Sentences with phrase «other horror films»

While this is apparently an original horror movie, it seems to be borrowing from so many other horror films.

It makes the same mistake as most other horror films in that they replace fear with gore.

How can we gauge how it's doing against other horror films if it's not listed as one?

Though the film's vague title shows as much imagination as those of other horror films like The Happening and It, we can at least be grateful that the film creators didn't go with the «say - what - you - see» school of film titles that gave us Snakes on a Plane and Sharknado, because this film could have so easily just been called Internet - Ghost.

Much like other horror films that have perfected the formula for surprise and contagious emotional terror, this film has it all bundled tightly and calculating to transfix the audience into believing.

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.

What the film does is reimagine other horror films as meta - narratives, except in those cases, the characters never discover the truth about the artifice of their world, as Marty does, just like another fool, Truman Burbank in Peter Weir's The Truman Show, a horror film in its own right.

It starts off like plenty of other horror films where young, hormone driven teens (Michael Angarano, Kyle Gallner and Nicholas Braun) find themselves in the hands of a merciless killer.

As with other horror films, the studio promoted the movie as being «Based on a True Story.»

The film starts off rather promisingly with an engaging performance from Fabian, but eventually degenerates in style and content to a pastiche of other horror films such as The Blair Witch Project, The Exorcist, Children of the Corn, and so on.

While I realize that I have slammed many other horror films for being nothing but visceral nothings without much to go on except gore, I'm going to sound hypocritical for faulting The Descent for doing the exact opposite.

All of this is aided by the surprisingly engaging performances from the two child leads, Lulu Wilson and Talitha Bateman, who are given the benefit of actual character development from the script rather than being reduced to the moving props that scream on cue role that other horror films assign to their child - aged characters.

The film's focus on the complicated female friendship is one of its greatest strengths, and it puts SHELLEY ahead of many other horror films released this year.

The use of Djinn strikes the right balance and is scary but doesn't play into the silliness that so many other horror films peruse.

The film is being produced by Blumhouse Productions, the same production house behind other horror films like Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and the critically - acclaimed Get Out.

It is about the same as most other horror films, but leaves the viewer with a tremendous sense of exasperation.

And the rest of the cast, including Chirqui, Jeremy Sisto, and Lindy Booth, all come across as cool and actually sell us on them being close friends, so there's a bit more emotion in some of them getting taken down versus other horror films where the «friends» seem to have just met a week or two before.

The film does use elements from other horror films, and director George Bowers steadily builds up the tension to a surprise final.

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

But compared to all the other films in the Insidious series, and to other horror films in general, it's clearly a bit of a letdown.

As with many other horror films of the 1970s, normality and the monster are one and the same.

As different as it is from Craven's vision, it is still marred by being derivative of other horror films, especially in The Amityville Horror, The Exorcist and Carrie.

Other horror films, like The Exorcist, come at this point from a different angle, demonstrating that purely scientific means are not adequate to explain spiritual events.

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

I didn't expect much from this movie, in fact I expected to hate it, but Spiders is a much better movie than many other horror films that has been released this year.

Perhaps the black trees against the blood red background felt too similar to marketing used in other horror films (2013's Evil Dead, anyone?).

Other horror films this season have ranged from arty to schlocky, but the scales tip to the latter — and that seems to be what the majority of horror fans like; they consider films such as Clive Barker's «Lord of Illusions» and even a work such as «Species» as essentially «party movies.»

In an age when every other horror film has a found footage / exorcism angle, «Cabin» is a throwback to more creative filmmaker - driven horror.

I must say, though, that I didn't find it all that extreme, since writer / director Julia Ducournau references so many other horror films (and does it so well).

Aside from the opening scene — during which you can hear all your fellow patrons unwrapping candy and chewing popcorn with their mouths open — it's about as noisy as any other horror film.

The scenes of this film have more impact than any other horror film since this is based on real events.

Because it's a great (and very dark) horror film, with a great adaptation and story, with a stellar cast, and there hasn't been any other horror film since, that entails exorcism that has come even remotely close to the brilliance that is The Exorcist (1973)!

You can tell right away that this is Zombie's most mature film to date and looks just crazy enough to set itself apart from many other horror films.

Unlike the remote farmhouses of other horror films, there is a normality to the setting which is unnerving.

Having inspired so many other horror films, SUSPIRIA is terrifying in ways many American horror films simply aren't.

His writing is less successful than his direction: the derivative nature of the plot clangs up against some poorly executed references to other horror films (one reference to The Thing is flat - out terrible), resulting in another example of a genre film - maker trying to appeal through referencing better work than doing good work themselves.

The Canal borrows heavily from other horror films, and is needlessly unpleasant towards the end.

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, dies Sunday, July 16, 2017.

It's not the kind of bad film that makes me angry like some of the other horror films I sometimes sit through in this job (I'm looking at you The Snare), but it's not the kind of enjoyably bad film like Crazed (that film is a hoot) either.

Fortunately, the disc also contains stills, essays, and trailers for this and four other horror films.

I'm drawn to the idea of creative purity, something House emanates in a way no other horror film I've ever seen does.