Sentences with phrase «with macabre humor»
Self - reflexive and dosed with macabre humor, this offbeat exercise in just - around - the - corner horror grounds the largely exhausted found - footage approach in classical storytelling and visual values, resulting in a refreshing (and memorably strange) genre piece, premised almost entirely on a child's willingness to accept grown - up weirdness as long as it ensures stability.
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You'll be a lot happier too, especially if you appreciate Burton's macabre Zen of humor (watch out for that Joker handshake), the superb visual effects of Derek Meddings and John Evans, the Gothic - futuristic sets of Anton Furst and Gothic - rhapsodic score by Danny Elfman — with perky Prince songs on the side.
Coco is deftly written by Adrian Molina and Matthew Aldrich, with plenty of gently macabre humor, as well as sweetly tender moments.
Don't Starve: Giant Edition — Klei Entertainment's macabre humor - laden survival sim bundled with its Reign of Giants expansion — will launch for PlayStation Vita on Sept. 2, the developer announced today in a post on the PlayStation Blog.
Beyond that, this master filmmaker also manages to infuse his intensely realistic sci - fi adventure with a thread of macabre humor that makes «The Martian» a sophisticated delight.
That alone is enough for many to rush out and rent this gorehound import, but there's more: this is terrific, a dryly hilarious horror comedy with a macabre sense of splatter humor a la Evil Dead 2 (complete with zombie hunters armed with chainsaws and other deep woods implements of destruction) but minus the self - conscious wisecracking of the genre.
Blending the macabre with a wicked sense of humor, director John Landis (National Lampoon's Animal House) delivers a contemporary take on the classic werewolf tale in this story of two American tourists who, while traveling in London, find their lives changed forever when a vicious wolf attacks them during a full moon.
The movie possesses a certain energy that propels the story forward with macabre, cynical humor, but it also becomes repetitive after a few too many jabs — both satirical and physical.
And the humor as well feels kind of like that film [The Trouble With Harry], one of his more humorous, if still macabre, movies.
«Sega Genesis fans no doubt remember EA's cult classic Mutant League Football, a title that blends well - crafted football game with macabre monsters, booby - trapped fields, a satirical sense of humor, and comic violence.
Harsh and rough with heightened expressive power in material and theme, de Jong's figures embody a grotesque horror and macabre humor reminiscent of the work of the 20th century European artists Georges Grosz and James Ensor.
Blending fact and fiction, self - reflective, playful and bold - a macabre sense of humor punctuates her work with deeper psychoanalytic readings that tie into our subconscious thoughts.