Sentences with phrase «sold as a horror film»

If you recall, The Village was sold as a horror film when in fact it was a drama.

Not exact matches

For over a decade, sold out audiences have enjoyed Rocky Horror - like participation consisting of hilarious traditions such as screen - shouting, football playing, throwing spoons at the screen, rooting on the shockingly long establishing pans of San Francisco, and generally laughing hysterically at the film's clunky pseudo-Tennessee Williams dialogue, confused performances, and bizarre plot twists, like the mother - in - law character whose breast cancer ought to play like it matters a great deal, but really comes off as a non-sequitur.

Haunting suffers for its need to be sold as a straight - up horror film, and the fact it has been seemingly retrofitted as such.

A tongue - in - cheek horror film from director Glenn McQuaid, I Sell the Dead stars Dominic Monaghan (perhaps best known for his role in Hetty Wainthrop Investigates) as a grave - robber who recounts his various adventures to a priest in the hours before he is due to be executed.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

And the rest of the cast, including Chirqui, Jeremy Sisto, and Lindy Booth, all come across as cool and actually sell us on them being close friends, so there's a bit more emotion in some of them getting taken down versus other horror films where the «friends» seem to have just met a week or two before.