Sentences with phrase «slowly build tension»

No stranger to movies with twisty conspiracies having directed Three Days of the Condor Absence of Malice and The Firm Pollack understands how to zero in on the quiet moments and slowly build tension.

A Quiet Place is a taught drama / thriller that uses virtual silence to slowly build tension.

The scientists also exercised the resulting muscle strands in a bioreactor by affixing them to a soluble sugar scaffold and slowly built tension using doughnut - shaped anchor points — essentially helping the muscle to «bulk up.»

The play pacing, contrasting between action, puzzle, and exploration, slowly builds tension, allowing it to fluctuate at different points.

Peele slowly builds tension, lacing the laughs with real scares, culminating in a bloody finale that is, for all its gruesome hilarity, discomfitingly close to reality.

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Instead, they heavily rely on slowly building tension through unsettling sounds, disconcerting music, and both verbal and visual foreshadowing.

Not exact matches

Jaws is a movie that builds tension, slowly.

They're built into the rising tension, as the family separates and slowly comes to realize that they aren't alone in the park, and they raise the impact of what could have been straightforward sequences of the killers hunting down the assorted family members, trapping them in enclosed spaces, and getting to their bloody work.

Tension builds as strings rise from a building bass and acoustic guitar trot that slowly gathers accelerating velocity into an alarming gallop.

There are only a few scenes of action but that only adds to the tension that slowly builds up as the girls remain missing for days on end.

Vandermeer spends a loving amount of time on the personalities of each character, teasing their particular quirks out slowly and expertly builds the tension until the very end.

Throughout, Garland builds tension slowly and carefully without ever letting the pace slacken.

He said something to the effect that what he wanted to do was slowly build the dread and the tension, rather than explode to 11 in the opening moments and fail to be able to register that kind of suspense for the rest of the film.

It draws you in slowly, building up a great deal of tension, finally letting it all unravel at a very fast pace, keeping you off your guard with twists, turns, and unexpected developments.

She's not thrilled with being so far outside of New York City, but despite her hesitancy to enjoy the upscale area near the coast, there's something about Keith that she's drawn to, and slowly but surely tension builds that you can cut with a knife.

Flashbacks to the wedding, which slowly reveal why James and Kristen are in couple misery, build empathy rather than detract from the tension, even fleshing out some of their more moronic decisions.

The plot builds up, the tensions between the characters slowly reaching the point of no return.

Derrickson builds the tension slowly until it eventually swallows up Sarchie's home life with his wife (Olivia Munn) and child.

Not so with Donnie Darko, which builds up unbearable tension slowly and surely.

As the Oscar race slowly begins to take shape, there's much talk of prime contenders building a topical «narrative» to fuel their campaigns: Three Billboards is being pitched as a spiky response to the culture of toxic masculinity exemplified by Harvey Weinstein; on a related note, Lady Bird and Greta Gerwig carry heightened hopes for another female best director winner; Get Out continues to mark the temperature of America's rampant racial tensions; Call Me By Your Name takes the baton of LGBT empowerment and visibility from reigning Oscar champ Moonlight.

He slowly (and I mean slowly) builds tension throughout the course of the film, the narrative of which is split between three female characters (and two timelines).

Creating tension that ebbs and flows, he slowly builds the dramatic narrative to a resounding crescendo, and he makes the quieter scenes that follow just as compelling.

Players should not expect Until Dawn to be a psychological horror that slowly builds up the tension.

Making the player move slowly doesn't build tension, it just annoys you.