Sentences with phrase «serial killer movies»

Why it's worth a watch: Remember that surge of serial killer movies in the «90s?

For instance, even the humanisation of the villain is less compelling than Fritz Lang's portrayal of Peter Lorre's character in M, though an attempt to make him seem ordinary is more evident here than in other serial killer movies like Dahmer (2002).

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The 1st Asian American serial killer movie.

Not exact matches

Even people with less than a high school education today recognize the priority of the brain over the blood, so much so in fact, that in the movie, Hannibal (about a cannibalistic serial killer), the thought of slicing out tiny parts of a person's brain, cooking them in a pan, and serving the pieces to that person to eat has become in the public's mind a more disturbing image than, say, serving a person a glass of their own blood to drink, which appears relatively tame in comparison.

Horror movies — whether they feature ghosts with unfinished business or serial killers with a literal ax to grind — challenge us to confront sin in all its ugliness.

It is pretty intense, but not scary like a movie with serial killers.

A grieving mother seeks justice against the serial killer who Find listings of daytime and primetime ABC TV shows, movies and specials.

In 1991 The Silence of the Lambs turned the course of horror movies away from fantastic boogeymen like Jason Vorhees and Freddy Krueger, and back to real - life serial killers.

Serial killers and mismatched cops overcoming antagonism are seldom fresh, fruitful subjects for movies, but this exceptionally (and impressively) nasty thriller blends genres to grim and gripping effect.

If you were Angelina Jolie, you might take it as a sign that your career is in trouble when you star in a grade - Z serial - killer mystery — and people still think of it as an Ashley Judd movie.

So much more than just another serial - killer movie.

Bolstering her TV series fame with TV movies, beginning with the adaptation of the Danielle Steele romance Star (1993), Garth also played the eponymous abused wife in Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laurie Kellogg (1994), a serial killer target in Falling for You (1995), and executive - produced and starred in the teen psychiatric drama Without Consent (1994).

You know that movie where a famous doctor / cannibal / serial killer cuts open a victim's skull, cuts away some brain matter w / out killing the guy, fries it up in a hot skillet, and then feeds it again to the victim («that's good,» said the poor schmuck)?

by Walter Chaw The more cynical among us would note that the title might also refer to the time that movies exactly like Taking Lives have stolen from hapless audiences, but the fact of it is that if not for our mortal curiosity, we might have missed genuinely good mad - dog killer flicks like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Manhunter, The Untold Story, and killer flicks like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Manhunter, The Untold Story, and Killer, Manhunter, The Untold Story, and Se7en.

«I'm hoping it might be this movie «Jack», which is a very commercial serial - killer thriller.

«Behind the Mask» is a clever mockumentary from the era when the genre was booming about a serial killer who models himself after movie icons like Jason, Freddy, and Michael Myers.

The feminist serial killer road movie Butterfly Kiss, the Bosnian war pic «Welcome to Sarajevo», the period property drama «The Claim» and the Manchester docu - comedy 24 Hour Party People might appear to be films with nothing in common, but in fact all are collaborations between director Michael Winterbottom and writer Frank Cottrell Boyce, who together have shown an ability to produce consistently interesting works in any and every genre.

His peak had accompanied the zenith of classic Hollywood filmmaking that ended with the cultural shifts of the late 1960s, but his 1972 serial - killer movie, Frenzy, hints at how much more luridness he may have allowed himself in the new era.

Compare Theron's work in Monster, where she played the hideously human serial killer Aileen Wuornos, and Mad Max: Fury Road, instantly redefining the role of women in action movies.

I have a problem with serial killers in horror movies, because they aren't powerful enough.

Charlize Theron proved her acting chops, and won an Oscar in the process, playing a serial killer in the movie Monster, but surely her brilliantly realised Mavis Gary in Young Adult is very nearly as monstrous, albeit in a different way.

James Vanderbilt has been primarily known as a screenwriter for many years, having written everything from superhero movies (THE AMAZING SPIDER - MAN), to serial killer thrillers (ZODIAC), to action - adventures (WHITE HOUSE DOWN).

Fans are up to witness through their TV screens how a seemingly normal teenager in the name of Norman Bates will lose his mind and turn into one of the most horrifying serial killers in the history of movies.

I've seen horror movies with killer dolls, demonic monsters, serial killers, and ghost, but yet this was more intense and had me on edge through out.

Of course, that take died in development and now we have a movie closer to the original screenplay: an FBI agent played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan teams up with a psychic doctor played by Anthony Hopkins to hunt down a psychic serial killer played by Colin Farrell.

Even by Ben Wheatley's genre - busting standards, this film is a triumph, centring on comedy and romance in a road movie about two violent serial killers.

The A.V. Club caught a special sneak preview screening of Split at Fantastic Fest, where we described as a «Hitchcockian take on a Silence Of The Lambs serial - killer movie,» featuring Shyamalan's signature plot twists and turns — including one at the end that had our audience gasping and applauding — and anchored by McAvoy's virtuosic, if showy, performance as Kevin / Dennis / Hedwig / et al..

Looking at the billboard posters for «The Snowman» (2017, Tomas Alfredson), I had the feeling that if I paid close attention while watching the movie, I might see a red flag or perhaps spot a clue that the police miss in a complex and carefully constructed story of a serial killer on the loose.

The South Korean filmmaker's previous movies include the serial killer procedural «Memories of Murder,» the crime drama «Mother» and the critically acclaimed monster movie «The Host.»

Meanwhile, Tennant is asked to snarl it up as a serial killer whose modus operandi has nothing to do with the rest of the movie.

Janet Leigh is the mother of Jamie Lee Curtis, whose first movie role was playing another ordinary woman confronted by a serial killer: Laurie Strode from Halloween.

I'm waiting for Cera to play a serial killer in a movie.

Here's a fun photo album blog on the making of Season 2 Decider It's the 20th anniversary of everyone's favorite crazy teen bitches and also witches movie The Craft (1996) Variety because sooner or later every male star is required to play a serial killer, Michael Fassbender will do his duty for Entering Hades based on the John Leake's true crime novel Vulture Jennifer Hudson gets unexpectedly honest about her lack of a Tony nomination

isn't simply regarded as one of the best serial killer films; it's also considered one of the best movies ever.

If you ask someone to name a list of famous movie serial killers, you'd probably get the obvious choices such as: Michael Myers, Leatherface, and Jason Voorhees.

Based on fact, this indie low - budget movie about a Texas serial killer influenced a host of less factual slasher movies later on.

Just a few minutes ago, walking through Times Square, I was trying to think of a way to summarize my distaste for Haneke's hectoring serial - killer movie Funny Games (both versions).

Basically it looks like a throwback to what I like to call the «serial killer playing cat and mouse games» genre, which includes movies like Speed, Seven and Die Hard with a Vengeance.

Sure, I enjoy Wolf Creek and Wolf Creek 2, and sure, you could describe a lot of movies featuring serial killers hunting -LSB-...]

I Saw the Devil is a Korean horror movie from 2011 that keeps an unbearable tension as it follows a law enforcement agent as he seeks revenge against the serial killer who murdered his wife.

Turkish horror Baskin, which Ryland calls a midnight movie «through and through» in his review, is accompanied by I Am Not a Serial Killer (Peter's review here), The Love Witch (above); an ultra vibrant trip into sexy exploitation cinema, Train to Busan, the Cannes hit that's just opened to record seats in South Korea, and a film Pierce called in his review «a tense and inventive mix of genre thrills and social anxiety.»

According to Refn's wife, Liz Corfixen, the movie is based upon the tale of Countess Elizabeth Bathory, the 16th century serial killer who is famed for murdering young virgins and bathing in their blood in an attempt to remain youthful, per Dazed Digital.

His film — opening Friday (March 15) for a weeklong run at the Chalmette Movies — isn't a movie for serial - killer fetishists or bloodthirsty sickos.

The Horror Network Details: 2013, Wild Eye Releasing Rated: Not rated The lowdown: An anthology horror movie that offers six tales of terror featuring serial killers, ghostly phone calls, inner demons, stalkers and otherworldy creatures.

Next we had cinema's first zombie, then serial killers, «based on a true story» stories, which led to the fake documentary horror movies, followed by Olympic athlete zombies and, in the last few years, we got the torture porn films.

Leading this push was the serial killer thriller «The Silence of the Lambs,» which became a cultural touchstone that inspired a rash of similarly gritty suspense movies throughout the decade.

And there are few movies of betrayal as strong as Shadow of a Doubt, about the troubled friendship between a small town girl (Teresa Wright) and her namesake uncle (Joseph Cotten) who is perhaps a serial killer.

cop Steve Burns (Al Pacino) is asked before going undercover in William Friedkin's dirty - scary thriller about a serial murderer preying on gay men in late - Seventies New York — in which everyone looks like Al Pacino, all the victims as well as the killer, which is why he's recruited: he's bait (and the movie keeps hinting — fuck — he might also be the killer).

By the time they reunited as co-leads of the 2013 serial killer drama The Frozen Ground, neither actor had the clout to carry a movie in theaters.