Sentences with phrase «sleeper horror hit»

This feminist revenge thriller that adapts Ryu Murakami's popular Japanese novel of the same name is all kinds of gnarly and could be total smut in unproven hands but with Nicolas Pesce (the promising if not totally fulfilling Eyes of My Mother) directing Christopher Abbott and Mia Wasikowska, this really could be a sleeper horror hit a la Audition.

One of those sleeper horror hits that comes along every once in a while, It Follows picked up unprecedented word - of - mouth thanks to its smart premise.

Not exact matches

Writing last year on Pop Matters, Dylan Fremont called the indie horror sleeper hit It Follows «a mixtape in movie form.»

Ti West's The House of the Devil was a huge sleeper hit with horror buffs when it came out in 2009, so everyone was greatly anticipating his follow up.

2014 didn't have a cult film in the making like What We Do in the Shadows, or a true sleeper like Straight Outta Compton (or Spy, for that matter), or a blockbuster hitting the sweet spot for audiences and critics alike like Mad Max has done, or a traditional standalone nonfranchise blockbuster like The Martian, or an animated film with the acclaim of Inside Out, or a little horror movie that could like It Follows, or an unexpected independent drama that ran forever like Room....2015 was a year like 1999 or 1994.

I love horror movies that play fundamentally with the idea of sound — just recently Hush and Don't Breathe — and if Krasinski can pull off the concept, this could be a big sleeper hit.

IT (2017, R), based on the Stephen King novel, is the sleeper hit of the year: an R - rated horror film about a group of children haunted and hunted by a demonic clown (Bill Skarsgard).

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.

«Torture porn» may be the better description, a horror subgenre that came into prominence after the sleeper hit known as Saw, which emphasized (and exploited) both the emotional and physical agony of its characters to manipulate audience reaction.