Craig Zahler, the filmmaker behind the ultra violent Brawl in Cell Block 99. You won’t have seen anything quite like Bone Tomahawk from writer-director S. Little do they know, there’s more where that one came from, and now they are firmly on the menu as the creatures’ first course. They fight back and eventually kill the creature. The teenagers, led by Moses ( John Boyega), investigate the crushed car to find an angry, bear-like creature with fluorescent teeth that attempts to eat them. When an object falls from the sky, crash landing on a nearby car, the event is interrupted and Sam escapes. Set on a council estate in the southern part of the city, we meet a group of hooded teenagers who proceed to mug nurse Sam ( Jodie Whitaker) at knifepoint. The mysterious truck, operated by an unseen driver, takes on monstrous characteristics through its almost supernatural ability to outsmart lonesome salesman David Mann. The film features some nail-biting action as a rogue truck begins following a lonely traveller through desolate Californian desert roads. But it was so good it got a theatrical run. Steven Spielberg’s sparse thriller was originally made for TV. Anderson whose filmography is otherwise plagued by mediocrity. Like Neil Marshall’s Dog Soldiers, the granddaddies of the genre Predator and Aliens hugely influence Resident Evil in its depiction of well-trained, well-armed soldiers against a monstrous, supernatural foe.īased on the critically-acclaimed and widely adored computer games, the film is one of the better works by director Paul W.S. Top 10 Action-Horror Movies (you can watch on REPEAT!) 10. That Hong Kong cinema of the 1980s often produced films featuring a mixture of high-concept ideas meant action and horror, along with comedy, made for crowd-pleasing entertainment.įor Mr Vampire, the premise is in the title, as a priest specialising in the supernatural goes to battle with a rampaging vampire with the help of his Taoist students.įeaturing gore, slapstick humour, fast-paced Kung-fu action and even romance, Mr Vampire brings a whole new interpretation to the iconic gothic monster, making for a fascinating watch not suited for the faint-hearted. It saw a boom period in the 1980s and 1990s when special-effects complemented technically refined action sequences across an array of genres. Its cinema is commonly known in the west for martial arts. We travel to Hong Kong for this honourable mention. Ray Harryhausen, in films such as Clash of the Titans, and Japanese Kaiju filmmakers such as Ishirō Honda in Godzilla are great exponents of the art.Īction-Horror Honourable Mention Mr Vampire The film inspired a number of filmmakers to experiment with stop-motion, an early technique which allowed cinema to depict fantastical elements in-camera, and was especially useful for monster films. Schoedsack depict the huge ape rampaging through the city streets of New York and, in the iconic finale, climbing to the top of the Empire State Building. King Kong is also a great example of stop-motion special effects as directors Merian C. But an early example of the genre can be found in 1933’s King Kong as a giant ape terrorises New York City in search of his “love” – Fay Wray’s Ann Darrow. You may think action-horror is a fairly modern concept. You can make a case for The Terminator being an astute and thoughtfully conceived sci-fi while calling it a straight-forward, raw and violent monster movie. As an amalgamation of two genres action-horror films unsurprisingly draws inspiration from a variety of avenues – be it comedy ( Mr Vampire), fantasy ( Big Trouble In Little China), science-fiction ( Aliens), the western ( Vampires) or even romance.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |