Sentences with phrase «sense of suspense»

Generally, in today's current films, horror films have turned into torture gore porn with no real sense of suspense.

However, I want to feel a certain sense of suspense and fear for the characters, and they need to mix things up a bit.

His character reflects a naivety and a guile, which ultimately proves key to the building sense of suspense and an oncoming battle.

But their efforts are undone by the flimsiness of the narrative, which hinges solely on two secrets left untold, generating the most monotonous sense of suspense.

Veteran cinematographer Robert Elswit, Paul Thomas Anderson's frequent collaborator who won an Oscar for «There Will Be Blood,» shoots Los Angeles in the wee hours with darkly gleaming menace, which is crucial to creating the film's mounting sense of suspense.

Clooney has his moments in The American but it's not enough to carry a film with an awkward sense of suspense.

Apart from one incredibly over-the-top sequence, Meyers» roots don't show, and he has an average sense of suspense, which is saying something after enduring a slate of new horror directors intent on the grotesque.

His personal relationships predictably fall apart in the face of his new professional role, and the false sense of suspense surrounding the outcome only heightens a sense of sensationalism.

There is a hidden level just beneath the surface in which all of the misgivings about the story's ultimate course compress into a palpable sense of suspense.

Only Waterston, with her limpid eyes and her ability to radiate emotions like a sun about to supernova, shocks us out of the limbic sense of suspense as, inevitably, the titular monster begins to take out the crew members in ways familiar and strange.

Those insisting on story and atmosphere can revel in a few choice sequences, one involving glass walkways over the streets by the Notre Dame cathedral, and, on occasion, a genuine sense of suspense.

«Although I wish that THE GAMBLER actually gambled by take some risks to give us viewers an authentic sense of suspense and trouble, I can't say that this remake resulted in failure.»

In this well - researched, beautifully written explanation of the attempts to enfranchise Mississippi black voters, Rubin writes about the murder of three young civil rights workers with a superb sense of suspense and dread.

Aslan writes with a great sense of suspense.

we already known how the story ends, thus taking away any real sense of suspense from any storyline set prior to the finale.

With M.E.R.C., we're combining deep, strategic real - time action with cooperative gameplay for a rich sense of suspense and excitement.

The seemingly ordinary objects in the paintings imply a narrative arc that, similar to a cutaway shot in film, create a psychologically Hitchcockian sense of suspense and pause for thought on the nature of the actions that could be occurring just outside the frame.

PARIS: With its formidable attacking might, Paris Saint - Germain has killed any sense of suspense in the French league halfway through the season.

Good thing the situation is actually realistic and highly terrifying, so no matter what there is always going to be a sense of suspense.

The cues are clunky and don't add much insight into the mind of our hero, and the sense of suspense the original was known for (typically involving an explosive of some sort) is all but missing here, mostly due to the fact that the show insists on maintaining a zippy pace at all times.

Along with Halloween, and Black Christmas; Alice, Sweet Alice is one of the few Slashers to really have a sense of suspense and atmosphere over bloody content, and it pays off.

But what initially adds a sense of suspense to the game quickly begins to anchor your freedom.

Malone has no sense of suspense, and the movie looks as though it was made by someone who watched Seven fifty times too many.

Using the simple tactics of camera angles, scary sounds and darkened sets rather than an excess of complicated computer generated special effects, the movie manages to create a sense of suspense.

Fully engrossing, and far stronger than its forerunner, Catching Fire keeps the sense of suspense throughout with a few dips, and backs up its plot content with plenty of action to hold audience interest.

: — RRB - sushilvr - guest says: What techniques do you use as a writer to develop such a sense of suspense in your novels?

The International Thriller Writers (ITW) characterizes a thriller as «the sudden rush of emotions, the excitement, sense of suspense, apprehension, and exhilaration that drive the narrative, sometimes subtly with peaks and lulls, sometimes at a constant breakneck pace.»

I had written two Romantic suspense novels at that point and had built a sense of suspense around the opening chapters of my historical.

If your book is fiction, you are trying to pull at people's emotions and sense of suspense.

By introducing Zaroff this early, but without actually seeing him, we could build a sense of suspense for the player, especially once the Zaroff posters start to arrive in town, advertising his forthcoming performance.

Asav seemed like a comically bad antagonist that was more of a device to push the plot and offer a sense of suspense.

Boss Battles Boss battles are fun and offer a sense of suspense and excitement while you're doing them.

* SPOILERS * As mentioned earlier, the series lacks any sense of suspense or tension, and has become rather predictable, and it is laughable that in Resident Evil: Revelations 2, a character is brought in that has not been mentioned or even slightly referenced in previous Resident Evil games.

His videos, in particular, progress like a series of still images permeated with a haunted air that heightens our sense of suspense.

The quiescent, stationary image of a verdant urban garden is seen throughout; devoid of human presence, it evokes a sense of suspense, of something about to happen.

Visual artist Ryan Trecartin's (2009) joint exhibition with Lizzie Fitch, currently on view at Andrea Rosen Gallery, has received positive reviews in Art in America Magazine and Artsy, which wrote, «as time elapses within the exhibition, a sense of suspense prevails, leaving the viewer yearning for answers and consumed by the chase.»