Sentences with phrase «thing a horror film»

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4 Some things never change: Edison's early film loops included one showing «cooch» dancers; another reenacted the decapitation of Mary, Queen of Scots — arguably the first horror flick.

Jordan Peele's Horror film Get Out meets the only thing that Mashups and creative projects by Australian audio & video producer and Wax Audio creator Tom Compagnoni.

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.

I've never been a fan, as a rule of horror movies, however, the trailer drew me to this one and i'm glad it did, the awful acting we usually get in horror movies wasn't there this time round, in fact, the whole cast were excellent, the special effects were really very good and the humorous, intelligent dialogue (another thing you don't usually get in horrors) was brilliant, loved the film, Chris Hemsworth, although with less to do in this than he does in Thor, was great in it too.

One thing that you should keep in mind while watching The Hearse is that despite some overused ideas, a horror film can still be fun.

Played ominous from the outset there are some scares here, although with a nearly equal amount of «the dumb characters doing dumb things» schtick that plagues horror films like the Ebola virus gone rabid.

Being marketed as a generic, run - of - the - mill horror film is the worst thing that can happen to you from a critical standpoint, but from a commercial point of view, there

Obviously I'm conflicted here, because it does some things better than Craven's, yet it fails to achieve the same sort of impact and misses the point when it comes to putting the horror in «horror film».

To anyone new to Stranger Things Imagine ET, Aliens, The Goonies, The Thing, IT and many other 80's -90's Science Fiction / Horror films books mixed together that was infused of so many pop culture references from the same time that they become hard to keep track of at times well THAT is pretty much Stranger Things in a Nutshell!

As the first film had a pretty terrifying thing going on, this second offering really goes against what the previous film established and plays out more like a comedy horror film.

The film was directed by Wes Craven, a master of horror, whose credits include «Last House on the Left,» «Swamp Thing» and the original «A Nightmare on Elm Street.»

«I wanted to create a waking dream on screen and show that horror is not to be found in the things around us but in our own subconscious,» said Danish film - maker Carl Theodor Dreyer, whose loose adaptation of two stories from Sheridan Le Fanu (Carmilla and The Room in the Dragon Volant) was initially conceived as a silent movie.

2016 may have sucked by and large but if there was one thing that triumphed in the year of Trump, it was horror films.

The horror film «The Thing» (Oct. 14) is a prequel to the 1982 film - this time Joel Edgerton and Mary Elizabeth Winstead are fighting an alien in Antarctica.

A Quiet Place, like John Carpenter's The Thing before it, contributes a strikingly original monster to the genre of horror films focused exclusively on surviving an invasive threat.

There are many reasons why The Thing is considered a top - tier horror movie, but the fact that any one of the stellar character actors featured in the film could actually be the titular shape - shifting alien creature is definitely one of them.

With Radcliffe there to carry things, this is THE Halloween horror film we want to see.

It doesn't sound like a great idea to Maddie, whose reaction — shocked horror — is the most genuine thing in the film.

This is absolutely one of the greatest horror films ever made and a must - see for those who are into that sort of thing.

John Carpenter's The Thing is probably my second favorite horror film of all time.

There is one thing which I can say right off the bat — Twilight is not a horror film.

AVC: One of the interesting things about horror as a genre is that it's possible to work on a micro-budget and still make an effective film.

Breakout horror film, Get Out, leads the pack with six nominations, along with Beauty and the Beast and Stranger Things with four.

The most astonishing thing about The Affair of the Necklace, though, is how with a cast that includes Brian Cox, Christopher Walken, and Jonathan Pryce, it manages to be jaw - droppingly awful; had I not squirmed in mute horror, transfixed before the film's appalling majesty, I would not have believed it myself.

A24 has revealed a new trailer for the suspense - horror indie film titled The Blackcoat's Daughter, from writer / director Oz Perkins, who also made the horror I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House from last year.

The fact that it's Polanski directing this movie that derives much of its horror from the notion of a woman who does not have control over her body and the dark things being done to it certainly don't make the film un-problematic by modern standards.

«The Forest» is a fairly promising feature debut from director Jason Zada, which isn't the same thing as saying it's a good horror film.

When a horror film combines many of your favorite things, it could be a guaranteed success if a film serves those things justice or it could be a devastating blow to watch those things explored in unexciting ways.

George A. Romero mined this vein of terror in nearly all of his films, but the thematic undercurrent of an enemy that looks exactly like your friend has arguably never been more well - mined for horror as it is in «The Thing.»

I don't understand how one of these things can trigger amusement and the other horror and I don't think the film tackled either well enough to resolve this.

Franck Khalhoun's (P2) latest film — a French / American co-production made all the more obvious by a technical snafu that saw the movie play with French subtitles for some 15 minutes — does some things very well, but being a remake of William Lustig's 1980 horror classic, also titled Maniac, isn't exactly one of them.

In «Horror 101: The Exclusive Seminar» (10:27), director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell separately discuss their philosophies for the film, putting new spins on the haunted house and possession genres and doing certain things differently from other modern movies.

Yes, many horror films do depict the mentally ill as crazy, broken madmen, and though Split «s antagonist is indeed a villain who does some awful things, there's something way more going on just beneath the surface.

Halloween is one of the greatest horror movies ever, and other Carpenter films like The Fog, The Thing, and They Live aren't too shabby either.

The film is good to excellent in every way except morally, and there it's questionable more often than it should be, not because it's an evil film, or because the filmmaker or actors are bad people, but because the interplay of means and ends has been under - thought or misjudged, to the point where the film becomes a catalog of obscenities: a horror thrill - ride drawn from life, a thing for viewers to test themselves against while feeling just awful about Agu and his country, whatever its name is.

«Get Out» is a comic horror film about the things that happen when a black man goes to his white girlfriend's house for a weekend visit.

Sadly, dear readers, things are looking less positive for the Toronto horror scene in this installment, as all four films have their drawbacks, some minor and some major.

Without access to that one sense which most horror films rely on to convey fear, things have to get inventive.

Of course, if prestige films aren't your thing, there are still plenty of options for those who simply want to be entertained, whether it's Guillermo del Toro's new gothic horror flick, Vin Diesel hunting witches or the origin story of Peter Pan.

For one thing, starting perhaps with «The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,» horror and fright films started literally and figuratively, relentlessly and unapologetically, going for the jugular with audiences in ways I simply had no interest in.

It's almost mandatory that every landmark horror film be remade and modernized for a new generation; A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Thing, The Omen, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and countless others have been given the remake treatment.

This lightweight PG - 13 film offers a textbook example of the horror genre, complete with creaking doors, spooky attics, dark basements, lights that flicker and things that go bump in the night.

The great thing about film, and horror, is that different fears speak to different people and that interpretation is in the eyes of the beholder.

So we've assembled our take on the 50 best horror films of the 21st century — the zombie - apocalypse tales, things - that - go - bump - in - the - psyche ghost stories, retro - slasher flicks, neo-giallo nuggets, J - horror, K - horror, French extreme and Hollywood franchise films that have spooked us, shook us and scared us shitless since 2000.

This new film is incredibly stylized (some stated this was a bad thing a la Platinum Dunes» horror duds) however I think it created atmosphere and a character out of the story itself.

Evoking horror films of the»70s, Kill List starts as one thing (hitmen pulling off one last dangerous job) and ends up as quite another.

Cabin in the Woods is the kind of film you would love if you, like me, were introduced to horror by your older brother — 10 years older — and a well used copy of John Carpenter's The Thing.

If things work out right, we could see a future sequel to Christopher Landon's 2017 slasher horror flick Happy Death Day, says the film's star Jessica Rothe in a recent interview with the folks at Collider.

Chris has done this incredible thing where the sequel, the way he described it to me, elevates the movie from being a horror movie — and I wouldn't even say it's just a horror movie because it's a horror, comedy, rom - com drama — into a Back to the Future type of genre film where the sequel joins us right from where we left off, it explains a lot of things in the first one that didn't get explained, and it elevates everything.

The only movie that I saw at two different film festivals in 2013 and wanted to go back for more, Cheap Thrills isn't so much a horror film about people doing horrific things to one another so much as how far people are willing to go to bring horrific things upon themselves.