Sentences with phrase «style suspense film»

Some descriptions of The Salesman call it a thriller, suggesting a Hollywood - style suspense film.

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Its simple but effective style built the suspense needed for the film.

Though infused with impressive bursts of style, Johannes Roberts» 47 Meters Down is, for the most part, a disappointingly generic offering that contains few elements designed to capture and sustain one's interest - with the film's less - than - captivating opening stretch, which establishes the somewhat one - dimensional protagonists, unable to cultivate the atmosphere of abject suspense that director Johannes Roberts is clearly striving for.

Beneath the suspense, there is a stark morality tale, filmed with elegance and style, but written in blood.

The storytelling is classic Soderbergh, lean and laconic, a style that heightens both the bone - dry humor with which the film is suffused and the suspense of the split - second timing required for the heist and the ancillary, ahem, compost, that happens.

What it truly lacks is acuteness, because as a end - up of the Hitchcock style, the moments where Brooks actually spoofs the Master of Suspense are too few and far between, and the rest of the film is mostly uninspired filler.

For all his attempts at suspense, it's really about the minor pleasures of watching him play with film and style and storytelling.

Instead, the film gets its scares from the atmospheric creepiness and intensity brought in the style of suspense and thrills, with the occasional moments of humor put in there to lighten the mood.

Old - style filmmaking makes this movie scarier than other recent horror films, simply because director Wan (Saw / Insidious) takes the time to actually develop suspense.

Fleischer leads us into this perverse noir world, but it only dallies with its noir atmosphere and instead turns into a straight mystery story — effectively filmed in a semi-documentary style that emphasizes police procedures over character studies or creating suspense over suspects.

Red - Eye is, at heart, a fairly routine thriller made passably entertaining by the quality of the film's stars, as well as director Wes Craven's (Cursed, Scream 2) knack for effective suspense done with wit and style.

But while Creevy struggles with the basics of suspense — often indulging in the same hacky, buzz - killing slow motion shots as he did in Welcome To The Punch — his direction of the film's modestly conceived action sequences is serviceable: a relentless foot chase through the winding streets and picturesque houses of a medieval town; an escape from a Hagen - owned warehouse that's directed in part as a Children Of Men - style long take; and the centerpiece, a head - spinning, car - wrecking pursuit down the Autobahn.

While while not always entirely effective as a suspense mechanism, it is never - the-less a refreshingly original approach that juxtaposes nicely with the film's spry and industrious style.

recalls Hamilton, 32, whose debut feature film, American Fable is anything but small; a gothic - style suspense story presenting a desperate rural America rarely depicted on screen.

Professional horror writers explore how great drama lies at the core of the most frightening films, and discuss the style and techniques used to invoke fear, suspense and thrills that linger long after the credits roll.