But
what about horror movies?
Not exact matches
I still remember when I heard
about it — first thing in the morning, like most people on the East Coast who had gone to bed before the late night attack — and thinking of all the
movies I've watched in the theater in my life without incident, imagining
what that level of
horror must have been like for the victims.
I do like to watch the occasional
Horror movie but what I like more about horror movies is the makeup and special ef
Horror movie but
what I like more
about horror movies is the makeup and special ef
horror movies is the makeup and special effects.
Driftwood is presented and promoted as a
horror movie with psychological elements, and while this is true, it undersells
what is an effective psycho thriller, less
about gore and
horror, more
about story and character.
What is it
about a game that you think can make a more effective
horror experience than
movies or fiction?
While getting prepped for SXSW this year, I was so focused on
what horror movies I was going to check out, I didn't really find out
about Cheap Thrills until a few days before I was headed down there.
This is
horror at its finest, a
movie that takes the raw agony of pain most of us can't even bear thinking
about and forces us to live — if barely — through it, all in service of a narrative that has something both disturbing and profound to say
about what we become in our lives» darkest hours.
Not bad at all.this film keeps you guessing in ways you never do a lot in
horror films.Rob Zombie directs theses actors like I've never seen a
horror director do before.this
movie is truly amazing, people are calling it «terrible» I call it «good» it's the kind of
horror film that actually deals with characters and not just pointless blood and guts.I felt like all these characters really did go through something, and this
movie is truly just
about them overcoming it.I don't consider this a
horror film, I consider this a drama /
horror film, cause that is
what it is, and I love it.this mvie isn't just
about a killer killing people, it actually deals with the people he's after anf even deals with himself at times, which I truly loved.Rob Zombie has proved to me again that he could direct.perfect seq...
The biggest news of the year for
horror fans was the announcement that John Carpenter would return to the Halloween franchise as executive producer to help oversee a new
movie, but there has been little progress since, and now Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions explains the reason for that is because they have not yet settled on
what approach to take in bringing
about the return of Michael Myers to the big screen.
There's also a little talk
about Kevin's person 24 - hour
horror movie marathon and
what films he was compelled to watch.
What's cool about the Sundance Film Festival is it's the first chance that critics have to inform the general public about what great horror movies we have to look forward to seeing later that y
What's cool
about the Sundance Film Festival is it's the first chance that critics have to inform the general public
about what great horror movies we have to look forward to seeing later that y
what great
horror movies we have to look forward to seeing later that year.
A second track has writers Nathaniel Thompson from Mondo Digital and Ryan Turek, now a development exec at Blumhouse Productions, bringing a sophisticated fan's perspective to the BD, talking
about what it was like for budding
horror buffs to discover low - budget
horror movies on the shelves of Blockbuster Video stores around the country or during broadcasts of USA Network's «Up All Night» program blocks back in the 1980s.
What begins like a
movie about concerns over a mixed - race couple's relationship turns into a
horror film when Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) visits the Caucasian family of his girlfriend (Allison Williams) and discovers they take racial prejudice to a whole new level.
Alien is revered as one of the greatest
horror films of all time, as well as one of the greatest films set in space, so
what happens when the director of the film that originated the franchise returns to it to provide us back - story
about one of the biggest monster
movie icons more than three decades after the fact?
But
what if we are talking
about a great
horror movie with befanged aliens?
What you more often get from
movies is something that could be called «science fiction - flavored product» — a work that has a few of the superficial trappings of the genre, such as futuristic production design and somewhat satirical or sociological observations
about humanity, but that eventually abandons its pretense for fear of alienating or boring the audience and gives way to more conventional action or
horror trappings, forgetting
about whatever made it seem unusual to begin with.
This
movie is clever and quite self - aware, and it has very specific ideas
about what caused
horror to fall into rote patterns.
While his directorial debut relied on a smart mix of humor and
horror, Dougherty's new film seems genuinely confused
about what kind of
movie it wants to be.
The
movie was getting hyped up and I wanted to see
what was all the fuss
about and after seeing the
movie I can say that It Follows isn't the scariest
movie of all time, but it's still a great
horror movie with a lot to like from it (even the soundtrack).
Oscar also talks
about making his new sci - fi /
horror movie Annihilation and
what it was like shooting Star Wars: The Last Jedi at the same time.
«
What the
movie is
about is not funny,» Peele insisted back in November
about his biting commentary on racism, white privilege and
horror movies» tendency to kill off their black supporting characters first.
But
what makes it a classic is that, like «Get Out,» a body - snatching
movie about racism, or «The Babadook,» a supernatural
horror film
about childhood fears, it also works so well on so many other levels.
They would have missed
what's so impressive
about his delicate balance of
horror, satire, and straight comedy; they would've given him little credit for how aptly, and smartly, he threads the needle of this
movie through his actors» faces.
Like characters in one of those zombie
movies where no one says «zombie,» the crew of the Cloverfield space station — a big metal psilocybin mushroom orbiting near - future Earth — doesn't know
what it's in for, having left our planet without ever having seen a single sci - fi
horror movie: not Alien, not Event Horizon, and definitely nothing
about science gone wrong.
Everything
about it screams «niche,» from the budget ($ 4.5 million, which is
what its studio, Universal, spent to make approximately two - and - a-half minutes of The Fate of the Furious), to the first - time director - writer, Jordan Peele, a cable - TV star whose show ended and who was looking to branch out, to the complete lack of
movie stars (although now, Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams are nicely on their way), to the genre:
horror cut with more than a dash of comedy and of pointed sociopolitical commentary.
Giamatti talked
about how wild it was to be a part of such a historically terrifying story, that he describes as «a
horror movie, in itself,» and said that he played one of the wealthiest slave traders in America, at that time, how difficult it was to do some of
what his characters does to these people, and how amazing it was to work with the director, who wanted to create a world it which these actions were completely normal.
About five minutes after entering the Perron residence it's clear he has no idea
what he's signed on for and his reaction shots and penchant for doing the «acting stupid in a
horror movie» go a long way to bringing needed moments of humor to the film.
in my not so humble opinion the X assist excels at the most every single aspect of
what makes a
horror movie good whether it's a well - developed sense of dread, incredible shock moments that make you jump at your seat, well presented themes that make you think
about the
movie long after it's over, well developed characters that you care
about, special effects and make up that contribute not detract from the
movie, etc. one of the good examples of the latter point is how William Friedkin who in my opinion is one of the 10 greatest directors of all time used a refrigerated room for some of the scenes.
Say
what you will
about Mancini being a maker of Chucky
movies almost exclusively (he's the rare auteur to initiate, then stay with, a
horror franchise), but within these limited parameters he's had an opportunity to show more range than most genre filmmakers.
Too many spirited conversations with colleagues and young members of the
movie industry, too much excited chitchat
about how everything had changed, too many tweets riven with Sunken Place GIFs, and too much wonder over
what it would mean for the future of the Oscars if the show could follow its historic Moonlight moment with a genuinely transgressive acknowledgment of Jordan Peele's social - thriller -
horror - comedy - documentary as best in class.
The nuclear tests are the true
horror revealed here, but
what Jacobsen turns up
about the purported Roswell crash is more gruesome than anything any
movie has imagined.
While their plots are almost always stolen wholesale from
horror movies, it's much easier to care
about what's going on when YOU have to worry
about something jumping out at you.
That's
what's interesting
about [Stanley] Kubrick: he did
horror, he did a period piece, he did a war
movie, he did a sex
movie.
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