Sentences with phrase «when horror films»

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.

Emily and John will be seen in their first movie together this month when horror film «A Quiet Place» - which John also directed - hits cinemas.

However, when a horror film sells itself on bare bones storytelling, it needs to deliver completely on its premise.

Not exact matches

This same fantasy is mirrored in «A Quiet Place»: The only moment of relief in the whole «silent horror film» is when Evelyn and Lee are wired in together, swaying gently to their own music and silencing the world outside their earbuds.

Groups of young friends who go to see some of the more death - focused horror films in vogue of late will routinely take bets on which stock character will face a grisly end soonest, as when viewing the Final Destination series» a film series that is, essentially, the apex of the set - piece disaster horror movie as orchestrated by MacGyver.

Like the hilarious but unironically fashioned book The Zombie Survival Guide (2003), here's a zombie tale for the 9/11 era, when fantasies of urban chaos and duct - tape - sealed apartment windows are no longer relegated to horror films; these paranoid scenarios became regular fare on CNN.

When environmental engineer David Cwiertny began analyzing the fate of an agricultural chemical called trenbolone acetate in streams across the United States, he and his colleagues stumbled into a B - grade horror film starring a vampire steroid.

Initially, critics were baffled when they attempted to interpret the film on a literal level and measure it against other typical disaster / horror films of its kind.

When the main characters of a Kevin Smith (aka Silent Bob) horror - comedy film are yogis.

So, when we were in New Orleans you better believe we made our way over to where American Horror Story: Coven was filmed!

When most people think about horror movies these days they think about the traditional slasher film or the recent (and grotesquely named) «torture porn» genre.

«Jessabelle» is interesting in some of the small details, and in its strong sense of the Louisiana bayou atmosphere, and then it completely falls apart when it starts being a horror film.

Wunder became «hooked» on the cinema in 1950 when his father took him to the premiere of George Pal's «DESTINATION MOON» Seminal films during Wunder's formative years as a critic were: The HORROR movies of the 1950's THE KILLING (1956) Dir: Kubrick VERTIGO (1958) Dir: Hitchcock ON THE BEACH (1959) Dir: Kramer MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962) Dir: Frankenheimer 2001 (1968) Dir: Kubrick Wunder graduated from college in 1963 as an Electrical Engineer and immediately got a union job as an associate film editor for MPO, then, the largest producer of commercial and industrial films in the US.

When I first saw the trailer for this movie I thought it was good to be another awful horror film, but the twist led by the characters played by Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins makes this one of the most inventive horror films I've seen in a while.

When a typical horror film is made, they complain and when a fresh and original idea is penned into a film, they still complWhen a typical horror film is made, they complain and when a fresh and original idea is penned into a film, they still complwhen a fresh and original idea is penned into a film, they still complain.

For me this happened big - time during William Friedkin's The Exorcist, when I realized that I was expected to believe the film's superstitious nonsense, that the movie was using its horrors as a sadistic club against sensitive people of faith, especially devout Catholics.

More often than not, when a film that is a wartime drama gets released, it usually focuses on the battlefield, and the horrors of war.

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».

Steeped in Southern Gothic melodrama, Jessabelle is interesting in some of the small details, and in its strong sense of the Louisiana bayou atmosphere, and then it completely falls apart when it starts being a horror film.

Helming solid horror flicks like Hush and Ouija: Origin of Evil, I knew that this film was in good hands, even though I truthfully didn't know much about it when going in.

When it's finally ready to resemble a horror film, it borrows liberally from the art direction and creature designs of the Silent Hill games, including several monsters specific to Silent Hill 2 and a slew of sets from Silent Hill 3 (already the first game in the series to drift away from what made it special).

Sometimes horror films work best when your imagination is required to see what is behind that door — and not some fancy visual effect by ILM and Tippet Studios.

When films tend to recycle ideas under different titles, the genre as a whole suffers, and we have several films in the last few years that show the decline of great horror.

Although, since I can only have 3 favorite horror films (that's the official rule from The Association of What Movies You Think Are Scary [AWMYTAS]-RRB-, it may get booted off by Tuesday when I go see The Blair Witch Project.

Its comparatively simple first act remains a good example of how to apply the horror elements of the Silent Hill games to film with a degree of elegance and wit, and for a solid 35 minutes, it's an atmospheric film about a mother whose deeply maternal desire to help her daughter inadvertently places her in danger, and the need for Radha Mitchell's Rose to find her daughter when she goes missing provides a cogent and palatable, if somewhat slight, emotional basis from which the proceeding action can spring.

It's never a good sign when a sequel to a horror film comes out a whopping six years after the original installment.

From that moment when the kidnappers drop off their first victim and we realise what horrors Scott Frank is willing to show in this film, we are kept on a knife's edge when it comes to tension.

MG: «Insidious» is easily one of the best horror scores in recent years; how do you approach a score when you are working with the film?

So when a film like The Witch comes along — a story with such palpable horror and brutality — it's a big deal.

Then again, there was little precedent for grim Gothic horror films winning the top prize when «The Silence of the Lambs» swept the board nearly 20 years ago — every Oscar pundit's go - to exception that proves the, well, exception.

«Ghost Train» (TBA): Japan's second - highest - grossing film of 2006 is a horror film about a high school girl who witnesses a train wreck, and suspects ghosts when her sister goes missing.

When you think of Hammer films you think of sexy and erotic horror.

Beyond the Black Rainbow (d. Panos Cosmatos) When the dust settles and the smoke clears, I do wonder if guys like Juan Carlos Fresnadillo and Pascal Laugier won't finally get their due as the spearhead of a horror revolution, the two of them landing with new films in the same year that Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon received a round of applause for their genre - hating The Cabin in the Woods.

You're Next — A group of killers thinks they've got easy prey when they decide to attack the Davison family's wedding anniversary, but they get more than they bargained for in this horror / comedy / action film.

He's playing with so many interesting ideas when it comes to race that I wish the film felt a bit more satisfying in its payoff, even if that disappointment is amply offset by the pure intensity of the final scenes, during which Peele displays a skill with horror action that I didn't know he had.

At long last, Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard's horror movie starring Chris Hemsworth - who wasn't even Kirk's dad when the film was shot, let alone Thor - is getting a release date: April 13, 2012.

That will change this summer when the highly anticipated Sundance horror film Hereditary hits theaters.

In one of the film's funniest scenes, Chewbacca forgoes eating a roasted Porg when a bunch of other Porgs stare at him with horror.

That is when the film evolves into a sort of horror movie as his son becomes an unwitting celebrity, forced to do interviews, pose for photo ops and meet and greet fawning Winnie worshipers.

Found - footage horror thriller Unfriended was a welcome surprise back in 2015, when its commitment to a simple but ingenious premise — everything that happens in the film does so on the laptop screen of doomed teenager Shelley Hennig — managed to overcome a lot of the typical low - budget horror movie flaws.

I'm rather jaded when it comes to horror - movie beats, but in addition to being an incredibly well - crafted little shocker, Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala's film manages to include multiple scenes of horrifically compelling imagery that caused me to avert my eyes in discomfort.

PITCH BLACK This half - baked sci - fi horror film is filled with so much jerky, washed - out, highlighted, blurred and toned camera work that it's a relief when the computer - generated monsters finally check in.

The scariest film to come out of Sundance arrived the Monday after Donald Trump took office, when comedian Jordan Peele («Key and Peele,» Keanu») unveiled a secret screening of his upcoming horror film «Get Out.»

Garland has a real instinct for how to draw out suspense while also delivering a gut - punch climax that doesn't feel like a gimmick or a letdown; when he finally shows you the horror, it is truly horrific, and he turns the film's final 15 minutes into both a bizarre light - show and an oddly compelling, gruelingly physical duel.

In an age when every other horror film has a found footage / exorcism angle, «Cabin» is a throwback to more creative filmmaker - driven horror.

Poltergeist and TCM are considered two elite films when it comes to the horror genre.

Also on board for the first time in an MCU film is horror - maestro Scott Derrickson, who shows that, when called upon, he's quite adept at delivering a fairly mainstream Hollywood blockbuster with skill and visual style.

If you recall, The Village was sold as a horror film when in fact it was a drama.

Based on Sandberg's short film, the film is about a malevolent ghost that only appears when the lights go out, which seems like a simple concept but it's done so effectively it makes this horror completely original and very, very scary.

Eric Heisserer and Jon Spaihts (Prometheus) are the writers tasked with bringing Van Helsing to life, and when HitFix recently spoke with Heisserer about his upcoming horror film Lights Out, he cited Mad Max as a major source of inspiration for the new and improved Van Helsing: