Sentences with phrase «psychological horror movies»

If you look at the film industry, you have a wide variety of genres and subgenres to choose from: you have slashers, gore movies, body horror and psychological horror movies.

People enjoy psychological horror movies, so why wouldn't they enjoy games in that manner?

In this psychological horror movie, an art student begins to seriously question his sanity after a terrifying nightmare recurs over a long period of time.

Like a W magazine photo spread conceived by Baudelaire and art - directed in electric colours by giallo maestro Dario Argento, the opening of The Neon Demon offers a foretaste of the plasticated grand guignolerie that by the end of Nicholas Winding Refn's meretricious psychological horror movie has yielded both a feast and a bloodbath — in the precise senses of those words.

Director Kevin Greutert is presumably hoping to break free from his torture - porn past (he directed both Saw VI and Saw 3D: The Final Chapter) by directing a slow - burn psychological horror movie, and acquits himself admirably in that respect.

Though the film never quite abandons its absurdist comedy and its boyish glee for romping monsters, Colossal also becomes a brutal psychological horror movie, more unforgiving and savage by the minute.

However, this is daring cinema, both for everyone involved, and indeed the studio, who have taken a risk on their $ 40 million investment, which is huge for a psychological horror movie.

Tara Holt, Bryce Johnson, and Katrina Law join the cast of psychological horror movie Darkness Rising (The Wrap).

This is a typical setup for a psychological horror movie, and who better at that kind of stuff than Eli Roth, who directs and co-wrote the script with Guillermo Amoedo and Nicolás Lopéz.

Set in the San Fernando Valley in 1987, writer - director Todd Haynes» 1995 film is part psychological horror movie and part social commentary.

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).

Death and the Maiden is a streamlined razor - ride of a movie: taut, riveting, and a psychological horror show that will leave nail - marks in your palms for days afterwards.

Driftwood is presented and promoted as a horror movie with psychological elements, and while this is true, it undersells what is an effective psycho thriller, less about gore and horror, more about story and character.

A complicated family dynamic is the point of departure for The Disappeared, part horror movie, part psychological study.

You won't be scared in the traditional horror movie sense, but you will be terrified in the psychological horror sense.

So we did sort of dial it slightly towards more psychological drama and horror than the monster movie homage that was in the original movie.

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.

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.

Don't be fooled by the trailer — it's less of a horror movie and more of a slow - burn psychological thriller, a brilliant study in how unchecked fear and paranoia can boil over suddenly.

«American Sniper» wants to have it both ways — as a war - on - terror fantasy and poignant PTSD drama — but while it doesn't shy away from the physical and psychological horrors of battle, the movie is so heavy on pro-military propaganda that it doesn't realize its dramatic potential until it's too late.

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.

This is not your typical Hollywood movie — a feature marginally in the horror genre with emphasis on psychological terror.

Darren Aronofsky admits his «ego» is in all of his films.The 48 - year - old filmmaker's new movie is the psychological horror «mother!»

In terms of box - office success, the movie world is see - sawing between sub-genres such as slasher, psychological, paranormal, teen, comedy - horror, found - footage and «torture porn».

The movie is a psychological horror film from the screenplay by Efthymis and Lanthimos Filippou with director Yorgos Lanthimos.

The theatrical trailer and TV spots for The Missing made the film look like a psychological thriller and perhaps even a supernatural horror movie.

Thor: Ragnarok 2017 showed that there's more than one way to challenge genre conventions - redefining the superhero movie with the indie feel of Logan and the empowerment of Wonder Woman, to pushing psychological tension with horrors Get Out and mother!

Loved how the movie skated between a dramatic psychological meditation and a flat - out horror thriller... very, very well done.

It seems Sarah Paulson will be teaming alongside James McAvoy for the eagerly anticipated psychological horror, which is set to hit movie theatres in 2019.

Horror movies are relying less on cheap scares and gore and more on psychological terror.

A psychological study and not a horror movie, Bug may lose much of its audience before it delivers the goods, but its brutal mental and physical outbursts will likely remain the most grueling screen scenes of 2007.

At that point, the only interest the movie has is debating which is more frustrating: that David Loucka's screenplay abandons its already shaky psychological logic for a twist (twice if one counts the movie's pointless coda) or that it lowers the characters» intelligence to the point that they all line up on at a time to fall victim to the horrors inside the titular house.

My take: Personally, I don't gravitate toward school - shooting movies, but everything I've heard about this one says that it's far from your typical take on the genre, instead focusing on the parents in a way that almost turns the film into psychological horror.

A follow - up to his eerily unsettling 2009 debut The Loved Ones, a movie that took the John Hughes high school comedy and then gorily spun it on its ear, this horror opus, shown at the Toronto International Film Festival way back in 2015, has been well worth the wait, the psychological underpinnings driving things so unnerving I shudder just thinking about them again now.

It is considered a defining title in the survival horror genre, moving away from B movie horror elements, toward a psychological style of horror emphasizing atmosphere.

That was a title that took a lot of ideas about science fiction, monster movies and psychological horror and twisted them into something genuinely thrilling and unusual.

VR Horror Movie Tie - In «Don't Knock Twice» screams its way to retail on September 29th for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR Based on the psychological urban legend, a mother must find and save her daughter in the confines of a terrifying grand manor.

Unlike previous Resident Evil installments, RE7 isn't a Zombie title any longer and is much more focused on psychological horror in a B - movie style setting with much more focus on exploration.