Sentences with phrase «standard horror thriller»
The pacing, the use of sound design, and the thematic content all raise this film above your standard horror thriller.
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Since the 1979 thriller served as the blueprint for the modern horror film, Laurie is long - held by aficionados to be the gold standard, as final girls go.
The music is superb, the Simon Boswell piano theme is well suited and also suits for the horror genre, I don't really find this as a standard black comedy thriller, it is something like it is ripped off from Coen Brother's Blood Simple, with more of less funny dialogue but I find this a perfect thriller and quite known for its time and still is today because of Channel 4 which is now a popular channel with many sub-channels.
With so many teen thrillers taking the route of bad, sensationalist horror, it's nice to see a standard suspense vehicle come out once in a while, with better characterizations and fright earned through putting characters in potential jeopardy, rather than just cheap jump - scares and shrill music.
The last half of the film falls back on standard horror and thriller cliches but most modern thrillers do the same.
What follows is, on paper, standard horror - thriller stuff: our heroes trapped in a confined space with all sorts of evil - human and canine.
Known more for sexually charged films like Lolita and Indecent Proposal, director Adrian Lyne's psychological horror film doesn't quite play out like a traditional horror film, nor does it play like a standard psychological thriller either.
Compared purely to others in its genre, this is a standard horror - thriller, better than some, but not nearly good enough to garner crossover appeal to anyone who doesn't regularly dine on fast - food chiller fare.