Sentences with phrase «thriller subgenre»
The Winter Soldier holds to the oft - bemoaned «Marvel structure» while thriving as a film firmly rooted in the spy thriller subgenre.
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Fargeat from the outset signals her darkly playful take on the «video nasty» rape - thriller subgenre.
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There's no more treacherous horror subgenre than the rape - revenge thriller, because the worst examples confuse exploitation for empowerment, answering graphic scenes of sexual assault with a gruesome parade of righteous kills.
As the latest installment in what has become its own subgenre at this point, The Commuter serves as a fine example of the kind of tightly - coiled thriller that Neeson and Collet - Serra can do together in their sleep.
As that appellation suggests, this is an aquatic thriller, joining the horror subgenre that began with and is still best represented by Jaws.
The movie combines a regular, old police procedural thriller with elements of that so - called «torture porn» subgenre the kids seem to like too much.
But the series spoofs almost every subgenre imaginable, from undercover journalists to corporate thrillers to cross-dressing comedies.
Violent Saturday (1955)-- 9:15 PM Richard Fleischer's daylight heist thriller Violent Saturday (1955), is not technically a film noir, but it has a toughness, an edge of violence and a distinctively - drawn crew of criminal professionals that drops in a distinctive subgenre of criminal violence in rural settings.
The astonishingly gifted writer - director of «Thoroughbreds» is going places, which could also be said for Olivia Cooke («Vanity Fair») and Anya Taylor - Joy («Split»), the two note - perfect lead actresses who star in Finley's icy psychological thriller — a refined, upper - class riff on «Heavenly Creatures,» «Fun,» and the entire wicked subgenre in which two -LSB-...]
The company's second release, Richard Fleischer's daylight heist thriller Violent Saturday (1955), is not technically a film noir, but it has a toughness, an edge of violence and a distinctively - drawn crew of criminal professionals that drops in a distinctive subgenre of criminal violence in rural settings.
The astonishingly gifted writer - director of «Thoroughbreds» is going places, which could also be said for Olivia Cooke («Vanity Fair») and Anya Taylor - Joy («Split»), the two note - perfect lead actresses who star in Finley's icy psychological thriller — a refined, upper - class riff on «Heavenly Creatures,» «Fun,» and the entire wicked subgenre in which two girls, perfectly harmless on their own, prove to be homicidal in one another's company.
A clunky throwback to the days of the paranoia thrillers and doom - and - gloom cautionary sci - fi flicks of the yesteryear, Eagle Eye suffocates in its own ineptitude by taking the worst elements of both subgenres.
What they find in there is both easy to figure out (stuff is mutating), beautiful and scary and weird (stuff is mutating) and inexplicable (most of the why and a bunch of other side mysteries), explored in a mostly unsatisfactory blend of arthouse stillness and genre thriller scares, part of a burgeoning subgenre of sci - fi films that I suppose function as a counterweight to the more populist nonsense of superhero sc - fi.
For one, it saw the release of Night of the Living Dead, George Romero's low - budget, immensely influential zombie thriller, which essentially birthed an entire subgenre of horror films.
«The Collection» may have been inspired by the 1967 thriller «Wait Until Dark,» as the publicity materials claim, but it hardly strays from the torture subgenre of the «Saw» franchise.
Nothing promises old - school pressure - cooking the way the subgenre of the sub thriller can, and while director Kevin Macdonald's drama springs all sorts of leaks in its second half, there are modest satisfactions along the way.
Nothing promises old - school pressure - cooking the way the subgenre of the sub thriller can, and while director Kevin Macdonald's drama...
Though marketed as an erotic thriller — the DVD box prominently features female lead Paz Vega splayed out suggestively in skimpy lingerie under a glowering image of Clarke's face — The Human Contract is too hilariously overreaching and insane to be limited to a single subgenre.
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.
Subgenres for thrillers include psychological thriller, crime thriller, technical thriller, medical thriller, romantic thriller and legal thriller.
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