Sentences with phrase «than a horror flick»

It plays more like a dark - comedy than a horror flick simply because despite the random disturbing scenes thrown in here and there, they never really get under your skin the way you hope a horror film will.

Not exact matches

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

But action flicks typically end on a note of triumph or at least gritty perseverance, rather than the humiliated acceptance with which even relatively hopeful horror films often close.

More than once, I cheered from my seat, a victory for a horror flick these days.

This film plays out like more of a drama / horror rather than a straight up horror flick and I really admired that change of pace.

This gruesome French horror flick (2016) functions more as a mystery than as an action film, with an endless drip drip drip of revelation that gradually exposes a terrifying world behind the everyday.

By the end of it you feel as if you've endured an epic rather than a 112 minute horror flick.

Despite a small assortment of positive elements, however, The Pact fizzles out significantly as it marches towards its rather generic final act - with the concluding twists, which are more silly than anything else, ultimately unable to salvage what has become an ineffective horror flick.

Yet, the film plays out with little sense of requisite suspense that made the first Psycho such a great film, and many of the scenes, including the murders, play out as if they were made for a psychological drama, rather than in a scary horror flick or tense, nail - biting thriller.

The found - footage horror flick The Visit — a film that's only a little less self - reflexive than Split — gave the one - time Hollywood golden boy a chance to start over after a couple of misguided forays into the world of effects - driven fantasy blockbusters.

Pierce Brosnan starred as Dr. Lawrence Angelo within the sci - fi, horror flick, The Lawnmower Man, only one 12 months earlier than his step forward position within the Robin Williams co-starring family - friendly comedy.

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

However, there are always a few surprises, a few movies that feel less inspired by Richard Linklater and more inspired by something unexpected, and such is the case with a pair of flicks from this year's fest that owe more to European horror from the «60s and «70s than anything from the modern independent scene.

And more than ever, horror films represent a safe bet compared to expensive action flicks, so many of which flopped this summer in what has become a feast - or - famine business.

In a year made of horror films that have delivered more unintentional laughter than genuine scares, As Above, So Below fits the bill as exactly the kind of low - budget, lower - quality flick you'd see released on the big screen for the Labor Day weekend.

It's become widely accepted in the movie industry that the weakest weekend of the year is always that of Labor Day and one needs to look no further for evidence of that than the fact that this year's one new wide release on Friday was the dismal found - footage horror flick As Above, So Below (the almost equally subpar November Man got a jump on proceedings by releasing two days prior though that didn't help it any).

This is more of a mystery thriller than a gory horror flick, perfect for if you are a bit squeamish.

Ever since Get Out hit theaters, people have been talking about it — from how it's more than just a horror flick to the records it's breaking at the box office.

That doesn't, however, render this old horror flick any less than engrossing, fascinatingly distant from modern fare but also entirely entertaining in the narrative way intended.

Perhaps in our current age of Japanese horror, torture porn and Jason Friedberg / Aaron Seltzer flicks, it'd be hard to look back on Scream and pronounce it as anything other than a quaint relic of its time, and certainly not as scary as what we watch today.

Ti West's found - footage horror flick «The Sacrament» is not always great, but it's much better than most of its genre counterparts.

Newcomers might want to know that this all started with 1981's «The Evil Dead,» a horror flick made by Raimi and his college buddies for less than $ 400,000.

That Hooper takes us down a different road than the usual trashy, macabre and grisly horror flick, doesn't make it a special film worth seeking out.

Better (certainly classier) than most films directed by the late Wes Craven, this zombie flick («inspired» by the factual book by Wade Davis) still registers as an also - ran in the horror sweepstakes.

Unless you're just looking for that flick to get your date to hold you tighter and hide her face against you whenever it looks like something particularly nasty is about to jump out, The Quiet Ones is not much more than a dreadfully routine horror flick with credible actors and a decent sense of period to keep it from completely freefalling into the bad movie abyss during the unsatisfying and lackluster finale.

More underground than overt adolescent emo rock - star / rapist fantasies like vampirism, the flicks of this type that work — such as Sam Raimi's Spider - Man trilogy, or the third and fifth Harry Potters, or The Passion of the Christ — incorporate the uncertainty and body horror of growing up with hero / martyr fantasies and, ultimately, the melancholy of childhood's end.

This Spanish thriller necessitates all the trigger warnings for sexual assault in the world, as the topics it deals with are way closer to the real world than other escapist horror flicks.

Running through it, it's a fairly standard teen horror flick that easily could've used any number of other threats than vampires as its antagonists.

Electric guitars chug along with strings in a concoction more fitting to a generic horror flick than a story set in 1848.

However, if you absolutely adore horror flicks, I would recommend it to you as an example of how to do a teen horror flick better than 90 % of the stuff that comes out of Hollywood these days in a similar vein.

As a huge fan of Cumberbatch I was pretty damn excited to see the actor take on a crazy horror flick with none other than Guillermo del Toro at the helm.

«Has more story and character development than the average horror flick» — Gilbert Seah, Festival Reviews

Although a respectable entry given how awful most seem nowadays, it is still a rather average horror flick, more likely to tantalize when catching on late night cable than packing up the spouse and kids and pay big bucks to take in.

Like Happy Death Day, many of the year's highlights, which toyed with or injected life into often - tired subgenres, came in smaller packages, such as the home - invasion thrillers Better Watch Out, The Babysitter (another Netflix original), and Jackals; the clever zombie - in - the - desert flick It Stains the Sands Red (much better than the silly cannibal - in - the - desert - flick The Bad Batch); the flesh - eating family drama Raw; the blood - sucking confused - teen drama The Transfiguration; the sci - fi / fantasy / horror hybrids The Void, The Untamed, and The Lure, which also had elements of the musical; and the ultra-disturbing tale of youth Super Dark Times, about the unraveling of a group of friends after the accidental killing of a classmate, which offers a significantly more satisfying experience than It.