Sentences with phrase «social horror»

These are the everyday social horrors that — like it or not — have become part of life, and consequently part of the media.

Lester starts as an object of social horror, the Abject personified, then goes all the way in his career as an American bogeyman.

David Robert Mitchell, director of 2014's horror hit It Follows, made this list last year with this same feature and though we still don't have much details outside of the cast (Riley Keough, Andrew Garfield, Topher Grace) this looks to shift his focus from social horror to crime thriller.

CJ Entertainment has announced that Joel David Moore (Avatar, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) has been tapped to direct the company's remake of the 2013 hit Korean social horror - thriller Hide and Seek.

The big talk of 2017 was Jordan Peele «s social horror Get Out, which won him...

Operating much like H.G. Wells» three - time adapted novel «The Island of Dr. Moreau», this twisted import from Anders Thomas Jensen tangles elements of slapstick physical comedy among chilling social horrors to create a psychosexual mystery circling the inescapable ideas of heritage and homecoming.

With obvious echoes of «Get Out» (helped by the presence of Caleb Landry Jones) and Silva's propensity for dark turns, «TYREL» will be a stylish addition to the burgeoning genre of contemporary social horror.

Like the women who dominate, shape and haunt the films from such masters of melodrama as Douglas Sirk and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, von Trier pushes his female characters to the brink of social horror, where they have been subjected to rape, violence and public humiliation.

From social horror to superheroes, crime musicals to culture - clash rom - coms — Peter Travers picks the highlights of an already stellar movie year

Jordan Peele snagged that title early in 2017 with Get Out, his social horror thriller that explores the black experience in America in a way no other movie has.

A social horror with a lot on its mind, one that works as a purely popcorn exploitation flick but is rife with deep - seated meaning, Get Out is a beefy conscience tickler that ticks all the boxes and then some and will deservedly remain in the best of modern horror conversation for years to come.

Get Out turns out to be more fun, and more provocative, than it is scary, at least in the traditional midnight - movie sense: The film works so well as a gauntlet of social horror that Peele almost didn't need the more traditional thriller elements he introduces in the third act, when a carefully calibrated build in just - because - you're - paranoid dread gives way to some disappointingly conventional survival games.

A biting portrait of human failures and social horrors, that does its biting with big robot teeth and hatchet blades.

But there is hardly a black face to be seen here, barely a caricature, and no examination of such difficult issues as the slave trade or the oppression of Ireland or the social horror of the early Industrial Revolution.