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The website's consensus reads: "The cast is game and the visuals are dazzling, but a deeply derivative narrative means The School for Good and Evil flunks on the storytelling front." [136] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 30 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews. [137]
House of Good and Evil is a 2013 American psychological thriller film directed by David Mun and written by Blu de Golyer.It stars Rachel Marie Lewis and Christian Oliver as a married couple who, after a miscarriage caused by the husband physically assaulting his wife during her pregnancy, decide to start over again by moving to a large, rural house without electricity or phone service.
It is often used as a means to create dramatic tension in the story and to have the villain reveal important information to the hero, confident that the hero will shortly not be able to use it. It may also be a means to show the hero's resourcefulness in escaping, or the writer's ingenuity at devising a last-minute rescue or deus ex machina .
In the same vein, K.V. Turley of the National Catholic Register said that "Nefarious is an excellent movie. The acting is uniformly good; the direction assured; the plotting pitch-perfect. The story — essentially a two-hander — is an interesting-premise-turned-into-a-suspense-filled drama, with an ending that can never be taken for granted ...
Mortality salience has the potential to cause worldview defense, a psychological mechanism that strengthens people's connection with their in-group as a defense mechanism. Studies also show that mortality salience can lead people to feel more inclined to punish what they believe to be minor moral transgressions.
Let's Scare Jessica to Death is a 1971 American horror film co-written and directed by John Hancock in his directorial debut, and starring Zohra Lampert, Barton Heyman, Kevin O'Connor, Gretchen Corbett, and Mariclare Costello.
In them, we can see a deeply troubled man, scarred by a traumatic childhood and someone who at times threatened the ones he loved in chilling terms and at others showed a more vulnerable side ...
Byzantium is a 2012 Irish Gothic dramatic horror film directed by Neil Jordan.The film stars Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, and Sam Riley.. Byzantium had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2012, and was released in the United Kingdom on 31 May 2013.