Sentences with phrase «performances in a horror film»

Sometimes hilarious, sometimes so painful you almost want to look away, it's sincerely thrilling to see such amazing performances in a horror film, a genre so often overlooked.

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The latest film to depict the heroics and horrors that occurred in the Holocaust, The Zookeeper's Wife is ultimately a mixed bag, but is nonetheless able to capitalize on the inherent power of its story through strong performances and honest emotion.

For over a decade, sold out audiences have enjoyed Rocky Horror - like participation consisting of hilarious traditions such as screen - shouting, football playing, throwing spoons at the screen, rooting on the shockingly long establishing pans of San Francisco, and generally laughing hysterically at the film's clunky pseudo-Tennessee Williams dialogue, confused performances, and bizarre plot twists, like the mother - in - law character whose breast cancer ought to play like it matters a great deal, but really comes off as a non-sequitur.

The film boasts performances by Brea Grant (Rob Zombie's Halloween and H2, «Dexter,» «Heroes») and 80's horror icon Barbara Crampton, who starred in From Beyond and Re-Animator before popping back up in modern horror films such as Adam Wingard's You're Next and We Are Still Here.

Click for showtimes and tickets — JR Byzantium Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) shows there's plenty of life left in the undead - bloodsucker genre: His Irish - seaside horror story features a brilliantly brooding performance by Saoirse Ronan as an adolescent vamp, and the kind of mythic, adult - fairy - tale imagery — a mountain waterfall running crimson red — at which this incomparable film fantasist excels.

In many ways this recalls something like Adrian Lyne's exceptional 1990 post-Vietnam PTSD horror film Jacob's Ladder, but minus the cerebral depths (some dalliances with Camus, no less) and haunting emotional performances.

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.

Kaluuya, who is hotly anticipated to be nominated for his first ever Oscar for his performance in Get Out, saw his director Jordan Peele win Best Directorial Debut for the satirical horror, which was also named among NBR's top 10 films of the year.

It's one of the best lead lead performances to be found in a horror film in recent memory.

It turns out that this is Maika's first real performance, after appearing in a few bad indie horror films.

Good performances by the main actors does make it a cut above most horror films if its ilk (though Joe Anderson's German accent is far from authentic), and there is a very effective creep factor involved in the choice of antagonist, a wildly growing, mimicking plant that can grab, infest and devour its victims in the most grisly and stomach churning ways possible.

I guess its the very vivid and explicit recreation of the black mass that is still the most shocking and compelling part of the film (along with the amazing atonal choral soundtrack from the anonymous library archive of CAM) and the committed performance of exploitation queen, Helga Line (best remembered for her role in Paul Naschy's Horror Rises From The Tomb).

Monroe is the heart and soul of «The Guest,» and she's essayed one of our favorite performances of next year too, in David Robert Mitchell brilliant horror film «It Follows.»

Winner: British actor Daniel Kaluuya has won the BAFTA Rising star award for his stellar performance in critically acclaimed horror film Get Out

The performances were all fine, and it was cool to see Kris Lemche from My Little Eye in another low budget horror film.

To my understanding she has been in 3 horror films, Star Wars Episodes 1 - 3, although i did really like 3, but her performance's in all 3 were horrifying...

Not only does Neeson put in an outstanding performance, but the supporting cast was phenomenal, and the suspense rivaled most horror films.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

The performances both individually and separately are but one of many things that elevated this horror film above the other common ghost stories we've seen in the past.

In one of the Society's newest awards, Best Youth Performance, Anya Taylor - Joy won for horror film The Witch, playing a daughter making sense of strange, unexplainable events enveloping her family in 17th century New EnglanIn one of the Society's newest awards, Best Youth Performance, Anya Taylor - Joy won for horror film The Witch, playing a daughter making sense of strange, unexplainable events enveloping her family in 17th century New Englanin 17th century New England.

These are some of the best performances I've ever seen in a horror film.

Awkward performances, under developed characters, flat dialogue and bad dubbing are very common in his film as well as the films of his Italian horror contemporaries such as Mario Bava and Lucio Fulci.

Alejandro Amenábar directed Nicole Kidman to one of her best performances in THE OTHERS, a horror film that was both haunting and clever.

Tucker & Dale Vs Evil premiered at Sundance 2010, and despite earning a lot of fans with the performances of Alan Tudyk and Tyler Labine and the comedy and horror mix that writer / director Eli Craig offered up, the film has been in distribution limbo ever since.

British actor Daniel Kaluuya has won the Bafta Rising star award for his stellar performance in critically acclaimed horror film Get Out.

Anchored by a quartet of terrific performances and shot with a grainy, handheld style that give it a documentary feel, it's the latest in a niche of true crime horror titles that are more brutal and nightmare inducing than the latest monster of the week film.

Pulling off such a rich, complex performance in the context of a spectacularly gross horror film — even one directed by David Cronenberg — is more impressive still.

Peter McRobbie does solid work to as Pop Pop, in a less showy performance but one that also packs in its fair share of horror and threat in the film's later stages.

The film's cast is a delicious combination of famous faces, like Catherine Keener and Bradley Whitford, as well as rising stars like Kaluuya, Stanfield, LilRel Howery, and Betty Gabriel, who delivers «one of the most classic and quintessential performances in a horror movie, ever,» Peele boasts.

Thandie Newton, who has previously appeared in another film set in this period (The Journey of August King) gives a performance that evokes sympathy, revulsion, and horror.

At the Kitchen, Pfahler will screen short films (that she either made or starred in) and present a performance by her band, the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black.

This included an animated TV program based on Monster Hunter Stories that began airing in October 2016 (Fuji Television Network); the musical theater performance of Resident Evil: Voice of Gaia in Tokyo and Osaka, which is the first ever musical theater performance based on a survival horror game; and the Hollywood film, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, which is based on the Company's popular game series and was first released in Japan on December 23, 2016, followed by a worldwide run.