Sentences with phrase «slasher movies»

«I was late, I grabbed a mask at the store, it said Mike Meyers on it, and I said, «I don't remember this character that Mike Myers did,» Then I walked around and everyone said it was Michael Meyers who killed everyone [in the Halloween slasher movies].»

Babysitter Bloodbath — a very freaky horror game that draws inspiration from classic 80's slasher movies and classic PS1 survival horror, as you play a babysitter who has to contend with an irritating small child and a homicidal maniac.

I've always been a fan of slasher movies (they're the only horror I can manage!)

Blue Wizard Digital's debut title Slayaway Camp masterfully combines challenging puzzles with a loving tribute to 80s slasher movies, and the result is a darkly humorous joyride as you plan out how to hack and slash through the numerous, young adult fodder.

Security by Gina Wohlsdorf Fans of Stephen King and classic slasher movies will find it nearly impossible to put down Wohlsdorf's debut.

Although even I, a devoted horror fan, recognize the faint praise of championing any film as ascendent in such a flawed sub-genre as slasher movies.

Scott Glosserman's debut film Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon is an intelligent, perceptive skewering and analysis of slasher movies that genre fans and skeptics can appreciate, and it actually becomes an involving horror film in its last reel.

Blue Wizard Digital's debut title Slayaway Camp masterfully combines challenging puzzles with a loving tribute to 80s slasher movies, and the result is a darkly humorous joyride as you plan out how to hack and slash through the numerous, young adult fodder.

Hellraiser, Clive Barker's feature directing debut, worked not only as a grisly splatterfest, but also as a welcome shift from the rash of teen slasher movies that followed the success of Halloween.

Graeme Virtue: With an episode that alludes to slasher movies and the X-Men, this week's big bad isn't the only thing leaping across dimensions

It's as if Craven careened into the ditch a few times trying to talk about Big Topics before finally deciding that what he was best suited to talk about was slasher movies.

At Modern Horrors, we are big fans of slasher movies.

And although the later stages of the movie relax into somewhat more conventional slapstick, the Vegas scenes seem inspired by gore and slasher movies more than by comedy.Will this mixture work at the box office?

Well, sorry to break the news for some of you, but the reality is that while it is certainly the grandfather of slasher movies, there is a grandmother out there and her cane is here to smash y ’ all younglings in the face.

Few movies genres thrill like slasher movies.

It's an odd combination of 80's slasher movies and action movies, making Rambo look like Michael Myers.

A savage and cynical satire that's full of colorful off - color status quo commentary, this joyfully fucked up little film also doubles as a paeon to slasher movies and teen exploitation fare (fans of Michael Lehmann's 1988 cult classic, Heathers take particular note, please).

Tyler MacIntyre's Tragedy Girls is a satire of slasher movies and social media that opens with the stuff of urban legend: a teenage girl running away from a masked, trenchcoated murderer who just split open her date's face with a knife.

Much like Ridley Scott's original Alien, director John Carpenter's 1978 opus Halloween set a bar for «slasher movies» that has yet to be surpassed.

A satirical twist on the teen genre and the stupidity of time loop and slasher movies?

Sure, many of these movies lend themselves to crossing tropes off a scorecard, but there's often a creative zeal and a desire to disgust (or at least unsettle) that gives this sub-genre the edge over, say, off - brand slasher movies, torture porn, or franchise reboots.

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Clive Barker's feature directing debut worked not only as a grisly splatterfest, but also as a welcome shift from the rash of teen slasher movies that followed the success of Halloween.

Most of the stuff I find myself creeped out by no matter how many times I see it (e.g., Cure, the Winkie's scene in Mulholland Drive) is just on the border of the irrational, but slasher movies — in which the narrative is almost always a process of elimination — are really easy to rationalize, which is probably why there's so much academic literature about them.

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

I'm not sure why it now seems that teen slasher movies are the entry - point - of - choice for composers trying to make their name, but after the success of Scream, which brought Marco Beltrami to the fore, it appears to be the way to go.

The film, a 1981 spoof of slasher movies, lands with an audible wet plop.

How can you satirize slasher movies if you refuse to satirize the sex and violence?

Nowadays, slasher movies always have hot cast members from whatever CW shows are on at the time.

This week, in honor of Friday the 13th, he picks his five favorite slasher movies.

The references have ranged from thematic to blatant — as in, literal writing on the wall — and they span several horror subgenres, from old slasher movies and Japanese horror to mid-aughts-style torture porn.

The Final Girls is a successful send - up of 80s slasher movies, with a nod to contemporary dramas that focus on the loss of a loved one.

The daddy of all slasher movies, its formula has been mercilessly preyed upon by countless 1980s slice - and - dice imitations («Friday the 13th», «A Nightmare on Elm Street» etc.), fondly dissected by 1990 postmodern spoofs («Scream», «Scary Movie»)-- and of course its franchise of (largely inferior) sequels shows that that the bogeyman is still very real, with «Halloween 9» due for release next year.

Combining elements of Blair Witch and Paranormal Activity with the cliches of 1980s teen slasher movies,...

Just like slasher movies have taken over October, and Blockbusters have taken over the summer, we will always get a movie that embodies all that is Christmas — or the Christmas experience — during the Christmas holidays.

In a departure from the sexually active teens of most slasher movies, «The Hallow» plays on more grown - up fears: keeping your family safe and steering clear of a vengeful Mother Nature.

Achieving its goal to rattle and unnerve, «The Strangers: Prey at Night» is lean and breathlessly intense, calling back the spareness and ambiguity of its predecessor, while embracing conventions from slasher movies of yore.

Hey I grew up in the 80's had lots of slasher movies back then.

But it's part of slasher movies and it is what it is.

I am a huge fan of anything horror and paranormal but am not a fan of slasher movies.

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

Now, I believe our culture is so INCREDIBLY desensitized that young people are simulating sex on stage and gore / slasher movies are required to fulfill whatever the heck is the perverse requirement these days to get people to feel they've been entertained or titillated.

All along, Liongate's model was about cheap, low - risk investments, often in edgy material the major studios avoided, such as the Saw slasher movies.

Psychopaths aren't just the villains in slasher movies and Wall Street morality tales.

However, I didn't realize that when I walked to the bathroom for the first time after giving birth, it would look like scenes from a slasher movie.

With the kind of ominous music and graphics usually associated with a Hollywood slasher movie, the advertisement displays an image of Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, as «more of the same,» without naming him.

Unlike some of his other violent but intelligent sci - fi efforts though, this one starts off strong then devolves into a typical slasher movie.

A return to the cinema of adorable mental illness - something that, like the killer in a slasher movie, always seems to lurch back to life just when you think it's safely dead...

The first hour or so the movie more or less plays out like EVERY slasher movie that came before it.

A drama of upper - middle - class menace that can't quite bring itself to be a full - on slasher movie, this has a few too many clichés but offers some creepiness and decent performances.