Sentences with phrase «rather than horror films»

Not exact matches

But action flicks typically end on a note of triumph or at least gritty perseverance, rather than the humiliated acceptance with which even relatively hopeful horror films often close.

«Rather than being innocuous and gentler alternatives to typical horror or drama films, children's animated films are, in fact, hotbeds of murder and mayhem» say the study leaders Dr Ian Colman and Dr James Kirkbride.

This film plays out like more of a drama / horror rather than a straight up horror flick and I really admired that change of pace.

«World War Z» isn't your typical zombie movie, but rather a globe - trotting socio - political thriller that treats the zombies more like a viral disease than something out of a horror film.

Naturally, remaking such a revered film is bound to lead to criticism, and the director has acknowledged that in an interview with The Guardian, describing his take as a homage to the horror masterpiece, rather than a commercially - driven decision.

Borrowing from Takashi Miike's Audition (seminal J Horror film) source material, Nicolas Pesce had time to dress, finesse his highly anticipated sophomore film and boy did he deliver with what comes across as a Cronenberg's Crash like love story featured in hotel room spaces rather than car wreckage and works as an homage to a plethora of influential filmmakers including De Palma and the Giallo set.

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.

Like Paul Greengrass's United 93, whose purpose was to stylishly simulate rather than make sense of the events aboard United Airlines Flight 93 on 9/11, The Impossible uses the tropes of countless horror films and thrillers before it to craft a this - is - what - it - was - like theme - park attraction.

For a horror film, this is unusually subtle and disturbing, rather than all - out scary, quietly profiling a creepy central character in ways that are designed to provoke the audience.

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.

He has said in interviews that the reason he made the film was for the family dynamic that reminded him of his own (he has two young children with wife and costar Blunt), rather than the horror elements.

Taking inspiration from films like The Innocents and The Haunting, Del Toro has been pretty vocal about defining his latest project as a gothic romance, rather than a traditional horror movie.

Jordan Peele's horror sensation is again the subject of debate after it was reported that Universal Pictures submitted the film for Golden Globe Awards consideration as a comedy, rather than a drama.

Son of Saul: Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes has produced a Holocaust film here that, rather than pulling back to reveal the global - scale horror, pushed in ever more tightly on one character, to show that the horror doesn't abate when the millions of victims are boiled down to however many you can see with your own limited perspective.

I actually feel a little protective of The Devil's Rain; its failure is one more of incompetence than of cynicism, and that's really rather reinvigorating in an age where self - consciousness reigns supreme in horror films both good (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning) and bad (See No Evil).

Given that there are multiple scenes in which you could cut the tension with a knife, it actually might be best to think of the film as a thriller with horror elements rather than as pure horror.

He's more interested in making a horror film rather than a psychological thriller.

On that level, perhaps some may think Ginger Snaps to be a deeper movie than it really is, but on the surface narrative form, it still remains a rather standard horror film.

The film gets too focused on story, rather than characters or horror.

Perhaps it's because, bucking the trend for horror movies, Primeval comes to DVD in its theatrical cut rather than a unrated extended presentation or perhaps it's because I reviewed Apocalypto last week, but this film didn't seem overly gory the way many of its modern kin do.

Saw is one of those evolutionary horror films, rather than revolutionary, but it's the kind of movie that genre lovers will eat up with relish and proclaim as one of the best films of the year.

The imagery at some points makes you think you paid money to see a horror film rather than a crime thriller, but it is all the more effective as Blunt gives a strong, but vulnerable performance.

Using 70 mm to film interiors and close - ups rather than, as was traditional, expansive vistas and landscapes was a stroke of genius, but The Master «s images and the old school inventiveness of Night Across the Street «s sepia tones and rear projections and Moonrise Kingdom «s crystal - clear storybook aesthetic all come up short versus the «throw the camera on a fishing boat and see what weird horrors and beauties surround us» aesthetic of Leviathan.

Lying on the floor in a wave - like formation were 90 tons of reinforcing rods salvaged from the ruins and straightened out, as though to smooth away the horror of the disaster.Human Flow is his first full - length film and rather than seeking to smooth things over, it confirms the epic scale of the current crisis.