Sentences with phrase «slasher thriller»

Best - selling author Harlan Coben returns with a high - drama slasher thriller, The Woods.

Before writing his children's story about a sharply dressed skeleton detective, he wrote the screenplays for a zombie movie and a slasher thriller in which everybody dies.

If you watch the trailer below you will find a tense slasher thriller that looks pretty good.

Genre house Cinepix recognised a keen horror voice in Mihalka, who delivered a lean, mean slasher thriller that became one of the production company's most profitable properties; Paramount picked it up for US distribution and turned it into the sleeper hit in February «81.

FROM HELL (Grade: B --RRB-: It's never hugely suspenseful and not much of a slasher thriller, but this latest movie evocation of the Jack the Ripper myth — starring Johnny Depp as a psychic London police inspector on the trail — is morbidly fascinating and sumptuously atmospheric.

Between this and his motel - slasher thriller Vacancy, Antal looks to be building a career as the new studio go - to guy for tense, unfussy action in spartan settings.

Hider in the House is a well - made and produced but ultimately unsatisfying and formulaic slasher thriller.

Not exact matches

«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.

Unlike series co-star Biel, Mitchell remained with the program throughout its run, and through many character changes that found Lucy marrying Kevin Kinkirk, working as an associate pastor, giving birth, and surviving both a miscarriage to twins and clinical depression.Although Mitchell branched out from television into cinematic work as early as 1996, with a turn in the fantasy - action thriller The Crow: City of Angels, and continued intermittent film appearances (such as a supporting role in 2005's slasher movie Saw II), she made no secret of her real passion: performing country music as a guitarist and vocalist.

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.

A perennial favorite at the annual SXSW Film Festival, the Midnighters section is reserved for the weird, provocative, horror, thrillers, and slashers for the night owls.

The granddaddy of all slasher films and psycho - thrillers will never have the same impact as it did on first release.

After his first film, the seminal science fiction comedy Dark Star (1974) and his second, the legendary action thriller Assault On Precinct 13 (1976), Carpenter cemented his place in pop culture with the terrifying Halloween (1978), the film widely credited with bringing the slasher sub-genre into the mainstream.

Wolf Creek — The gritty Australian thriller that unfortunately inspired more gritty slashers.

Green Room mashed a siege thriller with a slasher but Darcy's warning was the point of difference.

The picture is akin to non-alcoholic beer and decaffeinated coffee — a thrill-less thriller, slash-less slasher flick, and nudity-less German exploitation film (that at least keeps its water sports), the worst thing about The Pool is the amazing breadth of its banality.

Nimrod Antal's filmography includes the subway thriller Kontroll, the Luke Wilson slasher flick Vacancy, and the upcoming heist movie Armored, which apparently helped sell Rodriguez the most.

If you grew up as a horror film fanatic in the 1980s, you may have run through most of the American slasher flicks and occult thrillers — and then you rented Lucio Fulci's 1980 cult favourite Zombie, which hopefully led you to all sorts of gore - laden apocalyptic mayhem from Italian splatter - slingers like Umberto Lenzi (Nightmare -LRB-...)

She made her screen debut in the slasher film Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005), went on to have a supporting role in the independent coming - of - age drama Tanner Hall (2009), and has since starred in the horror remake A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), the biographical drama The Social Network (2010), the thriller remake The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and the romantic drama Carol (2015).

The Drownsman (Blu - ray) Details: 2014, Anchor Bay Entertainment Rated: Not rated The lowdown: A thriller that is a throwback to the slasher films of 1980s centers on a young woman who almost drowned in a lake accident and, in its wake, develops a fear of water.

The Final Girls, a femme - centric horror thriller - come - comedy, boasts an anthology of slasher memes.

The capper is a fourth segment that compares unfavorably to a Tarantino - style revenge thriller; I liked the overall slasher - movie stylings, as though Liz is being stalked across all four segments by cruel religious patriarchy itself, but Brimstone is unsatisfying in its rape - revenge particulars.

In this case, the slasher antagonist is a hidden sniper with wildly impressive aim, which gives this intense, brutal thriller ample opportunity to show what a high - powered rifle can do.

Giallo - like in its plot convolutions as well as its stark, shadowy visual style, this rare foray into strict horror by dark crime thriller master J. Lee Thompson is perhaps best known for its infamous shish - kebab murder scene, but the underappreciated slasher film has much more to offer, with a whole slew of show - stopping death set pieces and a stellar supporting cast, including Glenn Ford as Virginia's doctor.

It's a wannabe old - fashioned Hitchcock thriller (supposedly aiming for a Psycho - like setting) that turns out to be nothing more than a tawdry bloody slasher film with no redeeming social value.

Lucky for us, the genre of horror movies has grown over the years creating our pick of classics, thrillers, slashers, and more.

Think of it as a science - fiction slasher flick or a deep - space old - dark - house thriller with a crew of likeably blue - collar mopes facing off against a shape - changing menace that's part axe murderer, part wild grizzly, and part serial rapist.

The Hollywood star has been a frequent visitor to Cannes as an actor, most recently accompanying two Nicolas Winding Refn films — the bloody slasher set in Bangkok, «Only God Forbids», and thriller «Drive».

From the crew that brought us the sleeper cult comedy, Super Troopers, Broken Lizard now taps into the slasher flick genre with Club Dread, a mix of gory thriller elements and unbridled hedonism that keeps all of its gags completely on the surface.

Even though it is seemingly unable to decide whether it wants to be a slasher, atmospheric thriller, or sci - fi horror.

Far from gory, it's a way to access Argento's portfolio without a lot of hands over the eyes — a way to appreciate how this director, for a short period of time, was redefining the thriller and the slasher by assimilating then reconstituting familiar images and clichés (from genre and legendary genre artists alike) into something alive and new.

Green Room mashes a siege thriller with a slasher but Darcy's warning is the point of difference.

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