Sentences with phrase «sense of suspense from»

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Well, I can answer that rhetorical question: For an interplanetary nail - biter, it's largely devoid of actual suspense, and its much - vaunted sense of humor consists primarily of cutesy faux - irreverence and dad jokes (apparently imported intact from the beloved novel, courtesy of screenwriter Drew Goddard, who's usually wittier).

The film's simplicity also prevents it from feeling unduly dated (save for the onscreen computers, for which there's no help), and Spielberg's sense of tension and suspense result in some terrific set pieces.

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.

Regardless that this is a prequel so we know that Leatherface is going to survive and therefore lacks any suspense at all, as a movie Leatherface is all over the place with references to what comes later shoehorned in — like the blink - and - you'll - miss - it appearance of Grandpa in the opening scenes and the character of Hartman (the unscrupulous Mayor in Texas Chainsaw 3D was called Hartman, in case you'd forgotten)-- and details that just don't make sense, such as Drayton being portrayed as a psychopathic killer but yet in Tobe Hooper's original movie he «takes no pleasure in killing», and three people climbing into a cow's carcass to hide from the police which looks as dumb as it sounds.

The creeping paranoia and the excellent setups that make you suspect various players, until the true story starts to unfold, creates an unsettling feeling of dread absent from American horror cinema which shifted quite a bit to gore and body horror for a good couple of decades until, probably, THE SIXTH SENSE... but even thereafter, what most filmmakers took from Shyamalan's film was not the buildup of dread, but rather the mystery box and the twist, diminishing the emphasis on narrative and suspense.

The creeping paranoia and the excellent setups that make you suspect various players until the true story starts to unfold creates an unsettling feeling of dread, absent from American horror cinema which shifted quite a bit to gore and body horror for a good couple of decades until, probably, THE SIXTH SENSE... but even thereafter, what most filmmakers took from Shyamalan's film was not the buildup of dread, but rather the mystery box and the twist, weakening the emphasis on narrative and suspense.

From this platform, Cronenberg builds the suspense, the sense of everything converging and closing in.

Directed with that genre's same sense of understated, but lethal, suspense borne of uncertainty by Anton Corbijn it updates the action from... Read More»

At least 8 lessons worth of resources to support the teaching of creative writing (narrative and descriptive) and take stimulus from the following texts / events: - Castaway - The London riots - The Edge These resources provide opportunities to: - Describe using the senses - watch clips from Castaway and use as a stimulus for own writing - up level vocabulary - identify figurative and use in own writing - develop characterisation - develop narrative structure - assess against GCSE criteria - create tension and suspense

Underlying the suspense, adventure, and mystery in this tale is a strong sense of hope for mankind and the world, drawn from a deep well of mythological and centuries - old religious wisdom.

Violence and its Freudian cousin voyeurism play lead actors in this group of psychologically charged assemblages whose small - scale format adds to the sense of nervous suspense and where lust, seduction and yearning get collaged into something that only the viewer - cum - voyeur can drag up from deep within.