Sentences with phrase «thriller than horror»

At times it feels more Crichton-esque techno thriller than horror, especially when the story detours back to dry land; but the ocean sequences are where this one really shines.

By most definitions, Jaws is more a suspense thriller than a horror film, but it gave us one of the most heart - stopping, breath - holding, unnerving musical ideas in the history of cinema.

Considered more of a supernatural thriller than a horror / thriller, it still brings the idea of ghosts and fear inducing situations to the big screen in an encompassing manner.

That doesn't make any more sense than including films which are more drama than horror, more thriller than horror, and more action than horror.

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

It's more of a thriller than a horror film.

REC 4 won't win any points for being scary or terribly original, as this is more of an action thriller than horror, but it is mostly successful due to the fact that it drops the slapstick comedy of REC 3 and goes for a more serious tone, and the setting make this stand out in the zombie genre.

Not exact matches

«World War Z» isn't your typical zombie movie, but rather a globe - trotting socio - political thriller that treats the zombies more like a viral disease than something out of a horror film.

Although the problems appear to have had an impact on the final product, especially in the uneven tone of the comparatively smaller - scale finale and the unsatisfying epilogue, it's a bit of a pleasant surprise that the movie manages to hold together even through some turbulent patches to be worthwhile viewing for anyone not expecting much more than a grandiose, set - piece dominated horror - thriller.

The works of Max Brooks, who wrote 2003's satirical and subversively political, «The Zombie Survival Guide», and 2006's, «World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War», provided the kernels of inspiration for this mega-budgeted horror - action - thriller that mostly makes up its own narrative, independent of much of the book content (jettisoning the first - person account style and most of the events), to make it fit more with the ranks of current, eye - candy loaded popcorn movies than a thoughtful adaptation of the best - seller.

Gritty and claustrophobic, this British horror - thriller holds our interest with well - played characters rather than the wobbly plotting.

This apocalyptic horror thriller is a movie that will appeal less to fans of the genre than to technophobic grumps who reckon mobile phones turn people into mindless zombies.

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.

Entertainment One earned less money in 2013 despite releasing more films than in 2012, possibly because those films weren't all that good; only one, horror thriller We Are What We Are, managed to collect positive reviews.

More melodrama than shear horror, this slick looking but far from Perfect urban thriller shows a heel going from 0 to Psycho but its true villain proves to be the cliché.

Broad Green Pictures has debuted a second trailer for the upcoming horror thriller Wish Upon, about a magical box a young woman receives that causes more problems than anything.

Rather than a sequel or spin - off, this is a spiritual successor to 2008's Cloverfield, a terrifically tense thriller that builds a genuine sense of horror.

The distributors of The Silence of the Lambs, too, had marketed it as a thriller rather than as horror.

With so many teen thrillers taking the route of bad, sensationalist horror, it's nice to see a standard suspense vehicle come out once in a while, with better characterizations and fright earned through putting characters in potential jeopardy, rather than just cheap jump - scares and shrill music.

For a thriller about cannibals, this Mexican film is more of an unsettlingly violent drama than an all - out horror movie.

This is less dark looking than his films usually are and it has this lovely way of mixing horror thriller and comic moments, sometimes in the same scene.

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.

Like Paul Greengrass's United 93, whose purpose was to stylishly simulate rather than make sense of the events aboard United Airlines Flight 93 on 9/11, The Impossible uses the tropes of countless horror films and thrillers before it to craft a this - is - what - it - was - like theme - park attraction.

Strangers on a Train, though undoubtedly effective as a classic Hitchcock thriller, is also nothing more complicated than one elongated gay cruise joke - cum - horror story.

First and foremost, it's an incredibly effective thriller which can easily be called a horror film, more than suspenseful enough to keep you alarmed at all times, with one of the most compelling finales ever seen in cinema.

J - horror, a millennial revolution in Japanese cinema, can be traced back to Hideo Nakata's 1998 supernatural thriller about a cursed VHS tape that imposes a lot more than late fees on its unlucky viewers.

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

Couple this with the spectacular voice acting from none other than Peter Weller, and you are part of this psychological thriller / horror film.

I don't think anyone expected «Let Me In,» the remake of the Swedish winter - dark vampire thriller «Let the Right One In,» to show up this year, being both a remake and a horror film, but this perfectly - realized film surely deserves a nod as much as (if not more than) most films that made the cut.

This looks like a thriller in the vein of Baghead, another Duplass Brothers film, more than a horror from the Blumhouse guys, but I'm still down to check it out.

The movie fits more in the thriller category than horror, even though there are some very horrific moments.

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's more interested in making a horror film rather than a psychological thriller.

The Kings» clever summer horror thriller, which pokes more than a little fun at Washington politics, premieres at 9 p.m. Monday on CBS.

The horror movie release, timed to Halloween, attracted more moviegoers at the North America box office than the violent Keanu Reeves thriller «John Wick.»

As a thriller, Black Swan doesn't do much more than graft a few phantom frames onto the periphery of Jean Benoit - Levy's Ballerina, Altman's The Company, or Powell / Pressburger's The Red Shoes — but note how the picture owes its creepy intensity to the sort of social satire - through - body horror popularized by David Cronenberg.

A mix of horror, comedy and thriller, Get Out is less scary than downright uncomfortable.

I Know... is a more conventional thriller than Scream, which mined a mother lode of satire with its lampooning of horror clichés.

This is what makes his first and only feature, Martha Marcy May Marlene, such a brilliant exercise in psychological terror, and despite the fact that it's neither a horror film nor much of a thriller, it generates a more foreboding sense of dread than a majority of the most recent entries in either of those genres.

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.

It's a film that connects its plot points by the thinnest of threads, culminating in a finale that belongs more in a slick and sick horror exploitation like Saw or Hostel than one that plays it mostly as a low - rent thriller in its setup.

In Before Dawn I thought the generic horror / action beats let down the more impressive dramatic sequences, whereas in Bait I felt it worked better as a thriller than anything else.

He has continued to score increasingly desperate - looking horror thrillers (and they don't come much more desperate - looking than Joy Ride) and is now stuck in a seemingly never - ending rut of providing low - budget, low - impact music for these mediocre movies.

Tellingly, his two biggest regrets, as he told GQ in 2012, are turning down two films that presented a similarly more complex idea of «winning» and «losing» than the more generic fare he often accepts: the Brad Pitt role in David Fincher's horror - thriller Se7en and the George Clooney role in corporate psychodrama Michael Clayton.

Compared purely to others in its genre, this is a standard horror - thriller, better than some, but not nearly good enough to garner crossover appeal to anyone who doesn't regularly dine on fast - food chiller fare.

The horror / thriller opened on more than 2000 screens, but bad marketing and lackluster reviews prevented audiences from checking it out.

I hate to keep repeating myself, but World War Z is an intense, nail biting, edge of your seat thriller filled with intelligent horror and real emotion than I can't say enough great things about.

Get Out turns out to be more fun, and more provocative, than it is scary, at least in the traditional midnight - movie sense: The film works so well as a gauntlet of social horror that Peele almost didn't need the more traditional thriller elements he introduces in the third act, when a carefully calibrated build in just - because - you're - paranoid dread gives way to some disappointingly conventional survival games.

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.

I was going to try and omit the horror label in my review — I find A Quiet Place more an acutely distressing survivalist thriller than a bona fide SCARY MOVIE — but then I had an epiphany of my own.