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The movie is shot as a thriller and the main characters are a Swedish police officer who suspects something big and ominous is going to happen in his country and tries unsuccessfully to prevent it, a mysterious but strangely charming British contract killer ready to pull the trigger, and a beautiful Swedish journalist whose choice of lover ends quite badly for her.
A cartoon-ish old man with an ominous warning.
Specifically, the guys used the winch to break a chain and trespass onto private property deep in the middle of nowhere littered with ominous looking barrels that would appear more appropriate in a toxic waste dump.
The majority of this movie takes place in broad daylight, under clear skies, in a forest full of roads... Sure, not the best setting in which to derive "scares", yet there are some excellently perpetrated scenes involving ominous and jolting ghost encounters in a genuinely - and dare I say - refreshing way!
Things get even more convoluted when our team receives word the mine needs the cannon, like, now because some miners are trapped and - cue ominous trumpets - Forster's brother is among them.
A small community of young adults(..and a mute kid with roller skates)whose leader is a professor(Robert Carradine), living within the confines of a massive hospital in a major city after civilization has fallen apart due to the total absence of gas-fuel, fall prey to an ominous group of barbaric cannibals who collect a victim a night for their feast, led by the sound of a horn.
Then come ominous scenes that the characters seem to pretend to forget afterwards.
Deciding to remain on the island for a spell, the group find the village without people, providing quite an ominous suspicion that something's amiss.
However Dr. Marlowe Craigis (Baruch Lumet) and his daughter Ann (Ingrid Goude) seem intent on the Captain sailing, an ominous feeling in the air punctuated by an effective musical score.
Dominique Pinon (A Jeunet regular) plays the hapless wanderer Joseph, who turns up at a rather ominous butcher shop looking for work.
Shia LeBeouf was a likable protagonist, Carrie-Anne Moss did a great job in her role as the mother, and David Morse played an exceedingly ominous and creepy neighbor.
In fact, we're not made very much aware that there is a serial killer- save for a few mentions here and there- until halfway through the movie, and by the time we are it's full-throttle in a kind of expertly manipulated suspense, not in the usual sense but through an ominous musical score by Pierre Jansen and a movement of fluidity with the camera that tells the story sort of conventionally but not at the same time.
Next security finds a note in the lounge with an ominous message left by a passenger threatening to kill some of the passengers.
Co-directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger have a unique and occasionally ominous way of letting nature unfold in front of the lens, and the cinematography is vivid and expressive; however, they don't seem to know much about actors or about the strength of performance--the technique seems to elude them--and Jennifer Jones in particular comes off looking like an amateur (which she is most assuredly not).
It's always syrupy strings, Wagnerian hero-brass, and the standard thumping bass drums and trombones playing ominous minor scales whenever an Indian comes on the screen.
His thick accent adds a lot to the whole suspicion business, but Lugosi mostly acts his way to greatness with his ominous facial features and his subtly perverse gestures.
Although constantly ominous and mysterious, I was hoping for "The Woods" to contain a little more genuine frights.
Now the lovable hippie school from the first movie has become a regular college, this accompanied by plenty of ominous voice-over about the endangered state of American universities due to rioting and violent National Guard suppression.
It's here that the film's Dark Tone of Ominous Portent manifests- as one by one the various family members find themselves isolated and targeted by the denizens of the swamp.
The plot was taken almost directly from the last 2 movies, different actors and loads of unnecessary boob shots (I don't think ANYone wore a bra in this movie) The scary and ominous voice of Tony Todd has been replaced with what sounds like a cheap effect discarded from Lion King.
It starts out strong, with some ominous mystery on the nature of the threat, escalating to far-out alien monster attack mode.
He was quiet, calculative and ominous.
The Ethics of “Biosecurity”An ominous new word has crept into the life sciences and biomedical research: “biosecurity.”
In many statements, Palin seems intent on invoking God in her judgments about war, an ominous sign for the future if she is elected.
A more ominous possibility is that some, even many, of its followers could be forced underground and into extralegal activities.
For Putin, the timing of the political eruption in Ukraine – with protesters eventually forcing the Kremlin-supported president, Viktor Yanukovych, to flee the country – could not have been more ominous.
What makes the demands for reform more pressing this time are ominous developments in Egypt, the region, and in the wider world.
Indeed, the US Congress has already produced a series of ominous bills aimed at retaliating against China and other countries that engage in one-way currency intervention.
People – and their elected leaders as well -- often have the feeling that such seemingly innocent proposals are in fact part of an ominous “hidden agenda.”
Most ominous for Myanmar’s future, given that all genocides are linked to official action, this racial and religious antagonism is in no way spontaneous.
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