Kwedar's script asks important questions, while at the same time delivering
a thrilling suspense film that is easily among the best and most effecting work debuting at the 2016 SXSW film festival.
Not exact matches
You got fear,
thrill,
suspense, gory, comedy, romance, sexual, nudity all in one
film.
THR's David Rooney calls the
film «sluggish and lacking in bite,» lamenting that «it has neither
thrills nor
suspense,» while The Playlist's Kevin Jagernauth (in a «C -» review) deems it a «disappointingly bloodless» work that «often feels as gray and lifeless as the corpses in the
film.»
A bit more
suspense would have gone a long way here, and while director David Gelb, whose prior experience had been in the crowd - pleasing documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, has turned in a slick - looking feature for one with such a small budget (reportedly, only $ 5 mil), it really can't compete with better
films out there in terms of quality, while it's too straight - faced in execution to at least give us some choice b - movie
thrills.
Considering the lack of space, lack of cast and lack of special effects it sure is loaded with
suspense,
thrills and solid
film making.
«Sound of My Voice» On the razor's edge of
suspense lies Zal Batmanglij's directorial debut, a
film that tests the nerves of any
thrill - loving moviegoer who thinks they've seen it all.
A Freddy Krueger figure, in other words, is transmogrified into a Jaws one, adding a rich layer of
suspense to a
film that lacked the
thrill of, to borrow from another famous Curry grotesque, «anticipation.»
The Steel Trap is an excellent, fast - paced crime drama, with great
thrills and
suspense, and the less you know about the
film going into it, the better.
Instead, the
film gets its scares from the atmospheric creepiness and intensity brought in the style of
suspense and
thrills, with the occasional moments of humor put in there to lighten the mood.
Drag Me To Hell is a wildly entertaining
thrill ride filled with
suspense and hilarity throughout the entire
film.
Based on true events in the resistance against the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, the
film is so effective at its generic
thrills, the
suspense and action sequences and quiet moments of melancholy patriotism and laments for lost comrades that form the core of the resistance / war
film, everything from For Whom the Bell Tolls to Army of Shadows, that one almost doesn't notice that she's radically revised one of the most masculine of genres into a story about the unbreakability of women.
Professional horror writers explore how great drama lies at the core of the most frightening
films, and discuss the style and techniques used to invoke fear,
suspense and
thrills that linger long after the credits roll.