and executed in the most simplest of terms was Saw.

Now this movie on paper sounds like any other horror film.

Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator is among these, deservedly earning a spot on any list of the most memorable horror films of the 80s.

The Rapture is not ostensibly a horror film, but I found it deeply frightening, and it is so on a purely conceptual level.

After five years of Jeannie, Hagman took a few film and TV - movie parts, co-starred with Donna Mills on the 1971 sitcom The Good Life, co-starred with Lauren Bacall in the TV rendition of the Broadway musical Applesauce, acted and directed in the low - grade horror spoof Beware!

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.

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 Uon 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 UON 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.

In the end, this is again a very good horror comedy which needs to focus less on the main characters (lets face it, they are cliches and the interest of this whole movie is to the idea behind it) and more on the variety of monsters that were created for this film.