Sentences with phrase «original horror films of»

One of the most chilling and original horror films of recent years, «The Babadook» didn't even make it to theaters in most cities.

Hereditary is easily one of the most original horror films of the past decade with an ending that will leave you absolutely speechless.

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As a low - budget horror comedy outing, Severance is an impressive film that is original and lots of fun from start to finish.

A fixture of Universal's horror - film output, he is best remembered as the father of the little drowned girl in the original Frankenstein (1931).

Quite possibly the goriest film ever made by a Hollywood studio, Evil Dead is a new Horror classic, a film that accomplishes the nearly impossible task of staying true to the original's roots while standing firmly on its own.

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.

The original film celebrated the diverse inclinations of the horror genre, while also poking fun at it thanks to veteran director Craven helming the vehicle.

Even though it relies on a gripping feel of intense paranoia, this is an overlong sci - fi / horror movie that suffers from certain problems in logic and kills its tension with long passages that make the pacing irregular, not even being smart enough as an allegory like the original film.

The original sci - fi, horror, macho action bonanza PREDATOR is one of my top films of all time, its gory as f*ck sequel PREDATOR 2 has grown on me with age (maybe because today's movies are more often than none sub par and castrated hence it glows in comparison).

The film was directed by Wes Craven, a master of horror, whose credits include «Last House on the Left,» «Swamp Thing» and the original «A Nightmare on Elm Street.»

The film went on to make more than $ 319 million worldwide and still remains the second highest grossing original horror movie of all time, second only to «The Exorcist.»

Its best original screenplay award was a thrilling salute to Jordan Peele's audacity, but lingering in the background was the ongoing debate about whether a mere «horror film» was worthy of the Oscar — that is, the Oscar for best picture.

It's the funniest horror film since «Evil Dead 2», the smartest since «New Nightmare» and surely one of the most breathlessly entertaining, original movies of the year.

Additionally, in no particular order, there were vocal supporters of the Ralph Jones «incongruously great score to «Slumber Party Massacre ``; «Phantasm» «s heavily «Exorcist «- indebted score from Fred Myrow and Malcom Seagrave; Danny Elfman «s channelling of Bernard Herrmann for «Nightbreed ``; Wojciech Kilar «s bombastic, often recycled music for «Bram Stoker's Dracula ``; John Harrison's score for Romero's anthology film «Creepshow ``; Richard Band «s better - than - deserved compositions for the terrible «Troll ``; the great Lalo Schifrin «s score for the original «The Amityville Horror ``; a more recent example in Climax Golden Twins» music for Brad Anderson «s now cultish «Session 9 ``; Pino Donaggio's terrific work with de Palma's «Dressed to Kill ``; Gene Moore's classic church organ scares in «Carnival of Souls ``; and while we've featured Bava fils above, we could easily have found room for his father Mario Bava, probably with the funky original music by Libra for his final film «Shock.»

What's resulted is a film that, on the surface, retains the glossy visuals of contemporary horror pictures, sans the grit and grime of Raimi's no - budget originals.

A Quiet Place, like John Carpenter's The Thing before it, contributes a strikingly original monster to the genre of horror films focused exclusively on surviving an invasive threat.

A protégé of Dario Argento who matured to develop a unique style of his own while at once carrying the tradition of such Italian horror icons as Mario Bava and Riccardo Freda, Michele Soavi almost single - handedly kept the slumping Italian horror / fantasy tradition afloat in the 1990s with his strikingly original philosophical zombie film Dellamorte, Dellamore (1994).

«The Shape of Water» leads all films this year with 14 nominations including Best Picture, Sally Hawkins for Best Actress, Richard Jenkins for Best Supporting Actor, Octavia Spencer for Best Supporting Actress, Guillermo del Toro for both Best Director and Best Original Screenplay alongside Vanessa Taylor, Dan Laustsen for Best Cinematography, Paul Denham Austerberry, Shane Vieau, and Jeff Melvin for Best Production Design, Sidney Wolinsky for Best Editing, Luis Sequeira for Best Costume Design, Best Hair and Makeup, Best Visual Effects, Best Sci - Fi or Horror Movie, and Alexandre Desplat for Best Score.

Let Me In (2010), a remake of Let the Right One In, the Swedish coming - of - age horror movie cum adolescent survival drama in the wilds of suburban civilization, is as unexpected as can be: an American revision of a celebrated European film that honors the original while translating its anxiety and unease to a distinctly American -LSB-...]

«Mary Reilly» is in some ways more faithful to the spirit of Robert Lewis Stevenson's original story than any of the earlier films based on it, because it's true to the underlying horror.

«No man can resist her...» Chiller Films has released a trailer for the new horror thriller SiREN, adapted from one of the segments in the original V / H / S horror anthology film.

Meanwhile, the 1980s musical version of Little Shop of Horrors gets all the attention, and deservedly so, but how many people have seen the 1960 original film, directed by Roger Corman?

Rock Paper Dead is the new horror film made by Tom Holland, director of the original Fright Night, Child's Play and Thinner.

There are two decent Amityville Horror movies: the 1979 original starring Margot Kidder and James Brolin, released when some still believed the book it was based on was a true story; and 2016's The Conjuring 2, which features a big scene in the infamous eye - window house, and is technically not part of the 18 - film...

While Buchanan's logic with regard to the summer tent pole is sound, there's one glaring omission from his article: the outstanding box - office performances of The Purge and The Conjuring, two original works, both horror films.

Strangely, a sudden urge was planted in me to make a horror film about vicious beauty,» Refn original told Variety about the origins of the movie.

Favorite horror film is The Terminator... I actually hated Terminator 2, because it was too much of a kids» movie... Rather than a horror, like the original.

Scott seems to be taking the franchise back to the horror of the original Alien film and looks to bridge the gap between Prometheus and 1979's Alien.

The Babadook is one of the best horror films of the year and certainly the most original.

Your film is one of the more original takes on the horror genre I've seen recently, mainly because of its focus on form which tends to be rare with horror films today.

Instead of being driven by action Spaights plans on making this reboot a legitimate horror film and says that he's, «really excited to write something scary,» and when asked if he is more of a fan of the original Universal Monsters movies of the 1930 ′ s or the more recent action - adventure themed movies he said, «They both have their virtues and they've all been tremendously popular films and really influential in the popular culture.

The original was one of the first horror films that actually petrified people.

If you look at a lot of «original» horror films these days most of them fall flat and leave something to be desired.

Special Features: • Brand new 2K transfer from the original camera negative • High Definition Blu - ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations • Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing • Audio commentary with co-writer and producer Mardi Rustam, make - up artist Craig Reardon and stars Roberta Collins, William Finley and Kyle Richards • New introduction to the film by director Tobe Hooper • Brand new interview with Hooper • My Name is Buck: Star Robert Englund discusses his acting career • The Butcher of Elmendorf: The Legend of Joe Ball — The story of the South Texas bar owner on whom Eaten Alive is loosely based • 5ive Minutes with Marilyn Burns — The star of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre talks about working on Eaten Alive • The Gator Creator: archival interview with Hooper • Original theatrical trailers for the film under its various titles Eaten Alive, Death Trap, Starlight Slaughter and Horror Hotel • US TV and Radio Spots • Alternate credits sequence • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin • Collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film, illustrated with original archive stills andoriginal camera negative • High Definition Blu - ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations • Optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing • Audio commentary with co-writer and producer Mardi Rustam, make - up artist Craig Reardon and stars Roberta Collins, William Finley and Kyle Richards • New introduction to the film by director Tobe Hooper • Brand new interview with Hooper • My Name is Buck: Star Robert Englund discusses his acting career • The Butcher of Elmendorf: The Legend of Joe Ball — The story of the South Texas bar owner on whom Eaten Alive is loosely based • 5ive Minutes with Marilyn Burns — The star of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre talks about working on Eaten Alive • The Gator Creator: archival interview with Hooper • Original theatrical trailers for the film under its various titles Eaten Alive, Death Trap, Starlight Slaughter and Horror Hotel • US TV and Radio Spots • Alternate credits sequence • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin • Collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film, illustrated with original archive stills andOriginal theatrical trailers for the film under its various titles Eaten Alive, Death Trap, Starlight Slaughter and Horror Hotel • US TV and Radio Spots • Alternate credits sequence • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin • Collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film, illustrated with original archive stills andoriginal and newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin • Collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film, illustrated with original archive stills andoriginal archive stills and posters

Starting with Sam Raimi «s iconic original film, through his increasingly comedic (and deranged) sequels, Fede Alvarez «s grisly remake, and the long - awaited return of Bruce Campbell «s chainsaw - wielding hero in the Starz original series Ash vs. Evil Dead, the horror franchise has proven as elastic as it is enduring, able to mold to the specific demands of each new iteration without losing that delirious double shot of zany personality that defines it.

It gives the idea of consumerism run wild the short shrift that it deserves (and the cynicism that an intervening quarter - century demands), touching on the original's explanation of the zombies» affinity for the shopping mall and the human heroes» delight at their newfound material wealth before becoming a bracing action film that, like Marcus Nispel's reworking of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the source of which didn't need updating as much as Dawn arguably did), is more firmly entrenched in the James Cameron Aliens tradition than the Seventies institution of disconcerting personal horror film.

The writer and director of «Get Out» on Sunday, March 4, won an Oscar for his first film, taking a best original screenplay statue for the sociological thriller about a black man who meets his white girlfriend's family and finds a house of racial horrors.

The original script by «Mortal Kombat» creator John Tobias and the first movie's producer, Lawrence Kasanoff (along with Joshua Wexler), was ditched in favor of a barebones one by b - movie horror scribe Brent V. Friedman and TV writer Bryce Zabel, who mostly ignore the video game's style in order to make the film a standalone horror - action fantasy.

The film becomes a lot less resonant, and less original, in the third part — partly because the horror is more explicit, partly because what earlier happens to a man now happens to a woman — and although what we see is strictly a repetition of Charlie's fate, it feels more generically punitive.

As you may remember from the original film, those who watch the tape of horse drownings, dimension - traversing flies, and various miscellaneous horrors are doomed to die in seven days... unless they make a copy and share it with someone else, a target Gabriel has coined «a tail.»

While Hellraiser II is not the atmospheric brood-fest that the original is, it is still a horror film admirably reliant on a slate of unusual (and different) ideas.

7500, or originally Flight 7500, is newest English - language film from legendary Japanese horror filmmaker Takashi Shimizu, of the original Ju - on: The Grudge and Grudge remakes, Tomie: Re-birth, Reincarnation, The Shock Labyrinth 3D and Tormented previously.

Not the most original concept for a horror, but as always we hope there's something unique about these kind of indie films.

With a truly original story, and some amazing twists and turns, this is easily one of the most mind - bending and riveting films of the year, and we didn't expect that from a horror film.

No, the truly original and interesting horror films come from the indie world, the world of the film festival; it is here that I think horror's future lies.

As you know, this is one of the most talked about remakes happening next year — along with the Evil Dead remake — and it has certainly been a tough one for fans to get behind because the original Brian DePalma film is near and dear to many horror fans.

What made the original Jaws so effective was the vision and talent of its prodigious director, Steven Spielberg, who utilized his fantastic skills and eye for cinema to create one of the best horror - adventure films of all - time.

While the latter is ratcheted up, to the Guards» credit, their film not more of a supernatural horror film but a psychological thriller along the lines of the original, and it almost works as its own thing, mostly thanks to Banks (obviously relishing the chance to play against type) and the talented young lead actresses.

The writer and director, as on the original Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), is James Gunn, who comes from an exploitation background at Troma Entertainment, and worked his way to the «A» list through subversive horror films (Slither) and subversive superhero films (Super).

Arriving with a bit of a divide amongst the horror community back in the summer of 2005, George A. Romero's Land of the Dead was a film that fans had been waiting for since 1985 once Day of the Dead had closed out the original Dead trilogy.