Natalie Portman plays Nina, a ballerina dancing the roles of both the White Swan and the Black Swan, in Darren Aronofsky's
psychological horror film Black Swan.
Deer seems to be splitting critics, some find it a razor sharp brilliant
psychological horror film (with echoes of Kubrick?)
Trey Edward Shults» sophomore feature It Comes at Night is
a psychological horror film that traps the audience along with two families in an abandoned house in the woods that, over the course of a slow - burning 90 minutes, turns into a cauldron of fear, mistrust and paranoia as they try to survive an unnatural threat that is terrorizing the world.
The Endless This highly effective,
psychological horror film concerns two ex-cult members who return to their apocalyptic commune, only to get trapped into supernatural time loops that challenge their memories of the past.
Fresh from a glamorous turn at the Venice Film Festival, the Oscar - winning actress (26) is hot on the promotional trail for
her psychological horror film Mother!
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Elizabeth Olsen's turn as a recovering cult member plays like
a psychological horror film — the latest genre, from sci - fi to action, that arthouse flicks have raided
Known more for sexually charged films like Lolita and Indecent Proposal, director Adrian Lyne's
psychological horror film doesn't quite play out like a traditional horror film, nor does it play like a standard psychological thriller either.
IFC Films picked up
the psychological horror film «The Babadook» and the latest from Jim Mickle and Nick Damici, «Cold in July,» while A24 snatched up the horror - comedy «Life After Birth» as well as Jenny Slate's «Obvious Child.»
Some might describe it as tonally schizophrenic or less than the sum of its calculated parts, perhaps feeling a bit tricked by being lured into
a psychological horror film whose full - blown depravity takes a while to develop, like a Polaroid.
-- Kurt Halfyard [BEST] Though billed as
a psychological horror film, it strides confidently past the edges of «Rosemary's Baby» and «Gaslight» into whole other regions of insanity.
This is more of
a psychological horror film than anything, and in that aspect it succeeds brilliantly.
And some may argue that Black Swan deserves inclusion in this select Best Picture group — although this 2010 dance - dance - scarevolution is probably more accurately described as
a psychological horror film.
The first trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski's upcoming
psychological horror film A Cure for Wellness has been released.
In
the psychological horror film It Comes at Night, Director Trey Edward Shults thrusts viewers into a situation without explanation, but enough facts become clear as the story moves on.
The movie is
a psychological horror film from the screenplay by Efthymis and Lanthimos Filippou with director Yorgos Lanthimos.
Unfortunately, as a plausible
psychological horror film, it just doesn't make a great deal of sense.
This isn't the first time he's slammed the critically acclaimed
psychological horror film that stars Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance, but he does add some new clarity.
A fascinating and divisive
psychological horror film receives a top - notch transfer from Arrow Academy, allowing audiences to reevaluate one of Robert Altman's lesser - known works.
Gore Verbinski's
psychological horror film A Cure for Wellness receives its first trailer, showing off a spa nobody would ever want to visit.
A psychological horror film brings an Ancient Greek play to life as a successful surgeon and his family are caught up in a disturbing tale of revenge and retribution
10 Cloverfield Lane established the film's anthological style by acting as
a psychological horror film set in the same universe (it's the best of the trilogy).
With it being
a psychological horror film that was both praised and booed, I couldn't ignore it.
Roger Corman's movies would demonstrate the sheer trashy power of horror, and Hitchcock tapped into this B - picture aesthetic with his own low - budget masterpiece, Psycho, which popularised
the psychological horror film, taking the genre away from its supernatural roots — although William Friedkin's masterpiece, The Exorcist, took it right back there again.
During B - D's recent interview with John Carpenter regarding his upcoming
psychological horror film The Ward (which follows a ten - year dry spell...
Fallen is a remarkable
psychological horror film that definitely is a must see.
The performances of the cast make this film something truly special, and though it's not a perfect film, Fallen is still a top - notch
psychological horror film with plenty to offer.
The film is definitely creepy and thrilling and Gregory Hoblit crafts a fine
psychological horror film.
Stir of Echoes is a good
psychological horror film that keeps you guessing till the every end.
David Cronenberg is best known for
psychological horror films such as Videodrome and Dead Ringers, and although Maps to the Stars is ostensibly a bleak satire on movie folk, there's an underlying gothic mood that simmers nicely to the boil.
It's a tough watch, but for fans that love challenging
psychological horror films, you can» y do much better than this.
Not exact matches
But all varieties of
horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget
films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper);
films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the
psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's
films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).
This
film blends
psychological horror and supernatural
horror into a
film that definitely chills you.
Still, it is an interesting
film that can be recommended to both fans of sci - fi and art house, though be warned that it has a fair amount of non-violent /
psychological horror.
The Fallen is a great mix of crime
film, and supernatural
horror with a
psychological twist.
As far as
psychological horror goes, the
films work well, and that they realize Poe's stories were mainly internalized distortions of the world works to their advantage, even as they approach the material in vastly different ways.
By the time this
film was over, I couldn't help thinking that if it were made today, using modern technology and special effects, «Dementia 13» might be one of the all time great
horror and
psychological thrillers.
With its combination of
psychological and body
horror, The Brood laid the groundwork for many of the director's
films to come, but it stands on its own as a personal, singularly scary vision.
THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER - Absurdist
psychological horror tuned with Kubrickian precision, and secretly one of the funniest
films of the year.
[Watch the trailer for true story - inspired The Disappointments Room right HERE] Disturbia director D.J. Caruso returns to the
horror genre with a haunted house
film that was inspired by true events in The Disappointments Room, a
psychological thriller that they are saying is in the same vein as The Shining.
Easier to make a buck by marketing it as a
horror film «from the director of William Friedkin» than a new level of
psychological torment in cinema.
Even as it detours into generic
horror tropes in the final act, the
film is bolstered by a complex portrayal from Powley and a screenplay that smartly sidesteps fish - out - of - water clichés and instead focuses on Anna's
psychological demons.
This scary picture, a remake of a 2003 Korean
horror film by British brothers Charles and Thomas Guard, is three movies in one: a
psychological thriller, a murder mystery and a zombie flick.
The
film is equal parts
psychological thriller, nightmarish arthouse
horror and black comedy; it's the pulsing dread of Polanski's Rosemary's Baby meets Haneke's gallows humour and Kubrickian clinical formalism.
A Quiet Place doesn't have the pin - you - to - your - seat originality of «Get Out,» or the
psychological depth and pure scare impact of «Lights Out» or the wall - to - wall intensity of «Don't Breathe,» but it is one of the smarter and more involving
horror films of the last few years.
Featuring Howard Shore's hair - raising debut
film score, this deeply personal take on the trials of parenthood and the trauma of divorce — which Cronenberg described as his version of Kramer vs. Kramer — establishes the mix of body
horror and
psychological terror that would soon become the director's trademark.
Up - and - coming filmmaker Trey Edward Shults follows his acclaimed debut
film Krisha with It Comes At Night, a
psychological horror thriller centering on a teenage boy (Kelvin Harrison, Jr.) as he faces mounting terrors — both external and internal — in the aftermath of an unnamed apocalypse.
Fragoso: Mud, in contrast to a
film like Take Shelter — which sort of revels in the
psychological horrors of Michael Shannon's character — is a bit of a lighter
film.
Yet, the
film plays out with little sense of requisite suspense that made the first Psycho such a great
film, and many of the scenes, including the murders, play out as if they were made for a
psychological drama, rather than in a scary
horror flick or tense, nail - biting thriller.
If you're worried about this
film being touted as a «
psychological thriller» and not a full - blown
horror film, well, boy oh boy, don't you worry.