Sentences with phrase «slasher genre»

Although a fully independent production, Hellblade features high - level visuals, and the gameplay mechanic brings several innovations to the slasher genre, in which the developers from Ninja Theory had become specialized over the years.

I've always loved the slasher genre and these games are the closest you can get to living in that world, short of actually being on the run from a machete wielding madman.

He established innumerable elements of the modern slasher genre, created a legendary soundtrack for a beloved franchise, and — perhaps most important — he created a silver screen icon in the form of the cold, calculating, and terrifying Michael Myers.

From there the slasher genre grew increasingly silly.

Going to Pieces goes over the slasher genre's roots in the Theater of the Grand Guignol and moves on to the respective geneses of Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Prom Night -LRB-?!).

In a time where the slasher genre has been done to death, it's difficult to create a new character that resonates with an audience.

Borrowing heavily from the slasher genre yet deserving immense credit in crafting, along with Wingard's direction, a wholly refreshing fright flick.

When we reflect on the golden age of the slasher genre, we typically remember the films that spawned a string of...

A must - have for the shelves of any horror lover, film buff or teenager wondering where on earth the idea for the slasher genre could have been born and what cultural landscape could have fostered such ideas.

Join us as we explore the slasher genre's blood - splattered past.

Julie Di Cresce, Director of Canadian Programming for Super Channel says: «Fans of the slasher genre and horror fans in general, are going to love what this original series has to offer.»

Adding a slick contempo sheen to the Texas Chain Saw Massacre template (thereby ignoring the grimy, low - budget look that made that 1974 classic so disturbing), this finds two college - age siblings (well - played by Gina Philips and Justin Long), stranded in the middle of Nowhere, USA, stopping to investigate when they spot a menacing figure dropping bodies down a pipe (their reasons for not calling the police are witless even beyond the low - ebb demands of the slasher genre).

However, its creepy villain, fast - paced editing, frightening score, and, most of all, massive box office success became a standard that the slasher genre would try to follow.

«Tragedy Girls» (Canada, USA) Director: Tyler MacIntyre, Screenwriters: Chris Lee Hill, Tyler MacIntyre, based on an original screenplay by Justin Olson A twist on the slasher genre following two budding teenage sociopaths who use their online show about real - life tragedies to send their small midwestern town into a frenzy, cementing their legacy as modern horror legends.

It's got everything that I detest — teen slasher genre, gags which are excessive to the point that they stop being gags and actually become catalysts for the narrative, references to other films that I also happen to hate, and gore, plenty of gore!

There was Club Dread which induced a few chuckles as they tackled the slasher genre, and then they had Beerfest which was pretty funny but simply didn't hold up to their performances as Vermont's Highway Patrolmen.

The art of mask - making is a prehistoric tradition that dates back at least as far as the Upper Paleolithic era, but it took 30,000 years and the invention of the slasher genre for it to really come into its own.

But Curtis does it with more intelligence and onscreen grace than those before or (mostly) after in the slasher genre.

Argento did for the slasher genre with his «supernatural» pictures like Suspiria and Inferno what Sergio Leone did for the Western, making them dirtier, sexier, rhythmic, and more acceptable to the literati; and he does here for the police procedural / neo-noir a similar kind of post-modern hipster reinvention.

That's not the case with «Tucker & Dale vs Evil,» a hilariously gory film that takes the slightly overused slasher genre and gives it a new twist.

The same can be said about Happy Death Day, which injects a time loop into the slasher genre.

It's strange and semi-tragic that Student Bodies actually has more of a plot than most entries in the slasher genre.

While it doesn't exactly reinvent the wheel, it brings a fresh (and hilarious) twist on the slasher genre; it's just a solid - as - hell film that I think horror fans are really going to get a kick out of.

by Walter Chaw Although by the end it isn't nearly as interesting as it is clever, James Mangold's take on the slasher genre Identity is a tricky little beast that fits in peculiarly well with the recent trend of deconstructive horror films (such as The Ring and Soft for Digging).

Blending body horror with the slasher genre, American Mary has cult status written all over it.

And although its constructed in a very familiar fashion, Cub «s biggest strengths are in its creepy visuals and the inventive take on the slasher genre.

It's packed with winks to the slasher genre, and you'll still love the ridiculous twists even if you see them coming from a mile away.

From the lushly terrifying cinematography to the deliberate and confident editing, all crafts on display in Follows form a complex whole that recalls slasher genre origins where the Big Ideas frightened us more than than a hyperactive construction.

While it doesn't exactly reinvent the wheel, it brings a fresh (and hilarious) twist on the slasher genre; -LSB-...]

Given the current wave of horror films (The Sixth Sense, The Blair Witch Project, and the teen slasher genre) one understands that perhaps the studio may have wanted more horror and less ponderous sci - fi, which may have spurned Hill's departure.

• «HONEYSPIDER gives us the movie within a movie «Sleepover Slaughterhouse Part 3, ″ which is probably the best parody of the 80s slasher genre I've ever seen.»

It's a harrowing place to begin the story (with the clean - up job excruciating in its unease), but once we get into the proper plot it prefaces — a mystery / slasher genre piece — things get a lot less gripping.

Rather than try to get away with lazy PG - 13 kills, the filmmakers utilize their rating to focus on satirizing campus life and poke fun at the slasher genre.

Regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Hitchcock's Psycho essentially invented the slasher genre while The Birds still haunts viewers to this day.

It's been a fundamental component of the slasher genre ever since...

SYNOPSIS: Tragedy Girls, a twist on the slasher genre following two death - obsessed teenage girls who use their online show about real - life tragedies to send their small mid-western town into -LSB-...]

This thriller balances between the slasher genre and the psychological thriller, as we try to piece together just who the killer is, whether Alice can be stopped, and who is the next person to be killed.

The late addition to the 90s trilogy that successfully mocked and celebrated the slasher genre at the same time does quite a few things right.

Not exact matches

When most people think about horror movies these days they think about the traditional slasher film or the recent (and grotesquely named) «torture porn» genre.

The cast is, mostly, top notch, and includes genre faves Robert Englund and Danielle Harris in solid supporting roles, which gives a little dignity to this forgettable slasher.

Mother's Day is one of the better Slasher gems of the 1980's and genre fans owe it to themselves to hunt this one down.

«Red Sparrow» has the nudity and sex of an erotic thriller and the stomach - churning gore of a slasher flick, but it also strives to be more than a genre movie.

It's as rudimentary as slasher films go, and although it may not be fair to make the comparison, that will no longer cut it after Get Out proved that the horror genre is capable of a lot more than mechanically depicting people getting stabbed to death.

Cohen takes the slasher / serial - killer genre and puts a unique spin on it while adding plenty of gallows humor.

As important as Scream to the modern genre, Kevin Williamson and Jim Gillespie's slasher is far from inventive or self - aware, but established the template for a new generation of 90s horrors.

While I can certainly agree with both films not falling squarely in line with the zombies, slashers, and extreme gore features that proudly wave their horror flags, Get Out and The Shape of Water do exist in the peripherals of genre, both featuring monsters of very different ilk.

It's hard to talk about what some of the best slashers are in the past ten years with any genre fan without someone mentioning the french film Inside.

Today Hollywood films can easily be classified into easy - to - digest genres: comedy, action, romance, chick flick, slasher horror, Uwe Boll bomb.

Apt Pupil is a welcome attempt to reclaim the horror film genre from teen - driven slasher flick formulas!

«Get Out» injects social satire into the slasher - flick genre; Peter Travers on why Jordan Peele's race - relations horror film is an instant classic.