Sentences with phrase «than a horror director»

What made Romero more than a horror director was his focus on horror as a means of social commentary.

Not exact matches

«Every day seems to bring a new horror story from the subways and, so far at least, New Yorkers pin the blame more on Gov. Andrew Cuomo than Mayor Bill de Blasio,» said Maurice Carroll, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, which released the new study Thursday.

Pediatric allergist John Lee, director of the Food Allergy Program at Boston Children's Hospital, has heard more than his share of horror stories.

The scariest thing to be found in this pointless horror film is that its director, Rob Schmidt, has less prowess as a genre filmmaker in his third film than Eli Roth did in his first.

Venom's premise, which is borderline nonsensical in its unfolding, is curiously played straight by director Piers Haggard as something closer to the similarly location - bound Dog Day Afternoon than the more populist horror films that cropped up during the early 1980s.

Naturally, remaking such a revered film is bound to lead to criticism, and the director has acknowledged that in an interview with The Guardian, describing his take as a homage to the horror masterpiece, rather than a commercially - driven decision.

Easier to make a buck by marketing it as a horror film «from the director of William Friedkin» than a new level of psychological torment in cinema.

Like Michael Crichton and Nicholas Meyer — and unlike fellow horror authors Stephen King (Maximum Overdrive), John Farris (Dear, Dead Delilah) and William Peter Blatty (The Ninth Configuration)-- Clive Barker's career move from novelist to director is distinguished not only by a more - than - competent technical job but by a carry - over of the distinctive voice of his prose work.

Director Justin P. Lange delivers more than scares at the 18th Annual Tribeca Film Festival, with a horror film that is dark, intimate and thoughtful.

Among the anticipated highlights at the ongoing San Diego Comic - Con (SDCC), for horror fans was tonight's world premiere screening of The Woods, from director and writer duo of Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett (You're Next), but the whole event just became bigger than anyone imagined, as it has been revealed tonight that the film is actually called Blair Witch and it is a sequel the 1999 found footage classic The Blair Witch Project!

There may be no more storied and distinguished American horror director than John Carpenter.

«Vanilla Sky» (2001) Crowe's reteaming with Cruise was a major departure for the director; a remake of the Spanish hit «Abre los ojos,» it's a dark film — far darker than anything the director's made before — with touches of science - fiction and horror.

After his assuredly traditional The Conjuring, director James Wan bounces back with a more playful horror movie that subverts cliches rather than revelling in them.

The director, Christophe Gans, uses graphics and special effects and computers and grainy, scratchy film stock and surrealistic images and makes «Silent Hill» look more like an experimental art film than a horror film — except for the horror, of course.

Remaking hit Japanese horror movies (a la «The Ring») is Hollywood's latest plan to rake in big bucks without actually having to be creative or original — and while «The Grudge» is nothing more than a cultural twist on the standard - issue haunted house movie, I will give credit to director Takashi Shimizu (remaking his own film «Ju - On») for giving me goosebumps.

Alien is revered as one of the greatest horror films of all time, as well as one of the greatest films set in space, so what happens when the director of the film that originated the franchise returns to it to provide us back - story about one of the biggest monster movie icons more than three decades after the fact?

With a cast of only five main characters, director Vincenzo Petrarolo is able to develop them better than in typical low - budget horror flicks.

The Exorcist Year: 1973 Director: William Friedkin There is no horror film currently streaming on Netflix better, more influential or just plain scarier than The Exorcist.

The director of the fine coming - of - age movie The Myth Of The American Sleepover more than confirms the promise of that debut with an unexpected turn into horror.

The Monster is nothing more than a throwaway horror film, that feels more like experimental filmmaking for writer / director Bryan Bertino.

Was it Japanese horror directors who first discovered that there's nothing spookier than a creepy child?

Since her first feature, Girlfight, Karyn Kusama has hardly been the most prolific of directors — a problem not unique to her, as women have a harder time landing directing gigs in Hollywood than do men — but she has not been entirely absent, either, helming the Charlize Theron vehicle Æon Flux and Megan Fox indie horror comedy Jennifer's Body.

This is why it's so unfortunate that his sophomore effort as director, Jack Goes Home, seems to draw its inspiration more from the disjointed, multi-story American Horror Story than from any of the classics.

But this neat little horror is also its own thing: Fiala and Franz have worked together once before on documentary «Kern» and Franz has co-written those aforementioned Seidl titles and more (they are married), but «Goodnight Mommy» shows the directors both embracing genre and going further with it than you might at first believe.

Son of Saul: Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes has produced a Holocaust film here that, rather than pulling back to reveal the global - scale horror, pushed in ever more tightly on one character, to show that the horror doesn't abate when the millions of victims are boiled down to however many you can see with your own limited perspective.

The daughter of Italian horror director Dario Argento and actress Daria Nicolodi, Asia began acting as a child and appeared in more than a dozen movies by her 21st birthday.

Though most would not classify director Ridley Scott's 1979 collaboration with screenwriter Dan O'Bannon and Swiss freakazoid H.R. Giger as a «horror movie,» per se, we dare you to find many movies from this decade — or ANY decade, really — that are filled with more iconic scary moments than Alien (with one possible exception, which we'll discuss below).

The pop - cultural consensus on horror director Tobe Hooper would seem to be that, with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, he somehow made one of the genre's defining masterpieces right out of the gate only to squander a promising career on a string of strange mediocrities that ultimately marked him more as a hack - for - hire than an auteur in the tradition of more respected contemporaries such as John Carpenter, Wes Craven, or George A. Romero.

Less than 24 hours ago, director John Carpenter announced he's executive producing a new installment in his Halloween franchise, an announcement met with the sort of unfettered enthusiasm horror fans usually reserve for an especially goopy exploding head.

Director Jeff Wadlow's Truth or Dare is more of a lukewarm, predictable thriller than a horror film.

Old - style filmmaking makes this movie scarier than other recent horror films, simply because director Wan...

Director McG's self - aware spin on the babysitter slasher is more comedy than horror, delivering a bloody fun time in a stylish manner.

«Unsane» sees the director weaponize that power, evincing that a deliciously disturbing horror pic captured with a phone can be as or more stimulating than a Roger Deakins - shot epic.

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.

From the get, director Johannes Roberts (47 Meters Down) abandons all pretense of heightening his horror film with dramatic subtexts and characters with more than one dimension — this is midnight movie fare through and through.

Director Carter Smith does the horror right, borrowing from Hitchcock rather than Rob Zombie.

Script has more loose ends than the Pittsburgh Steelers, but that doesn't matter as director Ridley Scott, cameraman Derek Vanlint and composer Jerry Goldsmith propel the emotions relentlessly from the one surprise - and horror - to the next.

The director sees it more of a kidnapping movie than a horror film, but this genre - bender is a worthy horror entry nonetheless.

Director Takashi Miike is best known in these parts as the man behind the creepifying horror Audition, but has also shot films such as the bizarre genre - bender Sukiyaki Western Django, a retread of A Fistful of Dollars set in a Japanese / Wild West fusion world and co-starring none other than Quentin Tarantino.

What positives I did find were that it is incredibly well shot that really displays the talent that the director Peter Strickland has; unfortunately his talents didn't extend much further than that because we end up with a boring horror film that never really goes anywhere.

Everything about it screams «niche,» from the budget ($ 4.5 million, which is what its studio, Universal, spent to make approximately two - and - a-half minutes of The Fate of the Furious), to the first - time director - writer, Jordan Peele, a cable - TV star whose show ended and who was looking to branch out, to the complete lack of movie stars (although now, Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams are nicely on their way), to the genre: horror cut with more than a dash of comedy and of pointed sociopolitical commentary.

However, the filmmaker has more praise to offer fellow director Jordan Peele for his horror movie Get Out - which received a total of 4 Oscar nominations, including for Best Director and Best Picture - than he does director Jordan Peele for his horror movie Get Out - which received a total of 4 Oscar nominations, including for Best Director and Best Picture - than he does Director and Best Picture - than he does his own.

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.

Seeing as how they went with a horror director, I'd expect this sequel to be much darker than its original counterpart.

Where Holland's version of a geeky teenage boy confronted with the reality of a vampire living next door fell short, director Craig Gillespie's update follows through, offering a horror film that is at once funny in a modestly self - aware way, occasionally unsettling in its depiction of a bloodsucker as a murderous sexual predator, and conscious of ensuring that its main characters come across as more than potential or, in some cases, inevitable chow.

More than 20 dogs, cats and birds, some dead and others diseased, were seized by animal control officers Wednesday from a house that was described as resembling a scene from a horror movie.Officials said the call was one of the worst cases of animal abuse they had ever encountered.A search turned up two dead chickens and one dead guinea fowl inside the house and a rotting carcass on the kitchen counter that could not be identified as a dog, cat or anything else, said Clara Gundy, executive director of the Humane Society of Central Brevard.