Sentences with phrase «tension than some horrors»

It is a wonderfully framed movie, with more tension than some horrors, whether in a production room or at a crime scene.

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His script is more ambitious than that of the average horror film, with a plot structured across different timelines, creating excruciating tension in the process.

A horror film with the power to put a rascally grin on the face of that great genre subverter John Carpenter (They Live), Get Out has more fun playing with half - buried racial tensions than with scaring us to death.

I also don't find it inordinately scary, but it is well created, especially in its use of sound to create tension, which is more than one could say about most jump - scare dominated horror films released in theaters today.

Ironically, the scariest parts of this genuinely scary film are its quietest, and the formal innovation of the minimalistic and claustrophobic sound design — necessary to represent a world where breaking the silence will kill you — is what makes A Quiet Place stand out from standard horror fare usually committed more to jump scares than to skillfully calibrating a rising feeling of tension.

It's another thought - provoking, visually arresting offering from Alex Garland, one not just for fans of sci - fi and / or horror but for anybody who likes intelligent, bold movies with more than a frisson of tension in their DNA.

The women of The Descent step up to that plate bravely in Neil Marshall's thoroughly enjoyable 2005 horror, that finds a bunch of life - long pals heading into caves with more than a touch of tension already in play.

Thor: Ragnarok 2017 showed that there's more than one way to challenge genre conventions - redefining the superhero movie with the indie feel of Logan and the empowerment of Wonder Woman, to pushing psychological tension with horrors Get Out and mother!

But even if the film meanders more than it unnerves, more interested in creating elegant images and moments than tension or mood, the finale is perfectly orchestrated and it delivers a deliciously cruel poetic justice with echoes to Bava's Black Sunday, the film that made Steele an icon of Italian horror.

Like many future horror classics, The Thing was hated on first release, dismissed as an Alien clone more interested in pushing the boundaries of SFX than in character or tension.

Given that there are multiple scenes in which you could cut the tension with a knife, it actually might be best to think of the film as a thriller with horror elements rather than as pure horror.

He brings so much more to the material than other directors would have, giving it the tension and character so often missing from PG - 13 horror.

The pirates» approach unfolds with more tension and suspense than any horror movie idea.

Far more than the filmmaker's hectic, ultimately tension - dispersing visual and aural gimmickry, the picture's best special effect remains Franco's performance, which catches the horror and sublimity of a jock humbled while trapped at the bottom of the earth, becoming spiritually whole even as he literally loses parts of himself.

Repairing a generator, listening for the killer, and being peppered by quick time events drives tension and can get the adrenaline pumping more than most traditional horror games lately.

Actually, «horror» is perhaps too poignant a word; while there's more than enough creepy imagery and tension in Pathologic 2, its real horror is in the underlying themes — more of an existential kind.

Galerians manages to put a great storyline into a Survival Horror game, whilst going for tension and unease rather than jump scares.